Consulting Resource/Staffing Manager

Consulting Resource/Staffing Manager In the United Kingdom - London

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in 30+ countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. As a trusted commercial advisor, we combine deep consulting expertise, growth specialization, and technology to scale impact. We optimize every lever of commercial strategy - product, pricing, innovation, marketing, sales, and digital - based on deep insights into what customers value and are willing to pay for. With over 40 years of experience in monetization, we are regarded as the world's leading commercial growth and pricing specialist.

Weare now seeking a Resource/Staffing Manager to join us in London. Thisrole is key to the success of our UK consulting business, working closely with Partners, Directors and Project Managers to ensure project teams are staffed effectively, sustainably and in line with commercial priorities and consultant development goals.

How you will create impact

• Act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders on staffing decisions, balancing utilisation, profitability, client value delivery and consultant development
• Solve complex, fast-moving resourcing challenges, anticipating demand and capacity risks and proposing practical solutions
• Optimise utilisation, supporting high-quality client delivery and enabling a positive consultant experience across the UK consulting business - we place a value on balancing short-term delivery needs with longer-term capability building
• Manage our regular consultant pulse-check surveys to help assess team workload and satisfaction, working with project Partners and the relevant HR Business Partner to determine actions to balance team wellbeing with project delivery demands
• Build strong relationships with people managers and consultants to understand skills, career aspirations, availability and wellbeing considerations, interfacing with the relevant HR Business Partner to ensure resource management and HR needs are addressed effectively
• Apply and embed clear staffing principles to support learning, capability building and sustainable workloads
• Collaborate with global resource management teams to facilitate cross office staffing and international mobility where appropriate
• Ensure all resource planning data sources are kept fully updated, including our resource management tool, Napta, alongside provision of high-quality actionable management information
• Drive consistent use of staffing tools (interfacing with global business process and systems teams as needed) and data management to support evidence based decision making, including tracking skills, industry exposure and development gaps
• Work with the relevant HR Business Partner and Recruitment Manager to forward track available team resources, working together to prioritise recruitment need and set realistic forward resource plans
• Build positive working relationships with Resource Management professionals across the company, sharing expertise and knowledge to strengthen this function within Simon Kucher
• Ensure deployment of interns and early career hires maximises their development potential and success
• We anticipate that there may be the opportunity to contribute to some recruitment activities alongside the primary delivery areas for the role

Your profile

• Exposure to Resource Management or staffing processes within a strategy consultancy, management consultancy, law firm, accountancy or other professional services environment
• Experience working directly with Partners and senior leaders to optimise resource utilisation, including demonstrating independent thinking and problem solving
• Strong analytical capability, with confidence using utilisation and pipeline data to inform decisions
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to operate credibly with colleagues who are working in a client-driven environment
• Commercial mindset, with a clear understanding of how utilisation and team composition impact profitability
• Proactive, resilient and highly organised, with the ability to manage competing priorities at pace
• Potentially some experience of contributing to recruitment efforts

What we offer

• Work within a corporate culture defined by our entrepreneurial spirit, openness, and integrity
• Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning opportunities
• Push your development with support from our holistic feedback and development processes
• Hybrid work, mixing your work location between our London office, client sites, and the option to remote work for an element of your time
• Enjoy our range of benefits and our focus on your wellbeing
• We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone - our people, our clients and, of course, our business