Mr Price Group

Traffic Coordinator Mr Price

Mr Price Group  •  Durban, ZA (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

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.

  • 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

What We're Looking For

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

Skills & Competencies

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
Success in this role requires a confident and proactive individual who can effectively coordinate multiple stakeholders, manage competing deadlines, and ensure projects remain on track from brief through to final execution.

Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.

Mr Price Group

About Mr Price Group

Mr Price Group Limited is an omni-channel, fashion value retailer. The Group retails apparel, homeware and sportswear 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

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Durban, ZA
Year Founded
1985
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