Resource Planner

Work on city-changing, major projects nationally
- Join a global organization with a supportive career development culture
- With flexible work options including part time hours available

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

**Role description**:
**Role accountabilities**:

- Responsible for resource planning across Business Area locally and globally to align processes and approach to resource planning. Taking ownership of Workforce Planning Tool (WPT), onboard and train new staff in use of WPT, and implementing refinements to process as required.
- Act as key sponsor for current WPT and future WPT developments to ensure rapid deployment and consistent use across Business Area (BA).
- Accountable to BA Operations Director for resource forecasting, business intelligence and metrics. Delivering internal governance and compliance for, resource analytics and performance/optimization of individuals and teams.
- Supports work winning and project performance frameworks by identified skills needed and matching individuals to roles, advising on the skills available and timing. Supports specific interventions on Strategic Workforce Planning, to include efficiencies, growth, recruitment, and pipeline analysis.
- Facilitate timely matching of resources to resource requests, liaising with Talent Acquisition team for collaboration on open roles and understanding business needs and ensuring resource assignments are up to date, monitor large projects and engagements for changing demands and evolving requirements.
- Organize regular meetings with business stakeholders to identify short, medium, and longer-term resource needs and create and maintain a resource plan showing supply and demand. Identify and advise business stakeholders on needs for changes in the workforce, based on perceived resource demands (recruitment, development, retention, attrition, etc.)

**Qualifications & Experience**:
First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You will come to us with:

- 3 years experience within a professional services environment, either in resource planning for a business, or alternatively workforce planning and resourcing for a project, including the use of online tools, or recruitment or HR experience.
- Strong team player, collaborative with peers and proven ability to network and influence at various levels - Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy - Confident and self-aware
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills based on mutual trust and confidence, both internally and externally
- High level of integrity with the ability to resolve conflict with outcome-focused working style
- Positive, can-do attitude and able to multitask and handle working under pressure
- Highly organized and excellent time management ability
- Strong numeric ability and comfortable in manipulating/analysing numerical data
- Demonstrated experience in systems such as MS Office (particularly Excel), Oracle or in resource planning systems

**Why Become an Arcadian?**

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by