- Location
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Human Resources
- Seniority
- Senior
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
Job Description: Staffing Consultant
Function: Staffing / Resource Management
Location: Pune / Gurgaon
Reports to: HRBP
Role Overview
The Staffing Consultant supports the effective deployment of consulting professionals across client engagements. The role partners with business leaders, project managers, and recruiting teams to understand demand, identify suitable talent, manage staffing transitions, and maintain accurate resource plans. Success requires sound judgment, strong communication, attention to detail, and the ability to balance business priorities with individual career development.
Review plan vs actual capacity and keep it updated.
Key Responsibilities
Function: Staffing / Resource Management
Location: Pune / Gurgaon
Reports to: HRBP
Role Overview
The Staffing Consultant supports the effective deployment of consulting professionals across client engagements. The role partners with business leaders, project managers, and recruiting teams to understand demand, identify suitable talent, manage staffing transitions, and maintain accurate resource plans. Success requires sound judgment, strong communication, attention to detail, and the ability to balance business priorities with individual career development.
Review plan vs actual capacity and keep it updated.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather and clarify staffing requirements, including role scope, skills, experience, level, location, duration, and start date.
- Match available consultants to project needs, considering skills, experience, career interests, availability, and business priorities.
- Maintain an up-to-date view of resource availability, project assignments, upcoming roll-offs, and staffing demand.
- Coordinate staffing decisions with project leaders, people managers, capability leads, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Manage assignment changes, extensions, transitions, and roll-offs, ensuring timely communication to all parties.
- Identify potential capacity gaps or supply constraints early and recommend options such as redeployment, hiring, or schedule changes.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring priorities, role profiles, and expected demand.
- Support staffing discussions with accurate reports, dashboards, and analysis on utilization, availability, demand, and deployment trends.
- Facilitate fair and consistent staffing decisions, applying established policies and escalation paths.
- Communicate assignment outcomes and next steps clearly and sensitively to consultants and stakeholders.
- Contribute to process improvements that increase staffing accuracy, responsiveness, and transparency.
- Handle employee and business information with discretion and in line with confidentiality requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Typically 5-8 years of relevant experience in staffing, resource management, workforce planning, project coordination, or a related role.
- Experience in a consulting, professional services, technology, or project-based environment is preferred.
- Strong proficiency in MS office (PPT, EXCEL) and experience using workforce, HR, or project-management systems.
- Ability to interpret resource data and turn it into clear recommendations.
- Willing to travel across ProcDNA locations
- Preferred someone with experience in mid to large size organization (min 1000 employees)
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Clear, confident written and verbal communication.
- Excellent organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and time-sensitive requests.
- Practical problem-solving and sound judgment when balancing business and employee needs.
- Comfort working with data, reports, and changing requirements.
- Discretion when handling sensitive employee and project information.
- A collaborative, service-oriented approach and willingness to raise risks early.