Junior Traffic Manager at takealot.com

This position reports to the Traffic Manager.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning, coordinating, workflow management and responsible for 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.
• Provide ongoing support to manage urgent and priority tasks, deadlines statuses and challenges.
• Create detailed schedules and set deadlines for various stages of all incoming briefs.
• The scheduling of daily newsletters, paid advertising, commercial projects, DD, Merchant Priorities, Promos, Coms and Social Media in the studio and across the team.
• Managing projects and assigning tasks to resources and problem-solving any resource or scheduling conflicts.  
• Design studio resource capacity planning and reporting.
• 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.
• Support Traffic Manager with the planning and management of key operational projects.
• Work closely with the Traffic Manager to improve existing systems and processes that foster better collaboration, communication, innovation and improved output on an ongoing basis.

Attributes required:

• Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail, and a well-structured thought process.
• Have the ability multitask, organize and collaborate with various stakeholders
• Very strong interpersonal skills and experience of marshaling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives.
• Good numerical and analytical skills – adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office - Microsoft Excel experience essential.
• Thrive in and encourage collaborative work environments while not hesitating to own, define, and deliver on complex and ambiguous tasks, projects.
• Present impeccable time-management skills, an eye for detail and problem solving capabilities

 Qualifications and Experience:

• 3-4 years of experience in a traffic role for a medium-large sized marketing creative team
• Bachelors Degree/Diploma in a Marketing and/or Business related field
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the following skill sets: time, resource and traffic management within a creative environment