Professional Services Resource Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - CDW

CDW

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Description

Bring your career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your job and future.

With revenues of over £1 billion, CDW UK is a leading supplier of IT solutions and services to a broad range of commercial and public sector customers globally.

What you'll do:

Management of Professional Services Resource Scheduling.
For a given piece of work, selecting and allocating the most appropriate level of resource based on availability, skills and location.
Ensuring the booking system is continually validated and containing all relevant data to ensure MI reporting is accurate.
Managing the daytoday bookings and small works for up to 15 consultants in an allocated practice.
Buddy system in place so that when a colleague is absent, e.g. when on leave or sick, etc., any day to day bookings and any works are picked up for the practice that they are responsible for.
Management of the CRM/Resourcing mailbox within Outlook.
Ensure Statements of Work (SoW) and sign off sheets are completed, signed by the client and filed on the system for all engagements.
Engage with contract agencies and 3rd Party resource providers, where inhouse resources are not available, including making sure they are sending a suitably skilled and knowledgeable resource to do the work.
Being a first point of contact for their resources, in the event of a problem preventing completion of any scheduled tasks.
Inform Professional Service resources of their bookings and forwarding sufficient information relating to the job, which includes any supporting documentation e.g. Location/Contact Details/Proposal/PS Breakdown/Statement of Works/HLD/LLD/etc.
Maintain internal and partner Skills Matrix, updating and publishing regularly with new technologies / accreditations achieved.
Create analytical reports (Utilisation and others as requested by the Professional Services management team).
Liaise with consultants on a daytoday basis to amend bookings and organising daily schedules.
Plan out the consultant's projects making sure they have enough time to complete the work they are booked out for, i.e. PDW, HLD, LLD and implementation.
Proactive management of the Resource Worksheet.
Review the resource scheduler to ensure no past provisional bookings are present.
Continual validation of the resource scheduling systems to ensure accurate reporting data.
Keep the resource scheduler up to date with consultants' annual leave / sickness.
Validate Sales Orders (SORD) to make sure they have the correct resource code, quantity, cost price, sell price and descriptions applied.
Engage with Resource / Consultancy Managers to identify shadowing opportunities for the consultants.
Liaise with project management to book out resource for projects.
Supporting the Consultancy team to ensure alignment to CDW governance and standards e.g. ISO.
Create Weekly reports which are sent to the Resource Manager.
Weekly conference call with Solution Architects, BDMs and Principal Consultants to discuss upcoming work.
Weekly conference call with Principal Consultant to discuss current and future requirements for the consultants (e.g. work, training, shadowing, etc.).

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What you need to succeed

Must-have:

Experience working with various stakeholders in an officebased environment.
Experience in dealing with personnel from varying backgrounds and environments including sales, technical, third parties, clients, etc.
Able to identify key deliverables and to prioritise.
Experience at communicating with various technical levels, with the ability to articulate clear and measurable end goals.
Competent in MS Office packages such as word, excel and power point.

Nice to have:

Excellent telephone manner and communication skills.
Good organisational skills.
Be vigilant with excellent attention to detail.
Passionate, perseverance, determined.
Selfmotivated, disciplined and enthusiastic to learn.
Understanding the importance of business processes and compliance.
Assertiveness and tenacity when assigning opportunities.

Who we are:

CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organisations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from startups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers:
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT, but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people