The Planet Group is seeking a Traffic Manager to join one of our well-known global pharmaceutical client.

• Pay: $41-46.38/hr depending on experience 
• Location: Hybrid in Irvine, CA (T-TR onsite)

• Ensure that projects follow the agency project lifecycle while staying on time and on budget while mitigating risk and removing roadblocks
• Multi-Project Management
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously across different stages of the project lifecycle, balancing competing priorities while ensuring deadlines, quality standards, and client expectations are met.
• Team Coordination & Accountability
  • Skilled at coordinating cross-functional teams, including Creative, Account, and shared resource groups. Proactively follows up on assignments, removes obstacles, and ensures team members have the information and support needed to complete their work on time.
• Project Visibility & Execution Oversight
  • Maintain a clear understanding of project status, resource allocation, and deliverable timelines at all times. Anticipate risks, identify potential issues early, and ensure all deliverables are completed and distributed according to schedule.
• Adaptability & Relationship Management
  • Demonstrate flexibility in working with diverse personalities and stakeholder groups. Adapt communication and collaboration styles to meet team needs while effectively driving projects forward and achieving business objectives.
• Effectively communicate with various levels of staff - from Account Coordinator to VP levels
• Identify risks and provide solutions to team
• Anticipate bottlenecks, as well as any deviance from original schedule, throughout the workflow process and communicate those issues to team members
• Manage simple to complex non-interactive projects
• Work with team to prioritize workload
• Schedule input meetings
• Open job openings
• Create and maintain timelines
• Develop internal fee for estimates
• Manage and maintain the daily/weekly status report
• Conduct weekly meetings
• Manage digital routes, ensuring the appropriate teams member's review in a timely manner and provide approvals or actionable guidance
• Forecast workload and staffing accordingly
• Other tasks as necessary to perform the responsibilities above
   

• Bachelor's Degree - related field or equivalent advertising agency experience
• Thorough working knowledge of graphic design and advertising print production techniques equivalent to a minimum of 2 - 3 years in an advertising agency studio
• Proficient at forecasting potential roadblocks by using problem solving abilities to find alternative solutions and reach a positive outcome
• Ability to act with little direction and work well with internal staff to keep projects prioritized and on schedule
• Ability to multi-task projects simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal relationship and organizational skills
• Strong work ethic
• Understanding of how print works
• Experience with Microsoft Office and maintaining up-to-date computer skills
• Knowledge of Workfront, ProofHQ, MS Project and Advantage software systems a plus
• An ambassador for agency process and suggestion for process improvements