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Senior Associate, Resource Management
Human Resources Recruitment
💰 Salary Not shared
📊 Market ₹6,500–₹10,000/mo (₹78,000–₹120,000/yr)
About the Company
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships - all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open - we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.
About the Role
The Resource Management function connects talent to client demand across WPP Media, ensuring the right people are deployed to the right opportunities at the right time. The Staffing Strategist plays a critical role within WPP Media, responsible for connecting internal talent to client demand and ensuring effective, timely, and sustainable staffing outcomes. Acting as a key partner within the Resource Management function, this role balances the needs of our people, clients, and the business to optimise workforce deployment while supporting employee development and long term organisational performance.
Responsibilities
- ● Translates workforce demand into actionable staffing solutions
- ● Maintains accurate people and skills data, understands workforce capability, and proactively identifies opportunities to optimise utilisation, enable internal mobility, and reduce reliance on external hiring
- ● Partners closely with Capacity Planning to align available talent with validated demand, supporting a transparent, scalable, and future ready resourcing model across WPP Media
- ● Operates across key capabilities including Client Leadership, Media Management & Delivery (MMD), Data, Technology & Analytics, Growth & Marketing, Operations, Finance, and People
Requirements
- ● Experience in resource management, workforce planning, talent management, or HR related roles, ideally within a complex or matrixed organisation
- ● Strong understanding of people management principles, employee development, and end to end talent lifecycle processes
- ● Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, including HR, Talent Acquisition, Client teams, and Resource Management
- ● Strong data capability, with experience maintaining, analysing, and interpreting workforce and staffing data to inform decisions
- ● Ability to balance people, client, and commercial priorities when making staffing and deployment recommendations
- ● Experience working across multiple staffing channels, including internal mobility, external hiring, and contracting models
Application Notes
For more information, visit wppmedia.com
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