Resources Manager

Brave Bison Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic media, marketing and technology company seeks a Resource Manager to oversee resource allocation and workforce optimization. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in resource management and strong communication skills, working closely with various teams to enhance efficiency. Enjoy a range of benefits including dynamic working, private medical insurance, and an attractive leave policy within a vibrant and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

25 days annual leave

Dynamic working

Remote working abroad for up to one month

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package

Qualifications

• 2+ years proven experience in resource management, project management, or workforce planning.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and business processes.
• Experience working with HR and talent management processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Strategically allocate resources to maximise productivity and meet project deadlines.
• Monitor, analyse and optimise employee workload and utilisation.
• Identify and resolve resource conflicts and shortages.

Skills

Project Management

Resource Management

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Tools

Salesforce

Certinia

Job description

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A world where complexity is the only constant demands a new breed of company. Brave Bison is a different beast: a media, marketing and technology company purpose built for the digital era.

Our universe is made up of award-winning business arms Brave Bison, Engage and SocialChain. And we’re underpinned by our very own social-first media network who deliver monthly views in the billions for some of the biggest channels in sport and entertainment across YouTube, Snap, Meta and TikTok.

We’re a global collective who live and breathe digital, working with some of the boldest brands in the world to capitalise on the complexity that defines the modern marketing landscape.

Our mission

New platforms, new behaviours, new audiences, new trends, new technologies, new regulations—our clients’ worlds get more complex daily. Their agency partnerships shouldn’t. It’s our job to cut through the chaos, make the complex simple and navigate a clear path to growth for them.

That’s why we make it our mission to capitalise on complexity for our clients—by crafting dynamic digital solutions that outpace tomorrow’s challenges.

Our values

We’re a proudly diverse business comprised of deep specialists across social media, digital marketing and technology. Although our skills, backgrounds and beliefs may differ, we are united by four core shared values:

We run at change and challenge convention because we love to push the boundaries of what the world thinks is possible. We champion discovery, go deep into our clients’ worlds and are always hungry to learn more about them, our specialisms and each other.

• Connected Clarity.

We are focused in our collaboration — joining the right dots between our clients, our partners and our herd of experts to deliver agile solutions at speed and scale. We set a shared ambition from the outset, are transparent at every stage and always strive to make the complex simple.

• Positive Encouragement.

We want to make working with us the best part of someone’s day. We lift one other up, find the fun in the day to day and are committed to ensuring everyone belongs.

We believe in outcomes over outputs. We’re goal orientated, results driven and data-led. We show up with passion every day. And we’re always honing our craft.

About Brave Bison Performance

With over 20 years' experience growing our clients’ businesses through digital media, we help brands leverage the right data, right partners and right tech to capitalise on complexity and supercharge their online growth.

By going deep into our clients’ world, investing their budget where it will work the hardest and ensuring that we only win when they win, we stand for braver digital in a world of opportunity.

As a Resource Manager, you will oversee resource allocation, capacity planning, and workforce optimization across the team. You will work closely with account managers, department heads, fellow resource managers, and operations to ensure efficient utilization of resources while proactively resolving capacity challenges.

Your role

We are looking for an experienced resourcing professional to join our Operations department. We are looking for an autonomous and highly effective candidate who is willing to own, champion and challenge our resourcing processes.

The Resourcing Manager sits right at the heart of the Performance business, working with each of our teams to seamlessly help us deliver industry-defining work. You will work with a broad range of talented team members, from account leads and strategists to creatives and technical experts.

Key objectives:

• Strategically allocate resources to maximise productivity and meet project deadlines.
• Collaborate with teams to facilitate effective workforce planning.
• Analyse business processes to enhance efficiency and optimise resource utilisation.
• Assess skills, training needs, and recruitment strategies to support talent management.
• Help to control costs by ensuring resourcing spend and freelancers budgets are in line with revenue and targets.
• Develop long-term workforce planning strategies aligned with business goals.

Key responsibilities

Daily workforce planning, forecasting and reporting:

• Capture and manage project demand, including pipeline and internal requests, in collaboration with account management.
• Assign and continuously manage resources across projects based on availability, skill sets, and prior experience, ensuring data is always updated and accurate.
• Monitor, analyse and optimise employee workload, utilisation, internal time and overtime hours.
• Ensure projects are planned in for their full duration for a complete short, medium and long-term forecast.
• Identify and resolve resource conflicts and shortages through appropriate management techniques.
• Ensure resources that are being planned in are within budget.
• Ensure timesheets are 100% complete each week.

Working within the group and out-sourcing

• Contribute to the wider aims of the agency through your monthly reporting and suggestions relating to utilisation, effectiveness, capacity and internal time usage.
• Coordinate with other resource managers to share capacity updates and improve standardisation across the organisation.
• Make recommendations on time usage, working closely with our Heads of Product to understand their goals and ambitions for their teams and the sales teams to understand how they sell.
• Maintain a shared list of approved freelancers with fellow resource managers.
• Build well-supported business cases for hiring freelancers or permanent staff, securing approval from Operations and Senior Leadership.
• Working closely with our Client Servicing and the wider resource and operations teams to ensure that the resourcing process is effective and fit for purpose
• Ensure everyone within the agency understands the resourcing process, and their part within it. Carry out training where necessary.

Skills and competencies

• 2+ years proven experience in resource management, project management, or workforce planning.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and business processes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail. Accuracy in your work is vital
• Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively.
• Experience working with HR and talent management processes is a plus.
• Experience with Salesforce / Certinia is advantageous but not essential.

What you’ll get

Our people make us who we are, so to make sure we attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, we offer an attractive benefits package.

But not only that, we are the UK’s first carbon neutral agency (a status we have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact our work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of Greenhouse Gases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption.

Then there’s a whole host of benefits – from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption package. Here’s a snapshot of just some of the benefits we think you might also like:

Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, we're flexible on where and when you work

• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind.
• Income protection: We know it feels good to be covered, just in case.
• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, it’s important to mind your mind!
• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years with us, and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days
• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period. It's on us!
• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day
• Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
• Online coaching and mental health support: Unlimited via OpenUp
• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.
• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.

Finally, we’re proud and committed to being an equal opportunity workplace, providing equal opportunities for all and treating all existing employees and all job applicants in the same way, regardless of their age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status and marital & civil partnership status.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Strategy/Planning, Administrative, and Project Management

• Industries

  Marketing Services, Advertising Services, and Social Networking Platforms

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