A career in Resourcing and Deployment, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to work in cross line of service staffing helping our network be even more agile in the ever evolving markets we work with, providing the right people on the right projects at the right time. You’ll focus on ensuring that resources of suitable skills and calibre are available for tasks and activities as required as well as managing the education, planning, and skills enhancement associated with resources.

As a team, we maximise resource sharing and enable the delivery of PwC to our clients through line of service and cross line of service staffing, forecasting, utilisation, and workload balance while considering development and diversity initiatives.

About the role

An opportunity has arisen to join the Central regions Audit Resource Management team as a Manager on a secondment or FTC for 12 months, to be based in our Bristol or Cardiff office.

This is an exciting time for Resource Management as we build on the professionalism of our people and work closely with the business to develop and implement PwC business and people strategy. Our central Resource Management (RM) team looks to assist the firm in being more agile and provide the right people on the right projects at the right time.

The Central Audit BU works with a variety of clients across the non-financial sector from FTSE 250 to private businesses, and everything in between. This role will focus on those clients based across our Bristol and Cardiff offices, with a requirement to be visible in both locations each week.

The key responsibilities of this role

• Manage a team of 2 direct reports to effectively deploy the Central Audit client-facing population. Optimise headcount, manage/oversee joiners, leavers and secondments, manage utilisation and maintain awareness of the impact deployment decisions have on employee engagement

• Deliver the manpower and resourcing plan by having a deep understanding of portfolio growth plans and headcount required to support these; balancing these with the needs of the individual

• Build and maintain relationships within the BU and proactively act as an escalation point for conflicts or deployment issues

• Conducting regular portfolio reviews to ensure maximum utilisation, development and fair allocation of work for each individual

• Provide a suite of Management Information (MI) to forecast revenue, spot trends, make connections and identify opportunities to improve profitability

• Share knowledge, best practice and network with your colleagues across the business and Resource Management Function

• Engage and promote the use of key resourcing systems including TalentLink, Finder and GFS to enable effective resourcing decisions

Who we are looking for

To enable us to deliver our strategy, we want to attract managers from varying backgrounds and industries who have experience

• Delivering business outcomes in a fast-paced and changing environment

• Negotiating with senior stakeholders to deliver resourcing solutions and strategic requirements

• Demonstrably utilising a commercial mindset and business acumen to inform business decisions, utilising varied Management Information to do so

• Be a trusted advisor who provides balanced and pragmatic advice around manpower planning and resource management

• Liaising, influencing and challenging effectively to build relationships at all levels and with multiple stakeholders

• Coaching and supporting Resourcing team members
   

Essential skills and experience

Technical Expertise

• Deployment and Manpower Planning

• Influence and drive the mobility agenda in the business unit

• Look for deployment opportunities and build relationships across all lines of service

• Managing people and their development

• Conflict resolution

• Project management and organisation skills

Knowledge and Skills

• Relationship Skills including communicating and influencing

• Developing and sustaining long term relationships with key stakeholders in the business, resource management and other operational areas

• Communicate with impact using different communication styles

Strategy and Change Management

• Understand the firm-wide strategy, business and resource management strategy and know how to apply it input to the Resourcing objectives and vision for the business unit/line of service

• Influencing and creating a vision for change by championing the delivery of change

• Stakeholder management

• Delivering outcomes that build relationships by taking into account the different needs of multiple stakeholders; balancing the needs of individuals and those of the business

• Anticipating and recognising when conflict may occur and work to resolve these through supporting and escalating if required

Commercial Acumen and Financial Management

• Developing and driving solutions to improve profitability of clients and PwC

• Using data and Management Information (MI), networking internally and externally to advise the business on resourcing options and solutions that help to drive growth and profitability

• Network internally and externally to understand current trends, best practice and innovations 

Team and Personal Development

• Leading the team by coordinating resources to achieve a defined end result

• Developing yourself by seeking opportunities that stretch and challenge

• Coaching and developing others in the team by providing quality, real time feedback

Participating in the recruitment process to ensure that new team members are aligned to the new ways of working

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity