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At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.
Job Description:
The Head of Global Resource Management reports to the Chief Operating Officer and will lead the assessment, design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of Crowe’s future-state resource management operating model. This leader will build on strong capabilities across the firm to help bring the right people, skills, and delivery locations to each engagement; improve utilization, global delivery adoption, workforce economics, and client service; and give leaders better visibility into demand and capacity. The role will partner with executive leadership, business unit (BU) and delivery unit (DU) leaders, Human Resources (HR), Talent, Finance, Information Technology (IT), Revenue Operations (RevOps), India leadership, and operations teams to advance coordinated approaches that support Crowe’s strategy, culture, and growth.
- Advance Crowe’s resource management operating model: Assess current capabilities and work with executive, practice, and operations leaders to design and implement a future-state model that builds on existing strengths. Define clear governance, roles, decision rights, shared standards, priorities, and ways of working while coordinating enterprise, BU-, DU-, and geography-based resource management teams.
- Lead forward-looking demand and capacity planning: Combine current revenue, demand, and utilization against budget with the best available forecasts of backlog, pipeline, and expected work. Partner with BU and DU leaders, RevOps, and Finance to give leaders timely views of capacity, emerging gaps, and required people decisions, and adjust staffing plans as conditions change.
- Improve utilization and delivery economics: Establish clear utilization measures and differentiated expectations by role, level, BU, and DU. Improve deployment, leverage, staffing mix, and cross-staffing while balancing client quality, employee development, sustainable workloads, and gross-margin improvement.
- Use staffing to expand high-quality global delivery: Use staffing, scheduling, and demand planning to integrate India talent into engagements, improve utilization of Crowe’s global delivery capabilities, increase end-to-end and higher-value work, and remove barriers to effective collaboration between United States (US) and India teams.
- Further reinforce One Crowe in delivery: Promote collaboration and talent mobility across BUs, DUs, and geographies so Crowe can bring the best available expertise to each engagement and respond flexibly to changing demand. Establish clear enterprise principles for prioritizing resources across opportunities while balancing client needs, strategic importance, economics, professional development, and firmwide priorities.
- Build an integrated workforce and recruiting plan: Partner with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Finance, HR, Talent, Recruiting, RevOps, India leadership, and BU leaders to translate revenue forecasts into short- and long-term resource requirements. Incorporate productivity, utilization, promotion, attrition, skills, global delivery, and automation into recruiting decisions and the evolution of Crowe’s workforce pyramid.
- Use staffing to support development and sustainable careers: Partner with HR, Talent, and business leaders to translate development needs into assignments, rotations, global experiences, and exposure to new offerings. Use capacity and workload insights to balance short-term delivery needs with sustainable workloads, broad development opportunities, and long-term career growth.
- Modernize resource management processes, data, and technology: Partner with IT to maintain useful skill profiles, define engagement requirements, and rapidly match required skills with available talent. Apply Lean practices, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to reduce manual coordination, improve data quality and decisions, and provide real-time visibility into demand, capacity, utilization, skills, and availability.
- Manage flexible capacity: Establish a practical approach for using internal US talent, India talent, cross-BU staffing, and independent contractors (1099 resources). Improve the speed and consistency of external-resource decisions while balancing quality, cost, skill availability, development, delivery risk, and gross margin.
- Build alignment and continuously improve performance: Establish enterprise metrics, dashboards, forecasting routines, staffing meetings, and executive reporting to improve visibility and decision-making. Build executive and practice-leader alignment, facilitate decisions, share effective practices across the firm, and encourage adoption through useful tools, strong support, and demonstrated value.
- Resource Management leadership: 15+ years of experience in resource management, workforce planning, professional-services operations, or a closely related field, including meaningful experience leading and scaling a resource management function.
- High-performing global professional-services experience: Direct experience leading or holding a senior role in resource management within a high-performing global professional-services firm, including multiple businesses, geographies, and meaningful offshore or global-delivery capabilities.
- Operating-model build and transformation experience: Proven track record assessing, designing, and implementing enterprise resource management operating models, including governance, roles, processes, technology, reporting, change management, and continuous improvement.
- Commercial, analytical, and forecasting judgment: Strong demand and capacity planning, scenario analysis, workforce modeling, utilization management, and commercial judgment, with a practical understanding of leverage, staffing mix, engagement profitability, and gross margin.
- Global delivery and India experience: Experience using staffing and scheduling to integrate offshore talent into onshore-led engagements, increase ownership and utilization, and maintain quality and effective collaboration.
- Resource management systems, data, and AI: Experience with skills taxonomies, staffing or workforce platforms, dashboards, data governance, workflow design, automation, and practical applications of AI to resource matching, planning, and administration.
- Executive influence and cross-functional partnership: Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, highly independent partners, BU and DU leaders, HR, Talent, Finance, IT, RevOps, and local resource managers without relying primarily on formal authority.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required; a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or advanced degree in business, finance, analytics, human capital, operations, or a related field is preferred but not required.
- Travel requirements: Travel will include regular domestic travel and periodic travel to India, based on business needs.
- Hands-on, action-oriented operator who is willing to work directly in workforce models, staffing processes, dashboards, skill definitions, and allocation decisions rather than managing only from a distance
- Enterprise-minded One Crowe leader who places client and firmwide outcomes ahead of local ownership and models Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship
- Objective and fair decision-maker who can create transparent allocation rules, resolve competing demands, and use judgment when circumstances require exceptions
- Development-minded staffing leader who understands how assignments shape skills, careers, engagement, and sustainable workloads
- Process-oriented continuous improver who applies Lean thinking, shares best practices, and strengthens coordination without losing necessary nuance
- Long-term steward who balances immediate utilization and financial results with the workforce pyramid, capabilities, leadership pipeline, and adaptability Crowe needs for the next 80 years and beyond
- Trusted influencer with the presence and emotional intelligence to build alignment among senior executives, partners, business leaders, and resource managers
- Clear communicator who turns complex demand, capacity, and workforce information into practical recommendations and timely decisions
- Low-ego, high-energy player / coach who thrives at the pace of a private-equity-backed value-creation environment and moves quickly from diagnosis to measurable results
We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $183,400.00 - $386,600.00 per year.Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
Crowe provides professional services through two separate entities: Crowe LLP delivers audit and attest services, and Crowe Advisory LLC provides tax, advisory, consulting, and other nonattest services.
The Crowe Global network consists of more than 300 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 150 countries around the globe, making it one of the largest accounting networks in the world.* As independent members of Crowe Global, Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC serve clients worldwide.
*As of July 2026.
Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.
Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.
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We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.
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