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Resource Manager

Resource Manager

New York TimesNew York, NY, US
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Resource Manager

The New York Times' T Brand Studio is looking for a Resource Manager based in our New York office. T Brand Studio is a fast-growing team of writers, strategists, videographers, designers and developers creating branded content across all of The New York Times' advertiser products. As a Resource Manager for T Brand Studio, you will work on daily resourcing of teams to support all of our pre and post-sale programs, alongside all of the discipline leads. This is a hybrid New York City based position, reporting into our HQ location.

Who You Are

  • You are genuinely excited to meet a large studio team of creative people, and eager to learn what each individual brings to the table, and able to coordinate opportunities for everyone to use their strengths.
  • You have a deep and well-versed understanding of the creative process and creative talent
  • You have experience reviewing RFPs and client needs to pair them with the right talent and monitoring project team bandwidth throughout a client engagement.
  • You can communicate with team members and partners to establish clear goals, and timelines.

What You'll Do

  • As a member of our operations team, you will assess opportunities as they come in and assign the right resources across creative, edit, video and production to the right projects.
  • You will review, vet, prioritize and interpret talent needs for up to 30 RFPs a week.
  • Responsibilities :

  • Maintain and oversee team assignment data in a resourcing / program management tool.
  • Maintain close relationships with creative, strategy and production to assess talent needs for incoming RFPs and sold projects.
  • Support operations in review of staffing data / timesheets and communicate meaningful insights on trends, forecast, opportunities for improvement, and areas of concern; provide suggestions for improvement
  • Can think about people planning in short and long-term bases can spot challenges before they arise and act to solve them
  • Lead regular resourcing status meetings with specific teams and leadership to raise and resolve any resourcing or bandwidth issues; recognize project risks or resourcing shifts needed
  • Understand the detail and depth of each team members' skills, including strengths and unique nuances to "cast" project needs
  • Monitor team bandwidth and resolves resource booking conflicts.
  • Identify impediments that hinder progress, protect the integrity of the process supported by more senior team members
  • The go-to team member for staffing assignments in pre-sale and post-sale. This includes evaluating RFPs with strategy and program management leads in pre-sale and sold proposals, to determine casting and level of resource allocation for required roles
  • Understand project requirements and employee skills, background, professional development and career goals and use this information to help balance supply and demand
  • Maintain and evolve the resource allocation process and tools, built for our changing team needs and workflow
  • Monitor studio and team forecasting, flagging capacity issues and identifying and escalating prioritization decisions to leadership
  • Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
  • You will report to the Associate Director, Creative Operations
  • Basic Qualifications :

  • 4+ years of resource management experience
  • Experience managing a diverse team of talent across multiple disciplines
  • Experience with complex, multi-faceted and multi-discipline projects
  • Experience working in a high volume
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Experience working within a creative agency or media organization that has a heavy emphasis on pre-sale work and close collaboration with a sales team
  • Experienced and comfortable managing process design, optimization, and implementation
  • The annual base pay range for this role is between : $83,000 - $93,000 USD

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