Resource Manager

Havas Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare advertising agency is seeking a Resource Manager in Manchester to oversee resource scheduling and project execution. You will manage timelines, ensure compliance with budgets, and build strong inter-agency relationships. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in an agency operational role, strong project management skills, and effective team collaboration abilities. This position includes a supportive hybrid working environment with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

Starting holiday allowance of 28 days

Option to buy, carry or sell holidays

Early Friday finish

Enhanced family leave

Extensive L&D support

Life insurance

Company pension scheme

Wellbeing programme

Medicash healthcare benefit

Qualifications

• 3 years’ experience in a similar operational role in an agency.
• Ability to effectively collaborate as part of a team.
• Strong project management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage resource scheduling for projects.
• Book project timelines via the Pulse Resource Scheduler.
• Monitor compliance with the Statement of Work.
• Ensure the briefing process is rigorously followed.
• Coordinate resource sharing and manage freelancers.
• Monitor timesheets and approvals.

Skills

Project management experience

Team collaboration

Financial awareness

Multitasking

Job description

Agency : Havas Lynx

Job Description :

Are you passionate about creating advertising that not only informs but also transforms lives within the healthcare sector?

At Havas Lynx, a global advertising agency at the forefront of healthcare communications, we combine unmatched creativity, extensive expertise, and a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical and healthcare field. Our communications resonate deeply with audiences and adhere to the highest standards of healthcare advertising.

Committed to driving meaningful change—a change built on a foundation of rich experience, inspired by innovation, and confirmed through our proven track record—we work in close partnership with healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and leading pharmaceutical brands to navigate the complex challenges of today\'s healthcare landscape. Our approach blends strategic insights and deep scientific acumen with cutting-edge creativity and digital innovation, crafting campaigns and solutions that significantly improve people\'s lives.

We’re a team of over 400+ people in Manchester and London, with a history spanning over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife through our YouTube #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Everything this company achieves—every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins—is down to everyone who works here.

Important: Please note that this role is based in Manchester, and our current hybrid working arrangement requires office attendance on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

Summary

As a Resource Manager at Havas Lynx, you are the day-to-day contact for the smooth resource scheduling and execution of all projects across one or more agency teams. You work across all disciplines and shared services to make sure expectations and deadlines are met from creative brief to final delivery. You work closely with your Operations & Commercial Lead, Heads of Disciplines and ALT members, recommending the most suitable resource for each job. A key part of your role is building strong relationships within your agencies to share knowledge and experience from a production stance.

What you can expect to be doing

• Manage resource scheduling with oversight from Operations & Commercial Lead
• Books all project timelines in full via the Pulse Resource Scheduler before the project commences and ensures that booked hours do not exceed the specific number of budgeted hours in Pulse / the SOW (or the supplied budget hours for ABP).
• Monitor and address any unapproved resource booking extensions, ensuring alignment with the budget and scope defined in the Statement of Work (SOW), and escalating issues to the appropriate discipline leads as needed
• Ensure the briefing process is rigorously followed by client services teams and that resource requests correspond to written time estimates provided by the creative, medical, strategy and other disciplines
• Ensure Creative, Medical, Strategy, and other disciplines feel fully supported and protected by overseeing appropriate casting and the allocation of sufficient time to deliver high-quality work, without exceeding the approved hours outlined in SOWs
• Coordinate resource sharing, freelancers and third parties, prioritising shared agency support where appropriate
• Monitor timesheets and approvals

Candidate profile

• You have worked in an agency in a similar operational role – 3 years’ experience
• You have great project management experience
• Working effectively and collaboratively as part of a team
• Financially and commercially aware
• Multitasker and able to move from one project to another seamlessly

What you can expect from us

A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.

Benefits

• Hybrid Working – 3 days in the office (flexible working options are available for in-office days)
• Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service
• Option to buy, carry or sell holidays
• Early Friday finish throughout the year
• Seasonal working hours
• Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme
• Extensive L&D support
• Sabbatical opportunities
• Season ticket interest free loans for travel
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life insurance (4x salary)
• Company pension scheme
• Fully compensated company events
• Volunteer days
• Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more
• Medicash healthcare benefit
• 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme

Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.

Contract

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.