Resource Manager - Sky Creative (FTC)

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

We’re looking for a Resource Manager to join Sky Creative on a 6-month fixed term contract and be responsible for the efficient resourcing of award winning creative projects, ensuring smooth processes around allocation of work and freelance staff engagement. You will support the teams to deliver engaging content to audiences that intrigues, entices, excites and drives conversion.

You will work closely with senior management, other resource managers, account service, creatives, producers, designers & copywriters to establish a forward resource plan for creative projects and track resource time (actual effort) against agreed budgets (planned effort).

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What you’ll do:

• Manage resource plans for key projects across the department and build bespoke teams to drive creative excellence. Champion a more efficient way of resourcing, focusing on deeper collaboration across teams.

• Monitor team capacity against planned workload, ensuring efficient use of team resource, identifying bottlenecks and escalating risks.

• Support the team with agency wide growth and planning.

• Communicate program/project updates including key decisions and risks to key internal stakeholders.

• Ensure each project is tracked to allocated budget, currency and timelines. Track overall project completion rates, team utilisation and capacity planning across the agency.

• Establish and build relationships with external partners/agencies to support business growth.

• Conduct talent audits to identify gaps and source talent to support the agencies strategic objectives.

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated experience in a resourcing function within a creative agency or broadcaster.

• A planning/forward thinking approach with critical attention to detail.

• A strong analytical, process and methodology background.

• Experience of communicating with a range of senior level stakeholders.

• Solid Excel and Microsoft Office skills.

• Experienced with workflow management/project scheduling software.

Team Overview

Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple stakeholders across our European Markets.

From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.

We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.

The rewards:

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Access to free NOW, for streaming all your favourite shows  

• A generous pension package  

• Private healthcare  

• Discounted mobile and broadband    

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you. 

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.