# Resource Planning Specialist

**Company**: American Honda Motor Company
**Location**: Marysville, Ohio
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $56,800.00 - $85,200.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744011

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## Description

We are seeking a Resource Planning Specialist to join our team at American Honda Motor Company. As a Resource Planning Specialist, you will play a critical role in ensuring proper staffing for permanent and contingent resources through effective planning, data analysis, communication, and strong relationships with department leadership.

**Job Purpose** Ensures proper staffing for perm and contingent resources through effective planning, data/trend analysis, communication, customer specific knowledge and strong relationships with department leadership for direct and indirect resources. Prepares and enters manpower stat and cost budget in SAP. Analyzes labor stat and cost data (wage & overtime). Generates detailed gap analysis for the departments of responsibility to be shared at budget events as well as monthly scorecards for customers. Detailed trend/gap analysis on weekly, monthly, and yearly basis for manpower that includes recommendation for countermeasures. Data analysis includes attrition, unavailability, hiring and budget plan vs. actual as well as forecasting future needs for resources. Conducts audits of manpower related information to ensure accuracy of reports/analysis. Independently determines orders for appropriate resource management by labor type based on data/trend analysis results.

**Key Accountabilities**

- Thorough understanding and accurate reporting of manpower trend specific information to customers both local and regional to ensure appropriate awareness of resource information and trends to support successful daily production and stable DPC.

- Establish and maintain strong relationships with customers, local and regional to ensure understanding of current, and projected future resource conditions.

- Identify, evaluate, and escalate potential issues that could negatively impact the customers' ability to produce vehicles and propose countermeasures as appropriate through complex data analysis and critical thinking including manpower stat and cost impact.

- Accurately and efficiently input into SAP department budget information for labor and overtime and generate cost comparisons so that customers (dept & plant) can understand the impact and reasons behind the changes to achieve company targets (stat & cost).

- Participate in department and division level projects, requests, and activities as appropriate as well as support business plan projects and activities at both local and regional levels.

- Identification of improvement opportunities for increased efficiency, customer service and accuracy.

- Manpower management system entry to ensure accurate reporting.

**Qualifications, Experience, and Skills**

- Minimum Educational Qualifications: BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN BUSINESS, ACCOUNTING, OR EQUIVALENT RELATED EXPERIENCE

- Minimum Experience: 0-4 years of relevant experience depending on degree

- Other Job-Specific Skills: Skilled in data analysis, Knowledge of relevant policies and/or laws relating to position, Ability to appropriately manage confidential information, Ability to appropriately prioritize tasks with limited direction, Ability to collect and analyze data for decision making/problem solving, ABILITY TO TROUBLESHOOT COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN A TEAM-BASED ENVIRONMENT

**Working Conditions**

- Must be able to work overtime approximately 5-10 hours per week.

- Work in a fast-paced environment with demanding customers and critical deadlines.

- Must be able to work occasional weekends based on deadlines (usually at budget events)

- Must be able to work on site at plant

**What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?** **Total Rewards:**

- Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)

- Paid Overtime

- Regional Bonus (when applicable)

- Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)

- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown

- Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

- 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution

- Relocation assistance (if eligible)

**Career Growth:**

- Advancement Opportunities

- Career Mobility

- Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning

- Training and Development programs

**Additional Offerings:**

- Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment

- Lifestyle Account

- Childcare Reimbursement Account

- Elder Care Support

- Wellbeing Program

- Community Service and Engagement Programs

- Product Programs

## Skills

### Required
- data analysis
- SAP
- manpower planning
- budgeting
- forecasting

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