Job Requirements:
-Leveraging understanding of the practice to positively influence deployment/staffing decisions with the goal of balancing workload, optimizing utilization, promoting flexibility, and providing broad-based experiences and developmental opportunities while balancing firm and client needs;
-Making staffing decisions while considering individual development needs, career interests, and broad-based experiences utilizing analytical and presentation skills to provide key data in order to drive business decisions;
-Understanding and implementing Diversity strategy through all staffing and deployment decisions;
-Understanding of firm and business priorities to collaborate within the Deployment Consultant network, maximizing resource sharing and enabling the delivery of the firm to our clients through Line of Service(LoS) and xLoS staffing;
-Utilizing alternative talent pools including global workforces and third-party labor;
-Leveraging TalentLink (resourcing scheduling tool) as the single source of deployment and forecasting information;
-Leveraging tools from Onboarding teams to support assimilation of new hires and interns to the team/practice, reviewing initial client assignments and chargeability, with a heightened focus on diverse staff;
-Implementing the firm’s deployment strategy, leveraging tools and industry leading practices developed by the Deployment CoE, and other Centers of Excellence (CoE’s) as applicable; and,
-Leveraging the knowledge of immigration and global deployment to navigate partners and engagement teams through these protocols to enable the staffing process, including cost impact of assignment.
Operations:
-Managing budget and executing workforce planning, forecasting, utilization, and workload balance for the assigned team;
-Promoting the understanding of firm economics and achieve retention, utilization, workload balance, diversity initiatives, and broad-base experience targets;
-Serving as a trusted advisor to partners/leaders focused on accelerating the development of our people;
-Collaborating with partners/leaders to identify issues and to develop and execute action plans across all areas of our people strategy including diversity, individual and team development, performance management, rewards and recognition, and workforce planning to address short and long term needs/skill gaps;
-Establishing and leveraging relationships with Talent Consultants (Human Capital counterpart) to positively impact our people experience;
-Formulating succession plan development and implementation with Talent Consultant to determine support needed if appropriate in preparation for Career Roundtable (CRT – annual performance process) in balance with deployment responsibilities;
-Understanding Human Capital metrics, sourcing, employee relations, strategies, goals and critical achievement targets;
-Liaising with Global Mobility teams to prepare for deployment of new short or long-term assignees coming to the US, repatriations back to home territories and identification of resources to supplement talent pool;
-Collaborating with the HR Shared Services Deployment Enablement Team to identify staff for instructor roles and validating that individuals are well positioned for the opportunity;
-Being able to independently make decisions and solve problems affecting assigned team;
-Leveraging Talent/Deployment Senior Associates to deliver services to the team;
-Coaching and development of seniors, including providing timely written and verbal feedback; and,
-Maintaining knowledge of current and emerging human capital technology trends and experience innovating with new human capital technology tools.