Resource Management Director

Omnicom Production•Chicago, IL

13h•$130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The Director of Resourcing is accountable for the resourcing strategy, capacity planning, and operational execution for the Production Management organization. This senior leader oversees the Production Management Resource Management (RM) team and ensures producers are effectively allocated to work in a way that protects delivery quality, optimizes utilization, and supports sustainable internal growth. With deep agency production experience, the Resourcing Director serves as a strategic partner to Production leadership, translating pipeline demand into short-, mid-, and directional long-range capacity plans. This role owns resourcing ways of working, sets capacity modeling assumptions, and proactively identifies risks, constraints, and opportunities related to utilization, internalization, and workforce health in a fast-paced production environment.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in agency production, resource management, or project management within an agency production-driven environment
Demonstrated experience directly managing producers and production work in a fast-paced agency setting for large, multi-disciplinary teams
Proven experience leading or managing a resource management team supporting production delivery
Deep understanding of production workflows across digital, print, experiential, and video
Experience managing multiple projects and priorities with concurrent deadlines
Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of building strong cross-functional relationships
Strong experience with capacity planning, utilization management, and resourcing tradeoffs under limited lead-time conditions
Advanced proficiency with resource management & production scheduling tools (Workfront preferred)
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to operate under ambiguity
Track record of building trusted partnerships with senior production leadership
Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt quickly to shifting demands
Experience working with both in-house and freelance talent
Demonstrated ability to streamline processes and optimize ways of working

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, and develop the Production Management Resource Management team, setting clear expectations, accountability, and performance standards
Define and own resourcing ways of working, planning horizons, and operational rhythms for Production Management Resource Managers
Ensure consistent application of resourcing principles across the RM team while avoiding silos and maintaining a flexible, pool-based producer model across the Region as well as North America
Foster a solutions-oriented, data-driven team culture focused on proactive planning, continuous improvement, delivery confidence, continuous improvement, and professional growth
Oversee and guide the allocation, scheduling, and rolloff planning of agency producers and Executive Producers across multiple concurrent projects
Ensure resourcing decisions balance delivery risk, utilization targets, internalization goals, and producer skill alignment
Provide direction and escalation support on complex resourcing tradeoffs, staffing conflicts, and high-risk delivery scenarios
Oversee freelance approval & extension requests, track billable & nonbillable utilization for Production Management (PM), ensuring external spend is intentional and capacity-driven
Lead weekly resource meetings, review project priorities, and resolve scheduling conflicts
Ensure the "pool model" is maintained and silos are not being built across the PM team
Own short-, mid-, and directional long-range (up to 12 months) capacity modeling for Production Management, accounting for limited lead times and fluctuating demand signals
Set and maintain utilization and capacity planning assumptions in partnership with the Capacity Lead and Production leadership
Monitor and assess billable utilization trends, bench risk, overutilization, and sustained imbalances across the producer population
Translate pipeline demand, historical trends, and known constraints into actionable capacity scenarios and staffing recommendations
Proactively surface capacity risks, structural gaps, and internalization opportunities with clear options and recommended actions
Own the integrity, accuracy, and adoption of Workfront as the system of record for Production Management resourcing, with a strong focus on leveraging the Workfront workload balancer as the primary resource planning tool
Ensure workload balancer and capacity views are accurate and support both real-time execution and forward-looking planning
Establish and deliver recurring utilization, availability, and capacity insights for Production and Capacity leadership
Ensure resourcing data supports operational decision-making, hiring discussions, and long-term workforce planning
Provide regular updates to stakeholders and leadership on resource status and project progress
Serve as a strategic resourcing partner to the Head of Production, partnering on intake triage and feasibility assessment across agency and internal teams
Collaborate closely with creative, production, and account teams to understand project scopes, timelines, and resourcing requirements
Lead staffing feasibility discussions, ensuring projects are resourced appropriately based on scope, risk, and capacity
Collaborate with other resourcing leaders across the organization to align on shared projects, dependencies, and staffing models
Act as an escalation point and early-warning system for utilization, capacity, or delivery risk, bringing context, options, and data-backed recommendations
Challenge assumptions when resourcing plans, demand signals, or utilization trends introduce risk to delivery quality or team health
Partner with Production leadership to align resourcing decisions with producer skill development, progression, and long-term career paths
Support onboarding/offboarding and integration of freelance and full-time Production Management talent
Identify patterns related to burnout, underutilization, or skill misalignment and recommend corrective actions
Develop RM talent through coaching, feedback, and exposure to increasingly complex planning and decision-making