Workforce Analyst - Global Media Agency

Workforce Analyst for Global Media Agency

About Company: Our client is a global data and measurement-driven media agency whose mission is to make brands more valuable to the world.

About the role:

- The Workforce Lead is responsible for increasing efficiency across a group of accounts through effective management of staff resourcing.

- This role will liaise with discipline leads, finance, senior management, and talent teams to effectively schedule, assign and account resources to facilitate the delivery of work.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with leadership to intake and prioritize resourcing requests for existing and new business. Partner with TA to proactively and with foresight escalate anticipated requirements in staff strength.

- Monitor group/region staff bandwidth and maximize utilization across team resources including temp - permanent cross allocation of resources as need be and basis alignment with team

- Deliver timely reports to regional and global stakeholders, including utilization and billability, resource capacity and bandwidth, trends and forecast summaries and timesheet compliance

- Review existing processes and structures on a quarterly / Bi-annual basis for operational efficiencies

- Escalate to the appropriate department stakeholders any information related to: increase or decrease in workflow and projected staffing needs

- Partner with Recruitment to identify when internal resources are not available to fit talent needs, prepare staff or freelance position requests.

Requirements:

- Strong Excel skills and logical thinking capabilities

- Strong business acumen with respect to India business (preferred).

- Enterprising in approach and delivery.

- Thinking beyond tactical and temporary adjustments.

- Clarity in thought.

- High levels of collaboration and stakeholder management.

- Driving leadership conversations independently.

- High degree of solution orientation