Hybrid Creative Planner & Traffic Lead

Hyve Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyve is seeking a highly organised Creative Planner to join the Creative team in London, hybrid role at Paddington. You’ll coordinate creative delivery across the NNG portfolio, balancing deadlines with quality and stakeholder expectations.

You’ll own workload planning, milestone calendars and resource allocation, working with designers, copywriters and senior stakeholders to keep projects on track and ahead of schedule.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in creative traffic, studio management or planning.
• Experience managing workflow and capacity for a multi-person creative team.
• Strong understanding of design and copy processes and lead times.
• Experience building milestone plans, planning frameworks and workflows.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and setting expectations.
• Proficiency with monday.com or similar tools (Asana/Workfront).
• Desirable: Adobe Creative Suite proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of coordination for creative requests across the events portfolio.
• Review briefs for completeness and chase approvals.
• Plan resource needs and lead times to hit delivery dates.
• Source freelance support and track spend when capacity is tight.
• Build forward-looking creative plans and milestone calendars.
• Flag capacity pinch-points weeks in advance and mitigate risks.
• Lead weekly priority meetings and manage team workload.
• Maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Create dashboards and reporting on workload, turnaround times and capacity.

Skills

monday.com

Adobe Creative Suite

Resource management

Stakeholder management

Tools

Design process understanding

Job description

Hyve is seeking a highly organised Creative Planner to join the Creative team in London, hybrid role at Paddington. You’ll coordinate creative delivery across the NNG portfolio, balancing deadlines with quality and stakeholder expectations.

You’ll own workload planning, milestone calendars and resource allocation, working with designers, copywriters and senior stakeholders to keep projects on track and ahead of schedule.