We are looking for a dynamic, problem solving and energetic resource manager to join our team managing a multi discipline studio.
This role is our first line margin defence, with an emphasis placing the right candidate onto the right job. To do this well, they have to have a solid idea of what each member of the staff does well as well as their aspirations, and how much time each employee has available to work on a particular project.
The Traffic & Resource Manager commonly works with the Production Manager to figure out exactly how many people are needed on a particular project to complete it quickly and thoroughly.
Responsibilities
- Assigning available employees to projects in accordance with their skillsets, previous experience, and availability.
- Monitoring day-to-day project activities and corresponding resourcing.
- Capacity planning, i.e. making sure that a company’s resources have capacity to work on upcoming projects.
- Monitoring and managing employees’ workload, utilisation.
- Managing resource conflicts.
- Overcoming resource shortages by means of resource management techniques, reallocating resources, assigning more staff, etc; informing senior management of any issues related to inability to meet clients’ needs due to resourcing.
- Providing project managers with support when it comes to resource management issues or improving resource management processes.
- Knowing all the current and upcoming projects run in an organisation and business development activities and being able to plan resourcing accordingly.
- Documenting processes (e.g. weekly utilisation report, etc.).