Agency:
RAPP

Job Function:
Projects and Performance Improvement

Job Subfunction:
Resource Management

Job Description:
YOUR ROLE:
As the Director, Resource Management you will manage the resource planning, allocation and scheduling across all departments. The Director, Resource Management is our hub, a great project manager, a talent finder and a leader that ensures projects and teams are properly staffed and run efficiently to meet deliverables. Someone that has an excellent understanding of professional aptitudes and a keen knowledge of timing involved to accomplish assigned tasks. This role will plan for incoming projects and implement resource changes against evolving priorities. You'll work closely with our account team and producers to ensure that resources are properly allocated and utilized.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Works with producers and creative directors to assess talent needs, acts as point of contact to book and confirm talent.
- Proactively builds on a pre-existing network of contacts.
- Ability to recognize internal creative needs or project risks.
- Monitors creative, strategy and analytics team hours against budgets.
- Assists producers in locating all agency talent / freelance needs.
- Ability to match team members against projects.
- Determines project risk on an ongoing basis, escalates issues as needed.
- Monitors out of scope requests, elevates issues to initiate additional billing.
- Manage and resolves resource booking conflicts
- Manage resourcing forecast spreadsheets for all departments based on input from weekly meetings and the Production Team.
- Maintain constant knowledge of current and upcoming projects and business development activities as they relate to resourcing.
- Monitor day to day project activities and resourcing, identifying potential instances of underutilization and actively work with department leads to address and solve those issues
- Recommend process improvements for Resource Management
- Responsible for managing overall utilization
- Procure all artwork (stock photography, illustrations and video) including coordinating and planning pre-production photo shoots (including print projects) and video shoots.
- Estimate/purchase licensing, negotiate budgets/costs and managing vendor estimates.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

- 8-10 years experience in resource management including creative management and studio services.
- Confidence in meeting with clients/agency to discuss and recommend digital solutions.
- Good interpersonal, organizational and presentation skills.
- Ability to problem solve many jobs simultaneously, quickly, calmly and efficiently.
- Execution excellence
- Clear & articulate team communication & relationship building
- Demonstrates an informed and thoughtful POV
- Proactively tracks trends in business and market place relevant to Client business

Our Hybrid Work Model:

RAPP's current hybrid model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while also supporting flexibility for all employees. As such, we have the option to work from home two days per week, if we'd like.

RAPP provides a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits plan. Benefits for this role include health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), stock options, Healthcare & Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts, vacation, sick, and personal days and positive activism days, paid parental leave and disability benefits. For more information regarding Omnicom benefits, please visit www.omnicombenefits.com. A reasonable estimate of the salary for this role, at the time of posting, is $120,000 - $144,000. This range is specific to NYC and multiple factors are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to: skill set, experience and training, certifications; etc. This is an exempt position. If your requirements fall outside of this range, you are still welcome to apply.

$90,000 - $99,000

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
$120,000 - $144,00

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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