Traffic Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa takealot Full time
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people to join us.

We offer market-related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to be part of building something great.


This role will report to the Head of Brand & Communication.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Planning, coordinating, workflow management, SOPs and on time delivery of projects in the Marketing department
  • Interfacing between marketing and the rest of the business to ensure marketing requests and assets are deployed quickly and according to scope.
  • Point of contact to receive and process requests, briefs and work requests into the Marketing Team.
  • Managing the creation & delivery of marketing assets from briefing to execution, including but not limited to:
  • Conducting quality control on the design team's outputs including but not limited to data integrity and checks, spell checks, functionality tests and ensuring that all links work as intended.
  • Reviewing and coordinating final signoff of all assets from all relevant project stakeholders
  • Ensuring the successful deployment of marketing assets.
  • The scheduling of daily newsletters, paid advertising, commercial projects in design studio and across the team
  • Operational, capacity and Management reporting weekly and monthly.
  • Managing projects and assigning tasks to resources and problemsolving any resource or scheduling conflicts.
  • Design studio resource capacity planning and reporting
  • Own and update SOPs and workflows in the division and across teams
  • Conduct and manage daily standups with studio and marketing teams
  • Ensure that the Marketing Calendar is aligned and updated daily with Promo Team and Retail Marketing Channel Managers and Commercial teams and updated and communicated daily
  • Manage the sourcing, collection and delivery of branding and collateral for conferences, golf tournaments, etc
  • Proactively exploring new methodologies, systems and processes that enhance the flow of work through the Marketing team

Attributes required:

  • Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail, and a wellstructured thought process
  • Ability to multitask and to meet tight deadlines
  • Very strong interpersonal skills and experience of marshalling crossdepartmental resources towards daily goals and objectives
  • Good numerical and analytical skills adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Minimum of 34 years experience in a marketing, operations or digital traffic management role and will have project management experience
  • A passion for retail and marketing is essential
  • Relevant tertiary education to support this role
  • Understanding of the digital process and ability to run projects according to basic digital traffic / project management processes and protocols
  • Experience working with project plans and project management tools
  • A high level of attention to detail and great organisational abilities are a prerequisite to succeeding in this role
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Excel experience essential

The Environment:

  • We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
  • We are short on ego and high on output.
  • We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
  • We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an
Extra Ordinary Mind who
- is forthright but respectful
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- thinks like an owner of the business.
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

If you meet the above you are an
Extraordinary Mind so come and join us

  • Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference._

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