Job description
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Resource Manager to join a fast-paced working environment focused on creative digital marketing and providing data for a well-known beauty and healthcare focused business.
As Resource Manager you will be working to manage the needs of the team delivering the work within the scopes outlined. You will work within the PMO on a daily/weekly basis to ensure optimal resourcing to client delivery needs, being mindful of scope and requirements. The Resource Manager understands the diet of work the team and the agency is producing today, tomorrow and in the future. You need to be focused on the who, what, when and how, and acting as proactive solution finder.
In order to deliver on this, the Resource Manager must understand the skill a community has, and the skills it needs to always be ahead of the industry -This will ensure we have the right people, in the right roles, at the right time in order to meet changing client needs, and work with each department to ensure that we have the right pipeline of talent to fulfil this.
To be considered for this role you must be familiar with the following:
•Managing/trafficking day to day in-house resource, ensuring everyone is working on the briefs allocated, moving work around as requirements change, fielding requests from PMs and allocating resource accordingly. This will primarily include WBA Creative and Design resource but will in time include other integrated roles
•Managing/booking and planning creative and design resource alongside overflow requirements for freelancers
• Working with the Finance team & Ops to manage the resourcing budgets - ie be familiar with the Cap Plans, Freelance budgets etc to manage within planned costs
•When possible, traffic small projects – i.e. simple project management to support any overflow projects when the PM team are at capacity
• Building a black book of external FL resource to save recruitment costs and enabling fast resource allocation when required
• Conduct all the required administration for all resourcing including set up of freelancers on Yuno Juno, raise POs, check timesheets, keeping financial trackers and relevant reporting to inform stakeholders of resource status and commercials etc.
The right person for this role will have experience working in creative agency and resourcing roles, whilst demonstrating a deep understanding of agency business in order to deliver against people resourcing requirements, with an in depth/intuitive understanding of resource management tools such as; TrafficLive, YunoJuno, Icims, Connect etc.
If you feel that you are the correct fit for this position and can bring collaborative, fun and hardworking energy to this company, I would love to hear from you and discuss things further
Please don't hesitate to contact me for further information
