Director Technical Services RMO

Your Role

The Director of the Technical Services Resource Management Office (RMO) is responsible for overseeing the global team that is responsible for the allocation and utilization of resources within the Technical Services organization ensuring efficient project staffing by monitoring resource availability forecasting future needs and matching resources to projects to optimize productivity and meet project deadlines. 

As the Director of Technical Services RMO you will lead the Resource Management Capacity Planning and Vendor Management functions. Youll partner with Technical Services Business Leaders Finance Technical Services Operations Sales Operations and Contingent Workforce teams. Your primary objective will be to ensure that Technical Services has the resources it needs to achieve its goals including the capacity to meet current and future demands.

Your Impact

• Capacity Planning: Ownership of process and capacity models to forecast headcount needs by geo and skillset. Youll assess supply and demand by leveraging the capacity planning expertise on the team. Collaborate with Executive leadership and Finance to determine staffing needs based on supply demand and skills

• Staffing Process: Leads distributed team that facilitates the fulfillment of staffing requests and prioritizing resource requests working with Project Managers and other team members to ensure the right staff assignments are made in right timeframes. Centralize the reporting & insights of resource requests globally to highlight challenges and path to resolve routine skillset gaps

• Staffing Interlocks: Drive rigorous interlocks across the organization to review pipeline impacts on near term demand & resource allocation / forecasting calls to review planned & actual workload. Highlight over or under utilized resources and propose corrective actions. Develop strategies with business to optimize team composition and skill sets to meet demand. 

• Resource Management Governance: ownership of regular cadence and framework of reporting RMO KPIs. Leverage the team to conduct audits on skills accuracy and timesheet compliance

• Vendor Management: Manage the global Technical Services Vendors by putting in place governance structures to track vendor performance. Leverage vendors to address short term and long term Technical Services capacity gaps via existing or new vendors. Manage the onboarding process of new suppliers.

• Drive transformative projects across the RMO team in support of data integrity leveraging automation / tooling where possible

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 10 years in customerfacing technology services projects in a Resource Management capacity including understanding of Professional Services consulting business in a technology product and/or services company

• BS or Business bachelors degree

• Selfstarter solutionoriented and willing to learn

• Exceptional communication influencing and analytical skills

• Strong oral presentation listening and influencing skills

• Proven problem solving and collaboration skills

• Familiarity with forecasting processes and tools

• Understanding of organizational goals and strategic priorities; ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities

• Requires managing the process worldwide so must be willing to work outside normal local work hours on occasion 

• Experience using a Professional Services Automation tool to manage projects skills and resources

• Ability to make assessment and judgment calls quickly and accurately

• Advanced Excel / Google Sheet skills mathematical aptitude

Additional Information :

The Team

The Director of the Technical Services RMO will be a member of the Technical Services Operations leadership team. The Technical Services Operations mission is to drive business partnership to enable seamless service delivery with foundational process and tooling business insights executive reporting and drive continuous improvements across those areas

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $121000 $196000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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