Job Title: Resource Manager
The resource manager will be responsible for: Resource planning and allocation. Assigning people to projects based on their skills, previous experience, availability, and/or project budget. The resource manager will ensure that
their resources have enough capacity to deliver upcoming projects.
Key Responsibilities:
· Business partner to Capability leaders across the organization
· Own weekly resource allocation process for creative staff members; partnering with creative leaders and project managers to manage ebbs and flows in work
· Analyze and distribute reporting of profitability and utilization metrics to internal stakeholders
· Identify and validate staffing gaps, augmenting with freelance or internal staff when necessary
· Work with HR to determine when to recruit freelance positions
· Collaborate with Recruiting to prioritize and communicate status of requisitions based on revenue status, state of the business, and current employee structure
· Manage freelance budget forecast on a monthly/annual basis
· Collaborate with Resource Management team across the group to facilitate short-term interagency rotations
· Effectively & confidentially handle employee issues
Technical Proponent
· Seek and identify opportunities to use technology to continually streamline RM processes, data mining and reporting
· Highly effective in using and advocating technology to connect with employees and colleagues
Expert, Innovator & Integrator
· Proficient in resource allocation practices
· Strong grasp of different capabilities needed for projects and employees’ skills/expertise. Provide new insights on matching employee skills with projects
· Provides guidance on the importance of details and accurate data
· Anticipates issues and proactively come up with strong solutions