Senior Specialist Manpower Planning
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About the Role
Abu Dhabi Airports Company is seeking a Senior Specialist Manpower Planning to manage outsourced workforce planning and governance. The role involves reviewing manpower requests, ensuring alignment with budgets, applying rate cards, and monitoring costs.
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Responsibilities
- Review and challenge all requests for outsourced manpower, assessing genuine business need and differentiating between essential and non essential requirements
- Validate business cases to ensure requests are justified, aligned with operating plans, and within approved budgets
- Conduct due diligence on all outsourced manpower requests, confirming role justification, scope, duration, and sourcing approach
- Apply outsourcing policies and governance frameworks consistently while maintaining a complete audit trail
- Serve as the single controlled intake point for outsourced manpower requests, preventing duplicate or off channel engagements
- Apply rate cards consistently to ensure fair, equitable, and defensible pay practices across comparable outsourced roles
- Maintain, benchmark, and monitor rate cards, identifying anomalies and ensuring alignment with market standards and internal pay structures
- Reconcile contingent workforce spend against the approved OpEx budget to ensure cost effective workforce management
- Maintain accurate workforce data and prepare regular reports on demand, headcount, utilization, and costs for management review
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consolidate workforce demand, and reduce duplication across outsourced manpower
- Partner with business units to forecast, validate, and plan outsourced manpower requirements
- Coordinate with Procurement on vendor and contract related matters
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline
- Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience
- Proven experience in manpower planning, workforce resourcing, contingent workforce management, outsourced workforce management, or a related HR/commercial function
- Strong analytical, financial, and cost management capabilities with excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of GCC labor market practices and outsourced workforce management models
- Experience with vendor management and rate card structures is advantageous
- Experience within aviation, airports, or a similar large scale operational environment is preferred
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Role Summary
- The Senior Specialist, Manpower Planning is responsible for managing the day to day planning and governance of Abu Dhabi Airports’ outsourced workforce.
- The role ensures all outsourced manpower requests are thoroughly reviewed, justified, and aligned with business objectives, budgets, and operating plans.
- The position provides oversight of outsourced workforce demand, applies governance frameworks and rate cards consistently, safeguards pay equity, and monitors contingent workforce costs against the approved OpEx budget.
Responsibilities
- Review and challenge all requests for outsourced manpower, assessing genuine business need and differentiating between essential and non essential requirements.
- Validate business cases to ensure requests are justified, aligned with operating plans, and within approved budgets.
- Conduct due diligence on all outsourced manpower requests, confirming role justification, scope, duration, and sourcing approach.
- Apply outsourcing policies and governance frameworks consistently while maintaining a complete audit trail.
- Serve as the single controlled intake point for outsourced manpower requests, preventing duplicate or off channel engagements.
- Apply rate cards consistently to ensure fair, equitable, and defensible pay practices across comparable outsourced roles.
- Maintain, benchmark, and monitor rate cards, identifying anomalies and ensuring alignment with market standards and internal pay structures.
- Reconcile contingent workforce spend against the approved OpEx budget to ensure cost effective workforce management.
- Maintain accurate workforce data and prepare regular reports on demand, headcount, utilization, and costs for management review.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consolidate workforce demand, and reduce duplication across outsourced manpower.
- Partner with business units to forecast, validate, and plan outsourced manpower requirements.
- Coordinate with Procurement on vendor and contract related matters.
Requirements & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience.
- Proven experience in manpower planning, workforce resourcing, contingent workforce management, outsourced workforce management, or a related HR/commercial function.
- Strong analytical, financial, and cost management capabilities with excellent attention to detail.
- Knowledge of GCC labor market practices and outsourced workforce management models.
- Experience with vendor management and rate card structures is advantageous.
- Experience within aviation, airports, or a similar large scale operational environment is preferred.
Core Competencies & Skills
- Analytical Rigour: Ability to evaluate workforce demand and cost data to make sound, evidence based decisions.
- Governance & Control: Strong understanding of policies, controls, compliance requirements, and audit processes.
- Commercial Acumen: Knowledge of cost drivers, budgeting, rate structures, and operational expenditure management.
- Fairness & Integrity: Commitment to pay equity, transparency, and ethical decision making.
- Communication: Ability to communicate complex data and recommendations clearly to diverse stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong relationship building, influencing, and collaboration skills across business units, Procurement, Finance, and leadership teams.
- Collaboration: Ability to work cross functionally and drive alignment to achieve organizational objectives.
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