Global Head of Resource Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee global capacity planning for Pitch Black studios.

• Develop comprehensive views of confirmed and potential show demand, available talent, skills, and studio capacity.

• Create staffing scenarios and pinpoint gaps, available capacity, and delivery risks.

• Propose redeployment strategies, recruitment needs, contract extensions, and external support options.

• Facilitate workforce planning discussions with local leadership teams.

• Align capacity across brands and locations with production requirements.

• Establish cross-studio allocation priorities in collaboration with Production and guide Brand Resource Managers.

• Address resource-sharing obstacles involving Production, Technology, and People & Culture.

• Evaluate allocation alternatives based on skill fit, total cost, technical readiness, and delivery risks.

• Minimize preventable downtime and evenly distribute workloads without imposing sustained overtime pressure.

• Collaborate with Finance to assess deployment costs and their commercial implications.

• Mediate competing resource demands within budget constraints and priorities, escalating exceptions to the COO as necessary.

• Define common forecasting assumptions, utilization definitions, reporting standards, and planning processes.

• Ensure precise local inputs and deliver capacity and utilization reports.

• Enhance planning tools, templates, and operational methods across studios.

• Provide direct management and coaching to Brand Resource Managers.

• Foster partnerships with Production, department leadership, Talent Acquisition, People & Culture, Finance, and Technology.

• Promote internal mobility and development opportunities through talent deployment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading resource, capacity, or workforce planning in VFX, including coordinating across multiple studios or locations.

• Demonstrated ability to enhance utilization rates and facilitate talent sharing among teams or studios.

• Experience in managing resource managers or a comparable planning team.

• Deep understanding of VFX production schedules, discipline requirements, and dependencies involved in cross-studio collaboration.

• Proficient in advanced Excel or Google Sheets, including lookup functions, pivot tables, data modeling, and scenario planning.

• Strong working knowledge of ShotGrid and production tracking processes.

• Solid commercial acumen, effectively balancing cost, capacity, skills, and delivery commitments.

• Excellent communication and negotiation abilities, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and navigate competing priorities.

• Capable of transforming complex information into actionable recommendations and making timely decisions.

• Establishing shared resource planning standards across different brands or business units.

• Leading cross-studio capacity sharing and redeployment efforts through local resource management teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the flexibility to work remotely.

• An inclusive and accessible recruitment experience.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities.

• Chance to influence talent and capacity management across studios.

• Opportunity to collaborate directly with the COO and brand leadership.

• Ability to establish a connected global resourcing function.

• Facilitation of collaboration among studios.

• Support for artists in accessing opportunities throughout the group.