Head of Resource Planning and Deployment - Hybrid

We’ll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. We offer an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About The Opportunity

At Amentum, we're not just solving problems; we're engineering the future. Our team is driven by an unyielding commitment to innovation, integrity, and collaboration, tackling some of the most significant challenges in science, security, and sustainability. If you're passionate about making a real impact and want to be part of a community that values ethical excellence, this is the place where your ambition can thrive.

Here, we believe that success comes from continuously pushing boundaries and working together to deliver on our promises. We embrace challenges with confidence and are dedicated to creating a secure and vibrant future for all.

We are on a journey to raise the profile of resource management in our business and this role will lead in developing this approach, working with business stakeholders and offering robust challenge to enable us to become more progressive.

Resource management remains one of our key objectives for our markets so we need to think broadly and differently, this position will enable us to work not only as one joined up business across markets, disciplines and internal structures, but also to enable the free movement of talent for business growth and career development.

Alongside our capability growth and workforce planning improvements, this is an exciting time to be part of a fundamental business change to drive results under our evolving operating model. This position supports hybrid working and can be based from any of our current UK locations of Warrington, London, Bristol, Newcastle or Knutsford with travel as required to support business needs. Key responsibilities will be:

• Partner with the Divisional business stakeholders to plan, map and facilitate resource requirements to be made visible, shared and managed.
• Work with the central team resource managers to coordinate resource management for all project delivery roles (including those in business development) across the Divisions.
• Manage the redeployment process with the Capability & Resourcing Leads in the Division to enable a smooth transition, positive employee experience and to minimise overhead costs.
• Prioritise resourcing decisions based on risk, timing constraints, project and employee continuity and geographic considerations.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to agree and approve new hires where existing resources are not available, cannot be made available or substituted by contingent labour (exhausting all internal options first).
• Provide robust challenge to talent hoarding or inflexibility in resource requirements, including supporting those entering negotiations with clients over resource requirements.
• Work with business stakeholders and the Capability Growth Leads to drive the completion of workforce planning in the appropriate system, including messaging, capturing and resolving issues and ideas for improvement that arise and continued use.
• Own the cadence and governance around resource management, including weekly, monthly calls, reporting and data management; generate appropriate reports to support Divisional and Business Line requirements.
• Develop creative solutions to solve operational resourcing challenges that are suitable to meet both short and long term needs.
• Understand career development needs of individuals through partnership with business stakeholders (Heads of Profession, subject matter experts, Capability & Resourcing Leads) and facilitate movement to support this where possible.
• Regularly review and improve resource management processes in conjunction with Divisional Capability &Resourcing Leads and central resourcing team.
• Be an advocate and promoter of the new ways of working (margin follows the project), through understanding the changes this brings and how they impact effective resource planning and deployment.
• Gain a thorough understanding of work pipeline across E&E-I and the Strategic Capability Plan to support the delivery of both.

Here's What You'll Need

• Clear, confident communicator (both verbally and written).
• Able to negotiate, influence and build trust with stakeholders.
• Be engaging and a good listener (hear what’s also not being said).
• Ability to build gravitas and credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Organised, methodical and work to plan and budget.
• Be a great team player, collaborating and solving problems together.
• Have experience of resource management practices.
• Ability to have or build quickly a thorough knowledge of the E&E-I work portfolio.
• Able to remain agnostic, independent and robust under challenge whilst also being calm, respectful and determined to reach mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Contribute beyond role boundaries to deliver collectively as a HR team.

Our Culture

Our values are built on a strong foundation of safety, integrity, and respect for every individual. People are at the heart of our mission, and we believe in supporting one another through a culture of care and collaboration. We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. Supporting mental wellbeing and fostering a sense of connection are essential to how we work.

When we embrace different perspectives and work together, we become more innovative, more agile, and more successful.

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