Resource Strategy Director - Staffing & Capacity

Omnicom Precision Marketing Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 69,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Precision Marketing seeks a Director, Resource Management to lead staffing across creative, account, technology, strategy, UX, Medical Editing, and Regulatory Operations. The role partners with Project Management, Finance, HR, and Talent Acquisition to optimize workload and staffing on projects, ensuring timely delivery and profitability.

Ideal candidates bring 8-10 years in an advertising or health agency, a Bachelor's degree, and strong MS Excel and Workfront skills.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of project management or resource management experience in advertising agency.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience working within a workflow operational tool, such as Workfront, a must.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications including Microsoft Excel.
• Assertive conflict-resolution and problem-solving skills.
• Clear and concise communication with department leads.
• Good interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate data in resource management tools to understand workload for full-time and freelance staff across all departments.
• Partner with Project Management to identify and solve resource challenges to ensure all projects are properly staffed.
• Maintain visibility into current and upcoming project and business development activities to anticipate resourcing needs.
• Run weekly resource meetings and facilitate resourcing issues/conflict resolution with Project Management and department leads.
• Manage resourcing forecast reports for all departments based on input from weekly meetings.
• Monitor team hours against project budgets and align resourcing decisions to financial goals.
• Identify appropriate resource requirements for each account and project based on skillset and project needs.
• Receive, analyze, and report weekly utilization reports to department leads.
• Identify need for freelance talent and coordinate with Talent Acquisition and third-party staffing vendor.
• Partner with third-party staffing vendor to manage freelance onboarding and offboarding, extensions, and payroll processing.
• Work with Finance, IT, and HR to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant freelance administration and budgeting.
• Build and maintain a network of internal and external talent to support flexible resourcing needs.
• Recommend process improvements for Resource Management.

Skills

Conflict resolution

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workfront

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Omnicom Precision Marketing seeks a Director, Resource Management to lead staffing across creative, account, technology, strategy, UX, Medical Editing, and Regulatory Operations. The role partners with Project Management, Finance, HR, and Talent Acquisition to optimize workload and staffing on projects, ensuring timely delivery and profitability.

Ideal candidates bring 8-10 years in an advertising or health agency, a Bachelor's degree, and strong MS Excel and Workfront skills.