Resource Planning and Management

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

We are headquartered in London with Offices in New York, London and Chennai. Our team of 400+ people is 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. In May 2023 we took a minority investment from Baird Capital and in January 2024 we opened an office in New York.

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.

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 partner with senior leaders and the global resourcing team to staff a wide range of client projects, lead the project allocations of our London and New York consulting team, support the professional development of our consultants, and contribute to further developing JMAN’s resourcing strategy and operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the development of the global resourcing function, working directly with senior leaders as we shape the structure, processes, and scalability of the function in a rapidly growing business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Resourcing projects: Own and 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 and agreeing the right global team to deliver the project, and ensuring allocations are completed swiftly. At times, it requires complex problem-solving between multiple projects’ needs and resource availability.
• Allocation of individuals to projects: Manage the project allocation of individuals in the London and New York-based consulting teams, across a range of seniority grades.
• Understanding of consulting team: Build a trusted relationship with, and detailed understanding of, everyone in our London and New York-based consulting teams (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 London and New York -based consulting teams, in close partnership with the People team.
• Availability: Maintain a clear, detailed, up-to-date understanding of individual and cohort availability within our London and New York based consulting population, within a swiftly evolving context.
• Processes and 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: Manage all London and New York resourcing data, ensuring it is kept accurate and up to date in our system.
• Resourcing operations: Contribute to the development of JMAN’s 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: Operate as a core member of JMAN’s global resourcing team (currently a team of 3), including coaching and supporting others. Whilst not responsible for Chennai resourcing on a day-to-day basis, you will need to be able to cover for the Chennai Resourcing Manager during periods of leave or absence.
• Collaboration: All the above will require effective collaboration with client-facing consulting colleagues at all levels, as well as with all members of our global resourcing team.

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience in a similar resourcing/staffing role in a professional services firm or similar. This may be in a previous Resourcing/Staffing Manager role, or as a strong ‘second’ to the Resourcing/Staffing Manager where you are now ready to step up into a lead role.
• Strengths in prioritisation, problem-solving and decision-making, at pace, within the context of resourcing.
• Positive, collaborative team member, with a ‘team-first’ attitude.
• Thrives amidst ambiguity and operates effectively within a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build strong, trusted relationships with a wide range of senior and junior colleagues.
• 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) is needed.
• Experience or interest related to any area of consulting, data, and/ or technology would be valuable.
• Truly aligned to JMAN values, with outstanding judgement.
• Tools: Excel essential. Power BI beneficial.

What we offer you

• Competitive base salary
• Discretionary bonus – based on personal and company performance
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Pension with a company contribution up to 8%
• Vitality Health Insurance from day 1
• Cycle to work scheme, after probation
• Life insurance and long-term disability insurance
• Market-leading parental leave policy
• Referral bonus for bringing in new JMAN hires
• Extensive training and coaching opportunities
• Regular company socials & retreats

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.