Global Head of Resource Management

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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📱 Media

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Pitch Black is a global house of award-winning creative brands specializing in digital production and visual effects for film, television, and streaming media. It comprises multiple established VFX and visualization studios—FOLKS, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), El Ranchito, and Square One—delivering high-end visual effects, visualization, and creative production services to major international clients and storytellers.

📋 Description

• Lead global capacity planning across Pitch Black studios • Build consolidated views of confirmed and prospective show demand, available talent, skills and studio capacity • Model staffing scenarios and identify gaps, available capacity and delivery risks • Recommend redeployment, recruitment, contract extensions and external support • Lead workforce planning calls with local leadership teams • Match capacity across brands and locations with production needs • Set cross-studio allocation priorities with Production and guide Brand Resource Managers • Resolve resource-sharing barriers with Production, Technology and People & Culture • Assess allocation options against skill fit, total cost, technical readiness and delivery risk • Reduce avoidable downtime and balance workloads without sustained overtime pressure • Partner with Finance to evaluate deployment costs and commercial impact • Resolve competing resource demands within budgets and priorities, escalating exceptions to the COO • Establish common forecasting assumptions, utilization definitions, reporting standards and planning processes • Ensure accurate local inputs and provide capacity and utilization reporting • Improve planning tools, templates and ways of working across studios • Directly manage and coach Brand Resource Managers • Build partnerships with Production, Department leadership, Talent Acquisition, People & Culture, Finance and Technology • Support internal mobility and development opportunities through talent deployment

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading resource, capacity or workforce planning in VFX, including planning across multiple studios or locations • Demonstrated success improving utilization and coordinating the sharing of talent across teams or studios • Experience managing resource managers or an equivalent planning team • Strong understanding of VFX production schedules, discipline requirements and dependencies involved in cross-studio work • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including lookup functions, pivot tables, data modeling and scenario planning • Strong working knowledge of ShotGrid and production tracking workflows • Sound commercial judgment, balancing cost, capacity, skills and delivery commitments • Clear communication and negotiation skills, with confidence to influence senior stakeholders and resolve competing priorities • Ability to turn complex information into practical recommendations and make timely decisions • Establishing shared resource planning standards across brands or business units • Leading cross-studio capacity sharing and redeployment through local resource management teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Inclusive and accessible recruitment experience • Equal employment opportunities • Opportunity to shape talent and capacity management across studios • Opportunity to work directly with the COO and brand leadership • Opportunity to build a connected global resourcing function • Opportunity to enable collaboration between studios • Opportunity to support artist access to opportunities across the group

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