Resources Manager

Who we are

JMAN Group is a fast-growing data engineering & data science consultancy. We work primarily with Private Equity Funds and their Portfolio Companies to create commercial value using Data & Artificial Intelligence. In addition, we also work with growth businesses, large corporates, multinationals, and charities.

We are headquartered in London with Offices in Chennai, London and New York. Our team of 380+ people are a unique blend of individuals with skills across commercial consulting, data science and software engineering.

We were founded by cousins Anush Newman (Co-founder & CEO) and Leo Valan (Co-founder & CTO) and have grown rapidly since 2019 and in May 2023 we took a minority investment from Baird Capital to partner with us as we achieve our ambitious goals.

We have a global delivery model, which means that we staff our projects with talent from all our locations based on the specific combination of skills needed and we have a global resourcing team that drive this within the business.

Why work at JMAN

Our vision is to ensure JMAN Group is the passport to our teams future. We want our team to go on a fast-paced, high-growth journey with us when our people want to do something else, the skills, training, exposure, and values that JMAN has instilled in them should open doors all over the world.

Current Benefits:

? Competitive annual bonus

? Market-leading private health insurance

? Regular company socials

? Annual company away days

? Extensive training opportunities

Your key responsibilities:

As one of our Resourcing Managers, you will play a critical role in supporting the success of our consulting team, our clients, and our business. Specifically, you will coordinate with stakeholders and the global resourcing team to staff a wide range of client projects, contribute to the project allocations of our India-based team, support the professional development of our engineers, and contribute to further developing JMANs resourcing strategy & operations.

Key responsibilities for the Resourcing Manager include:

Resourcing projects: Own & drive the resourcing of a wide range of client projects, in partnership with senior leaders in the business. Requires rapidly understanding the specific needs of each project, identifying & agreeing the right global team to deliver the project, & ensuring allocations are completed swiftly. At times, it requires complex problem-solving between multiple projects needs & resource availability.

Allocation of individuals to projects: Manage the project allocations of individuals in the Chennai-based engineering team, across a range of seniority grades.

Understanding of our team: Build a trusted relationship with, and detailed understanding of, each individual in our India-based team (e.g. their professional experience, capabilities, development objectives, and more). Swiftly match this nuanced understanding of individuals to project requirements in a fast-paced environment.

Professional development: Support the ongoing professional development of all individuals in the India-based engineering team, in close partnership with the People team.

Availability: Maintain a clear, detailed, up-to-date understanding of individual and cohort availability within our India-based consulting population, within a swiftly evolving context.

Processes & metrics: Execute other key resourcing processes to support the above (e.g. resourcing of new joiners). Understand, monitor, and drive key metrics related to resourcing.

Data and systems: Manageall India resourcing data, ensuring it is kept accurate & up to date in our system.

Resourcing operations: Contribute to the development of JMANs resourcing operations and capability, in the context of an exciting, scaling organisation. This will include leading a series of change initiatives within resourcing (with support), from initial design through implementation. Opportunity to contribute expertise to future resourcing strategy, working closely with senior leadership.

Resourcing team: Operateas a core member of JMANs global resourcing team, including coaching and supporting others.

Collaboration: All above will require effective collaboration with client-facing engineers, consultants, as well as with all members of our global resourcing team.

Desired Experience & Skills

• 7 to 10 Yrs. Experience in Resource or Staffing Management in a professional services firm or similar.
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment with a focus on teamwork.
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities in English and capable of effectively presenting ideas and engaging in social interactions.
• Truly aligned to JMAN values, with outstanding judgement.
• Positive, collaborative team member, with a team-first attitude.
• Thrives amidst ambiguity and operates effectively within a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
• Ability to build strong, trusted relationships with a wide range of senior and junior colleagues.
• Strengths in prioritisation, problem-solving and decision-making, within the context of resourcing.
• Proactive mindset, with enthusiasm and ability to take ownership while welcoming feedback/ input.
• Appetite for, and comfort with, simple data and analytics (e.g. % of resource pool available per week). Ability to work with data and systems is highly advantageous.
• Interest or experience related to any area of consulting, data, and/ or technology would be valuable but not essential.

If you feel that you would be a strong addition to our team, but you do not fully meet all the requirements above, we would like to encourage you to please apply anyway. As we expand, we are looking for individuals across all levels and we will discuss a suitable alternative with you during the interview process.

JMAN is committed to equal employment opportunities. We are a diverse, high performing team and base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.