Manpower Demand Planner

About the role

The Manpower Demand Planner will forecast, plan and coordinate manpower demand across projects and departments, ensuring the right resources are available at the right time. This role aligns workforce requirements with availability and supports recruitment, mobilization, deployment, utilization and cost control.

Key responsibilities

• Develop short-, medium- and long‑term manpower forecasts based on project pipeline, workload, schedules and business priorities.
• Compare forecast demand with available headcount and skill mix to identify shortages, surpluses and timing constraints.
• Collaborate with Operations, Projects, HR, Recruitment and Finance to validate manpower requirements, priorities and deployment dates.
• Recommend transfers, recruitment, temporary manpower or other actions to balance demand and capacity while minimizing idle time and cost.
• Maintain accurate manpower planning data, assumptions and approved planning versions, ensuring traceability.
• Provide regular forecasts and dashboards covering demand, capacity gaps, utilization, mobilization status and planning performance.

Required profile

• Minimum 48 months (4 years) of experience in manpower demand planning or related fields.
• Proven ability to collect, consolidate and validate manpower requirements across projects.
• Experience in rolling forecasts, scenario planning and capacity gap analysis.

Required skills

• Mobilization
• Utilization
• Demobilization
• Demand Forecasting
• Capacity Planning
• AI
• Manpower analytics
• Reporting
• Power BI
• Data Governance