Resourcing Business Partner - Birmingham Based
About Baringa
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.
You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.
We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.
We are looking for an organised, analytical professional to join our resource management department:
Resource Utilisation Forecasting
- Running the centralised process for quantitative forecasting of business utilisation for an industry sector
- Providing input into the centralised cross-sector utilisation reporting
Business Partnering – Resource Management
- Building relationships with BU leadership to support resource management decisions and the within-BU resourcing process
Organising weekly resource management/staffing calls, chairing the calls and follow-up
- Helping BU, sector, and company leadership understanding utilisation forecasts, potential impacts and implications, and alternative demand sources
- Supporting BU staffing leads and BU exec to find demand for unassigned resources during periods of lower BU demand and identifying additional resource pools from other BUs or external parties during periods of increased BU demand.
- Engaging with other resource management business partners to obtain a company-wide view on supply and demand, enabling support to be provided to ensure optimal resource assignment across the company.
Resource Clearing
- Support the BU and Sector leadership teams to facilitate staffing of people across BUs, and across sectors in order to maximise utilisation
- Identify potential future peaks or troughs in demand based on utilisation forecasts and historic profiles at the BU and industry sector level to support in-advance resource utilisation management
- Support BU staffing leads identify resources without potential demand in advance of availability, engaging at the cross-BU and cross-Sector levels early to minimise or eliminate non-utilised time.
So what are we looking for?
We recruit individuals at all levels based on merit. Some of the key sills we are looking for:
- Experience within a professional services/management consultancy environment
- Experience of developing or streamlining processes and tools
- Experience and knowledge of using Microsoft Excel and ability to interpret, enhance and optimise MI reporting conducted via multiple excel spreadsheets
- Experience of Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare relevant MI to be presented to sector leadership teams
- Ability to research, analyse and present information with a high level of attention to detail
- Excellent communication and organisational abilities
- Able to prioritise, respond efficiently and effectively and plan ahead
What a Career At Baringa Will Give You
Putting People First.
Benefits
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:
- Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
- Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
- Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
- Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
Diversity and Inclusion.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.
Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.
We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.
Join us
All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further .
