Traffic Manager

A global Print Marketing services leader currently has an exciting opportunity for a Traffic Manager, who will be responsible for ensuring briefs are distributed, executed and delivered on-time and budget.

Principal Accountabilities

• Ensure that the client’s visual identity guidelines are upheld.
• Work alongside the Studio Manager, to monitor team performance for quality and effectiveness.
• Responsibility for regional Artworker output.

Competencies

Integrity: Is widely trusted, is seen as direct, truthful individual; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.

Composure: Maintains a positive outlook at work, is cool under pressure, does not show frustration during difficult situations, handles criticism well, and learns from it; has a settling influence in a crisis; does not give up in the face of setbacks; maintains a healthy balance between work and personal life.

Organization: Uses time effectively, concentrates efforts on more important priorities, plans activities and projects well in advance and monitors progress against clearly communicated objectives; uses resources effectively and where necessary; is flexible in realigning plans to changing circumstances; energised by tough challenges.

Expertise: Has the specialist expertise and skills and uses them to perform the job well; develops job knowledge through continual professional development.

Collaboration: Is easy to approach and talk to; spends the extra effort to put others at ease, builds rapport well; is a good listener; shows respect for the views and contributions of others; listens to and supports others; consults and shares information with others; establishes good relationships with peers, customers and employees; relates well to all kinds of people.

Client-centric: Focuses on meeting the needs of clients; uses customer data for improvements in products and services; acts with clients in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients.

Qualifications

5 Years + experience OR higher education qualification in Graphic arts, OR studio experience as a Mac operator in the pre press industry

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.