What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Resource Planning Manager position at Berkeley Research Group, LLC?
BRG is a high-end global consulting firm that combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise purpose-built for agility and connectivity, which sets us apart—and gets you ahead.
At BRG, our top-tier experts include experienced industry leaders, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of proven real-world experience to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges for organizations across the globe.
Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking from diverse perspectives that, when paired with our global reach and resources, make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges.
Position Summary:
BRG has built its reputation in the disputes and investigations space. We work with clients—from top law firms to Fortune 500 companies—across a range of geographies and sectors. The Economics, Disputes and Investigations (EDI) community is looking for a Strategic Resource Planning Manager to support strategic resource planning, forecasting, and related reporting across the EDI practice areas. This is a new role as we continue to successfully grow and build out our EDI operations infrastructure. In this role, you will report to the Associate Director of Staff Experience and Development.
This role has a hybrid working arrangement. Potential candidates must live within commuting distance of our Houston office to be on-site at least 3 days a week. Occasional US travel may be required.
If you are seeking a challenging role in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and highly professional company, then we encourage you to apply. You should have experience in dealing with tight deadlines and the ability to build and maintain relationships across all levels of seniority. Our operations structure is lean and we encourage a high degree of autonomy and accountability. If you have a growth mindset, we can offer you an excellent culture and outstanding career development opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a focal point for all consulting staff deployments on projects through a deep understanding of staff skills and developmental needs.
- Lead the end-to-end implementation of a new resource management system, including developing and executing communications and change management plan to ensure community-wide alignment and adoption.
- Design and deliver targeted resource management training programs for key stakeholders and users across all levels of the business, ensuring effective onboarding to the new resource management system and ongoing staff resourcing.
- Monitor and report on system usage, data quality, and user engagement, proactively identifying and addressing challenges to drive sustained adoption and continuous improvement.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of upcoming projects and assist in prioritizing them based on commercial importance and urgency.
- Proactively monitor utilization and capacity reports, flagging actions needed to ensure fair distribution of work.
- Monitor non-billable activities, ensuring prioritization of staffing demand.
- Contribute to the development and optimization of processes and tools to match project forecasts with capacity for determining necessary staffing levels.
- Analyze headcount data to identify skills gaps and future needs.
- Proactively determine long and short-term staffing needs and effectively communicate upcoming trends to leadership.
- Set up and conduct new hire onboarding calls for junior and senior staff to understand their skills and experience and outline key resourcing processes.
- Create and maintain a database of professional staff skills and experience in order to deploy on litigation matters and projects.
- Closely collaborate with Resourcing Coordinator, ensuring adequate sharing of resources across the EDI community.
- Analyze and manage large data sets to deliver operational results.
- Build strong relationships across the EDI community with internal stakeholders, including professional staff, experts, Operations, HR/Recruiting, and Finance teams to stay informed of industry trends, labor market conditions.
- Provide hands-on technical support and assistance with administrative tasks when required.
- Monitor and support timekeeping compliance and office attendance.
- As BRG grows, support the team to enhance our resourcing infrastructure and processes.
Requirements:
- 6-10 years of experience in a professional services/consulting/law firm environment;
- Previous resource management experience with a focus on workforce planning;
- Strong understanding of project management principles and practices;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to interact and work effectively with a wide range of people at all levels;
- Experience with workforce planning software and tools;
- Experience in creating training/user guides;
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven resourcing decisions;
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and challenging environment;
- Comfortable with managing rapidly shifting deadlines and multiple tasks simultaneously;
- Problem-solving and conflict resolution skills;
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail;
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Excel); and
- High-quality organizational and time management skills with the ability to plan and prioritize workload with minimal supervision.
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