Resource Manager

**About Herbert Smith Freehills**

As one of the world's leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

**The Opportunity**

We are seeking a Resource Manager to join our Human Resources team in Melbourne or Sydney on a 12-month maximum term contract.

In this role you will deliver and drive expert work allocation technology and advice to the Digital Legal Delivery practice group, balancing the needs of our clients, business, and the career aspirations and wellbeing of our people.

You will solve complex work allocation problems and anticipate business challenges that may arise, advising on solutions and preventative measures. You will maintain a broad appreciation of supply and demand needs across the global firm, driving mobility wherever possible and optimising allocation of work.

**To be successful in this role you will**:

- Demonstrate experience in building strategic relationships at all levels.
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrate the ability to influence culture change.
- Experience identifying and executing mobility opportunities.
- Demonstrates experience of data analysis, planning, forecasting, trend spotting, mitigating risks, and reporting.
- Ability to understand and analyse utilisation data and practice-specific work types to make resourcing decisions based on data and partner and staff preferences.
- Ability to act quickly under tight deadlines.
- Proactive and adaptable, able to demonstrate initiative.
- Strong commercial and client focus.
- Ability to understand key business drivers including the impact that utilisation and leverage has on profitability.
- Ability to present summaries of the benefits of the work allocation function and data tools to other parts of the business, including senior stakeholders.
- Prior experience in Resource Management, ideally within a large professional services or legal environment.
- Excellent IT skills/ experience working with resource management software.

**What you can expect from us**:
We're a world leading international law firm with a global team of over 5,000 professionals. As the market leader in Australia, we are committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity and digital innovation. We are client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for our solution-focused expertise. We will align your growth with our ambitions.

We make your personal and professional growth our business. And as part of the team, our ambition is yours too. Wherever you are in your career: grow and help the firm grow with you.

We will provide opportunities to learn on the job as well as a mix of learning opportunities tailored to you. Daily experiences, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors and structured learning opportunities help you to expand your knowledge and reach your goals.

We value your wellbeing, both at home and work and we place a strong emphasis on mental health. If you need support, you'll have it and we'll empower you to harness your personal strengths, navigate uncertainty, embrace opportunities and effectively manage things within your control.

We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our Values-Human, Bold, and Outstanding.

**Team**

AU BS HR Resourcing Level 2, Human Resources

**Working Pattern**

Full time

**Location**

Melbourne, Sydney

**Contract type**

Maximum Term Contract

**Diversity & Inclusion**

We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives. We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance. This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.