Marketing Traffic Manager
Cape Town - South Africa
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Job Summary
As Marketing Traffic Manager you will be the central point of coordination for our marketing operation ensuring briefs deadlines resources and capacity are aligned across the team. You will create the structure and visibility that enables our campaign specialists to focus on delivering high-quality work for their brands.
You will establish and maintain a consistent briefing standard across Marketing Channel Sales Ecommerce and Product ensuring every project enters the workflow with the information required for the team to deliver efficiently and effectively. You will work confidently with stakeholders at all levels to clarify requirements manage expectations and ensure briefs are ready to progress.
You will own a consolidated marketing calendar providing a clear view of brand activity vendor campaigns retail partnerships and promotions. You will also provide regular capacity forecasting helping the team prioritise effectively and make informed decisions about workload resources and deadlines.
As a high-volume fast-moving distribution business with an in-house marketing operation spanning brand content ecommerce and retail we are looking for someone who enjoys creating structure improving processes and keeping work moving. If you are energised by turning complexity into clarity and measure your success by the quality and timeliness of delivery this could be the role for you.
WHY SYNTECH
At Syntech were a forward-thinking technology-driven company guided by our core values:
- Appreciation of excellence: Celebrate exceptional work & ideas.
- Honourable candour: Build trust with honesty transparency & accountability.
- Thirst for learning: Stay curious embrace feedback & continuously grow.
- Commitment to innovation: Drive change through constant iterative improvement.
These principles shape our dynamic and collaborative culture where creativity thrives ideas are celebrated and every voice makes an impact. We equip our team with modern tools including our own in-house marketing platform to drive transformative campaigns and stay ahead in an ever-evolving market.
As leaders in brand management digital marketing ecommerce and retail solutions we constantly evolve to remain at the forefront of innovation. If you thrive in a high-performance fast-paced environment love solving complex challenges and are passionate about achieving exceptional results Syntech is the place for you.
We offer a competitive market-related remuneration package tailored to your skills and experience alongside opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
Minimum Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- 4 years in a traffic studio production or delivery management role. Advertising digital or creative agency traffic experience is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience running intake and scheduling for a multi-discipline team design content digital and email at high volume.
- Administrator-level competence on a work management platform ( or similar). User-level experience is not sufficient; you will configure and maintain the boards not just work in them.
- Proven ability to build a briefing standard from scratch and hold an organisation to it including senior stakeholders outside your reporting line.
- Strong data and reporting capability: able to track and interpret throughput on-time delivery cycle time deadline movement and capacity utilisation and to recommend improvements from what the numbers show.
- Experience in an environment with high SKU asset or campaign volume distribution retail ecommerce or agency.
- Exposure to marketing automation or integration tooling ( Power Automate RPA) is a bonus not a requirement.
- An undergraduate qualification in marketing business or a related field is preferred but we welcome relevant certification or equivalent professional experience. We recognise there are diverse paths to expertise.
Desired personality traits:
- Comfortable saying no. You can return an incomplete brief to a National Sales Manager without damaging the relationship.
- Organised to the point of it being a personality trait and calm when several things are competing for the same Friday.
- Systems-minded and tech-curious: you would rather fix the process than firefight the symptom.
- Direct evidence-led communicator. You escalate with facts and options not complaints.
- Service-oriented without being a doormat. You exist to make the team faster and you hold them to the standard that makes that possible.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Syntech is a technology company that sources and distributes industry-leading products & brands from around the world. We work with key resellers to deliver solutions that add value to the market and enable them to win.