Resource Manager

Havas Group; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Havas London seeks a resource manager for their design department, responsible for overseeing resource allocation and managing creative team operations. This permanent role involves facilitating recruitment, approving timesheets, and maintaining a positive working environment. Ideal candidates should excel in communication and organization, ready to drive team performance and engagement.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication, organization, and people skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Enthusiastic team player with responsibility-taking ability.

Responsibilities

• Resource the design department and manage weekly status updates.
• Facilitate creative resource recruitment and hiring.
• Approve timesheets and holiday requests.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Negotiation

Teamwork

Job description

Agency :

Havas London

Job Description :

Havas London is Havas UK’s flagship creative agency. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people.

We’re the only major UK advertising agency to share a single building with every other specialist business in our network, all under a single P&L. Sitting within the Havas Village in King’s Cross affords us some clear advantages; none more so than our ability to build bespoke, multi-discipline teams around our clients, whatever their business need.

These are not teams that are together on paper alone, but teams physically, culturally, logistically and financially aligned. This set-up allows us to complement – not replicate – our specialisms.

JOB PURPOSE SUMMARY

• To resource the design department for Havas London

• To run and manage the agency’s weekly Design status and allocate resource appropriately

• To approve all holiday requests for the design dept.

• To assist the Head of Operations in various admin duties including freelance contracts and freelance timesheets.

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES (Client, Financial, People and Process)

• Resourcing the design department for the agency ensuring that resource arrangements are in place to meet all project requirements. Actively involved in facilitating the recruitment of creative resources and in the hiring of freelance resources for specific projects

• Running the creative production status meeting each week ensuring complete understanding of what each creative and designer is working on.

• Ensuring that all creative and design department members are clear on daily tasks.

• Approving timesheets for the creative department ensuring that these are correctly assigned and in line with resource deployment plans

• Approving holidays for the design department and notifying the creative producers when they are on annual or sick leave

• Help to m anage the agency creative placement /internship scheme – organising the monthly rotation and booking teams in and liaising with HR on teams coming in, payments and email addresses etc.

• Maintaining the creative department holiday chart

• Excellent communication, organisation and people skills as well as being able to develop strong relationships

• An enthusiastic team player with energy to take responsibility for the core team

• Ability to anticipate and proactively manage projects

• Confident and comfortable commanding a room and pulling a team together

• Flexible to work up and down levels to get the job done

• Strong negotiation skills

• Take risks - don't play too safe

• Look for opportunities to build the agency's business

Stays calm under pressure, positively focused and minded

• Establishes strong and positive working relationships with the wide range of stakeholders interacting with and actively engages in enabling an Open culture that facilitate Long Ideas to be developed

• To maintain and sustain an effective team working environment, facilitating an effective work environment where all resources are optimally deployed and emotionally engaged to contribute their creative best to the agency

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Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.