# Global Head, Planning & Resource Management

**Company**: ICON
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is seeking a Global Head of Planning & Resource Management to define and lead the enterprise strategy that enables the delivery of a large and complex clinical research portfolio. The successful candidate will be responsible for workforce planning, demand forecasting, capacity management, deployment strategy, and enterprise headcount governance across a global organisation of thousands of professionals.

The Global Head of Planning & Resource Management will lead a high-performing global organisation through a team of experienced senior leaders and subject matter experts. The role requires an executive who can shape enterprise thinking, drive transformational improvement, influence senior leaders across the organisation, and establish workforce planning as a competitive advantage for ICON.

**Responsibilities**

- Define and lead ICON's global workforce planning and resource management strategy

- Own the enterprise-wide demand forecasting, capacity planning, resource deployment, and workforce analytics framework

- Lead ICON's global Headcount Approval Process

- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Leadership Team, Finance leadership, and business presidents

- Influence critical workforce and organisational decisions

- Drive the transformation of workforce planning and governance capabilities

- Partner closely with Finance, Human Resources, and operational leadership

- Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing global organisation

**Your Profile**

- Extensive executive leadership experience in workforce planning, capacity management, resource optimisation, demand forecasting, and deployment strategy

- Demonstrated success partnering with and influencing executive leadership teams, business presidents, and C-suite stakeholders

- Significant experience leading enterprise workforce governance, investment approval, resource allocation, or headcount management processes

- A proven track record of leading high-performing global organisations through senior leaders

- Exceptional commercial and financial acumen

- Strong analytical, strategic, and problem-solving capabilities

- Outstanding executive presence, communication, and influencing skills

- Experience leading transformational change and building scalable workforce planning capabilities

- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in Business, Finance, Operations, Economics, Human Resources, or a related field strongly preferred

**Rewards & Benefits**

- Competitive base salary and performance-related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

## Skills

### Required
- workforce planning
- capacity management
- resource optimisation
- demand forecasting
- deployment strategy
- enterprise headcount governance

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