How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
At Delta Professional Services (DPS), the Manager, Pipeline & Resource Strategy serves as a strategic workforce planning leader responsible for ensuring a sustainable talent pipeline across DPS client groups. This role partners closely with business leaders, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, and operational stakeholders to forecast staffing needs, develop workforce strategies, optimize recruiting pipelines, and implement scalable resource solutions that support business growth and operational excellence.
The successful candidate is a change agent who combines strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and people leadership to drive talent acquisition planning and resource optimization initiatives. This individual will lead a team while developing innovative solutions that strengthen candidate pipelines, improve workforce readiness, and enhance the employee onboarding experience.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Planning & Strategy
- Lead the development and execution of workforce planning strategies to support current and future business needs.
- Partner with GM, Pipeline and Resource Strategy to forecast staffing requirements and identify talent pipeline gaps.
- Utilize workforce data, market trends, and analytics to drive strategic decision-making.
- Develop resource allocation strategies that align talent supply with client demand.
- Provide consultative guidance to business leaders on workforce planning, organizational capabilities, and talent risks.
Talent Pipeline Development
- Design and implement innovative sourcing and pipeline strategies for critical talent segments.
- Build and maintain proactive candidate pools to support forecasted hiring needs.
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition teams to ensure recruiting strategies align with workforce plans.
- Identify industry trends, labor market conditions, and competitive intelligence to maintain a recruiting advantage.
- Support employer branding initiatives, hiring events, trade shows, and talent marketing campaigns.
Team Leadership
- Lead, develop, and coach a team of professionals responsible for sourcing strategy, workforce planning, and talent pipeline management.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Establish performance goals, monitor key metrics, and ensure delivery of service-level commitments.
- Promote employee engagement and professional development opportunities.
Onboarding & Employee Experience
- Lead initiatives that enhance the new hire experience and accelerate productivity.
- Develop standardized onboarding strategies and workforce integration processes.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure a consistent and high-quality onboarding experience across DPS programs.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management and executive-level influence.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and business writing skills.
- Ability to manage complex projects and competing priorities.
- Experience leading change management initiatives and process improvements.
- Strong relationship-building, coaching, and leadership capabilities.
- High degree of professionalism, confidentiality, and business judgment.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing teams and driving business results.
- Experience partnering with senior leaders on workforce planning and talent strategy initiatives.
- Proven ability to leverage data and analytics to influence business decisions.
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and strategic thinking skills.
- Ability to effectively lead in a dynamic, fast-paced, and matrixed environment.
- Commitment to maintaining a safe, inclusive, and employee-focused workplace.
- Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
- Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
- Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience supporting aviation, aerospace, government contracting, staffing, consulting, or professional services organizations.
- Experience developing sourcing and talent pipeline strategies for specialized professional or technical talent.
Benefits And Perks To Help You Keep Climbing
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life benefits
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
