Resource Planning Lead

Summary

Join Method, a global design and engineering consultancy, as a Resource Planning Lead to manage project staffing across approximately 300 people. This high-activity role ensures effective client project staffing, accurate forecasting data, and smooth resourcing communication processes. You will act as a central hub matching talent supply and demand, driving utilization and margin, and communicating with various teams to align on timelines and trade-offs. The role also involves managing resourcing calendars, forecasting future needs, modeling staffing scenarios, and partnering with recruiting and account managers. This Band 2 role reports to Mark Flowers on the Services Operations team and requires strong negotiation and persuasion skills.

Requirements

• Ability to work EST hours (earlier is fine, later is not)
• Experience in consultancy or agency environments with fluctuating staffing needs
• Experience managing staffing across multiple projects at once
• Experience dealing with prioritization of competing business goals of utilization, project priorities, and urgent needs
• Comfort with ambiguity, trade-offs, and saying “no” constructively
• Strong negotiation and persuasion skills—this role often makes suboptimal decisions for optimal outcomes

Responsibilities

• Own project staffing: ensure all roles are filled or have a plan with a clear timeline
• Maintain accurate project assignment data to enable reliable forecasting and planning
• Own and manage the communications process for staffing: notify recruiting when to hire and notify delivery when to staff
• Manage resourcing calendars and help resolve conflicts before they impact delivery
• Forecast future needs based on sales pipeline and project plans
• Model different staffing and hiring scenarios to help us make better decisions
• Partner with recruiting to effectively time hiring plans
• Collaborate with account managers and discipline leads to understand project needs
• Communicate resource constraints and trade-offs clearly and credibly to leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools like Runn, Float, Forecast, or similar
• Familiarity with advanced Google Sheets (or Excel), Google Apps Scripts, and/or Google Gemini / ChatGPT
• Experience refining resource allocation processes
• Experience with BI reporting and Dashboards (ideally Looker Studio)
• Understanding of how product, design, and engineering roles intersect
• Comfort with scenario planning and forecasting methods
• Data fluency to support decision-making and trend identification
• Experience defining a proactive hiring list based on forecast needs
• Experience aligning growth and retention goals with business needs through staffing

Benefits

• Continuing education opportunities
• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policies
• 401K matching
• Health, Dental and Vision benefits, starting on day 1
• Company lunches, company outings, along with a lot of snacks
• Health and wellness programs