Job Overview
To progress the workflow from the Account Management to Production, through the Creative Department. The Traffic Manager works closely with Creative team, helping them raise the potential of their ideas, whilst ensuring all deadlines, both internal and external, are met.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Assign job numbers using the Dolphin system and ensure the necessary information, creative brief and agreed schedule are filled in the daily job sheet
- Coordinate budgets and job timings with all departments about budgets and control the timing of jobs to ensure work is completed according to deadlines;
- Observe all necessary production mechanics to ensure that requirements for size, photo transparencies, illustrations, printing requirements, quantities etc are met;
- Circulate layouts, artworks and color proofs to Account Management for Creative approval by the client and forward any subsequent amendments to Creative team and follow-ups implemented
- Collect and ensure that all external suppliers’ invoices are accurate, follows-up on missing suppliers’ invoices and deals with possible under or over-estimated costs
- Update job status reports on a daily basis for Creative Director’s reference, and at the end of every month request an up-date from Account Management on the status of jobs that have been opened in order to produce a monthly status report on all jobs in the process
- Oversee the orderly filing of all artwork
- Collect costs from Studio and Creative team and prepare cost estimates for jobs
- Ensure that budgets do not over-run by keeping a tight control on all costs
- Ensure the correct allocation of staff to a job within the office, whilst seeking help from other Creative Departments throughout the region if insufficient staff is available locally for the work load, particularly when dealing with urgent jobs
- Recommend solutions to problems or delays through better coordination of departments
- Control all work-in progress through organized and efficient systems
Qualifications
- BA/BS in Advertising Design, Graphic Design or similar major is a must
- Min 2 years of experience in an Advertising (Traffic, Creative or Production departments).
- Computer skills: Adobe illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, Microsoft Office
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of all production processes (print and broadcast)
- Diplomatic and team player skills
- Energetic, enthusiastic and positive thinker
- Organizational, coordination and time management skills
- Perfectionist and multitasking
- Able to anticipate problems and find solutions
- Be able to delegate work when needed
- Excellent communication skill
nabil.elcheikh@jwt.com
