To manage and coordinate the flow of marketing and creative work through the production process to ensure projects are completed efficiently, on schedule, and according to business priorities.
The role acts as a central point of coordination between marketing, creative, production, and external teams by managing schedules, allocating resources, monitoring deadlines, and ensuring smooth workflow and communication across all projects.
Responsibilities- Manage project briefing and planning by receiving, reviewing, and validating briefs to ensure all objectives, deliverables, and timelines are clearly defined and aligned with brand requirements.
- Facilitate effective stakeholder communication by scheduling and leading status update and creative review meetings, and updating the project management system to ensure accurate project tracking.
- Coordinate workflow and resource allocation by assessing project requirements, team capabilities, workloads, and availability to assign work appropriately and optimise delivery.
- Monitor project timelines and progress by proactively tracking deliverables, following up with brand and creative teams, and driving actions required to ensure on-time completion.
- Collaborate with creative leadership to allocate resources on projects, ensuring the most suitable and experienced team members are assigned to deliver quality outcomes.
- Manage creative review processes by coordinating internal and brand reviews, next steps, and ensuring all revisions are communicated and actioned through project management systems.
- Conduct quality assurance checks by reviewing final creative outputs against the original brief to ensure all requirements, objectives, and brand expectations have been met.
- Provide proactive risk management and escalation by identifying potential project delays, developing contingency plans, redistributing workload where necessary, and alerting leadership to risks.
- Maintain accurate project administration and reporting by launching studio projects, tracking project timings, and ensuring data integrity to support reporting and resource planning.
- Ensure system and workflow governance by maintaining the project management system updates daily, providing visibility of project status, timelines, and actions for both brand and creative teams.
Essential:
- 2 - 4 years' experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Traffic Coordination
- Marketing Operations
- Production Coordination
- Agency or Creative Studio Workflow Management
- Project Administration
Advantageous:
- Diploma or Degree in:
- Marketing Communications
- Business Administration
- Project Management
- Media or Production Management
You'll have experience managing and coordinating:
- Creative workflows and job tracking
- Production schedules and deadlines
- Resource allocation across multiple projects
You'll also bring:
- A thorough understanding of the creative production process, from brief to final delivery
- Knowledge of digital and print production workflows
- An understanding of agency operations, social and digital campaigns, print production, and creative review processes
- Experience working with project management software
- Strong computer literacy
We're looking for someone who is:
- Highly organised, systematic and detail-oriented
- An excellent planner with strong time management skills
- Assertive and confident in managing workflows, priorities and stakeholders
- Deadline-driven, with a strong sense of urgency and accountability
- Able to effectively follow up, challenge where necessary, and keep projects moving forward
- Comfortable working under pressure and managing multiple priorities simultaneously
- Resilient and able to remain calm in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
- A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Able to thrive in a collaborative, close-knit team environment
- Focused on accuracy and attention to detail
Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years' experience within a traffic management role, preferably in an advertising agency
- Marketing, brand, project management, or communications qualification
- Project management skills
- Thorough understanding of the creative production process from brief to final output
- Knowledge of digital and print production workflows
- Strong planning and time management abilities
- Organized, systematic and detail orientated
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a close-knit team environment
- Attention to detail
What We Do
Mr Price Group Limited is an omni-channel, fashion value retailer. The Group retails Apparel, Homeware and Sportsware and is one of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. Our History: 1885 - The first John Orrs store opens 1934 - The first Hub store opens 1952 - John Orrs is listed on the JSE 1967 - Acquisition of two Miladys stores 1986 - Laurie Chiappini and Stewart Cohen, together with BOE, acquire a major shareholding in John Orr Holdings 1987 - The first Mr Price store opens 1991 - Laurie Chiappini and Stewart Cohen acquire control of the Group from BOE 1993 - Launch of the Mr Price Group Share Partnership Initiative 1996 - Acquisition of Galaxy & Co. and Sheet Street 1997 - Alastair McArthur is appointed as CEO 1998 - Mr Price Home launched 2000 - Mr Price opens stores in Botswana and Namibia 2001 - Specialty Stores becomes MR Price Group 2005 - Over 100 million units are sold across the group 2006 - Sale of the Hub and Galaxy divisions 2007 - Launch of Mr Price Sport stores and Mr Price Franchising 2008 - Miladys wins the Orange Index award for excellence in customer service 2008 - Mr Price Apparel is voted the most loved and most frequented retail apparel brand for the first time 2008 - This year Mr Price Home is voted the most loved and most frequented homeware retailer 2011 - Retail sales exceed R10 billion and profit attributable to shareholders exceeds R1 billion for the first time 2011 - The group celebrates the 25th anniversary of change in control, recording a CAGR share of 25.3% and headline earnings per share of 23.5% over this period 2012 - First Corporate owned Mr Price store opens in Lagos, Nigeria 2013 - Mr Price launches its online store
