Cupertino California / United States

Job Title : Creative Resource Manager

Location : Cupertino,CA

Duration : Contract

Key Qualifications

• You have 8+ years relevant experience in a resource or project management role within a creative or marketing organization.
  As part of this role, you've utilized a project resourcing system and have evangelized use of it with your business partners.
  
• You have solid knowledge of digital processes and the creative process- particularly in areas such as design, conceptual advertising, and interactive.
  
• You feel comfortable working in a dynamic and fluid environment and are able to understand complex project requirements, understand briefs, and recognize potential risks and dependencies relevant to resourcing.
  
• You are experienced in resource planning, allocation and assigning.
  
• You are a curious, flexible problem-solver.
  You are also fair, kind, collaborative and a trusted confident of confidential and sensitive information.
  
• You possess extraordinary communication and social skills.
  The role requires a high level of patience, diplomacy and fortitude and a strong voice in a fast- moving environment.
  
• You are willing to take risks, fail, and learn from mistakes.
  
• You have a dream to work in a creative, dynamic, and challenging work
  environment.
  
• Extraordinary communication skills, organizational skills, and people-
  management skills.
  

Responsibilities

• Build strong rapport with members of the department you support, in addition to partnering with functional and operations leadership and/or key vendor contacts.
  
• Have strong data set skills, being able to create and manipulate data and figures for forecasting, planning and effective budget reviewing.
  
• Host weekly check-ins with key stakeholders to ensure efficient assignment of all projects, identify excessive or under-utilization of talent, and solve any potential resource gap areas.
  
• Lead weekly resource meetings reviewing and presenting slate of incoming work.
  
• Identify skills-to-career aspiration matches of individual contributors to the appropriate projects.
  
• You're an expert at balancing workload across internal teams, freelancers and agency/vendor partners.
  
• Review candidate portfolios with a view to skillset match for open roles, and work with Ops and staffing vendors to onboard successfully.
  
• Support your partners with quarterly and fiscal year planning by forecasting future hiring and freelance needs based on provided roadmaps.
  
• Mediate resource sharing issues with functional leads and the Lead of Resource Management.
  
• Collaborate with the Marketing Creative Ops team on freelance needs when external resources are needed.
  
• Ensure the successful on-boarding/off-boarding of all employees (FTE, vendors and freelancers).
  
• Shape resource management tools, systems and templates - constantly striving to improve processes and workflow standardization.