Are you one of those people that thrives in roles that stretch both the left and right side of your brain? Do you love to solve and find yourself jumping in to help no matter the challenge? If this describes you well, we'd love for you to consider joining our team.

We're looking for a professional with a positive energy and strong interpersonal and organizational skills to come on board as a Senior Manager, Creative Resource Management, focusing specifically on resourcing talent for integrated creative and social/brand strategy. In this role, you will play a direct and critical role in supporting the career paths of so many talented experts, and have first-hand involvement in casting teams that produce exciting and genuinely impactful work across a roster of culturally relevant campaigns with fortune 500 clients.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Get to know the many talented experts within the creative and strategy resource pools - understanding their strengths, skills and working styles to effectively cast them against existing client work and new, incoming opportunities

• Apply your critical assessment skills in tandem with our account and discipline leads to quickly and thoughtfully evaluate new project details to source and ID the best solutions across full-time talent across centralized intake systems

• Closely manage resources' time and assignments to ensure availability and commitments per resource are accurately tracked and updated in real-time

• Communicate proactively and reactively with account teams and project managers on the status and fulfillment of inbound talent needs

• Regularly join and/or lead meetings with talent pools (1:1 and group) to understand status of projects, capacity and opportunities

• Partner as a broader collective with US and Global Edelman RM teams to leverage talent sharing opportunities when and as needed

• Assess and escalate freelance needs in partnership with account leads, discipline leads, and HR partners

• Actively participate in regular RM status meetings to update peers and managers on fulfillment of requests, escalate challenges and support needs and raise broader questions about talent, process or change management to continue to help grow and improve our offering

• Allocate appropriate resources to work and determine resourcing gaps and appropriate solutions (freelancing vs full-time hires)

Preferred Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university

• 3 - 7 years of relevant experience in resource management, project management or talent management

• Experience identifying freelancing and full-time staffing needs,

• Organized, positive and proactive person who will not be intimidated by a fast-paced work environment and ongoing multi-tasking, shifting priorities, and expectations management

• Strong understanding of a variety of integrated creative roles (art direction, copywriting, design) and strategy roles (brand strategy and social strategy alike)

• Exceptional communications skills - you know how to synthesize information per audience and you're comfortable escalating or following up with stakeholders of varying levels, expertise and priorities via email or in-person/on-camera

• Personal character and instincts that consistently demonstrate strong work ethic, empathy and proactive and rationale thinking/problem-solving

• Proven ability to partner closely with multi-disciplinary leadership and teams spanning Resourcing, Specialty Groups (Creative and Strategy), Account and Project Management

• Eager to learn, stumble and learn more

• Ability to handle sensitive information (re: talent or projects) with confidentiality, consideration and professionalism

United Entertainment Group is a global entertainment, sports and lifestyle marketing agency and part of the DJE Holdings network. UEG creates breakthrough marketing with the people, properties and platforms that shape culture, and has been recognized with industry awards including Cannes Lions, Clios, OneShow, Sabre Awards, Tellys, and more. UEG, founded in 2007, is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, London, Hamburg and Tokyo and works with FORTUNE 500 companies, celebrities, athletes and leading media properties. For more information visit http://www.uegworldwide.com .

Employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., at least 2 weeks after last dose) and, if hired, present proof of vaccination before start date. Candidates may request an accommodation due to disability, sincerely held religious belief or exception required under applicable law.

United Entertainment Group is an equal opportunity employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.