Workforce Planning Manager

Saudi Arabia

Ref: LP127-2423

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

• Lead work force planning strategic planning efforts and make recommendations of work force efficiencies and operational improvements to management.
• Create long term, interim and short term forecasts derived from understood business drivers, develop & Maintain staffing plans for long/ short range planning.
• Works with Project leaders to ensure adequate staff, contingency plans and workflow monitoring.
• Coordinate with others to ensure global expertise is tapped into when needed.
• Forecasts Projects & bids staff demand and manages scheduling of sufficiently skilled staff based on historical and anticipated volume across all projects both short-term, medium-term and long-term.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to improve staffing levels and efficiency
• Deliver all agreed regular and ad-hoc reports to Management.
• Contributes to ongoing strategic communication; solicits support and feedback from Project Directors and Associate Project Directors as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, finance, general business, accounting or a related field.
• Equivalent work experience may be substituted for educational
• Forecasting/advanced analytical role within a large volume, enterprise-level .
• Ability to create and manipulate data modeling and relational database structures for Workforce Management forecasting
• Ability to work with Business Intelligence databases and pull data from various sources
• Strong analysis skills, understanding complex formulas, data transformations, and record keys from multiple sources
• Requires resolving problems related to unexpected statistical anomalies and changing service level objectives by interpreting established methods and referring to past situations.
• Responds to customers’ needs by producing reports and resource plans with factual information and based on specified requirements

About the Company

Propel Consult delivers a service in step with the needs of both our client companies and candidates. Our ability to add value to all levels of recruitment stems from our wholehearted belief in providing a professional service to both parties. We have built relationships with many leading indigenous and mulitnational organisations throughout the Middle East and internationally in countries such as UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and many more. Concentrating our resources has created 5 distinct specialist divisions: