VP Director, Resource Management

Publicis Media harnesses the power of modern media through global agency brands CJ, Performics, Publicis Collective, Publicis Health Media, Spark Foundry, Starcom and Zenith. A key business solution of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], Publicis Media’s digital-first, data-driven global practices deliver client value and drive growth in a platform-powered world. It is present in more than sixty countries with over 23,000 employees worldwide.

Resource Management sits at the heart of PHM. 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 the Vice President of Resource Management, your key responsibility is to deliver high-quality staffing solutions promptly by leveraging your project management and interpersonal skills. Collaborating with business and capability leads, 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 CTO 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. Additionally, you will focus on building tools and processes to streamline and scale resource operations both domestically and internationally.

This role can sit out of our Philadelphia, Chicago, or New York City office. 

General Responsibilities:

• Lead agency discipline to optimize billability and utilization
• Maintain excellent understanding of the company's business operations and able to identify key leadership/stakeholders
• Create and implement strategic goals and plans for your team
• Drive operational impact and set high standards for work processes
• Serve as a subject matter expert and guide managers in career development
• Establish efficient processes for resourcing activities and liaise between departments
• Promote and execute mobility not just within PHM but within Groupe
• Maintain excellent understanding of client contracts and bonus/malus verbiage related to staffing

Executive Reporting and Partnership:

• Prepare detailed reports for the executive team on assignments, open roles, and benched and/or under allocated talent
• Provide insights on staffing metrics on time to fill, # of roles filled internally at PHM and Groupe mobility
• Partner with internal clients and stakeholders to drive strategic decisions using data and client related context
• Meet aggressive deadlines and manage multiple complex projects
• Work closely with the Operations and Finance Team to maintain accurate staffing data with the Groupe proprietary tool PPM

Change Management:

• Identify and champion resourcing change initiatives
• Sustain change through consistent communication with stakeholders and leadership
• Adapt and pivot to alternative plans for successful change implementation

Talent Management and Innovation:

• Drive diversity in client and project teams
• Collaborate with Capability and Client Leads to identify talent gaps and prioritize hiring needs with TA and Finance
• Utilize exceptional knowledge of business and management principles for strategic planning and resource allocation
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• 7-9 years of process-focused resource management/staffing/workforce planning experience, preferably in advertising or consulting
• 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
• Proficiency in SmartSheets
• Ability to easily navigate systems
• Excellent ability to pull data and be able to analyze and manipulate to help make informed and strategic decisions
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Ability to simplify complex issues for clear understanding
• Outstanding organizational awareness and change management skills
• Knowledge of process improvement and facilitation
• Experience as a staffing manager in a consulting environment with changing project needs
• Confident, assertive communication style with tact
• Able to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree preferred, with concentration in HR, business operations, marketing, or advertising
• Operations experience in fast-paced, dynamic business setting
• 7-9 years of project management experience in digital marketing, direct marketing, or e-commerce, with client or agency experience
• Proven success in delivering strategic presentations to senior leadership
• Experience with data visualization tools like Power BI is a plus
• Comfortable in a matrix organizational structure with accountability to multiple managers

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.

Compensation Range: $146,490 - $230,460 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 3/14/2025.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary : $146,490 - $230,460