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Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.\nRole description:\nThe Senior Workforce Planning Manager Program Management Americas will drive workforce agility across Program Management in Americas, establishing proactive 12-week forecasts, maximizing productivity, and ensuring demand needs are managed, early warnings and proactive insights are provided to Americas Service leaders. This role will also manage a team of Resource Planners.\nRole accountabilities:\nOwn the 12-week forecast for Program Management, highlighting supply and demand variance. \nEstablish data driven resource forecasts to enable proactive decision making. \nProvide recruitment recommendations to Service Directors and inform TA partner(s). \nMaximize the agility of talent across accounts and Sectors, ensuring optimal use of named resource requests. \nMonitor and report on weekly billable and productive time vs planned and drive improvements in performance and data quality. \nEscalate key risks and issues to leadership and Industry WFP Directors as relevant. \nPrepare and provide contingency staffing plans to support potential risks or outcomes. \nMaintain an accurate view of workforce planning data for Program Management, including WFP Tags, people mapping and capacity reporting to ensure the integrity of planning and deployment decisions. \nMaximize deployment opportunities to the Global 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workforce capability, deployment trends, and future capacity considerations. \nServe as a key point of contact for workforce supply and deployment requirements for Tier 1 and Tier 2 clients across the Americas. \nProvide design requirements on technology and process from an Americas context. \nDrive adoption of workforce planning processes to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data in Program Management. \nSupport and/or lead change management initiatives across Program Management, helping embed new workforce planning processes and ways of working. \nImplement and oversee work-sharing and project resourcing policies. \nEnsure the supply and demand matching process is optimized and working effectively. \nOwn and coordinate workforce planning training requirements for team managers, ensuring consistent understanding and adoption of workforce planning tools, systems, and processes. \nEnsure SLAs relating to demand requests within the Demand Marketplace are consistently achieved and maintained in Program Management. \nEstablish approaches and processes to maximize any non-billable time toward productive work supporting clients or pursuits. \nDrive productivity from non-billable time through proactive workforce management, deployment strategies, and operational planning initiatives. \nQualifications & Experience:\nExperience in workforce planning, resourcing, forecasting or related analytical roles within the AEC or related professional Services Industry in the Americas. \nStrategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to translate regional Service forecasts, utilization trends and project demand into actionable workforce planning insight. \nDeep understanding of workforce analytics and forecasting, including forecast versus actual billable hours, productivity metrics and demand variance analysis. \nStrong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to work effectively with Regional Service Directors, Service Area Leaders, Major 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tags and planning data. \nStrong communication skills, able to provide clear recommendations and insight to Service leaders and project stakeholders on talent availability and capability. \nAbility to make and guide workforce planning decisions, balancing competing priorities across projects, sectors, and workforce constraints. \nStrong understanding of commercial drivers such as utilization, billability, cost management, and their impact on workforce planning decisions. \nDemonstrated ability to lead the end-to-end workforce planning lifecycle, including demand forecasting, capacity planning, deployment, recruitment planning, and performance tracking. \nLeadership style that empowers Arcadians, promotes accountability and continuous improvement, and supports a healthy, inclusive and high engagement culture aligned to the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion. \nDegree level education in a relevant technical or commercial discipline such as business, operations, human resources, analytics, engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. \nAdvanced degree preferred such as MBA or a relevant Master’s in business, human resources, analytics, operations or a related field, or equivalent senior level experience in complex regional organizations. \nWhy Arcadis?\nWe can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.\nYou’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.\nTogether, we can create a lasting legacy.\nJoin Arcadis. Create a Legacy.\nOur Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging\nWe want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.\nArcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $115,200 - $138,240 / per year. 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