Traffic Manager at takealot.com

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:
  • Ensuring the completeness of all briefs submitted by the business requesting marketing assets: product launch campaigns, emails, daily deals, carousels, fly outs, promotions, sales, sound recordings, landing pages, promotional and branded items, etc and following up with designers & copywriters to ensure that those briefs get implemented in a timely fashion
  • 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