Production Resource Manager

Job Description

Location: HSK, London

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

About the Role

We are looking for a Production Resource Manager to join DMG New Media and run the allocation of our pooled production team.

DMG New Media is a social publisher reaching over 150 million followers across news, entertainment, sport, and culture. We publish at pace across TikTok and Instagram, with output split across editorial and commercial.

This role owns the scheduling and flow of work across video editors, videographers, and designers. You keep the work moving, protect deadlines, and keep priorities clear when demands clash.

The ideal candidate combines operational discipline with strong judgement. You understand how social production works day to day. You communicate clearly. You keep teams focused on the right work.

Main Responsibilities

• Own daily and weekly resource allocation across editorial and commercial work
• Run the weekly resourcing meeting.
• Publish the schedule and actions
• Match work to skill and format.
• TikTok, Instagram, graphics, shoots, cutdowns, thumbnails
• Own a single intake route for briefs across the department
• Triage briefs for clarity. Deliverables, platform specs, deadlines, approvals, asset needs
• Set simple response and scheduling expectations by work type
• Keep project statuses accurate.
• Maintain a live capacity view by person and skill
• Track planned versus actual time. Improve estimating and planning from real data
• Produce weekly and monthly reporting. Utilisation, throughput, overtime, freelance spend, bottlenecks

Person Specification

• Experience: 3 to 5 years in resource management, traffic, studio management, or production operations within an agency or social publisher
• Social production knowledge: Strong understanding of short-form workflows and deliverables across TikTok and Instagram
• Resourcing systems: Hands-on experience with Float or similar resource planning tools
• Communication: Clear written and verbal communication, confident running resourcing meetings
• Data skills: Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills. Confident with utilisation and capacity reporting
• Commercial awareness: Understands how utilisation, overtime, and freelance spend affect targets
• Stakeholder management: Works well across editorial, production, and commercial teams
• AI curiosity: Interest in automation for intake, tagging, forecasting, and reporting

Nice to have

• Experience supporting live news output
• Experience working with compliance and approvals on commercial deliverables
• Experience building brief templates, scopes, and time estimates

What We Offer

• A central role in a fast-growing social publisher
• High output environment with real ownership and clear impact
• A collaborative team across editorial and commercial
• Space to improve systems and build better ways of working

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
• Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and
• reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process