Traffic Coordinator

• Managing and coordinating all work through the creative, strategy, and digital departments.
• Liaising between all departments within the agency.
• Attending weekly status meetings, creative status meetings, and standups.
• Monitoring the schedules and workloads of all creatives (ATL and digital).
• Overseeing jobs and ensuring they are on track, on time, and allocated correctly.
• Ensuring timesheets are completed on time and accurately.
• Trafficking and assisting in trafficking creative and digital creative briefs, ensuring briefs are received on time.
• Chasing all briefs.
• Scheduling job kick-starters and reviews with creative directors, client service, production, and strategy.
• Reviewing and providing feedback on all briefs to ensure satisfaction with the quality of briefs entering the system.
• Ensuring that work flows through the various stages accordingly and is completed on time as per deadlines.
• Communicating any concerns or delays to the traffic director and client services team.
• Liaising with the client service and creative teams to ensure efficiency and continuity across all jobs.
• Chasing production on cost estimates and CPAs.
• Chasing the strategy team for delivery on all jobs.
• Liaising with DTP and fast-tracking jobs that need to be handed over to them.
• Managing the entire creative studio in the absence of the traffic director.

• Matric/Grade 12 minimum.

• Knowledge of the advertising industry.
• A good understanding of the creative process involved.

• One or more years’ experience in an agency environment.

• Understanding of advertising and the creative process.
• Highly organised, systematic, and efficient.
• Outstanding planning and time management skills.
• Proactive and methodical with attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task under pressure.
• Good command of both written and verbal English.
• Excellent communication and people skills with the ability to manage expectations.
• Self-motivated and a responsible team player.
• Very deadline-driven.