Traffic Manager

1 week ago

Johannesburg, South Africa SMD Technologies Full time

Traffic managers have a keen eye for design, a creative passion and flair. They are highly skilled at running a great campaign from concept through to delivery, as well as being competent in allocating resources, monitoring, and reporting on the status of the project.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- The role is primarily to keep designers on deadline, and co-management of the design department.
- Help move jobs around to free up designers for urgent work, then keep them back on track.
- Ensure that the assets are collected from China Team and given to the designers.
- Feedback on job progress.
- Follow up on feedback not received.
- Help allocate tasks so that certain designers are not overloaded or overlooked.
- Keep the PDS up to date, assign tasks to designers and close these out once completed.
- Assisting with the tracking of work in PDS and tasks.
- Evaluate briefs, follow up for missing assets or info where needed.
- Control resource allocation.
- Assist with uploading of basic briefs on PDS.
- Tracking of hours for non-SMD jobs and overtime and sending monthly reports
- Arranging quotes/invoices and payment of external vendors for services requested
- First check for spelling, codes, prices, information and correctness on flyers and brochure work.
- Assist with the designers monthly KPI’s.
- Assist designers with in-office needs.
- Compile daily deadline list and manage/track work.
- Design Team management - keep track of leave and plan ahead.
- Adobe Suite management for all accounts.
- Shutterstock Image management for all designers, including digital designers.
- Conduct weekly team meetings, to keep everyone on track.
- Conduct weekly product developer meetings to ensure all project deadlines are met and reporting on the status of each job on the system.
- Liaise with China Team and Product Developers where needed in the absence of the Art Director.

**Requirements**:

- 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar position.
- Relevant qualification ie - project management.
- Resourcing experience with high volume traffic projects.
- Proven project and account management experience.
- Skilled at working under pressure.
- The ability to problem-solve around deadlines and workflow.
- Being able to change or pivot to different tasks or triage important tasks effectively.
- Strong and organised personality.
- Ability to streamline workflow independently.
- People management skills.
- Team leadership abilities.
- Effective communication skills.
- Efficient administrative abilities.

**Salary**: R18,000.00 - R22,000.00 per year

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