Careers -Resource Manager

 

Resource Manager

US / Canada
(Could be remote)

 

Position Summary

This role is responsible for delivering and procuring creative resources across our creative production teams. They contact talent and help coordinate the day-to-day Sector creative and production efforts to ensure coverage, utilization, and alignment of talent to task.

Job Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is desirable. A combination of education and experience can be substituted

  • 3+ years’ experience supporting a business in resource planning and allocation

  • Proven track record of being a recognized manager of resources for a national or local service intensive environment.

  • Ability to identify the correct talent for the creative production roles we are trying to resource with a keen eye for quality and appropriate skillsets in a post-production environment.

  • Knowledge of creative production in either Postproduction, CGI, Animation or VFX vital.

  • Track record of organizing resources across multiple locations.

  • Management of our freelance database and continual refreshing of talent information and new potential talent. This requires proactive reach outs to new talent.

  • Proven track record or recruiting creative resources in the Americas and LATAM for creative production.

  • Working knowledge of staffing (FTE/contractor) expenses impact on P&L, and the optimization of same

  • Excellent communication skills with a service-minded approach towards internal stakeholders.

  • Must be sensitive to client needs, remaining calm and confident, even in stressful situations

  • Proficiency in Microsoft applications (word, excel and power point)

Supervision

  • Exercised: No direct reports at this time

  • Received: Head of Production

Job Relationships

  • Internal: This position works closely with the Head of Production and functional teams.

  • External: This position works closely with operational client contacts and vendors.

Job Duties

  • * Identify resource needs (employee or freelancer) across sector

  • Track resource needs within sector

  • Work closely with Talent Acquisition to ensure Tag is finding top talent

  • *Liase between Talent Acquisition and hiring managers expediate the recruitment process for full time placements.

  • *Resource planning and allocation. Assign hires to projects based on skills, previous experience, availability, or project budget.

  • *Capacity planning. Ensure Tag’s resources have enough capacity to deliver upcoming projects.

  • *Support engagement teams in ongoing resource management efforts. Reallocate resources or requirements and assign new resources to the team as needed.

  • Maintain a thorough understanding of the requirements of each project across sector

  • Ensures that the sector maintains effective, efficient and profitable management of resources.

  • Ensure that all managers demonstrate a nimble and responsive execution to ensure there are no bottlenecks in the placement process.

  • Support of the creative process in a fast-paced production environment.

  • To identify the crew/team to work on a project as when the project awards, whether that’s internal or freelance.

  • Manage onboarding of the crew to ensure it is a smooth kick-off for projects.

  • Work closely with the creative directors & producers to identify upcoming talent requirements.

Working Condition: Office Environment, some travel as needed.