Here is an alternate Creative Resource Manager Job Description that meshes more in an integrated environment. Depending on how large your agency is, someone of the responsibilities will differ (often going to HR).

The Role

As Creative Resource Manager you will manage the resource planning, allocation and scheduling across our creative department, including art directors, designers, copywriters, animators, editors and creative technologists. The Creative Resource Manager is our creative department hub, a great project manager, a talent finder and a leader that ensures projects and teams are properly staffed and run efficiently to meet deliverables. We are looking for someone that has an excellent understanding of each creative’s professional aptitudes and a keen knowledge of timing involved to accomplish assigned tasks. This role will plan for incoming projects and implement resource changes against evolving priorities. In addition to the creative team, you'll work closely with our account team and producers to ensure that creative resources are properly allocated and utilized

The Creative Resources Manager manages our agency’s creative resources at We Are Plus on an ongoing and project basis. They direct and help coordinate the day-to-day agency creative and production efforts. In this role, the Creative Resource Manager insures that the agency maintains:

An environment where creativity can happen.
Enhance our talent base and manage our talent needs.
Support the creative process in a fast paced production environment.
A consistently superior creative product.

Major Contacts

The Creative Resources Manager’s (CRM) position requires ongoing and in-depth interactions with the following:

Internal: The CRM reports to the ECD (although this differs depending on the agency). The CRM works as a partner with the production team in assisting all talent and freelancer needs and bookings. Within the agency, the CRM is the leader/coordinator for all internal agency projects and works closely with all agency personnel in determining project scope, estimating, planning, executing and monitoring assigned projects and deliverables. Oversees and motivates assigned project teams.
External: The CRM will have direct contact with outside talent and continual build our network of creative and production partners

Responsibilities and Duties

The Creative Resource Manager has four areas of responsibility (specific duties of each are explained below)

Planning, Analyzing, Evaluating

Works with producers and creative directors to assess talent needs, acts as point of contact to book and confirm talent.
Proactively builds on a pre-existing network of contacts.
Ability to recognize internal creative needs or project risks.
Monitors creative team hours against budgets.
Assists producers in locating all agency talent / freelance needs.
Reviews, analyzes and evaluates and vets all creative talent for the agency.
Ability to match team members against projects.
Determines project risk on an ongoing basis, escalates issues as needed.
Evaluate best team makeup for assigned projects.
Monitors out of scope requests, elevates issues to initiate additional billing.
Manage and resolves resource booking conflicts
Manage resourcing forecast spreadsheets for all departments based on input from weekly meetings and the Production Team.
Maintain constant knowledge of current and upcoming projects and business development activities as they relate to resourcing.
Monitor day to day project activities and resourcing, identifying potential instances of underutilization and actively work with department leads to address and solve those issues
Recommend process improvements for Resource Management
Responsible for managing overall utilization

Work to resolve any issues regarding under or over allocations of current staff members

Team Leading, Coordinating, Managing

Schedules all creative meetings and works with the producers to monitor schedules and project needs.

Helps to prepare materials for creative presentations.
Manage communication around shifting priorities with key stakeholders.
Monitors staffing and resources against assigned projects in order to meet project deadlines and budgets.
Act as the team leader on all assigned projects.
Maintains communications with appropriate agency and client personnel to ensure positive workflow. Escalating exceptions and issues to Director level as required
Keeping project status reports up to date
Monitoring and enforcing project constraints (schedule / scope / resources)
Champion internal systems for higher productivity working
Drive projects to final stages of completion by keeping the team both on track and highly motivated.
Manage ECD’s schedules.
Run weekly resource meeting and facilitate resourcing issues / conflict resolution with Production Team and appropriate department heads.
Arrange weekly meetings with Production and Senior Management Team, to discuss all active programs and potential new business as well as to stay informed of potential issues such as resource and change control matters

Project & Product Management

Manage assigned projects, involved with client projects from start to finish, ensuring successful project completion against deadlines.
Provide and maintain agency resource status - liaising with development teams, designers and commercial staff to provide accurate updates of resource needs
Initiates and leads all appropriate project meetings.

Financial & Administrative

Organize and review “new hire” paperwork for employees.
Prepare documentation and paperwork for all talent and freelance hires.
Track availability of all agency staff members.
Track and manage talent database. Manage freelance and contract worker relationships.
Manage NDA documentation, while not an HR role, this position does touch on similar HR needs and responsibilities as it relates to hiring employees and freelancers.
Assist in managing the production of new business presentations and materials as assigned
Works with producers to insure proper billing and invoicing.
Reviews WIPs and final billing reports.
Strong business and personal ethics