Traffic Manager

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 sign-off 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 problem-solving 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 stand-ups 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 well-structured thought process
- Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines
- Very strong interpersonal skills and experience of marshalling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives
- Good numerical and analytical skills - adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Minimum of 3-4 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._