Creative Operations Manager orchestrating resourcing and integrated delivery for GALE, a business agency. Managing creative capacity, staffing, production traffic, and client-facing project execution.
Responsibilities
Lead resourcing and delivery on a high-volume production account
Own and establish a formal creative resourcing process
Analyze creative requests and forecast resourcing needs against team capacity
Build and maintain resource allocation/staffing plans using Everest, Smartsheets, and Excel
Coordinate briefing, routing, reviews, and approvals through the creative process
Monitor workloads and rebalance assignments as priorities shift
Maintain real-time visibility into team availability, skillsets, and utilization
Lead weekly cross-functional resourcing meetings with creative leads, account leads, and project managers
Partner with the Director of Program Management and resourcing counterparts to identify capacity gaps and support headcount planning
Forecast and roadmap staffing needs weekly, quarterly, and annually
Support creative directors and client partners with real-time staffing questions
Establish and refine resourcing and traffic-management best practices
Manage project estimation, objectives, scope, and integrated approaches
Create and own integrated project plans
Manage daily scrums, status reporting, and project communications
Resolve project issues across large, cross-disciplinary teams
Set team goals, purpose, and direction
Foster collaborative global interoffice relationships
Update clients on project developments and manage communications, expectations, negotiations, and feedback
Requirements
6+ years of experience in creative operations, resource/traffic management, or project management within a creative or digital agency environment
Experience building or managing creative resourcing/staffing processes on high-volume production accounts
Strong creative intuition and ability to staff according to team members’ strengths
Ability to triage ad hoc, real-time requests calmly
Experience bringing structure and process to fluid, fast-paced environments with tight timelines and competing priorities
Experience or strong working knowledge of managing digital marketing campaigns and integrated project delivery
Experience leading or coordinating cross-disciplinary teams including creative, production, strategy, and media
Strong organizational, multitasking, and communication skills
Proficiency with project/resource management tools
Experience with Everest, Smartsheets, or similar platforms is a plus
Agile and digital execution experience is a bonus
Eagerness to learn new skills, platforms, and methodologies
Comfort leveraging AI tools and process enhancements
Benefits
Hybrid, flexible workplace
Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace
Interview accommodations available upon request
AI-assisted recruitment tools used with human final decision-making
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