Senior Resource Planner - Workforce & Deployment

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is seeking a Resource Planning Senior to oversee deployment of practitioners/consultants across engagements and internal initiatives. You will forecast demand, balance workloads, and ensure staffing aligns with budget and career development.

The role partners with engagement leaders, practice leadership, and talent teams to optimize utilization and time-to-fill, while monitoring capacity and skill gaps for strategic staffing decisions.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in business operations, project management or related field preferred.
• Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Degree in Business Management, Project Management, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day staffing and scheduling for an assigned pool of practitioners/consultants, ensuring timely placement aligned to engagement needs, skill requirements, location constraints, and cost considerations.
• Prioritize and fulfill staffing requests based on client requirements, time constraints, and budget parameters; recommend alternatives when constraints exist.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of capacity, availability, and skill inventory across the resource pool; proactively communicate availability and constraints to engagement and practice leaders.
• Serve as a liaison between engagement leaders and practitioners to ensure clear expectations for assignment timing, workload, and transition requirements.
• Collect and analyze demand signals from project/engagement leaders to forecast near-term and mid-term staffing needs; surface capacity risks and recommend mitigation actions.
• Identify trends in demand (skill, level, geography, seasonality) and partner with leaders to inform hiring needs, contractor strategy, and targeted development plans.
• Support business strategy through internal talent supply and demand initiatives, including rebalancing capacity across teams and improving time-to-staff for priority work.
• Monitor and manage key productivity measures such as utilization/billability, bench time, staffing lead time, assignment duration, and time-to-fill; produce routine summaries for leadership.
• Coordinate with leaders to align staffing assignments with practitioner development goals (experience progression, exposure to specialties, skill-building opportunities).
• Participate in engagement performance reviews and staffing retrospectives to improve future deployment decisions and resource planning.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Business/Project Management related degree

Job description

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) is seeking a Resource Planning Senior to oversee deployment of practitioners/consultants across engagements and internal initiatives. You will forecast demand, balance workloads, and ensure staffing aligns with budget and career development.

The role partners with engagement leaders, practice leadership, and talent teams to optimize utilization and time-to-fill, while monitoring capacity and skill gaps for strategic staffing decisions.