Resource Manager, T Brand London, England
The New York Times
Full Time
London, England
75978 - 82131 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
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Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity in The New York Times Advertising Department for a London-based Resource Manager to join our marketing and content studio, T Brand Studio.
Inspired by the journalism and innovation of The New York Times,
T Brand Studio
crafts stories that help brands make an impact in the world. Our international team creates content for global advertisers to tell meaningful stories for The New York Times audience.
As a Resource Manager you will coordinate the staffing of the Strategy and Creative teams based in London, Paris and Singapore (~21 people). The perfect candidate for this role will understand how to use project management and timekeeping tools to allocate individuals on studio projects based on availability, interest, experience and expertise. The role requires someone with great people skills and a savviness for problem solving staffing issues on creative projects including, but not limited to, digital design, video production, editorial content and podcasts. You will proactively and intuitively solve staffing problems in a high-volume environment. A keen eye for operations and great communication and organisational skills are a must.
Key Responsibilities:
Resource Allocation:
- Coordinate the staffing of T Brand Strategy and Creative teams on custom creative projects.
- Ownership of the day-to-day resourcing process and administration of resource tools.
- Determine immediate and future creative resource requirements for the team.
- Collaborate with team leads to understand the team’s skillset, experience and availability.
- Ensure resources across the team are optimised and the studio is running efficiently.
- Understand the expertise of the staff on T Brand Strategy and Creative teams, in order to resource projects in an efficient and effective way.
Workflow Process Management:
- Ensure projects flow seamlessly between the sales teams in London, Paris and Singapore.
- Lead weekly resource meetings to ensure that teams are aware of workloads.
- Work closely with the sales team to evaluate priorities for project deliverables.
- Escalate conflicts and time management issues to management, as appropriate.
- Maintain a real time high-level visual overview of all projects across the teams.
- Identify, communicate and execute process improvements for efficiency.
- Constantly review and streamline our process for resource management.
- Provide valuable weekly resource reports on the team’s bandwidth and performance.
Resource Organisation:
- Monitor timesheets to ensure that the team is accurately recording their time.
- Coordinating email list servers, slack channels, project files, onboarding/off-boarding materials, calendar invites and other team administration.
- Anticipate future capacity needs against projected workload.
- Manage communication and resourcing of freelancers and contractors.
Our ideal candidate:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Previous experience in resource management within a brand, media or creative organisation.
- Detail oriented and organized; ability to prioritize and multitask.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Highly motivated self-starter, responsible, and accountable.
- Tools: Excel (essential); Workbook (or similar resourcing/timekeeping tools), Salesforce, G Suite would be a bonus
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
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The New York Times
www.nytimes.com
New York, United States
Mark Thompson
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Public
Broadcast Media
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