Senior Resource Manager

Pinsent Masons Llp; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services provider is seeking a Senior Resource Manager to oversee resource management for Financial Regulatory Consulting services in City of Westminster. The role involves workforce planning, demand forecasting, and managing consultant allocations. The successful candidate will have significant resource management experience and the skills to align resourcing with budget constraints. This position offers competitive benefits, including annual leave, private healthcare, and access to support for caring responsibilities.

Benefits

Up to five days' paid carers' leave

25 days' annual leave

Contributory pension scheme

Private healthcare cover

Life assurance at four times your base salary

Interest-free loans for season tickets

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in resource management and workforce planning within consulting or legal services.
• Proven track record managing large, varied resource pools across permanent and contract populations.
• Experience partnering with leadership to influence resourcing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end resource management across all regulatory and financial crime engagements.
• Forecast demand and manage capacity to maintain workforce visibility.
• Build and maintain talent pools across contract and associate communities.

Skills

Resource management

Workforce planning

Talent deployment

Forecasting

Financial management

Compliance processes

Tools

Resource-management platforms

ATS/CRM platforms

Job description

Overview

The Senior Resource Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring the Financial Regulatory Consulting services are resourced with the right people, at the right time, and at the right cost. Working closely with the Regulatory Conduct and Financial Crime Directors, they lead workforce planning and end-to-end resource management across multiple concurrent client engagements. The role oversees the allocation of permanent, contract and associate consultants ensuring alignment of skills and capacity with project requirements. Responsibilities include forecasting demand, managing utilisation, overseeing onboarding and compliance, and ensuring effective performance oversight across all resources. Once established, collaborating with wider resourcing support to ensure operational discipline, data-driven planning, and a seamless interface between recruitment, delivery, and finance functions to achieve delivery excellence.

• Lead end-to-end resource management across all regulatory and financial crime engagements
• Build and maintain deep talent pools across contract and associate communities
• Forecast demand, manage capacity, and maintain forward visibility of workforce needs
• Ensure alignment between resourcing decisions, commercial parameters, and budget constraints
• Interface closely with recruitment, finance, internal resource management and legal delivery teams to ensure operational cohesion
• Produce accurate, data-led reporting and recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Build strong internal relationships, ensuring responsive and solution-driven service levels
• Share client intelligence and market insight with relevant colleagues with the objective of identifying patterns and trends which will have wider client relevance
• Ensuring acceptable profitability and utilisation on assignments, ensuring financial hygiene of contractors is adhered to and providing an escalation point around WIP, discounting and write-offs
• Working with Vario's contract team, maintain engagement terms and resource documentation up to date with changing legislation across the Fin reg Consulting function
• Significant experience in resource management, workforce planning or talent deployment within consulting and legal services or financial-services environments
• Proven track record managing large, varied resource pools across permanent, contractor, and associate populations
• Demonstrable experience in utilisation management, forecasting, financial and capacity planning
• Experience partnering with senior leadership to influence resourcing decisions in a fast-paced environment
• Background in onboarding and compliance processes within regulated industries
• Exposure to commercial and project-finance considerations, including rate management and margin awareness
• Experience using resource-management, analytics, or ATS/CRM platforms
• Experience supporting or managing junior team members
• Vario is Pinsent Masons' market-leading alternative legal services provider, offering a unique blend of Flexible Services, Consulting & Technology, Legal Project Management and Managed Legal Services (MLS)
• Up to five days' paid carers' leave to support your caring responsibilities
• 25 days' annual leave, with the ability to purchase or carry over an additional five days
• A contributory pension scheme (up to 5%)
• Private healthcare cover
• Life assurance at four times your base salary
• Access to interest-free loans for season tickets, gym membership, and rental deposits
• Cycle to work scheme

Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It\'s with different perspectives that we\'ll find solutions to our clients\' most complex challenges. It\'s how we\'ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.