Resource Manager

IQVIA; Porto Salvo; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

IQVIA is seeking an experienced Resource Manager to shape how capability, capacity and talent are deployed across our Health Economics practice. You will translate business strategy, sales pipeline and client demand into executable workforce plans, balancing short-term delivery with longer-term capability development.

In a dynamic client-driven environment, you will need strategic judgment, credibility with senior stakeholders, and the ability to optimize utilization, project margin and employee

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in resource management, workforce planning, staffing, or deployment roles within a professional services or consulting environment.
• Demonstrated experience operating at both strategic and executional levels, translating business strategy into workforce outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with a deep understanding of utilisation, margin, and delivery economics.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate complex, ambiguous decision‑making environments.
• Advanced analytical capability, with experience using workforce and financial data to drive insight and action.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Resource Allocation & Deployment: Know your talent pool, own end-to-end resource deployment across client delivery, business development, and strategic internal initiatives., Make informed trade-offs where demand exceeds supply, prioritize work by value, client impact and capability goals, Ensure projects are staffed with optimal skills, grade, and cost mix, Onboard new consultants and educate them on Resource Management.
• Workforce Strategy & Planning: Translate regional and practice-level strategy, sales pipeline, and demand forecasts into forward-looking workforce and capacity plans., Contribute to headcount, hiring, and skills planning with evidence-based insights, Partner with leadership to shape sustainable workforce models balancing utilization, growth and talent health.
• Commercial Performance & Utilization Optimization: Actively manage utilization, realization, and margin across teams., Identify drivers of under/over-utilization and design interventions for long-term performance, Partner with finance to interpret workforce data for revenue and capacity insights.
• Understanding the Business: Apply knowledge of professional services and consulting firm operations to staffing, Understand client needs and how IQVIA helps them.
• Talent & Capability Management: Maintain strategic view of consultant skills, career paths, and development, Balance immediate client needs with long-term capability building, Surface capability gaps to inform hiring and learning investments.
• Data, Governance & Insight: Own integrity of resource data, establish forecasting and governance rhythms, Move from reporting to insight-led workforce management.
• People Leadership & Functional Maturity: Contribute to maturity of Resource Management function and promote best practices across teams.

Skills

Resource management

Workforce planning

Staffing

Deployment

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Analytical ability

English proficiency

Tools

Workforce analytics tools

Capacity planning tools

Job description

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IQVIA™ is The Human Data Science Company™, focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, Technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward.

Resource Manager - Health Economics

We are seeking an experienced Resource Manager to play a strategic role in shaping how capability, capacity, and talent are deployed across our Health Economics practice.

The Resource Manager is accountable for translating business strategy, sales pipeline, and client demand into executable workforce plans. The role balances short‑term delivery needs with longer‑term capability development, ensuring the right expertise is deployed at the right time, at the right cost, and in a way that supports sustainable growth.

Operating in a dynamic, client‑driven environment, the role requires strong strategic judgement, credibility with senior stakeholders, and the ability to make decisive trade‑offs that optimize utilization, project margin, and employee experience.

Role and responsibilities

Strategic Resource Allocation & Deployment

• Know your talent pool including numbers, individual skill profiles/interests, group skill gaps/surpluses

• Own end‑to‑end resource deployment across client delivery, business development, and strategic internal initiatives.

• Make informed, strategic trade‑offs where demand exceeds supply, prioritizing work based on commercial value, client impact, and long‑term capability goals.

• Ensure projects are staffed with an optimal skills, grade, and cost mix, aligned to delivery outcomes and profitability targets.

• Onboard new consultants, educating them on how to effectively work with Resource Management

Workforce Strategy & Planning

• Translate regional and practice‑level business strategy, sales pipeline, and demand forecasts into forward‑looking workforce and capacity plans.

• Act as a key contributor to headcount, hiring, and skills planning, providing evidence‑based insight on future capability needs, gaps, and deployment risks.

• Partner with leadership to shape sustainable workforce models, balancing utilization targets, growth ambitions, and talent health.

Commercial Performance & Utilization Optimization

• Actively manage and optimize utilization, realization, and margin performance across assigned teams.

• Identify structural drivers of under‑or over‑utilization and design interventions that improve long‑term performance, not just short‑term fixes.

• Partner with finance and leadership to interpret workforce data and provide insight into revenue, cost, and capacity dynamics.

Understanding the Business

• Apply your knowledge of the professional services industry and how publicly listed consulting firms operate (e.g. business development cycles, project delivery cycles, billable hours, time entry, quarterly reporting etc.) to staffing

• Leverage business and financial acumen to understand the implications of bill rates, fees, priority work etc.

• Understand our clients, what they do, what they need and how we are helping them

Talent & Capability Management

• Maintain a strategic view of consultant skills, experience, career aspirations, and development pathways.

• Balance immediate client needs with longer‑term capability building and talent sustainability, ensuring fair access to development and stretch opportunities.

• Surface recurring capability gaps and inform strategic hiring, reskilling, and learning investment decisions.

Data, Governance & Insight

• Own the integrity and strategic use of resource, capacity, and utilization data across workforce planning systems.

• Establish consistent forecasting, reporting, and governance rhythms that support leadership decision‑making.

• Move the function beyond reporting to insight‑led workforce management, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities.

People Leadership & Functional Maturity

• Contribute to the ongoing maturity and evolution of the Resource Management function, embedding best practices and consistent ways of working across teams.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years' experience in resource management, workforce planning, staffing, or deployment roles within a professional services or consulting environment.

• Demonstrated experience operating at both strategic and executional levels, translating business strategy into workforce outcomes.

• Strong commercial acumen with a deep understanding of utilisation, margin, and delivery economics.

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate complex, ambiguous decision‑making environments.

• Advanced analytical capability, with experience using workforce and financial data to drive insight and action.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Desirable

• Experience working with capacity planning, or workforce analytics tools.

• Exposure to life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated consulting environments.

• Experience supporting multi‑country or globally distributed delivery teams.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create connections that accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments. Everything we do is part of a journey to improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.

To get there, we seek out diverse talent with curious minds and a relentless commitment to innovation and impact. No matter your role, everyone at IQVIA contributes to our shared goal of helping customers improve the lives of patients everywhere. Thank you for your interest in growing your career with us.

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