Resource Manager in London

Global Grade: GG11

Location: Amesbury - 3dpw on-site. Possible other QQ locations - Farnborough, Portsmouth

Role Type: Permanent - Full Time

Role ID: 20529

Salary: Up to £45k depending on experience

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Resource Manager, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role: The Resource Manager's purpose is to manage the dynamic allocation of resources to meet the tactical and future work demands across QinetiQ’s Engineering disciplines - maximising resource productivity with a focus on an individual’s success as well as enabling successful business delivery. The role is embedded within a specific Discipline with primary responsibility for resources that are less complex in nature to resource and will operate as part of a collaborative of the Workforce Planning community to support wider business delivery. The Resource Manager will be managing permanent, part time, contractors seeking to understand work demands (requests and changes) that arise from the business development, project delivery and engineering operations functions across all of QinetiQ.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Tactical Decisions: All tactical plans and decisions to direct the deployment of the Discipline’s resources to meet new and changed work requests seeking guidance from the Senior Resource Manager where necessary.
• Complex Solutions: This role will be identifying conflict in workloads and proposing solutions in conflicting resource challenges in agreed timescales.
• Procedure Implementation: Effectively implements the Workforce & Facility Planning (W&FP) policy and procedures within their Discipline and leads Project Managers and Team Leads through the WFP processes.
• Process Improvement: Confidence to join teams to proactively identify improvements to processes and toolsets in business operations, and when required works with Senior Resource Managers to implement and drive the change across the sub function.
• Productivity Improvement: Proactively identify, analyse and highlight constraints and working practices that negatively impact on the flexibility, realisable capacity and productivity of the resources.
• RM Community: Actively collaborates and supports other Senior RMs to provide a continuous and resilient resource planning service.

Essential experience of the Resource Manager:

• Proven experience of interacting with a wide range of external and internal stakeholders and demonstrates strong communication skills.
• Some experience of mentoring junior members within a team.
• Evidence of committing to actions and takes responsibility for decisions and outcomes.
• Experience of managing and allocating Resources.

Desirable qualifications for the Resource Manager:

• Level 3 education or equivalent experience with typically 3 - 5 years further experience working across a multifaceted team.

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Our Recruitment Process: Please note that applications are reviewed as they are received, so we encourage early applications. This vacancy will be closed when sufficient suitable applications are received.

At QinetiQ we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible and welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences drives innovation and leads to better outcomes for our people, customers and communities. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing internal_recruitment@qinetiq.com, and one of our recruitment team will contact you.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Why Join QinetiQ? As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Our Benefits: Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance. Competitive holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days. Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance. Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.