Resource Planning Lead
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| Job Type | Permanent Full Time |
| Location | Home based / 3 days office |
| Area | 134,152,232,190,192,231,207 |
| Sector | Logistics/Transport |
| Salary | £40k plus bens |
| Start Date | |
| Telephone | 01793 734440 |
| Job Ref | 1188801 |
| Job Views | 341 |
- Description
- Resource Planning Lead – Customer Experience Agency
- Highly regarded global agency
- Helping well-known brands strengthen their consumer relationships
- Own Resource Planning across the agency
- Manage creative workflow, ensuring efficient and timely delivery
- Industry leading benefits, development and progression opportunities
The role of our Resource Planning Lead is to ensure the delivery of creative work on time, and to budget, across the agency. This involves ongoing scoping out and planning of projects, process enhancement, scheduling and management of internal and 3rd-party resources - to meet client and internal expectations of cost, timings and quality.
Overview
- Have a clear understanding of our agency process and how best to adapt it depending on timings, budget and client requirements.
- Work with Project Management and Client Services to plan/schedule projects in a proactive, not reactive, manner – ensuring a bigger picture of the weeks and months ahead is of foremost thought.
- Ensure a Resourcing presence in project kick-off meetings, to ensure visibility/clarity of tasks from the offset.
- Prioritise and juggle resource when fast-track/unplanned projects arise.
- Organise/schedule creative WIPs to ensure the right people are seeing work at the right times. Hold non-attendees accountable.
- Work closely with the Commercial Team and Senior CS to minimise agency freelance costs.
- Measure brief timings and monitor creative time allocation.
- Manage all freelance requirements, including relevant supporting admin and process management.
- Operate a tightly managed freelance tracker across the Creative department.
- Work closely with the ECD, ACDs and wider creative discipline leads: be the eyes and ears of the Creative department – spotting potential personnel issues and blockages.
- Work with the ECD/ACDs and creative discipline leads to ensure projects align with all Creative’s development and training needs.
You need to have..
- Previous Resource and/or Project Management experience in a fast-paced agency environment.
- Knowledge of Creative processes as well as Digital process from conception to delivery.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills.
- The ability to establish a strong relationship with all parts of the agency, from Creative to Client Services; Project Management to Planning
Next Steps
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