Resource Manager

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where you'll be working? The Resource Manager is responsible for planning, managing, and optimising resource allocation across the Change Portfolio to ensure successful delivery of M Groups forward schedule of change.

This is a critical role with the Strategic Portfolio Management Office involving detailed capacity planning and aligning workforce capabilities with organisational priorities within a complex portfolio of change.

This position requires a strategic thinker with strong problem-solving capabilities. You must be proactive and outcome focussed, be able to collaborate and influence without authority and be comfortable working in a complex, regulated environment.

What you'll be doing?

• Build and maintain forward‑looking capacity and resource plans.
• Forecast demand, capability needs, and skills across the change portfolio.
• Monitor and optimise resource utilisation, identifying gaps and risks.
• Support governance with clear reporting on capacity, utilisation, and resourcing issues.
• Advise senior stakeholders on resourcing strategy, trade‑offs, and workforce planning.
• Assess new demand against capacity and recommend prioritisation.
• Produce accurate data, reporting, and insights to guide decisions.
• Improve resourcing frameworks, tools, and processes.
• Collaborate across delivery, HR, finance, business leaders, and suppliers to align demand, capacity, and capability.

Essential Skills & Experience?

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Demonstrable experience in creating effective capacity plans.
• Strong experience in resource and capacity management within a change or transformation environment.
• Understanding of portfolio management frameworks (e.g., PPM, MSP, PRINCE2).
• Ability to analyse complex data sets and translate them into actionable insights.
• Experience working within regulated industries (ideally utilities, energy, water, or infrastructure).
• Experience with portfolio/resource management tools (e.g., Clarity, Planview, MS Project Online).
• Knowledge of workforce planning and financial management principles.

Desirable

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (e.g., IT, Business, Management, Engineering) or equivalent professional experience.
• Relevant professional certifications such as APM, PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, AgilePM, SAFe.
• Experience with Agile delivery frameworks (e.g., SAFe, Scrum at scale).
• Experience with portfolio and PMO tooling (e.g., Clarity, Planview, ServiceNow, Jira Align)

What’s in it for you? We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car or allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About Us We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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