Resource Management, Capacity Planner
The Capacity Planner at WPP Media is responsible for aligning the company's capabilities with client needs to ensure timely and effective fulfillment of roles. This position plays a critical role in advising client teams on fulfillment timelines, staff planning, and role expectations, while maintaining accurate data. The Capacity Planner navigates between various fulfillment channels to optimize team configurations and enhance client strategies.
Key responsibilities include advising client teams on fulfillment timelines to ensure client readiness and success, advising client teams on role expectations and recommendations against staff plans, owning and driving data accuracy used for workforce planning, and pivoting between fulfillment channels to understand skills needed to plan client strategies. Additionally, the role involves collaborating with client teams and commercial finance to ensure staff plans are accurate and always maintained, working to assemble and optimize the best possible team for clients, and ensuring the fulfillment of staff plans across internal and external supply.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of client needs, expectations, and existing staff plans, and will leverage knowledge of resource management, workforce planning, finance, and staffing solutions to advise client teams effectively. They should be able to maintain accurate data for workforce planning, utilize data analytics to monitor fulfillment activities and make data-driven decisions, handle confidential and sensitive data and information, and effectively manage, set expectations, and communicate with senior stakeholders.
WPP Media offers a dynamic and high-energy work environment where every team member can make a difference. The company believes in the power of its culture and people, which elevates them to deliver exceptional experiences for both clients and each other. Employees can tap into the global WPP Media and WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. Benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.