Senior Associate Staffing

Publicis Sapient is looking for Senior Associate – Fulfillment Partner to join our team of bright thinkers and enablers. You will be responsible for driving early visibility into “demand” for GDD projects (revenue and capability forecast) by collaborating with the local CP as well as Business and Delivery teams.

Key Responsibility statement:

Demand:

• Provide “Great experiences” for project teams through simplified interaction with overall capacity by serving as the facilitator/aggregator between Capacity functions (Practice Staffing Lead, Staffing Partner (SP), Contracting, Hiring)
• Acts as single point of accountability regarding Capacity related topics in India (i.e., securing the right people from all possible sources: Staffing, Contracting, and Hiring)
• Provide a regular and accurate view of fulfilment for demand to the Business and Delivery
• Works with Capacity Planning to provide detailed information on demand/supply view
• Regularly communicates with the business on the status of open needs.
• Drives prioritization conversations with the Capacity Directors, and business unit leads for unmet demand escalations/critical roles.
• Looks at all the nominations for the account from India perspective and then decides on what to approve and forward to the project team and what needs to be rejected.
• On continuing projects, work with project teams to ensure the Existing Tool captures the right information for existing teams being rolled over. 
• Work with local teams to ensure the overall fulfillment is provided to the accounts.
• Analyze and provide early visibility into roll-offs/supply
• Provides insights to, and manages input from, all stakeholders to ensure time tracking and data integrity to produce accurate staffing reporting to effectively manage our business
• Manages weekly staffing meetings with Business.

Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across Business, Capacity teams, Hiring, contracting and capacity planning & practices. And ensure we create a fulfilment strategy and execute the same.
• Partnering with business to influence strategic decisions such as right project location, project start dates based on talent availability, leadership spread across accounts, talent mix.

Company Contribution:

• Actively participates in, and assists with, company events such as hiring, WLN, CSR, training, and internal initiatives.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Minimum experience of 5 years and preferably MBA in Human Resources from a recognized university.
• Proficiency with spread sheets, advanced excel skills and ability to interpret and communicate business and financial data.
• Ability to handle high stress working environment.
• Strong abilities in interpersonal relationships and change management.

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year.
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.