Resource Planning & Readiness Manager in Abbeyville, Colorado at Jobgether
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Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Resource Planning & Readiness Manager based in United States.
This role is responsible for ensuring that resource plans are accurate, complete, and fully prepared before entering the staffing process.
You will act as a key connection point between Sales, Delivery, Operations, Practice Leadership, and Resource Management teams.
The position plays a critical role in improving forecasting accuracy, staffing efficiency, and resource utilization across a growing technology services organization.
You will help ensure project requirements, skill needs, approvals, and delivery expectations are aligned early in the opportunity lifecycle.
This is an opportunity to bring structure to complex processes while supporting innovative AI, cloud, and Salesforce-based transformation initiatives.
The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving operational challenges, and can influence stakeholders across multiple teams.
The Resource Planning & Readiness Manager ensures opportunities are properly prepared for successful staffing by validating resource requirements, improving planning accuracy, and maintaining alignment across business functions.
- Own the review, validation, and approval process for Resource Plans before opportunities transition to staffing.
- Verify that roles, skills, staffing assumptions, effort estimates, and delivery requirements are complete and accurate.
- Ensure required leadership approvals are obtained, including plans involving multiple practices or technical areas.
- Maintain alignment between resource plans, forecasts, opportunity updates, and operational systems.
- Identify scope changes, inconsistencies, or risks and coordinate updates before opportunities progress.
- Review opportunities for staffing readiness and challenge unclear or incomplete resource requirements.
- Partner with Sales Engineering, Account Executives, Delivery teams, and leadership to clarify project needs.
- Identify specialized skill requirements, contractor needs, and upcoming capacity challenges to provide early visibility.
- Act as the primary liaison between Sales, Delivery, Operations, and Resource Management teams.
- Support ongoing staffing activities by ensuring opportunity information remains accurate and up to date.
- Collaborate on operational requirements such as consultant onboarding steps, background checks, and deployment readiness.
- Contribute to improving resource planning processes in a fast-growing and evolving organization.
The ideal candidate brings experience in resource planning, workforce management, staffing operations, or professional services environments, with strong analytical capabilities and excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 2+ years of experience in resource management, staffing, deployment, workforce planning, or professional services operations.
- Experience working within technology services, consulting, or software delivery organizations preferred.
- Familiarity with Salesforce ecosystems or similar technology platforms is a plus.
- Understanding of professional services delivery models, capacity planning, and staffing processes.
- Ability to evaluate technical resource needs and understand consulting roles and skill requirements.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the confidence to identify issues and challenge assumptions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities, including experience working with senior leaders.
- Ability to operate independently while collaborating effectively across distributed teams.
- Comfortable working in environments where processes are continuously evolving and improving.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Remote and flexible work environment with opportunities to collaborate with distributed teams.
- Culture focused on trust, autonomy, and results rather than fixed working hours.
- Opportunities to work with innovative AI, cloud, and Salesforce technologies.
- Exposure to complex transformation projects and high-impact client initiatives.
- Collaborative workplace where ideas, feedback, and improvements are encouraged.
- Team-focused culture with opportunities to celebrate achievements and build connections.
- Professional growth opportunities within a rapidly evolving technology environment.