Traffic Manager – Sandton needed at Core Group

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that campaign briefs have been uploaded to the traffic management system prior to the designer getting to the job.
• Ensure the relevant detail is housed within the campaign brief for the project to commence on time.
• Ensure the correct time allocations per job are distributed fairly across the design team.
• Create detailed schedules and set deadlines for various stages of a project within the project management tool.
• Distribute assignments to creative teams and other departments, depending on their availability and priorities.
• Manage weekly production meetings with all team members across the business.
• Meet with internal teams and coordinate new project details and give progress updates on existing projects, communicating any issues.
• Monitor projects and workloads, adjusting assignments and deadlines accordingly.
• Manage alongside the design team the management and maintenance of job files and campaign collateral.
• Work with external production, creative and digital agencies to ensure they have the resources needed on a project-to-project basis, manage timelines as well as material rollout.
• Set up and manage meetings between the Creative team and other departments.

Reporting:

• Provide weekly internal reporting against SLA’s and team performance.
• Be responsible for reports to external stakeholders to prove ROI against executed campaigns & collateral.

Qualification:

• 3-5 years of integrated traffic experience in an advertising agency.
• Experience with running multiple projects and campaigns at any given time.
• Strong decision-making and prioritisation skills.
• Strong communications skills.
• An understanding of a variety of Digital campaign elements and platforms (social assets, display assets, eNewsletters, TV and print).
• Managing groups of people namely designers, marketing managers, and campaign managers.
• Retail brand experience is advantageous.
• Experience with production/traffic management tools