Sport & Entertainment - Resource Manager (Contract)

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia M&C Saatchi Group Full time

About M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment
M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment is the PR and partnership agency within the M&C Saatchi Group. We are a full-service passion marketing agency that connects brands to Australians through the things they love. We're dedicated, smart and collaborative experts in our field.

We're passionate about coming together to create and realise big ambitions for some of the largest brands in the country.

As part of the M&C Saatchi Group we come together to realise BIG AMBITIONS. And ours is to be the most connected creative company by organising original thinkers in uncommon ways.


We celebrate people who embrace our values and BIG AMBITIONS and the opportunity is here now for a
contract mid level Resource Manager to join the team.


ROLE PURPOSE
You are responsible for managing the resource requirements for the creative and design team.

We are a small but mighty creative team and therefore resources need to be managed with a proactive approach, bringing forward solutions that focus on high quality and collaborative outcomes.

Reporting to the Project Director, the role of Resource Manager is a mid-weight position within Sport & Entertainment.

This role is focused on the oversight of creative and design projects and will work closely with project management and the Creative Director to prioritise and resource tasks.


You will use your resource management experience to proactivity identity resource bottlenecks, find solutions that have low impact to other projects and advise of project over burn.

As Resource Manager you are responsible to ensure projects are briefed correctly and that the correct resource is used.

As the Resource Manager you are accountable for the resource of each creative and design team member, ensuring each team member is utilised to their capacity to drive the best possible creative outcomes.

You will leverage your understanding of the creative process to help identify and solve resource problems. You are skilled at identifying briefing errors and resource bottlenecks that may affect creative output. You proactively work to repair them through active communication. You partner effectively with the wider team to ensure on time, on budget, high quality creative outputs.


You will proactively get involved in all jobs at early stages, take ownership of resources and highlight any potential watch outs and opportunities to improve effectiveness.

A snapshot of what you'll do

  • Conduct daily WIP's as required for any projects or clients requiring reactive planning
  • Conduct regular checkins with Account Managers, production and creative to proactively identify upcoming issues
  • Manage resources against allocated budgets, and identify and manage scope creep appropriately
  • Facilitate our weekly creative resources meeting. The agenda of the meeting is for Account Management to discuss upcoming briefs and work with the resource manager to determine the best resources to meet the project deliverables.
  • Work with the Project Director and Creative Director to solve resourcing challenges and find solutions prior to the weekly resources meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss capacity across the organisation, manage any freelancer needs and flag any projects that are at risk of being over invested.
  • Activity solve upcoming bottlenecks with clear communication to the involved teams
  • Prioritise and deprioritise projects as needed, communicating the impact effectively with mínimal impact to the projects revenue or design output
  • Add value through reviewing briefs and timelines to advise the best use of creative and design time
  • Add value through finding resource solutions that reduce the need for short terms resources such as freelancers
  • Work with other resource managers across the M&C Saatchi Group to share resource as required
  • Manage and respond to urgent requests in an effective manner
  • Work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining a high level of communication
  • Remain calm under pressure
  • Be an out of the box thinker to solve problems
  • Manage time and quality of execution across multiple projects
  • Plus, much more our Talent Team will share the full job description in the interview stage
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Experience in creative trafficking and workflow management processes
  • Knowledge of the creative and design process to deliver integrated campaigns., including but not limited to content, social, PR, activations and influencer marketing
  • Experience in project management or production a bonus
What WE value MOST

  • Walk in different worlds
  • Make Uncommon Sense
  • Run Towards the Fire (except if there is an actual fire when we run away from it)
  • Roll as one
  • Be excellent to each other
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