Traffic Manager

99 Cents; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

99 Cents is seeking a Traffic Manager to regulate the flow of work across the creative, strategy and digital teams. You will liaise between departments, attend weekly status meetings and drive creative status updates and standups.

You will monitor schedules and workloads, create monthly forecasts, drive workload planning with Creative Directors, track jobs, and ensure briefs and costs are managed on time. This role requires strong communication, excellent organisation, and the ability to keep a

Responsibilities

• Manage and plan all work through the creative, strategy and digital departments
• Liaise between all departments within the agency
• Attend weekly status meetings, driving creative status meetings and standups
• Monitor the schedules and workloads of all creatives and digital creatives
• Create a monthly forecast to ensure best practices of planning and have this approved by Head of traffic
• Drive workload planning sessions weekly with the relevant Creative Directors
• Looking at all CPA's and ensure jobs are tracked according. Forward planning on extra recourses needed
• Manage the freelancer database on behalf of Head of traffic
• Scheduling Job kick-starters and reviews with Creative Directors, Client Service, production and strategy
• Oversee jobs and ensure they are on track, on time and allocated correctly
• Ensure timesheets are completed on time and correct
• Traffic and assist with trafficking creative and digital creative briefs, ensuring briefs are received on time
• Review and provide feedback on all briefs to ensure that you are happy with the quality of briefs going into the system
• Ensure that work flows through the various stages accordingly and is completed on time as per deadline
• Communicate any concerns or delays to the Head of traffic and client services team
• Liaise with the client service and creative teams ensuring efficiency and continuity across all jobs
• Chasing production on Cost estimate and ensuring jobs are dispatched
• Managing the entire creative studio in the absence of Head of Traffic
• Monthly progress status with Head of Traffic

Job description

The Traffic Manager regulates the flow of work in the agency. The Traffic department increases an agency's efficiency and profitability through the reduction of false job starts, inappropriate job initiation, incomplete information sharing, over- and under-cost estimation, and the need for media extensions.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Manage and plan all work through the creative, strategy and digital departments
• Liaise between all departments within the agency
• Attending weekly status meetings, driving creative status meetings and standups.
• Monitor the schedules and workloads of all creatives and digital creatives
• Create a monthly forecast to ensure best practices of planning and have this approved by Head of traffic.
• Drive workload planning sessions weekly with the relevant Creative Directors
• Looking at all CPA's and ensure jobs are tracked according. Forward planning on extra recourses needed.
• Manage the freelancer database on behalf of Head of traffic
• Scheduling Job kick-starters and reviews with Creative Directors, Client Service, production and strategy.
• Oversee jobs and ensure they are on track, on time and allocated correctly
• Ensure timesheets are completed on time and correct
• Traffic and assist with trafficking creative and digital creative briefs, ensuring briefs are received on time
• Review and provide feedback on all briefs to ensure that you are happy with the quality of briefs going into the system
• Ensure that work flows through the various stages accordingly and is completed on time as per deadline
• Communicate any concerns or delays to the Head of traffic and client services team.
• Liaise with the client service and creative teams ensuring efficiency and continuity across all jobs.
• Chasing production on Cost estimate and ensuring jobs are dispatched.
• Managing the entire creative studio in the absence of Head of Traffic.
• Monthly progress status with Head of Traffic.