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About the Role

The Casting Manager will play a pivotal role in resource and talent management across the north american region at .monks. This position is responsible for efficiently allocating talent, time, and budget across multiple regions and projects, ensuring that each project is optimally resourced. The Casting Manager will also foster strategic partnerships with discipline leads and client teams, aligning resource management with both regional market needs and the global business vision.

Responsibilities:

Resource Allocation and Optimization:

• Distribute resources across projects and regions, ensuring optimal productivity while preventing resource overextension.
• Collaborate with project/operations managers to ensure that staffing, time, and budget allocations meet project requirements.

Talent Management and Development:

• Identify, onboard, and develop talent within the organization to ensure a robust and dynamic talent pool.
• Ensure the right talent is placed on projects that match their skills and career development goals.

Capacity Planning:

• Forecast future resource needs in line with upcoming projects and business objectives, ensuring project demands are met without delays.
• Maintain a flexible approach to resource management, adapting to evolving project priorities.

Financial Responsibility:

• Oversee resource allocation to ensure healthy project margins, and escalate concerns to operations if financial expectations aren’t met.
• Align casting decisions with financial guidelines and project budgets.

Global and Regional Strategy Alignment:

• Implement resource management strategies that align with both global business goals and regional needs, ensuring consistency in operations.
• Collaborate with regional teams to adapt global strategies to local market needs and cultural nuances.

Management of Freelance Onboarding and Offboarding:

• Oversee the onboarding and offboarding process for freelance talent, including managing paperwork and ensuring compliance with internal systems and processes.
• Ensure that freelancers are integrated smoothly into projects and have a clear offboarding process to wrap up their contributions.

Conflict Resolution:

• Address and resolve conflicts related to resource planning, ensuring minimal disruption to project timelines and team dynamics.

Diversity and Inclusion:

• Ensure casting decisions align with the organization's diversity and inclusion goals, supporting a creative team that reflects a broad and inclusive audience.

Talent Database Management:

• Maintain and update the talent database, ensuring accurate records of talent availability, roles, and performance.
• Source and manage hold schedule with temp employees to ensure freelance pipelines are healthy.

Collaboration with Crossfunctional Teams:

• Partner closely with directors, producers, and discipline leads to ensure casting decisions align with creative objectives and project requirements.

Contract Negotiation and Management:

• Handle contract agreements with talent and agencies, securing favorable terms that align with budget constraints while fostering strong talent relationships.

Talent Relations and Retention:

• Foster positive relationships with talent and agencies, promoting retention and building a reliable talent network for future projects.

About You

The essentials:

• Proven experience in resource management, casting, or project management within a creative or production environment.
• Strong understanding of both regional and global talent management.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in resource management software and tools.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and regions, fostering a cohesive creative environment.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in casting decisions.

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$60,000—$70,000 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.