Lead Staffing Manager - German Speaking

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future - to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow's markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

As Lead Staffing Manager, you act as a strategic business partner to our Market Units. You enable sustainable growth by aligning client demand, commercial priorities, and workforce capabilities.

You create transparency on supply and demand, anticipate gaps early, and steer staffing decisions in close collaboration with Market Units and Practices.

How you'll make an impact

• Partner with Market Unit leaders to translate pipeline and strategy into forward-looking staffing plans

• Provide transparency on capacity, bench, and capability gaps to support informed business decisions

• Align project staffing with commercial priorities, development goals, and long-term capability needs

• Own and facilitate resolution of staffing trade-offs across Market Units and Practices

• Continuously improve staffing governance, processes, data quality, and steering mechanisms

What's important to us

• 5+ years of experience in workforce planning, resource management, or staffing in a professional services environment and 10+ years of relevant industry background

• Proven ownership mindset with the drive to proactively steer topics, challenge the status quo, and deliver results

• Strategic thinker who navigates ambiguity and balances competing interests with sound judgment

• Strong commercial acumen and ability to interpret pipeline, revenue dynamics, and supply/demand data
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trust, resolve competing priorities, and drive alignment across teams.

• Excellent communication skills in German and English

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home

• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company's success in the previous year

• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.

• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We're empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

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If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.