Resource Director

Location: Greater London

** Resource Director
***
* Location:

London
** Havas London is on a transformation journey. This is not a maintenance role; it's an opportunity for someone whose ambition outstrips the brief and who brings real tenacity. Someone who wants to shape and define a new era for Havas London. Someone who matches our optimism, resilience and ambition, and is ready to push, challenge and lead with energy and vision.
** About the Role
** We are looking for an experienced Resource Director to design, implement and lead a modern resourcing function that provides real-time visibility of capacity, utilisation and skills across our creative, design and production teams.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines operational rigour with excellent people skills. You'll be responsible for reviewing and redesigning our current resourcing processes, improving adoption of our resourcing systems, and building a flexible staffing model that enables us to scale efficiently through a blend of permanent and freelance talent.
** Key Responsibilities
** Translate the confirmed and weighted new-business and client project pipeline into short-, medium- and longer-term resource demand, highlighting upcoming capacity gaps, surplus capacity and critical skill requirements.

Work with Client Leadership, New Business, Finance and Department Heads to distinguish confirmed demand from probable or speculative requirements.

Ensure resource allocation accurately reflects project requirements, skills needed and commercial realities.

Identify resource constraints, skills gaps and opportunities to optimise utilisation.

Establish and enforce minimum requirements for all resource requests, ensuring that each request includes an approved scope, project timeline, budget, required skillset, level of seniority and expected hours before resource is committed. Challenge, clarify or reject incomplete requests where necessary.

Freelance requirements

Work with Talent Acquisition team to coordinate contract set up using internal freelance contract platform.

Challenge resource requests constructively where requirements exceed agreed scope or commercial parameters.

Provide insight into future hiring requirements and workforce planning.
** Essential Experience
** Significant resource management leadership experience within a creative, advertising, branding, design or integrated agency.

Experience managing both permanent and freelance talent models.

Demonstrable experience improving resource management systems and processes.

Strong commercial understanding and ability to balance creative ambition with business realities.

Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
** Personal Attributes
** Resilient under pressure and capable of managing tight turnaround requirements.

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** Havas
* * Fondé à Paris en 1835, Havas est l'un des plus grands groupes de communication au monde, avec plus de 22 000 collaborateurs dans plus de 100 pays, qui partagent une seule et même mission: make a meaningful difference au service des marques, des entreprises, et de la société dans son ensemble. Havas a développé un modèle d'agences totalement intégré, regroupant tous les métiers de la communication.

Les équipes des trois divisions Creative, Media, et Health & You, travaillent avec agilité et en parfaite synergie pour accompagner leurs clients dans leur transformation positive, en leur apportant des solutions sur mesure, porteuses de sens et s'inspirant des métiers de l'entertainment.
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