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Salary 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.
As a Senior Resource Manager at Sky Creative, you’ll provide leadership and guidance for Resource Managers & juniors. You’ll support the strategic goals of the agency in delivering work in the most effective way, focussing on new ways of working, centralising resources and driving deeper collaboration with other departments.
What you’ll do:
- Report to the Head of Resource Management, supporting with driving the new vision for the resource team.
- Line management & mentorship of a team of Resource Managers and junior Resource Managers.
- Leading in implementing central processes & aligning ways of working across the team.
- Proactively partner with other departments on improving ways of working & resource forward planning.
- Work with data to provide cohesive business narratives that enable decision making.
- Accountable for resource allocations & forward planning of resource based on a scope of work, including clear comms on timeframes, deadlines & milestones including regular updates to project leads on progress.
- Accountable for monitoring freelance spend across agreed resource budgets & reporting back to the business. Accountable for curating central freelance black book across the agency.
What you’ll bring:
- Previous experience in managing & mentoring a team, with a team player attitude.
- Experience in working with workflow tools & systems that support automation in reporting to reduce manual tracking.
- Previous experience project managing or resourcing within an agency, preferably within a production environment, with understanding of core creative roles & skillsets.
- Credibility in the creative environment & deep understanding of the creative process.
- Highly organised, easily able to demonstrate successful multi-tasking. Positive can-do attitude, helpful and approachable, with a flexible and pro-active approach
- Proficient excel skills are essential.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil information into simple narratives.
- Ability to foster strong relationships internally and externally, to influence & drive change. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment/calmly under pressure.
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 a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- 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.
