Resource Planner

About the role

The Resource Planner supports workforce planning and resource management across various lines of service, ensuring the right talent is aligned to the right work at the right time. The role blends data analysis, workforce reporting, resource deployment, and cross‑functional coordination to identify staffing needs, capacity gaps, and workforce trends.

Key responsibilities

• Track resource demand, capacity, allocations, availability and future staffing needs across business units.
• Identify staffing gaps, over‑allocations and potential resource deployment opportunities.
• Match available talent to business needs based on skills, experience, grade, location and timing.
• Coordinate resource assignments, extensions and transitions, ensuring decisions are reflected across the firm.
• Partner with business and engagement managers to validate staffing plans, assignment dates and allocation percentages.
• Maintain and reconcile workforce information across multiple systems, resolving discrepancies.
• Build and maintain dashboards, trackers and recurring reports on headcount, utilisation, capacity, demand and vacancies.
• Analyse workforce data to spot trends, risks and opportunities and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise or automate workforce planning and resource management processes.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 1–3 years of experience in workforce planning, resource management, business operations or related field.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with attention to data accuracy.
• Excellent organisational, prioritisation and follow‑through skills.
• Ability to identify trends, risks and actionable insights from workforce data.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective collaboration with stakeholders across different teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment with evolving priorities.