• Own the full lifecycle of global staffing requests across all active and upcoming client engagements. • Partner closely with Sales, Pre-Sales, and Delivery Leadership to understand project scope, timing, skill requirements, and client priorities. • Match consultants to project roles based on skills, experience, availability, regionalities, utilization targets, and career development goals. • Actively manage and optimize the bench, identifying short-term deployment opportunities and longer-term skill or capacity gaps. • Align with Practice Leads to define common profiles for hiring consistency, as well as a clear definition of levels globally. • Maintain an accurate, forward-looking view of demand relative to available capacity. • Translate pipeline and delivery forecasts into actionable staffing plans. • Provide clear, data-backed recommendations on hiring needs, timing, and required skill profiles. • Proactively rotate bench talent across the portfolio based on pipeline and future opportunity trends to align with business direction and reduce time-to-fill for resource requisitions. • Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to address both ongoing pipeline needs and one-off hiring requirements.