Friday, January 11, 2013

[KITlist] CONTR: Creative Services Traffic Manager (Santa Cruz, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: http://tinyurl.com/Working-With-CrawfordGroup

Crawford Group (www.crawfordgroup.com) is seeking a part time Creative Services Traffic Manager for our technology client located in Santa Cruz, CA. The successful consultant will manage the creative services workflow process from request through delivery, tracking and distributing workload to both internal creative resources and external/vendor resources. The Traffic Manager will also collect project metrics to provide monthly and quarterly department workload reports.

We are looking for a detail-oriented individual with honesty, integrity and commitment to driving best-in-class Creative services on behalf of our client. Candidates should have solid experience in a similar role and a proven track record assessing, assigning and delivering creative projects.

Responsibilities:

Monitor incoming Creative Work Requests (CWRs) on a daily basis; work with internal designers to assess and assign work to creative teams

Ensure incoming job requests contain the information and assets needed to assign the CWR and follow up with requestor as necessary

Attend regular meetings with design team to assess workload on an ongoing basis

Work closely with creative teams to balance workload

Keep all creative projects moving smoothly to completion

Keep creative teams apprised of project priorities and due dates, and expedite and prioritize rush projects accordingly

Keep all informed of conflicts, delays or any other unusual situations

Advocate for appropriate timelines of projects and obtain deadline extensions when necessary

Enforce adherence to work-flow processes, Brand guidelines and deadlines

Collaborate with team on process improvement and to improve traffic system and project management process

Maintain workload data for monthly and quarterly metric output

Promote smooth workflow and communication between departments

Skills:

2-3 years experience in driving creative services projects, timelines and resources

Expert Excel skills + proficiency with all Microsoft Office Suite programs

Adobe Acrobat proficiency is required

Proven experience working in a Creative department

Proven experience assessing workload and assigning resources

Extremely detail oriented and able to develop and track to timelines

BA degree + Creative Services/Agency/Traffic experience

Rate: D.O.E., as a w2 employee of Crawford Group

Location: Onsite at client office in Santa Cruz, CA. No phone calls please

Hours/duration: Part time, 25-30 hours per week (4-5 hours per day); ASAP-ongoing

Interested? Please create a profile and upload your resume in Word format to:

http://tinyurl.com/Working-With-CrawfordGroup

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