Global Head Of Workforce Planning

Job Description

Technicolor Creative Studios is the culmination of world-leading Visual Effects, Animation and Game brands, such as MPC, The Mill, Mikros and Technicolor Games.

Technicolor's brands have worked on the spectacular scenes and tiny details that make movies, advertising campaigns and Animation movies genuinely mind-blowing. We're the people behind the effects in countless blockbuster films like The Lion King, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and advertising campaigns for clients such as Samsung, Audi, Nike, and Apple. We are continually looking for the best talent globally, enthusiastic people who come in daily to be a part of some of the industry's best work.

Technicolor's artists are wildly creative, uber-talented and passionate about the possibilities of VFX, Experiential, Animation and Technology. When you join the team, you'll be working with and learning from the most skilled people in the business.

Technicolor Production Services is the division that contains our world-leading Visual effects and Animation and Games brands, such as MPC, The Mill, Mikros and Technicolor Games. Key to the success of our division and its brands is winning the war on talent through acquiring and growing a community where artistry meets technology.

This role will oversee the entire Technicolor Creative Studios Workforce Planning function. It is a strategic role standardizing workforce planning & deployment policy, processes, measurement and KPIs across TCS, as well as overseeing the medium- to long-term planning and forecasting across Technicolor's services lines and locations. This oversight will include the management of direct reports.

Primary Responsibilities

This is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, as our business requires all employees to be flexible and self-motivated and think creatively when facing challenges.
• Assess workforce planning processes across the business and lead process transformation programmes where required to inject best-practice workforce planning capabilities uniformly across the service lines.
• Defining standardized process of workforce planning across different brands.
• Partner with Technicolor's executive leadership and Recruitment leadership to inform and enable the multi-year strategic workforce deployment roadmap across locations, brands, and service types.
• Finalizing workforce plan for upcoming quarter at least one month in advance.
• Lead strategic forecasting of the global Technicolor Creative Studio's workforce needs to:
• Ensure sufficient staffing and crewing levels to allow our Service Lines to deliver their projects on time and within budget.
• Ensure efficient and profitable utilization of staff and crew across the Service Line.
• Ensure the allocation of billable talent is done within PS WFP guidelines.
• Partner with New Business to ensure they have the most up-to-date view of resource availability, allowing certainty and profitability in bidding.
• Partner with Talent & People organization to deliver ramp-up and ramp-down strategies, minimizing idle costs and crewing shortfalls.
• Partner with Learning & Development team for up-skilling and cross-skilling of team members.
• Direct management of Service Line Workforce Planning Leadership, recognizing their dotted line responsibilities to their SL, brands, and locations.
• Arbitrate PS-wide WFP disputes / resource conflicts and act as the final escalation point for resourcing conflicts.
• Partner with TCS Facilities leadership to ensure medium- and long-term facilities requirements are forecasted, given in-studio, hot-desking, and work-from-home policies and capabilities.
• Deliver global standards and long-term improvements to the WFP processes and procedures, enabling:
• Increased forecasting accuracy to ensure shows and facilities are realistically and sufficiently resourced.
• Improved global request and approval workflows, so resourcing data are as timely, accurate, and automated/effortless as possible.
• A robust issues-escalation capability to effectively generate timely decisions and actions by the right team at the right level and without unnecessary hesitation or delay.
• Work with the PS Business Tools & Intelligence team to deliver robust, standardized reporting to the business and continual improvement in DASH and related business systems.
• Ad hoc business projects.

Engagement and Proposition
• Champion a steady, positive, transparent, and productive high-performance culture, supporting Technicolor PS as a global industry leader in creative services, advocating diversity and inclusivity, and acting as an ambassador to promote Technicolor PS.

Qualifications
• Experience designing resource scheduling, workforce planning, or other operational / fulfilment logistics capabilities and workflows.
• Advanced experience synthesizing data analytics and quantitative models into specific and actionable business recommendations.
• State-of-the-art quantitative analysis and numerical interpretation skills
• Strong problem-solving, consulting, and presentation/communication abilities
• Proficient with analytical platforms such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and Board.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (e.g., Macros, VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Sum Ifs) and ability to create and work in complex data models; experience building reports and analytics dashboards.
• Strong attention to detail.
• VFX or Animation experience, while favourable, is not required
• Commercial acumen – an understanding of broader business strategy is desired and communicating timely requirements to the Production Services Executive Leadership Team.
• Organizational skills – personal efficiency, time management, ability to prioritize competing demands; a critical thinker who works well under pressure
• Integrity and the ability not to shy away from reporting our difficulties.
• Decisiveness in the face of change and uncertainty.
• A trusted confidante on financials and business strategy; some exposure to talent management is beneficial.
• Strong line management skills at all levels and an ability to foster and manage a team across locations and time zones.
• Ability to deal with conflict between the business units and projects while remaining impartial and determining the best outcome for the business.
• Ability to engage and manage multiple stakeholders with differing objectives
• Confidence to chair regular meetings with the Global Exec/Senior Management teams.

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