Staffing Lead

Staffing Lead

EMEA Professional Services Hybrid

12 month FTC

Our client, a leading global professional services firm, is seeking a Staffing Lead to join their People & Operations team. This is a high impact role focused on aligning talent to projects, optimising utilisation, and supporting meaningful career development across the business.

Working closely with senior operational leaders, the role has primary responsibility for staffing across EMEA, with exposure to global projects including the US. You will be a trusted advisor to leaders and employees, influencing key resourcing decisions in a complex, project driven environment.

The Role

• Lead workforce deployment and resource allocation across EMEA in line with business priorities.
• Partner with project and practice leaders to build balanced, high performing teams.
• Anticipate resourcing risks and proactively address capacity gaps or constraints.
• Develop trusted relationships with employees, understanding skills, aspirations, and development needs.
• Advise senior leaders on staffing decisions, balancing utilisation, delivery, and long term talent development.
• Drive utilisation through creative and strategic staffing approaches, maintaining visibility of unassigned resources.
• Use data and insight to inform forecasting, workforce planning, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with People and Finance teams on workforce strategy and planning.

About You

• Significant experience in resource management, staffing, utilisation, or workforce planning within a project based professional services environment.
• Comfortable operating in complex, matrixed and ideally global organisations.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior level.
• Commercially minded, analytical, and confident using data to drive decisions.
• Pragmatic, people focused, and able to navigate competing priorities with sound judgement.

Why Apply?

This is a visible and trusted role within a growing global firm, offering the opportunity to influence business performance, employee experience, and long term talent outcomes.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.