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Posted 2 days agoAssociate Manager, Staffing Execution Lead
at Inizio
Gurugram, IndiaOn-site
Responsibilities
- Building and evolving the staffing infrastructure, processes, and operating model to support a rapidly scaling global delivery hub.
- Own end-to-end staffing for India-based consultants across Ignite Advisory, aligning talent to project demand.
- Lead staffing discussions with consultants to understand preferences, skills, and career aspirations, enabling informed placements.
- Proactively manage capacity, pipeline risks, and staffing conflicts; escalate issues and recommend solutions.
- Own and continuously improve unstaffed and new hire staffing processes, ensuring strong onboarding and deployment experiences.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date skills, experience, and availability data within staffing systems.
- Collaborate with US/UK Staffing Leads to enable seamless global staffing and cross-region resourcing.
- Drive consistency, transparency, and best practice sharing across staffing teams globally.
- Define, build, and implement the India staffing operating model, including processes, governance, and ways of working.
- Lead the design and evolution of staffing workflows, tools, and systems to ensure scalability.
- Establish and uphold data standards, reporting frameworks, and system hygiene to enable effective decision-making.
- Support the development and adoption of centralized staffing platforms and tools, ensuring alignment with global infrastructure.
- Monitor and report on key staffing metrics (e.g., utilization, capacity, demand pipeline).
- Drive continuous improvement across staffing processes, tools, and operating models.
- Lead or support cross-functional initiatives related to staffing transformation and modernization.
Requirements
- Experience in staffing, resource management, or workforce planning within consulting or professional services.
- Proven ability to operate in both execution-heavy and build/transform environments (critical for success in this role).
- experience working across geographies and seniority levels.
- Experience with staffing systems, reporting tools, and data governance concepts.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and scale operations in a fast-growing, global environment.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Inizio may use AI technologies to support aspects of the recruitment process; however, all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team.
- experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
Benefits
- We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Additional details
- Job Description: Staffing Execution Lead – India (Global Advisory) Location: India
- Scope: Ignite Advisory (global coordination; India talent pool) About Inizio
- Inizio is a global partner with over 10,500 experts across more than 50 countries, supporting health and life sciences companies in turning science into strategy and execution across the product and patient journey. About Inizio Ignite
- Inizio Ignite is the global advisory partner for health and life sciences, bringing together Research Partnership, Putnam, Vynamic, and STEM to deliver strategy, insights, and transformation that create lasting impact for patients. Role Overview
- The Staffing Execution Lead – India plays a critical dual role:
- Driving day-to-day staffing execution across all Ignite Advisory businesses using the India-based consultant pool, and
- This role serves as the central coordination point for India-based talent deployment, partnering closely with global Staffing Leads, business leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to balance client demand, consultant development, and utilization goals.
- As a net-new and high-impact role, this individual will bring a builder mindset, helping define scalable staffing processes, systems, and governance while ensuring alignment with global staffing practices. Key Responsibilities
- Staffing Execution & Talent Deployment (Core Priority)
- Partner with global Staffing Leads and business leadership to balance demand, resolve staffing needs, and optimize utilization.