IT Workforce Planning and Management Lead

**About IT at Nestlé** We are a diverse team of IT professionals in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestlé to enagage and win consumers, customers and employees. We collaborate with business partners around the world to deliver standardized, integrated technology products and services to create tangible business value. **Position Summary** Reporting into the Product Group Manager or Regional Head of Product Stream, the WPM Lead operationally maintains all resources required for workforce management, manages capability planning for the product group and cross-product initiatives and carries out dynamic resource allocation. Their workforce allocation duties deliver qualified resources to product teams at the right time. S/He oversees the flow of pooled resources, proposing solutions to match demand and supply across Products and Product Groups as well as other IS/IT initiatives (e.g. projects). The WPM lead serves as the line manager of local Nestle team members, provides coaching and ensures effective development planning to support career growth. In addition, S/He coordinates communitcation and objectives between IS/IT and HR & recuiters maintaining recruitment packs for the various IS/IT teams and facilitating the IS/IT interactions along the recruitment and selection process. The Lead also plans and facilitates the Training and Development activities on-behalf of both Product Teams and Community of Practice. **A day in the life** - Facilitates and creates awareness on orientation / on-boarding activities and proficiency level increase as well as personal development learning and training for new, promoted, and transferred employees. - Deploys pooled workforce to product groups and teams as requested by the leads and in relation to the best use of centralized pools of expertise and the best work load balance for the teams. - Provides inputs and recommendations or solves directly conflicting/competing workforce requirements and needs among requesters. Offers alternatives to first-cut resource requests and/or external resource providers. As needed, escalates conflicts to leadership for decisions and actions. - Collaborates with Supplier Delivery Management to tactically avoid the workforce allocation gaps and solve issues. - Works to surface and facilitates the changes needed in culture, behaviors and practice to avoid talent issues such as leaders "hoarding" resources to address operational needs — when confronted with demands to provide staff members to support new and ongoing product activities or initiatives and programs, etc. - Gathers and analyzes individual and team performance (during and at the end of assignments) from colleagues, business partners and others, for use as input during people and management performance reviews. **What will make you successful** - A bachelor's degree in IS/IT, general, business, project, human resources and/or supply chain management. - 4+ years of creating and leading high performing ISIT teams. - 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas:dynamic resource allocation, capacity planning, consulting or professional services program or project management. - Overall experience with assembling, analyzing, recommending, escalating, reporting, and explaining various kinds of metrical, graphical, situational, interpersonal, opportunities, issues and risks surrounding workforce to IS/IT leads. - Experience dealing with third-party suppliers (hiring, coaches, L&T, etc.) and contingent workforce. - Experience with effective communication at different levels in the organization and in English. - Experience having worked in a global environment and with virtual teams. We are excited to hear from you