Resource Manager, Planning

The Manager, Resource Planning leads the firm's resource planning function, ensuring high-quality, forward-looking workforce plans that support business priorities and drive strong team performance. As a people leader, this role oversees a team of Coordinators and Senior Coordinators, providing coaching, direction, and development support while ensuring consistent execution of planning activities. The Manager is accountable for guiding complex planning and capacity decisions, managing escalations, and balancing competing business needs. Working closely with key stakeholders, this role drives effective workforce planning strategies, optimizes resource deployment, and supports the successful delivery of business objectives. As a Manager, Resource Planning your responsibilities will include: • Owns the development and oversight of forward-looking resource planning across their portfolio, ensuring alignment with business priorities and forecasted demand. • Connects revenue opportunities to resource management strategies, ensuring appropriate capacity and capability to support growth. • Accountable for overall planning quality, consistency, and integrity across teams. • Identifies capacity constraints, skill gaps, and timeline risks across engagements. • Applies scenario modelling and impact analysis to assess risks and evaluate options. • Interprets and applies AI-generated insights to support informed planning and decision-making. • Influences workforce planning decisions through data-driven insights and recommendations. • Builds strong partnerships and trust with senior stakeholders to align resource strategies with business objectives • Leads, coaches, and develops a team of Coordinators and Senior Coordinators through coaching and timely feedback • Champions adoption of tools, processes, and best practices across the planning function. Think you've got what it takes to be a Manager, Resource Planning? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we're also hoping you can tick: • Post secondary education. • Minimum 4 to 7 years working experience managing a team in an office environment, ideally in professional services with experience in Resource Management. • Experience using Dynamics 365 considered an asset. • Knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 (Planner, Excel, Teams). • Ability to motivate, influence colleagues and build strong relationships. What's in it for you? Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more! At Doane Grant Thornton, we believe compensation should reflect more than just market data-it should reflect you. We're serious about compensation. We benchmark regularly across a wide spectrum of roles, industries, sectors, and levels to ensure our ranges are both competitive and current. But we don't stop there. We also consider the unique strengths, experiences, and impact each individual brings to the table. Our salary ranges are reviewed annually, and where you land within the range depends on a mix of factors-your background, your skills, and how your contributions align with internal equity. To help start the conversation, the current salary range for this role is $87,300-$113,520 in Toronto. If the role is available in other locations, the range may differ to reflect local market factors. Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That's why we're working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week.