Global Resource PlannerCoordinator
Global Resource PlannerCoordinator
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Job Description
Job Purpose:
The primary goal to create insight and balance and optimization of out resource pool through coordination planning and allocation of resources allowing for accurate prioritization and decision making by management. Planning technology personnel resources across all projects and work efforts globally. By implementing effective capacity planning and proactive resource identification and allocation the role aims to enhance the likelihood of meeting project schedules and budgets reducing impact of delays. This is achieved by ensuring that resource demand is consistently matched with the right quantity quality and expertise of resource supply supporting the successful delivery of all Technology projects and individual work packages
Duties:
- Collaborate with cross functional teams (Centre of Excellence (CoE / manufacturing facility) and the Regions Markets contract/client affiliates and partners where applicable) to support the delivery of the Product/s for efficiently and effectively. between the relevant site.
- Collaborate with Technology Department Heads to assess and define both short and longterm personnel resource needs.
- Collaborate with Programs Teams to ensure up to date progress on the of projects is taken into account of general planning.
- Support the processes by providing accurate resource availability data for the short to mediumterm assisting in the evaluation and acceptance of new work within the Technology department.
- Assign teams and personnel down to the developer/engineer level across projectlevel work packagelevel and individual tasklevel to help the Project Manager and Project Engineering Coordinator meet key milestones and deadlines.
- Identify potential bottlenecks conflicts or resource overloads (e.g. competing resource demands across multiple projects) and proactively address these issues in partnership with Department Heads and Project Leads.
- Propose and implement solutions to optimize resource allocation across multiple projects ensuring alignment with critical path requirements and overall priorities.
- Coordinate personnel resources and match supply with demand for various projects and work packages on a daily weekly and monthly basis.
- Maintain an uptodate accessible resource management tool that provides visibility across the management team and stakeholders for datadriven decisionmaking.
- Monitor technical skillsets and capabilities within the Technology department and flag any resource gaps to the management team.
- Drive continuous improvement of tools and processes for labour forecasting and resource allocation.
- Act as the Technology coordinator for the provision and management of contractor personnel.
- Provide accurate reporting on personnel levels in relation to current and future requirements ensuring alignment with Performance Indicators and thresholds.
- Assist Project Managers with identifying labour underspends or overspends recommending corrective actions to stay on schedule and within budget.
- Oversee the Earned Value Management (EVM) process for monitoring and reporting on Technology Programs and Projects.
Ensure the Technology Portfolio of Record (PoR) is accurately maintained and serve as the PoR champion.
Planning and Decision Making:
Highpriority projects require input from all R&D software teams at varying levels. Currently each department manager handles their teams contributions resulting in separate Points of Contact for the Project Manager Project Engineering Coordinator. This fragmented approach leads to significant management overhead inefficiencies and an increased risk of errors all contributing to higher business costs.
Each Department Manager spends an estimated 12 days per week 816 hours) coordinating these efforts which adds up to 12 full working weeks per week across the teams. Additionally inefficient allocation of just 1 of the R&D resources per day incurs an estimated hidden cost with the actual cost likely being much higher.
Delays that damage our reputation as well as delaying our roadmap and ability to optimize revenue as we cannot keep our commitments due to the constant shift of resources by lack of insight and oversight
Key Internal and External Relationships:
- Technology leaders
- Program leaders
- Industry Directors
- CoE / Manufacturing Plant Functional leads and staff
Additional Information :
Job Purpose:
A critical position in the global training departments ability to deliver high quality Training Material and Documentation. This role will be critical in ensuring a high quality of all training content throughout the department.
This role holder supports the Training delivery and quality pillar of the Global Training and Documentation department. This role involves creating content for the training department to a high quality whilst also ensuring that departmental branding and terminology is maintained. This role will deliver the quality assurance activity required to ensure highly accurate documentation and training material is delivered to our customer and internal audiences as such an exceptionally high standard of English is required. The role will also support with administration tasks such as the creation of Purchase Orders for activities such as translation of materials and other aspects of the day to day running of the department to ensure smooth operation.
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin economic status disability age or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics where we celebrate support and embrace diversity.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
