Your mission
Are you a proactive and detail-oriented Resource Capacity Planner with a natural drive for optimizing resource allocation and projectexecution? Do you thrive in an equally creative and structured project-based environment where your ideas and expertise directly contributeto operational efficiency? If your response to fast-moving deadlines, multidisciplinary team and shifting priorities is clarity, organisation and smart forecasting, we’d love to hear from you.
You will work as a staff function reporting directly to the Director of Project Management, ensuring transparency, risk control and forward-looking capacity planning across all project teams.
This role requires you to dive into the responsibility for developing, owning and maintaining TSC’s resource capacity planning process. We’re looking for accuracy, timely coordination and seamless strategies across teams. You’ll be based in either our Dutch or German offices while working closely with group staff functions, including the COO application and CGO, and Business Process Manager, across the Netherlands and Germany.
In this role, you will:
- Develop and manage TSC’s resource capacity planning process, balancing strategic oversight and hands-on execution.
- Plan work based on deliverables where the smallest unit of planning is a half-day.
- Implement validation processes to identify and mitigate gaps in resource allocation, onboarding, offboarding, and invoice milestone tracking.
- Oversee and control weekly resource reporting, ensuring accurate and timely input for leadership.
- Produce a weekly capacity plan with a 12-week forward forecast (based on Project Manager input), as well as a monthlyrolling forecast.
- Conduct forecasting focused on billability, identifying upcoming under- or over-capacity risks.
- Proactively identify capacity risks (under-/overstaffing) and escalate them through the PM governance structure, providing clear recommendations and scenario options for decision-making.
- Make informed, data-driven resource suggestions (e.g., internal shifts, freelance capacity, hiring needs).
- Drive process automation and workflow optimization to improve speed, accuracy, and usability.
- Act as the primary contact for leadership on all matters related to resource capacity planning.
- Manage and maintain a freelance network, ensuring availability, contractual clarity, and fast onboarding when needed.