Manager, Resource Management

Company Description

For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work.

If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people. So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat.

Overview

Resource Management sits at the heart of Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness. We focus on deploying talent, understanding skill sets, and delivering on operational needs. We help our various brand teams find the right resources based on availability and skills, ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time. Our goal is to drive results by understanding data, relationships, and talent performance.

As a Manager, Resource Management, your key responsibility is to partner with the Chief Creative Officer and Creative Leads to deliver high-quality staffing solutions promptly by leveraging your project management and interpersonal skills. You will ensure target utilization is met, anticipate client resource needs, provide reporting to project teams, lead status calls, identify staffing gaps, and support the Director of Resource Management on resource-related matters. Your ultimate goal is to place the right talent on the right assignment at the right time, requiring a deep understanding of talent and resource needs across the agency.

You will work closely with Finance, Human Resources and Talent Acquisition to manage the entire process from identifying needs to placement, tracking billability, allocations, and usage.

Responsibilities

• General Responsibilities:
• Optimize billability and utilization for the Creative capability
• Maintain a strong understanding of the Creative talent and their skillset
• Interface with Talent Acquisition to hire and deploy external talent as needed
• Identify and communicate resource allocation issues; recommend solutions
• Manage Creative freelance vendors, resources, and forecasting
• Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition on hiring compensation, talent management and mobility
• Capability Building
• Act as confidante and partner in sensitive talent issues, maintaining the strictest of confidentiality.
• Effectively negotiate and broker trade-off in resourcing projects
• Anticipate issues and proactively come up with strong solutions
• Provide guidance on sourcing and selecting Creative talent
• Provide guidance on employee development and skill building needs
• Reporting:
• Prepare detailed reports for the Creative leadership team
• Provide insights on staffing metrics and talent management trends
• Partner with internal clients and stakeholders to drive strategic decisions using data
  

Qualifications

• Required
• 3-5 years of creative resource management experience within an agency
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Deep understanding of the art and science of resource management
• Relationship management and influencing skills
• Proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, formulas and filtering/sorting
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Experience as a staffing manager in a consulting environment with changing project needs
• Preferred
• Bachelor's degree preferred, with concentration in HR, business operations, marketing, or advertising
• Operations experience in fast-paced, dynamic business setting
• Comfortable in a matrix organizational structure with accountability to multiple managers
  

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $81,690 - 106,260 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 5/27/2025.