Resource Planning & Digital Engineering Lead

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Resource Management and Budget Planning

• Support delivery of the monthly Latest Thinking Forecast (LTF) reports for APME region and submission within GPC Resource Plan Control Team;
• Coordinating resource demand forecasts with APME Regional Management teams, supporting leadership reviews and planning discussions and ensuring consistency and accuracy across forecast submissions;
• Support preparation and consolidation of engineering budget submissions and maintain consistency of financial assumptions and resource costs;
• Budget Planning - support coordination of inputs from multiple stakeholders and ensure alignment between forecasted demand and available funding budget;
• Support senior managers with the annual GPC Engineering budget exercise;
• Support the development and continuous improvement of the forecasting tool, including roll out, training, user support and collation of feedback;
• To maintain alignment of resourcing works between GPC managers, HR and Sales and Marketing teams;
• Provide first degree support to users and the training of Resource Manager aligning with Group Digitalisation initiative;
• Coordinate and establish regular communication with Functional Engineering Managers on the requirements and planning of engineering resources for new and established projects;
• Manage, analyse and present the data submitted from the engineering progress monitoring dashboards and from engineering department resource planning dashboards.

CAE Team Functional Development

• Become the key representative of the CAE function in the APME region, to help promote the discipline and to assist in communication with the teams from Europe;
• Promote CAE function and engage with engineering population in APME countries to develop plan for regional CAE function implementation and roll-out;
• Identify regional needs and gather APME regional CAE proposals when opportunities arise;
• Provide support for project planning, coordination, and resource management activities across the CAE function within the APME region;
• Contribute to the improvement and standardisation of ways of working through the development of processes, procedures, process maps, and workflows.
• Support project management activities associated with the development of tools, with a particular focus on resource planning and forecasting workload;
• Provide tool development support on topics surrounding Microsoft Excel and Power BI;
• Explore and leverage AI and other emerging digital technologies to identify opportunities to create value, improve efficiency, and support continuous business improvement.;
• Provide support and guidance for SharePoint-related activities and user queries
• Support the growth and development of the CAE team, including tracking skills and competencies and identifying training and development needs