Description

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We're helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we're developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.

As a member of the Huron corporate team, you'll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron's collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future.

Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing innovative ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals, and communities. We're helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And we're developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team, you'll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron's collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.

Join our team and create your future.
Huron's Resource Management (RM) team members are trusted strategic advisors to our business leaders, delivering solutions that balance the needs of our people, our company, and our clients. The team delivers high quality staffing solutions that ensure proper alignment of resources to projects, optimizes utilization, and supports career development for employees. We provide unique perspectives through data-informed insights and foster deep, collaborative, and consultative relationships with the stakeholders we engage.
Specifically, the Resource Manager implements practical, seamless processes and systems to support resource allocation and planning that the business trusts and utilizes. They support all key business functions associated with managing the supply and demand of consultants for client engagements. They deliver utilization and forecasting insights that drive strategic business decisions and meet organizational business objectives. They also partner with other operational functions to drive future workforce planning.
Key to success in this role is one's ability to establish and maintain credibility with practice / internal teams, develop and maintain a deep understanding of business offerings and effectively communicate at all levels throughout the organization. This position reports to the Resource Management Strategy Lead for their assigned team and interacts directly with business leaders and employees, Human Capital, Operations, IT and Procurement personnel.
This role requires close collaboration with colleagues in the US and demands flexibility to work during evening IST hours to align with US working hours [till 11am CT].

Job Description Summary

Required:

• Coordinate staffing assignments for consultants within your assigned area; understand project demand and match with resources based on availability, background, experience, and interests
• Develop and maintain understanding of business unit offerings to ensure better matching of skill sets and project needs

• Lead staffing calls for your assigned areas, participate in leading monthly new hire resource management orientations and bi-weekly RM team meetings (all RMs participate in leading calls)
• Establish and maintain credibility with practice/solution and internal teams to facilitate ongoing relationships and service delivery efforts
• Maintain staffing software/reporting and coordinate with other areas to ensure data is updated appropriately
• Effectively team and communicate with HR, Operations, Recruiting, L&OE and other Resource Managers across the company
• Support internal RM process improvement efforts as needed and drive RMO initiatives across your assigned areas
• Review and recommend modifications to internal processes as needed for project control, operations review and business support.

• Reporting:

• Track and report utilization and provide reasoning for over/under utilization wherever applicable.
• Help track shadow and investment hours across industries and provide insight wherever possible
• Assist with scheduled and ad-hoc reporting and BU related insights

Qualifications

• At least 3 - 5 years of work experience in resource management; experience in management consulting organizations highly preferred
• Huron requires a bachelor's degree in a field related to this position
• Experience in capacity planning and forecasting.
• Exceptional communication, influencing and analytical skills.
• Strong oral presentation, listening and influencing skills
• Proven collaboration skills
• Ability to adapt to flexi-working hours
• Experience with resource automation systems and software (Preferably Workday)
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
• Experience in reporting, with some familiarity with data analytics tools (i.e., Power BI)

Position Level
Associate

Country
India