Resourcing Manager

Job Description

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Work with a great team of professionals and enjoy hybrid working conditions

Newly created pivotal role to optimise our internal resourcing

About the Role

We have a newly created opportunity for a Resourcing Manager to lead Nova’s enterprise-wide resource planning and workforce deployment function. This pivotal role ensures our people and partners are effectively aligned to project demand, balancing internal capability, subcontractor engagement, and future workforce needs.

Reporting to the Director of Talent & Capability, you’ll have the ability to shape the approach and lead the resourcing team to effectively forecast resource needs, drive utilisation, and enable proactive internal mobility. Your analytical insight and ability to influence will help shape how Nova plans and delivers its projects across Defence, Engineering, and Digital Services sectors.

This role will suit someone with experience leading resourcing or workforce planning in a consulting, project delivery, or Defence environment. You will enjoy developing new approaches and frameworks and be able to combine and analyse data, generate workforce insights and build highly effective stakeholder relationships, to bring people from across the business together to achieve best for business outcomes.

What You’ll Be Involved With

• Lead Nova’s enterprise resource planning function, providing insights on capacity, demand, and utilisation.
• Partner with Finance and Business Leaders to forecast resource needs aligned with pipeline activity.
• Analyse workforce trends to improve utilisation and productivity.
• Oversee the deployment of internal consultants and subcontractors across projects.
• Drive an integrated and consistent approach to resourcing and workforce visibility.
• Strengthen subcontractor partnerships and ensure smooth onboarding and offboarding.
• Support bids and tenders with accurate, timely resourcing planning inputs and advice.
• Collaborate with People, Commercial, and Project teams to align resources to business priorities.
• Promote internal mobility and workforce development opportunities.
• Provide clear reporting and recommendations to senior leaders on utilisation and workforce trends.

What We Would Like From You

Demonstrated experience managing resourcing planning and deployment in a matrixed, project-based, or consulting environment.

Proven ability to build highly effective relationships and influence decision-makers to drive effective resourcing outcomes.

Experience in establishing new processes, tools and ways of working, and educating people on how to leverage them.

Strong understanding of utilisation metrics and workforce productivity drivers.

Advanced analytical and reporting skills using Excel and resource or project management tools.

Skilled stakeholder engagement across all organisational levels.

Familiarity with professional services automation tools (e.g. Resource Management or ERP systems.

Experience in workforce modelling and planning to support bids and business development.

Tertiary qualifications in Business, HR, or Project Management (Defence sector experience desirable).

Australian citizenship with eligibility for AGSVA Security Clearance.

Life at Nova – it all adds up!

With people being our point of difference, we deliver on promises, reward good work, champion professional growth and support flexibility, all within a diverse and inclusive culture that recognises moments that matter.

Life at Nova is our collection of employee benefits, designed to meet the many and varied needs of our people.

Just a few of the great benefits you will have access to are :

You can view the full range of benefits on our website.

Nova Systems does not accept any recruitment agency solicitation.

Nova Systems is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone feels safe, valued, and included, where our people are our point of difference.

Nova Systems respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters in which we live and work, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Nova Systems also acknowledges the services of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have contributed to defending Australia and its national interests. To find out more about our commitment to Reconciliation, please visit our website.

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NOVA SYSTEMS

Nova Systems is Australia’s largest privately-owned Defence company with global reach. We are leaders in capability assurance and systems integration solving complex challenges in innovative ways.

We are relied on to develop and test capabilities critical to national security and safety. We are trusted to integrate mission systems solutions and develop software and products that protect lives every day.

For 25 years, Nova has brought a different perspective. From national Defence and essential services to border control and cyber security, these are the challenges we partner with our clients to anticipate, understand, and solve. We have strategically located offices in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, and Singapore.

But what makes Nova Systems truly unique, is our people. Nova Systems is where the best and brightest minds come together to challenge, collaborate, and innovate. At Nova Systems, we see things differently.