Creative Resource Manager

6 months ago


Solihull, United Kingdom McCann Central Full time

2024 is set to be another exciting year for McCann Central, with new clients, punchy pitches and a breadth of award-winning work. Successful times means we’re looking for an established Creative Resource Manager to help support our Strategic and Creative functions for our Birmingham operation.

As our new Creative Resource Manager you’ll bring a track record within busy creative studios to help ensure the smooth running of our Strategic and Creative functions. You'll therefore need to be highly organised, detail-oriented, disciplined and an excellent communicator, with a knack for casting projects to the correct skillset that enables us to deliver best-in-class work, on time and budget. Your understanding of the creative process means you’re able to anticipate potential challenges and provide solutions working collaboratively with different teams across the agency and external resource as required.

Who we are.

We are McCann Central, the UK’s largest integrated agency. Over 500 individuals working toge ther to help brands play a meaningful role in people’s lives.

We are also part of McCann Worldgroup, ranked the Effie’s Most Creatively Effective global agen cy network, that delivers culture-shaping work for some of the world’s biggest brands.

And to add to that our ever growing collection of awards at the likes of Cannes Lions, Clios, One Show, D&AD, LIAs, Golden Drum & Creative Circle and you’ll quickly understand that creativity really is at the forefront of everything we do.

We’re a team of passionate creatives, strategists and marketers from a wide mix of backgrounds. But there’s a lot that unites us – like caring deeply about everything we produce, and though our skillsets are wide and our know ledge is deep, we are all still learning every day.

Requirements

Not only will the Creative Resource Manager ensure the Strategy and Creative teams are always in communication, you will work collaboratively with the Business Leadership, Project Management, PR and Social teams to help plan and deliver work for all our clients. We require someone who understands workflow within creative businesses, with the ability to effectively cast and schedule skillsets across strategy, creative, design, film, production, PR and social disciplines .

Key responsibilities of the role:

-           Able to work as part of a team coordinating all bookings and casting of resource

-           Work closely with team leads to effectively cast work, ensuring both senior and junior talent is utilised appropriately

-           Build strong relationships with business and project management leads

-           An excellent communicator with the ability to overcome challenges and provide solutions

-           Highly organised and disciplined managing the project schedules

-           Plan for peak periods, tackling resource challenges and providing solutions utilising internal and external resource

-           Monitoring team profitability, freelance budget management and completion of timesheets

-           Have your finger on the pulse of the freelance market across many existing and new skillsets building relationships

If this role is of interest and you feel you have the experience to hit the ground running here with us, please get in touch.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all our people. This includes benefits such as 28 days holiday, plus 3 additional collective shutdown days, enhanced pension contributions, private health, life assurance and much more.

A culture of learning and development is also central to our ethos, so you’ll have access to industry-leading training and development programmes, plus you’ll get to work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.

Most importantly, you’ll be part of a fun and collaborative team and you’ll work in an environment where you are supported and developed.



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