A traffic amp; production manager’s main objective is to ensure that all marketing collateral and work from account services flows efficiently to creative and production departments. They are responsible for keeping everyone on task and projects on deadline, handling the logistics, keeping all parties updated on the progress, manage and coordinate all the production activities, guid and help internal users for any production related issues.
Requirements
To succeed as a traffic manager, you need the ability to multitask, organize, and collaborate. Traffic managers juggle a wide variety of requests from clients with competing deadlines and limited resources. Strong decision-making and prioritization are essential to make sure everything runs smoothly, and traffic managers need to be as organized as possible to schedule, monitor, and adjust deadlines and resources as needed.
Responsibilities:
- Create detailed schedules and set deadlines for various stages of a project
- Distribute assignments to creative teams and other departments, depending on their availability and priorities
- Monitor projects and workloads, adjusting assignments and deadlines accordingly
- Maintain job files
- Work with freelancers and contractors and ensure they have the resources needed for their jobs
- Communicate with production houses
- Receive estimation prices
- Help internal users to help select best offers
- Report performance and productivity periodically to managers
Performance:
- Project Cost: The total costs of a project are essential in determining how much the organization made from a project as a whole in regards to outsourcing and third-parties.
- Time Spent on tasks: This role should carefully look at how much time is being spent on certain tasks to examine where workflow processes could be improved.
- Quality: Ensuring quality of all outsourced work.