Associate Director, Resource Management

About The Role

Inizio Evoke is seeking an Associate Director of Resource Management to serve as a strategic partner across multiple capabilities, overseeing a diverse portfolio of brands and clients. You will be responsible for ensuring the right talent is deployed to drive business success across a complex and evolving agency landscape.

You will go beyond traditional resource allocation, blending data, intuition, and deep business understanding to shape staffing strategies. You will bring a strong grasp of client intricacies, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and approach resourcing as both an art and a science - balancing immediate needs with long-term capability planning.

This is a remote role reporting to the Vice President, Resource Management.

You Will

Strategic Resource Leadership & Portfolio Ownership

• Be a primary resource manager and trusted partner to multiple capability leads and senior leadership stakeholders
• Own and oversee a portfolio of brands/clients, ensuring staffing strategies are aligned to each account's unique needs, team dynamics, and growth trajectory
• Develop resource plans across a large subset of business, balancing priorities across multiple clients and workstreams
• Maintain an understanding of each client's nuances, scopes of work, and evolving demands to inform proactive staffing decisions

New Business & Growth Support

• Partner with business development teams from late-stage pitch through to onboarding and staffing
• Translate new business wins into scalable staffing models that integrate into the broader portfolio (freelance and full-time employees)
• Anticipate resource needs based on pipeline trends and align talent to support growth across multiple clients

Business Partnership & Influence

• Build relationships with senior leadership and client-facing leads to influence decision-making on team structures, hiring, and workforce planning
• Provide consultative guidance on staffing trade-offs across a portfolio, identifying risks and opportunities early
• Hold partners accountable to agreed-upon resource plans, priorities, and timelines while maintaining collaborative relationships

Operational Excellence with Strategic Insight

• Use data, reporting, and forecasting tools to inform decisions - go beyond the numbers to provide nuanced, experience-driven recommendations
• Evaluate resourcing across the portfolios to ensure optimal utilization, team structure, and skill alignment
• Balance short-term staffing needs with long-term portfolio health, including talent development, retention, and succession planning

Problem Solving & Proactive Ownership

• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities across accounts and implement solutions that improve resourcing effectiveness at scale
• Be a leader within the resource management function, elevating standards and contributing to best practices

You Will Bring

• 3+ years of experience in resource management, project management, or operations within an agency environment
• Experience managing staffing across multiple clients or brands
• Experience partnering with senior leadership and influencing decisions at a strategic level
• Hands-on experience supporting new business, including working with pitch teams and building staffing plans from the ground up - translating early scoping into fully realized team structures