Traffic Manager at SMD Technologies

• 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.