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New Opportunitiespoint

Studio/Traffic Manager, Farnham – Creative Agency – VFR3254

Role: Studio/Traffic Manager

Sector: Creative Agency

Location: Farnham (office working encouraged, hybrid working permitted but would assume 3 days minimum in office

Permanent: Full Time

Salary: £40,000 – £45,000

Ref: VFR 3254

VisionFR is working closely with an expanding employee owned agency to find a Studio/Traffic Manager who will play a central role in the agency, overseeing the smooth operation of the studio and freelance talent network. Acting as more than a scheduler, you manage resources, capacity and workflows to ensure projects are delivered effectively. With a strong overview of who is working on what, you identify issues early and help maintain a healthy balance between team wellbeing and delivery.

Tasks of the Studio/Traffic Manager

Strategic Resourcing & Capacity Planning:

  • Ensure the creative team operates at peak performance by allocating resources based on skills, availability and development needs.
  • Maintain real-time visibility of who is working on what to provide leadership with a clear picture for planning.
  • Predict creative resource management challenges in the short, mid, and long term, escalating constraints to management with recommended solutions.
  • Maintain project resource scheduling software and timesheet data to ensure the agency has accurate insights for forecasting.

Workflow Optimisation & Brief Management:

  • Manage the brief intake process with Client Experience, ensuring briefs are clear and complete before allocating creative resources.
  • Identify and resolve workflow bottlenecks before they impact delivery or quality.
  • Work with stakeholders to set realistic timelines and triage briefs when capacity is constrained.
  • Conduct regular resource planning meetings with project leads and the ECD/ACD to align on agency needs.
  • Potential to suggest and implement changes to workflow and creative process across the agency.

Freelance Talent Strategy:

  • Maintain the “black book” roster of trusted freelance talent across disciplines.
  • Facilitate proactive searches for talent, negotiate rates, manage bookings and oversee onboarding to ensure freelancers have clarity on their work.
  • In conjunction with finance team, enable tracking of freelance spend against forecasts and flag potential overruns early.

Experience and Skills of the Studio/Traffic Manager

  • Experience monitoring utilisation rates
  • Ensure a balanced workload, aiming to prevent burnout and support team welfare.
  • You’re super organised and have fantastic attention to detail, can make improvements and see your ideas through to completion
  • You have the confidence to challenge as appropriate.
  • Experience acting as a bridge between departments
  • Facilitating communication to ensure staff can conduct their work to the best of their ability.
  • Workflow Planning
  • 2 – 3 years working in a creative agency
  • Excel

VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawful discrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Clients recruitment needs.

Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.

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