Director of Resource Management, North America

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As the Director of Resource Management for WPP Production (North America), you will step into a strategic builder role-architecting and championing a unified resourcing ecosystem from the ground up across the US and Canada. Rather than inheriting a legacy playbook, you will have the autonomy and scope to shape this enterprise capability, serving as the strategic connector between Operations, Studio, Origination, and Delivery into a single, cohesive workflow.

In this pivotal leadership role, you will lead the evolution from reactive staffing to a forward-looking, data-informed capacity engine. You will establish the frameworks, operational rhythms, and cross-functional alignment needed to connect upstream pipeline demand with our multi-disciplinary talent across client delivery, shoot origination, studio, and post-production.

Acting as an objective partner across Delivery, Operations, Finance, and Client Leadership, you will bring change leadership, governance, and resource intelligence to life. Your impact will be foundational: strategically casting cross-capability teams that protect margin health, optimize utilization, and enable world-class creative work to flourish. You will report directly to our Managing Director, North America and partner closely with our Regional Talent Lead, Studio Leadership, and Head of Client Delivery.

• Cross-Capability Deployment:
  Oversee the process of resource allocation across North America, strategically partnering with deploying talent across all of WPP Production

• Forecast bandwidth, identify capacity bottlenecks, resolve project/client resource clashes, and rebalance staffing across offices and hubs in real time.

• Design and implement the enterprise capacity operating model. Define the RACI between Resource Management, Discipline Leads, Talent, and Delivery. Drive behavioral change across teams that are used to working in silos.

• Partner with Growth and Client Leadership to translate the new business pipeline and organic growth forecasts into actionable resource demand.

• Work closely with our offshore capabilities within the global network. Establish a system for cross-capability deployment, alignment on resource process across…