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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 Workforce Planning Major Projects Lead will enable successful mobilisation, deployment, and demobilization of talent across major projects by coordinating workforce planning activities, aligning stakeholders, managing workforce risks, and ensuring workforce readiness throughout the project lifecycle. The role will also be accountable for coordinating workforce planning activities across the WFP network to ensure major projects are workforce-ready and supported by seamless mobilisation, deployment, and demobalization of talent.\nRole accountabilities:\nAct as the central Workforce Planning coordination point for major projects across Industries, Sectors, Services, and Regions.\nDefine workforce planning coordination requirements, governance expectations, planning cadence, and workforce readiness requirements for major projects.\nRecommend workforce mobilisation, deployment, transition, and demobilisation actions to support workforce readiness and successful project delivery.\nIdentify and coordinate resolution of cross-project, cross-service, and cross-regional workforce dependencies that may impact project delivery.\nMonitor critical role fulfilment and workforce deployment progress against project requirements, escalating risks and constraints where necessary.\nTrack workforce 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against current and future project demand, partnering with Service Executives and Workforce Planning teams to identify capability gaps and workforce readiness actions.\nPartner with Service Executives, Workforce Planning teams, and Talent Acquisition to proactively identify future capability and capacity requirements and support workforce readiness for upcoming major projects.\nIdentify workforce risks, critical resource dependencies, and capability constraints that may impact project delivery.\nFacilitate resolution of resource conflicts, workforce bottlenecks, and competing workforce priorities across teams.\nEscalate workforce risks and mitigation actions to project and workforce planning leadership.\nPromote consistent workforce planning practices, governance standards, and mobilisation processes across major projects.\nFacilitate workforce planning forums and project workforce reviews.\nProvide visibility of workforce readiness, mobilisation progress, and workforce risks to stakeholders.\nSupport the successful delivery of major projects.\nPromote consistent workforce planning standards and practices across the organization.\nImprove workforce utilization and mobility across the organization.\nDrive proactive workforce planning and workforce readiness.\nQualifications & Experience:\nExtensive experience in workforce planning, resource management, major project delivery or a related operational discipline, with a proven ability to support workforce strategies within complex project environments.\nStrong understanding of workforce planning principles, resource management methodologies and operating models, with the ability to align workforce capability with project and business objectives.\nDemonstrated experience supporting major project mobilisation activities, ensuring workforce availability, capability and capacity are effectively planned to meet project delivery requirements.\nStrong understanding of workforce forecasting techniques, with experience developing resource forecasts that support project mobilisation, delivery planning and long term workforce requirements.\nProven ability to assess workforce risks, identify capability gaps and develop mitigation strategies that support successful project delivery and organizational resilience.\nExperience supporting strategic workforce planning and business decision making through the provision of workforce insights, resource analysis and forward looking planning recommendations.\nStrong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to interpret workforce, operational and project data to identify trends, evaluate scenarios and support evidence based decision making.\nExperience collaborating with project leadership, operational teams and business stakeholders to align workforce planning activities with project schedules, commercial priorities and client commitments.\nStrong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, facilitate collaboration and influence decision making across a global, matrixed organization.\nStrong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex workforce planning information clearly to senior leaders, project teams and business stakeholders.\nLeadership style that promotes collaboration, accountability, innovation and continuous improvement, aligned with the Arcadis Leadership profile of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.\nDegree level education in Business Administration, Human Resources, Project Management, Engineering or another relevant discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\nProfessional certification in project management, workforce planning or a related discipline is preferred.\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. 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