Regional Staffing Manager

Overview / Responsibilities:
Wood is currently seeking applicants for an exciting, hands-on leadership opportunity within Consulting APAC as a Regional Staffing Manager to help shape the future of our business. The Regional Staffing Manager will play a key role in supporting the growth of the Consulting business across the APAC region, building relationships within the operational and functional leadership teams to improve technical resource forecasting, deployment and utilization, technical competency assessment, and help improve career opportunities for our employees.

This role provides a great opportunity to get a wider understanding of Wood’s business across all end markets and capabilities, to stretch your leadership and networking skills, and to have a hand in developing a new key capability to support our growth plans.

**Please note - this position can be based at any of our offices within APAC.**

**Job Objectives**

The role of the Regional Staffing Manager is to enable the optimisation of project staffing requirements across the Consulting Business Unit within their region in order to support successful delivery of projects.

This role is part of the Consulting staffing function and requires the leader to support and manage at a regional level a fit for purpose staffing system underpinned by effective processes and tools which will allow small, medium, and large-scale projects with multi-disciplined teams to be effectively resourced throughout their life cycles.

The staffing sub function is fundamental to the successful delivery of the new Consulting Operating Model and impacts not only on the direct project staffing requirements (and hence project delivery success) but also impacts effective utilization (and hence profitability), employee engagement and retention, and effectiveness of leaders (reducing the staffing challenge for them).

The role will report into the Global Staffing Director and will have a regional, fit for purpose sized staffing team to execute the day-to-day regional staffing activities including coordinating between project management teams, and technical delivery teams. The leader will be required to provide clear insights to Consulting senior leaders within their region in terms of staffing progress and performance, and to manage associated risks.

**Key Accountability & Responsibilities**:
The Regional Staffing Manager is required to oversee staffing for small scale as well as large scale and highly complex projects in both familiar and unfamiliar sectors. They are responsible for all aspects of project staffing within the region.

Their responsibilities include the development of an effective staffing system (working with the Global Staffing Director, supporting resource pool development, coordinating resource availability including competency across BGs, managing effective use of the GEC in Chennai, building a strong relationship across the BGs and being able to provide and obtain technical and SME support, and leading a standardised growth focused approach to workforce planning to meet budget expectations.

The Regional Staffing Manager may have a team of up to 5 direct reports once the model is fully implemented.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Lead Project Staffing across the designated Region across the 3 Consulting Business Groups with appropriate and effective delivery.
- Hands-on involvement in staffing and resourcing tasks in order to support effective and efficient support to the Consulting business within the region.
- Drive standardization and consistency across regional staffing activities which support a growth focused approach to workforce planning.
- Embed effective estimating into the staffing system working with the Commercial and G&D teams.
- Report and work collaboratively with Regional P&L owners in a matrix organization and support their regional goals.
- Work with the Technical and Project Management Leaders in region to ensure that our delivery teams have effective and suitable competency and development activities which position them to support project needs.
- Follow regional delivery plans to ensure focused delivery on staffing which can be shared with stakeholders to get their alignment and support.
- Provide regular staffing function performance reporting to BG Leadership teams to support them in managing their business at Business Group and Business Unit Level
- Support and focus on critical project delivery areas: estimating, forecasting, risk management, management of change, resourcing, project close out (movement of staff to new project whilst maintaining a core team to complete the existing requirements), and client expectations.
- Actively promote the company’s HSSEA culture and core values ensuring these continue to be embedded into the way that business is done.
- Promote Project Delivery culture of delivery, value added, collaboration, and excellence, through leadership by example, Communities of Practice,