At GREY, we create Famously Effective ideas that move people, business, and the world forward – harnessing the power of creativity to solve business problems – for the world’s most influential brands. Our core values – creativity, unity, empathy, and service – power the work we do in each of our 25+ studios across six continents.
Position Overview
As a Resource Manager, you'll be the conduit between our people and our work partnership with leadership to make strategic casting decisions in support of our Famously Effective work. With a focus on day to day resource shifts in addition to long-term planning, your strategic prowess will align talent with projects, cultivating highly effective teams that consistently deliver exceptional results for our clients. Reporting to the Director of Resource Management, you'll play a pivotal role in codifying and optimizing resourcing across the agency.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identifies areas for process enhancements and proposes solutions to cultivate a connected and inclusive agency culture
- Ownership of department level resourcing and partnership with leads across finance, account, project management, HR, TA and department head
- Responsible for data integrity and QA of capacity planning tool
- Maintenance of team org charts and allocations
- Support new business efforts, prioritizing resources to align with project needs
- Identify skill set gaps, cross-training opportunities, and provide strategic guidance on optimal client team structures with staff plans and growth paths in mind
- Lead regular resourcing meetings, ensuring talent utilization and resolving conflicts.
- Manages and prioritizes coverage of PTO, internal projects, global needs
- Own weekly capacity reviews with teams and discussion recaps
- Liaise with internal recruitment team for freelance sourcing and projections
Who You Are:
- An entrepreneurial team player with a systems-thinking mindset and sharp analytical skills.
- Top tier Microsoft Excel skills
- Comfortable navigating a creative and fast-paced environment.
- Proactive, confident, and adept at prioritizing competing demands.
- Able to lead meetings, drive conversations, and resolve conflicts.
- Comfortable with complex systems and capable of storytelling with data.
- Impeccable attention to detail.
What You Will Need:
- 3+ years of experience in creative resource management or production/project management within an agency environment.
- Firm grasp of the creative process in an agency setting.
- Strong understanding of the functional skills and responsibilities of various creative, studio, strategy, and project management roles.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to motivate and influence at all levels.
- Understanding of talent/resource management reporting, metrics, and tools.
The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $75,000 to $90,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.
#LI-Hybrid
At GREY we believe that being diverse, equitable and inclusive means we will be a company where ideas reflect, connect to, and impact culture because we are a place where everyone can fully participate in the work of making our ideas creative, famous and therefore effective in the world. Where every person is valued for distinctive skills, experiences and perspectives. It is supported by committed leadership, studio values, behaviors, policies and procedures that promote a culture where everyone’s difference is valued.
GREY is a place where who you are - your race, ethnicity, nationality, age, physical and mental abilities, sexual orientation, gender/gender identity, religious beliefs, political beliefs, socioeconomic status, family status - will not cause disparity in your experience, but instead energizes your creativity and becomes an important and beneficial part of the work you do.
Please be aware of the possibility of recruiting fraud. GREY does not conduct interviews via instant messaging platforms and will never request personal financial information such as bank account numbers, credit card information, or payment of any kind during the hiring process. All legitimate communication will come from an official @GREY.com email address. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it to us immediately. Stay vigilant and protect your personal information.
What We Do
Grey's mission is to create Famously Effective ideas that move people, business and the world forward—harnessing the power of creativity to solve business problems and deliver growth for the world's most influential brands and companies such as Procter & Gamble, Volvo, Haleon, Kellogg's, Applebee's, Modelo, The Coca-Cola Company, TUMI, and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Grey is proud to be part of AKQA Group—an international family of autonomous agencies with shared values and an independent mindset, backed by WPP (NYSE: WPP). In recent years, Grey has won a Grand Effie in every market it operates; has been named a Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace; ADWEEK'S "Global Agency of the Year" twice; ADVERTISING AGE's "Agency of the Year" and CAMPAIGN magazine's "Global Network of the Year" in recognition of its creative and business performance.
 (1).png)
