Career Development & Staffing Manager Middle East

Our client is a leading global consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments and organizations. Looking for a new "Career Development & Staffing Manager Middle East"  in their Beirut office.

This position will be reporting to the Head of Career Development & Staffing.

Primary duties and responsibilities

Capacity:

• Interact daily with Partners, Principals and Managers to ensure appropriate staffing in line with firm needs, project needs and staff preferences and development priorities
• Resolve conflicts arising from complex staffing situations and handle autonomously difficult conversations with senior client staff
• Support Head of Staffing in defining and implementing strategic initiatives to improve fair and effective implementation of the staffing process and uphold guidelines
• Escalate to Head of Career Development & Staffing any alarming activity or unexpected leakage to warrant continued transparent and fair approach
• Connect with client staffs mentors on a need basis for issues with their staffing
• Resource Management:

• Act as gatekeeper in managing staffing decisions based on business needs, staff preferences and development needs and availability
• Maintain close ties with Practice Leads for cross-practice staffing of their aligned managers
• Ensure full integration of new hires by proactively securing most suitable projects (team
• structure, length, content, etc...); proactively escalate to senior stakeholders to ensure finding suitable solutions if staffing got derailed
• Provide supporting evidence when necessary on resource performance, staffing pull amongst partners and principals and additional background on any staffing issues faced
• Post appraisal cycle, regularly refer to the extracted list of development needs as maintained and managed by the Performance Management Team to ensure full understanding of all needs and meet staffing requirements accordingly, when possible
• Guarantee committee recommendations be taken into account during staffing decisions; if unable to implement committee recommendation, document the reasons hindering this for later reference

Reporting:

• Oversee content and production of weekly staffing reports for quality, accuracy, and timely submission (master staffing sheet, newsletter, etc...)
• Ensure production and timely distribution of other adhoc reports, as requested by senior management and other requesting audiences

Process:

• Uphold consistent and constant implementation of staffing guidelines with every decision, taking into account the three pillars of staff deployment (Business Needs, Staff Preferences and Development Priorities)

Capability:

• Position self as a subject matter expert on a broad range of Staffing questions and take the lead to interact closely with Seniors to address cross-functional queries
• Act as a key resource and liaison to other functional areas of the business, building productive cross-functional relationships

Team Management:

• Manage the Career Development and Staffing Coordinator and ensure proper distribution of tasks to optimize the resource allocation and management

Knowledge, skills, and abilities

• University Degree
• Computer proficiency (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Autonomous and works well under pressure
• Excellent Interpersonal, Organizational and Communication Skills
• Presentable, approachable and diplomatic
• Exercise sound judgment, objectivity, while maintaining highest level of confidentiality
• Empathetic towards staff needs and preferences
• Ability to make decisions in an efficient and timely manner
• Ability to prioritize workload in a highly dynamic environment
• 8+ years relevant experience (preferable similar role)