Global Head of Planning & Resource Management

🕒 August 10

🌐 United States, Canada, +3 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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ICON plc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ICON plc is a global provider of clinical, consulting, and commercial services across various sectors in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They offer a wide range of clinical solutions, including decentralised clinical trials, cardiac safety solutions, early clinical laboratories, and medical imaging. ICON also provides technology solutions that support drug development from early phases to post-marketing. Their therapeutic expertise spans cardiovascular, oncology, internal medicine, and more, with a strong focus on transformative therapies like cell and gene therapies and biosimilars. ICON is recognized as a leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO), regularly providing thought leadership and contributing to industry publications and events. Their services are tailored to optimize clinical trials, offer regulatory intelligence, and deliver real-world evidence through robust data analysis and patient-centric solutions.

📋 Description

• Define and lead ICON's global workforce planning and resource management strategy • Own enterprise-wide demand forecasting, capacity planning, resource deployment, and workforce analytics • Lead ICON's global Headcount Approval Process and establish governance standards and decision frameworks • Advise the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, Finance leadership, and business presidents on workforce investments, capacity, delivery risk, productivity, and resource optimization • Influence workforce and organizational decisions by evaluating resource requirements, challenging assumptions, and balancing priorities • Transform workforce planning and governance through process optimization, technology enablement, automation, and advanced analytics • Partner with Finance, Human Resources, and operational leadership on utilization, productivity, margin performance, revenue realization, resource costs, and organizational efficiency • Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing global organization through senior leaders and subject matter experts • Foster leadership capability, succession planning, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Represent workforce strategy and resource management at the highest levels of the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive executive leadership experience in workforce planning, capacity management, resource optimization, demand forecasting, and deployment strategy within large, complex, global organizations • Experience in CRO, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, consulting, or professional services environments advantageous; project-based, talent-intensive business experience also considered • Demonstrated success partnering with and influencing executive leadership teams, business presidents, and C-suite stakeholders • Significant experience leading enterprise workforce governance, investment approval, resource allocation, or headcount management processes • Proven track record leading high-performing global organizations through senior leaders in complex matrixed environments • Exceptional commercial and financial acumen, including utilization, productivity, margin optimization, workforce investment, resource costs, revenue realization, and operational performance drivers • Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving capabilities • Ability to synthesize complex business dynamics and leverage workforce analytics and forecasting methodologies • Outstanding executive presence, communication, and influencing skills • Experience leading transformational change and building scalable workforce planning capabilities • Bachelor's degree required • Advanced degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Economics, Human Resources, or a related field strongly preferred • Ability to travel up to 10% • Live in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland; locations in other countries will be considered • Legal right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways • Inclusive and accessible workplace • Reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process

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