Group Traffic Manager

Gather Recruitment; Auckland; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Gather Recruitment – Auckland, North Island is seeking a Traffic Manager to oversee cross-agency resource, workflow, and production efficiency, ensuring schedules and allocations meet project demands in a fast-paced creative environment.

You will lead resource planning, coordinate with management, client service and creative teams, and drive continuous improvement while building strong relationships to keep projects on track and profitable.

Qualifications

• Experience in creative or production workflows within an agency.
• Ability to prioritise, troubleshoot, negotiate outcomes and report progress.
• Strong budget and timesheet management to maximise productivity and profitability.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and process optimisation.
• Excellent relationship building and problem-solving in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Oversee resource management across two agencies using a central system.
• Book and maintain all resource, ensuring accurate allocations.
• Lead weekly resource meetings with senior management, client service and creative teams.
• Monitor productivity and quality across projects and adjust as needed.

Skills

Agency experience

Decision making

Budget management

Continuous improvement

Relationship management

Job description

Gather Recruitment – Auckland, North Island

Our client is an agency group consisting of two vibrant and growing creative agencies. They have a high volume of projects running through the agencies and are searching for a Traffic Manager to work across both businesses, ensuring resource, workflow, productivity, and quality are running at an optimal level.

This role will take control of resource management across the business, with primary responsibility for booking and maintaining all resource using their centralised web-based system. You’ll be required to lead their weekly resource meetings, working with senior management, client service and creative teams.

Candidates for this role will need:

• -Relevant agency experience, and an excellent understanding of the creative and production processes
• -The ability to make decisions about priorities, troubleshoot issues, negotiate outcomes and report on progress
• -A strong understanding of budget allocations, and processes around resource and timesheets to ensure productivity and profitability
• -A mindset for continuous improvement
• -An affinity for relationship building and management, with the ability to negotiate and problem solve on the fly

You’ll be intuitive, proactive and experienced enough to see clarity in a busy environment. You’ll thrive on the pace of the agency, problem-solving at every turn. You’re the integral ingredient that keeps the wheels greased and the machine humming.

As an equal opportunities employer,our client isall about embracing differences and making sure everyone’s voice is heard, becausetheyknow that’s how weallthrive and make awesome things happen together.While theycan’t promisethey’llalways get it right,they’llalways puttheirpeoplefirst.