Director, Resource Management

RAPP•New York, NY

1d•$120,000 - $144,000•Hybrid

About The Position

RAPP New York is looking for a Director, Resource Management to join our award-winning Program Management team. We are RAPP – world leaders in activating growth with precision and empathy at scale. As a global, next-generation precision marketing agency we leverage data, creativity, technology, and empathy to foster client growth. We champion individuality in the marketing solutions we create, and in our workplace. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individual’s needs, beliefs, behaviors, and aspirations. We foster an inclusive workplace that emphasizes personal well-being. At RAPP, our fearless superconnectors help to create value from personal brand experiences by focusing on three key areas: connected data, connected content and connected decisioning. Our data analysts identify who that person is, our strategists understand what they want, and our award-winning technologists and creatives know how to deliver it – ensuring we’re able to activate authentic customer connections for our clients. Part of Omnicom’s Precision Marketing Group, RAPP is comprised of 2,000+ creatives, technologists, strategists, and data and marketing scientists across 15+ global markets.

Requirements

8-10 years experience in resource management including creative management and studio services.
Confidence in meeting with clients/agency to discuss and recommend digital solutions.
Good interpersonal, organizational and presentation skills.
Ability to problem solve many jobs simultaneously, quickly, calmly and efficiently.
Execution excellence
Clear & articulate team communication & relationship building
Demonstrates an informed and thoughtful POV
Proactively tracks trends in business and market place relevant to Client business

Responsibilities

Works with producers and creative directors to assess talent needs, acts as point of contact to book and confirm talent.
Proactively builds on a pre-existing network of contacts.
Ability to recognize internal creative needs or project risks.
Monitors creative, strategy and analytics team hours against budgets.
Assists producers in locating all agency talent / freelance needs.
Ability to match team members against projects.
Determines project risk on an ongoing basis, escalates issues as needed.
Monitors out of scope requests, elevates issues to initiate additional billing.
Manage and resolves resource booking conflicts
Manage resourcing forecast spreadsheets for all departments based on input from weekly meetings and the Production Team.
Maintain constant knowledge of current and upcoming projects and business development activities as they relate to resourcing.
Monitor day to day project activities and resourcing, identifying potential instances of underutilization and actively work with department leads to address and solve those issues
Recommend process improvements for Resource Management
Responsible for managing overall utilization
Procure all artwork (stock photography, illustrations and video) including coordinating and planning pre-production photo shoots (including print projects) and video shoots.
Estimate/purchase licensing, negotiate budgets/costs and managing vendor estimates.