PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

The Traffic Manager at One North is responsible for ensuring the flow of timely and accurate information between internal teams, including Account, Digital Strategy, UX, Creative and Technology. A successful Traffic Manager is a resourceful, highly motivated individual who demonstrates the ability to seamlessly coordinate project staffing across multiple teams. The right candidate for this role will have a natural knack for organization and a demonstrated interest in all things Project Management. If this sounds like you, apply today to join our growing team!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Liaise between the functional teams and account teams, ensuring ongoing communication and information sharing regarding project status and resource requirements.
• Oversee the smooth, efficient flow of project status updates and scheduling.
• Ensure that task-related information and instructions are delivered to project resources in a timely manner to keep the project on schedule.
• Proactively notify all parties when work cannot start as scheduled, and work with teams to find alternate solutions.
• Triage & facilitate resourcing conflicts, considering scheduling and budgeting requirements.
• Review draft schedules and advise on resource availability for current and incoming projects to provide input on feasibility, based on current and planned workloads.
• Review updated schedules with team members to ensure all milestones and deliverable dates are accounted for and reasonable.
• Work with teams to facilitate timeline revisions as needed.
• Advise on resource availability for incoming projects based on current and planned workloads.
• Provide weekly reports on projects in progress.
• Maintain and update centralized schedule for all active jobs and team members to ensure deadlines are met and resources are optimally scheduled.
• Enter and update all project schedules into the scheduling system.
• Conduct weekly resourcing meetings with the Technology, Account, Digital Strategy and Experience Design teams.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• 3 - 5 years of experience in an agency, consulting or similar environment with rapidly changing project needs
• Project management experience is a must
• Excellent time management
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams with varying specialities
• Strong personal accountability
• Solution-oriented individual who drives for results
• Excellent writing and verbal skills
• Knowledge and experience with Excel, Word and Microsoft project