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4 May 2021
Full-Time Teaming Director
Job Description
The role
Teaming is SYPartners version of Resource Management, working in partnership with team leads across our five consulting areas: Strategy, Design, Studio Design, Program Management, and Digital/UX. Reporting to the VP, Business Operations, Resource Planning and Operations, the Teaming Director will lead day-to-day Teaming for our New York and San Francisco offices.
The work you’ll do
- At a high level, you will be entrusted with the system view of consulting staffing across the firm.
- You will understand where our consultants are engaged across a portfolio of client projects, while dispersed geographically across multiple time zones.
- Pairing that with the monitoring of potential projects—client, internal, and pro bono—you’ll provide a map through tools and communication from which Teaming’s business partners will navigate.
- You’ll be responsible for monitoring and flagging capacity constraints both short- and long-term.
- You will carry multiple interdependent and sometimes conflicting capacity scenarios simultaneously.
- You will drive to solve problems, balancing with the wisdom of prioritization and timing.
- On a regular basis, you’ll share with our upper leadership a variety of Teaming forecasts.
- On a weekly cadence, you will be responsible for updating and maintaining the tools, systems, and integrity of information team leads will use to make Teaming decisions.
- You’ll convene Teaming conversations with a range of appropriate stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
Desired experience and skills
- 6+ years experience in a related career such as Resource Management, Producer, Studio Management, or Program Management background.
- Experience working in a creative agency or consultancy a plus.
- Experience with project budgets, staffing budgets, or similar financial planning.
- Experience contracting, directly or through an acquisition team or partners, freelancers and contractors. Particular experience with licensing and usage rights contracts a plus.
- Familiar with 10,000ft Plans resourcing tool or similar system.
- Working knowledge of Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel, along with Google Suite of office tools.
- Impeccable attention to detail.
- Systems thinker.
- Great at building relationships and collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and leaders.
- Comfortable engaging across multiple levels of the organization, from senior to intern
- Drawn to ambiguity and energized by helping others see the path forward.
- Ability to handle sensitive situations, information, and conversations with professionalism and confidentiality.
- Experienced in evaluating data to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges.
- Has the ability to (and is adept at) set/setting up systems that ensure sustainable operational excellence, including but not limited to capturing and driving selected paths forward for iteration and historical posterity.
How to Apply
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