The Enterprise Resource Director reports to the Chief Corporate Officer and is responsible for the strategic planning, forecasting, allocation, and optimization of organizational resources across all projects, departments, and business segments for Falcon's Beyond. This leadership role ensures that employee capacity, utilization, workforce planning, operational systems, technology resources, and workplace requirements are aligned with business objectives, project delivery needs, and sustainable organizational growth.

Serving as a strategic partner across Business Development, Production, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, IT, and Executive Leadership, the Director provides visibility into organizational capacity, future demand, and operational performance. The role acts as the operational bridge between opportunity planning, resource forecasting, project execution, and continuous improvement, ensuring staffing assumptions, business commitments, and operational learnings are translated into informed decisions that improve project delivery, workforce effectiveness, and organizational performance.

Essential Functions:

Resource Planning & Allocation

• Develop and maintain organization-wide resource planning strategies to ensure optimal deployment of employees across projects and business initiatives.
• Lead daily and weekly resource allocation activities to match staffing capacity with project demands.
• Balance resource workloads across teams to maximize utilization while supporting employee well-being and productivity.
• Monitor project staffing requirements and proactively identify resource gaps, conflicts, and over-allocation risks.
• Facilitate resolution of competing resource priorities among project teams and business leaders.
• Establish forecasting models for short-term and long-term workforce planning.
• Partner with Business Development, Production Leadership, Department Leaders and Business Segment Executives to evaluate future opportunities and translate anticipated scope into staffing, scheduling, and capacity planning assumptions.
• Provide operational visibility into the resource impact of future pipeline opportunities and support workforce planning decisions before project award.

Workforce Capacity Management

• Track employee availability, utilization rates, billable and non-billable hours, and capacity trends.
• Monitor and report on weekly, monthly, and quarterly utilization metrics.
• Analyze staffing efficiency and recommend resource adjustments to improve operational performance.
• Maintain organization-wide visibility into employee skill sets, capabilities, certifications, and project assignments.
• Support succession planning by identifying critical resource dependencies and skill gaps.
• Partner with Department Leaders on time tracking, PTO planning, and workforce scheduling initiatives.
• Oversee company-wide employee time tracking processes and reporting compliance.
• Monitor workforce time utilization and reporting accuracy to support project planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Manage process for PTO planning, holiday schedules, and workforce availability forecasting.
• Coordinate with department leaders to ensure adequate staffing coverage during planned absences and peak demand periods.
• Identify utilization impacts associated with seasonal trends, company holidays, and workforce availability.

Bid & Opportunity Planning

• Partner with Business Development, Creative, Production, and Department Leadership to support project planning and estimating activities.
• Develop and maintain operational standards for production planning, staffing assumptions, scheduling, and resource forecasting.
• Ensure project estimates and planning assumptions are supported by historical performance, organizational capacity, and operational constraints.
• Identify delivery risks and capacity conflicts prior to project commitment.

Reporting & Business Intelligence

• Prepare monthly resource management reports for executive leadership.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and KPIs related to utilization, capacity, resource forecasts, staffing levels, project demand, and workforce trends.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to support business planning and decision-making.
• Maintain reporting and analytics that support forecasting accuracy and workforce planning decisions.
• Present resource planning updates, risks, and recommendations to executive & senior leadership.

Financial & Project Coordination

• Partner with Project Management and Finance teams to monitor labor costs and resource performance.
• Conduct weekly reviews of project resource allocations against budgets and forecasts.
• Support project profitability analysis through labor utilization and resource cost tracking.
• Assist leadership with workforce planning decisions that impact project margins and business performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve resource efficiency and reduce operational costs.

Production Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Analyze project performance, resource forecasts, staffing assumptions, and operational outcomes to identify opportunities for organizational improvement.
• Develop recommendations that improve forecasting accuracy, production planning effectiveness, resource utilization, and project delivery performance.
• Develop and evolve production methodologies, planning standards, and operational best practices.
• Establish feedback mechanisms that incorporate project performance, staffing outcomes, and forecast accuracy into future planning and resource allocation decisions.

Growth Planning & New Hire Forecasting

• Collaborate with Human Resources, Business Operations, and Leadership to forecast hiring needs based on project pipeline and business growth plans, developing tools that communicate both quantitative and qualitative workforce planning rationale.
• Develop hiring forecasts and workforce growth strategies based on projected demand, organizational capacity, and business objectives.
• Coordinate onboarding resource requirements, including workspace, equipment, software licenses, and project assignments.
• Support annual workforce planning and budgeting processes.
• Provide leadership with hiring recommendations based on forecasted demand and utilization trends.

Leadership & Organizational Development

• Serve as a strategic partner to Production Managers, Supervisors, Producers, Coordinators, and Department Leaders.
• Mentor and develop production leadership capabilities across the organization.
• Drive organizational adoption of approved production methodologies, governance standards, and operational practices.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Job Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Project Management, Human Resources, Finance, or relevant experience in a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in production management, operations leadership, project management, resource planning, program management, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years of leadership experience managing resource planning functions.
• Experience working within project-based organizations, professional services, design firms, engineering firms, consulting organizations, or similar environments.
• Strong analytical, forecasting, and financial management skills.
• Advanced proficiency with resource management, project management, and business intelligence tools.
• Experience with time tracking, capacity planning, workforce analytics, and utilization reporting.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning (ERP), PSA, HRIS, or project portfolio management systems.
• Experience supporting multi-disciplinary project teams and matrix organizations.
• Knowledge of workforce analytics, forecasting methodologies, and operational performance metrics.