Resource Director

BRAND: Publicis Media
Job Function: Operations
Location: London, United Kingdom
Experience Level: Specialist
Workplace Type: Hybrid

Company description

Publicis Connected Media UK is a fully end-to-end offering that unites media, commerce, CXM, social and data to deliver connected consumer experiences and drive exceptional business outcomes for our clients.

Powered by Publicis Connected Identity, the UK's richest people-based data set built on real behaviours, it helps major brands move beyond siloed marketing and make more confident decisions in fast-changing conditions. Those insights truly differentiate our AI and agentic solutions to predict impact, create messaging and reach the right people.

The more than 3500-strong team spans Starcom, Zenith, Spark Foundry, Digitas, Performics, PMX, Epsilon, Lotame, Publicis Commerce and Influential. Publicis Connected Media is part of Publicis Groupe.

Overview

We are hiring a Resourcing Director to help shape how talent powers our client delivery across Publicis Media. This is a highly impactful role where you'll connect business demand with people strategy-ensuring the right talent is in place to deliver great work, sustainably and commercially. You'll partner closely with senior leaders, influencing key decisions and bringing clarity to complexity. If you enjoy combining data, people insight and commercial thinking, this is a brilliant opportunity to make a real difference.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing:

• Lead end-to-end resourcing and capacity planning across your agency, ensuring balanced workloads and effective delivery
• Build and maintain a forward-looking view of demand and supply, using pipeline, client activity and business changes to inform decisions
• Facilitate regular conversations with leadership to identify risks, highlight pressures and agree practical solutions
• Guide decisions on deployment, prioritisation and external resource use to optimise utilisation and delivery outcomes
• Partner with Finance and Talent to align workforce planning with commercial goals and organisational strategy
• Provide clear insight and reporting on utilisation, costs and risks, enabling informed decision-making
• Ensure resourcing decisions support fairness, development opportunities and continuity across teams and accounts

Qualifications

Skills we're looking for:

• Experience in resource management, capacity planning or workforce strategy within a complex organisation
• Strong analytical thinking with confidence interpreting and presenting data to stakeholders
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior leaders in a collaborative way
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt as needs evolve
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how resourcing decisions impact cost, margin and delivery
• High level of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive or confidential information
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset, with confidence navigating ambiguity and driving outcomes

Additional information

Publicis Media offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You'll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Publicis Media , we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We'll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.

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