Project Manager Staffing and Resourcing UK 2023

The Project Manager, Staffing and Resourcing will work alongside the Senior Operations Director to manage Consulting Staffing and Resourcing function. To succeed in this role, you should have excellent time management and communication skills, as you’ll collaborate with internal teams and occasionally clients to deliver results on deadlines. We are looking for a highly organized individual with a passion for project management and a flair for creative thinking and an adaptive working style. The consulting team is comprised of approximately 100 team members across the US and Europe.

About Fishawack Health

Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,500+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Medical; Marketing; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; and Consulting.

Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.

What you’ll do

• Staff scheduling across all internal and external projects ensuring all projects are accurately resourced and no Team members are running over or under capacity
• Management of the external contractor team and associated process
• Receipt, interpretation and subsequent action of management information relating to team performance such as billable utilisation and project efficiency
• Work with the Operations Director and other Consultancy leadership to implement a revised Resourcing process and scheduling system
• System governance: Overall owner and subject matter expert of the new system, ensuring all improvements, updates and processes are in accordance with the overall Company policies and objectives

Key Responsibilities

• Systems administration: Ensure the new system is working efficiently, effectively, and accurately reflects all live projects including new projects and proposals.
• Collaborating and working with the Consulting team (All Levels) to ensure the scheduling tool is updated with current and forecasts time of +12 weeks.
• Assist Project Leads/Managers to find internal resources to meet project resource requirements including prerequisite skills.
• Ensure no team members are significantly over or under capacity; taking action when this is the case
• Provide data analysis and KPI reporting to enable business decisions regarding Resource capacity planning and management, e.g. operational capacity, revenue forecasting and future hiring
• Provide training and communicate any new updates to all new and existing employees or contractors in the Consulting team
• Predict and forecast the spend on contractors and vendors to projects and ensure this spend is line in with SOW
• Take receipt of key BI reporting relating to the Consultancy Team such as billable utilisation and work with Consultancy leadership to implement the required action as needed
• Ensure all projects and proposals are resourced in a timely manner and help support the achievement of the Consultancy Team Sales and Revenue targets

About you

• Proven work experience as a Project Manager/Coordinator or similar role
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, friendly with a can-do attitude and someone who can quickly build trust and excellent relationships
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages – Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point
• First-class administrative and organizational skills
• High standard of written and spoken English
• Quick learner with a flexible attitude
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong teamwork skills
• Outstanding work ethic and commitment to timely high-quality deliverables
• Experience in project management, from conception to delivery, ideally within professional services
• SharePoint knowledge

What we can offer

Fishawack Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization to encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and innovative solutions. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have offices in 19 city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

Reasonable adjustments

Fishawack Health is an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in our differences and only by embracing these differences can we build a healthier world together. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).