Staffing Consultant

4 days ago


Belfast, United Kingdom Kainos Full time

Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
As a Staffing Consultant (Senior Associate) at Kainos, you will be responsible for the day-to-day staffing of projects within a Business unit. You will ensure the talent pool has the appropriate skills for forecasted projects while maximising profitable utilisation. You will also be responsible for ensuring the accurate closure of month end accounts.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Managing the day to day staffing and PMO activities across multiple locations
- Working to the guidelines and SLA’s within the Staffing and PMO team
- Working with the recruitment team to ensure that recruitment interview and assessment days are properly staffed
- Managing staff availability while minimising overall BU bench time.
- Identifying creative solutions to solve staffing issues
- Working with Delivery Managers to ensure that our delivery staff are appropriately assigned to project work, being mindful of the business and individual’s needs.
- Tracking staff utilisation and initiate corrective action with Project Managers where appropriate.
- Managing the use of unfunded time codes, including acting as an approval and challenge function
- Communicating changes in staff allocations to the appropriate individuals
- Preparing timely relevant reports as required
- Providing support to the Staffing + PMO Lead as required

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS
- Experience of staff management and assignment taking account for project and individual’s needs in a medium sized business.
- Solid understanding of staff and recruitment forecasting.
- Experience of managing and motivating team members.
- Awareness of the commercials within a professional services environment.
- Experience multi-tasking and prioritizing.
- Excellent communication skills with an affable and credible persona.
- Ability to make sound decisions under pressure, taking a balanced view of strategy, profitability, and staffing needs.
- Ability to build sound relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Attention to detail
- Strong ability to work to tight deadlines.
- A positive “can do” attitude towards the commercial, technical and staffing challenges facing Kainos.
- Highly flexible, including a willingness to travel offsite including all Kainos offices as and when required.

DESIRABLE
- Experience of using staff scheduling tools to efficiently identify staff with availability and aid re-assignment.
- Experience of managing business P&L.
- A technical background and awareness of latest technologies to help aid understand of individuals roles to assist staff assignment.
- Experience of developing and improving processes to increase the efficiency of the business.

WHO YOU ARE:
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

In short: Having a criminal record will not exclude you from a career with Kainos. This depends entirely on the nature and requirements of the position, together with the circumstances and background of offences. Kainos has a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders (available on request).



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