Senior Resource Manager

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Team: Brand and Marketing

Salary banding: £50,000 - £60,000

Experience: Senior

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Lead Creative Ops Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words, Resourcing, Communication, Proactivity

Top 3 qualities for this role: Creative Problem-solving, Budget management, Can do attitude

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because….

"OVO is one of those special places, where you can feel the impact you’re having on the business, whilst enjoying the work and people you work with. It’s got a ‘can do’, buzzy energy that is infectious. This role has the opportunity to evolve and shape how we work, with an excellent team supporting it and some great foundations to build on. It’s creative, commercial and operational - and will definitely keep you on your toes!"

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

The Senior Resource Manager role is the ultimate team player - they are responsible for ensuring the creative team have the tools, time and support they need to get brilliant work done. This role is the eyes and ears of the studio, and takes that insight to proactively build out improvements, troubleshoot early on and bring energy and joy to the team. They will cultivate a culture that leads to exceptional and highly impactful creative.

This role in a nutshell:

Reporting into the Lead Creative Ops Manager, the Senior Resource manager is responsible for ensuring that we have the resources to deliver all the creative work required. This is with a day to day focus on scheduling, alongside a proactive view of upcoming work, pipeline plans, understanding of the team’s capacity and knowing when we need to take proactive action.

A key part of this role will be working with the creative project management team and understanding their requirements, making decisions on budget for additional resource, raising POs and paying suppliers. 

You will have a natural ability to problem solve, support creativity and understand the conditions it takes to thrive. Being able to report on the burndown of budgets and resource hours will be second nature to you, and you’ll have a keen eye for process efficiencies and improvements.

Experience in creative delivery is a must, so that you’re able to pick up a few projects as needed.  You must be passionate about creative, finding a better way, and a stickler for good briefs!

Your key outcomes will be:

• Manage the day to day scheduling of creative resource
• Proactively plan the longer term resource plan, matching skill sets to briefs
• Interrogate all briefs that come into the creative studio, understanding the requirements or the questions that need to be asked (working with the PMs)
• Work with the Design and Copy Leads on the creative development of their team
• Play a key decision making role in the team, informed by wider business context and priorities. 
• Budget management of freelancer and agency budgets
• Play your part in evolving how the creative studio runs, including optimising the prioritisation, scheduling and review process

You’ll be a successful Senior Resource Manager here at OVO if you…

• Have a track record in the set-up and management of creative studios in a fast paced environment
• Have extensive experience in scheduling resource for either agency or in house creative studios (ideally both) 
• Decent experience in production, creative delivery, digital assets creation, project management tooling and creative reporting
• Relish the challenge of a fast paced, scale up working environment
• Be calm and comfortable working with levels of ambiguity and adept at bringing order and clarity into a team environment 
• A real people person who develops powerful working relationships quickly and maintains them successfully 
• An exemplary team player, at their best when working within a collective to deliver a shared vision 
• Be well versed in brand and marketing practice, understanding how agency relationships work and used to managing the relationships between agencies and internal teams

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £50,000 and £60,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. 

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..