Traffic Manager / Integrated Project Coordinator (Johannesburg)

Overview:

A Popular Bunch is looking for an exceptionally organised and proactive traffic manager to join our fast-paced team. This role is crucial in ensuring that projects flow smoothly across client services, creative, fabrication, and operations, while staying on time, on budget, and on brand.

• Own and manage the workflow schedule across all departments.
• Break down project timelines into actionable workback schedules.
• Create and maintain job sheets, status trackers, and daily/weekly production check-ins.

Interdepartmental liaison

• Act as the primary connector between client services, creative, and fabrication.
• Attend internal and external status meetings to ensure clarity of priorities.
• Translate client briefs into task-specific, department-friendly actions.

Resource management

• Monitor availability and workloads across design, fabrication, and ops teams.
• Flag potential bottlenecks and propose solutions before issues arise.
• Coordinate freelance bookings when necessary to meet capacity.

Briefing and approvals

• Ensure all teams receive clear, complete briefs and accurate timelines.
• Track sign-offs and feedback loops between departments.
• Maintain oversight of version control, change requests, and asset handovers.

Risk and issue management

• Pre-empt delivery risks and propose contingency plans.
• Escalate scope creep, budget risks, or missed deadlines to leadership.

Requirements:

• Three-plus years in a traffic, production coordination, or agency project management role (preferably in events, experiential, or creative agencies).
• Excellent knowledge of production timelines and creative workflows.
• Familiarity with tools like Chase, Trello, Google Workspace, and Slack.
• Great interpersonal skills: able to hold people accountable without creating tension.
• Ability to thrive in a high-pressure, high-volume environment with multiple concurrent jobs & Divisions.
• A calm, diplomatic approach and obsession with staying organised.

Bonus points:

• Background or understanding in fabrication, print, or event production.
• Experience working across national teams (e.g. JHB, CPT, Durban).
• Familiarity with brand compliance, asset warehousing, or kit logistics.

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