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As demand continues to grow, we're looking for a Traffic Manager to become the operational heartbeat of both studios, ensuring work flows seamlessly from brief to delivery.\nThis is a newly created, on-site role based in Mauritius, providing a dedicated local presence to coordinate resources, manage workflow and keep our creative teams running at their best.\nAs Traffic Manager, you'll be responsible for the smooth day-to-day operation of our studios, balancing workloads, allocating resources effectively and ensuring creative briefs progress efficiently through the production process. Working closely with Project Managers and the wider Brand team, you'll translate business priorities into practical resourcing decisions, helping teams stay organised, productive and focused on delivering great work.\nThis is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving problems and has a talent for bringing structure to complexity. You'll be at the centre of the action, proactively identifying resource challenges, resolving workflow bottlenecks and ensuring teams across Mauritius and South Africa remain connected, aligned and set up for success.\nIf you're highly organised, commercially minded and passionate about improving processes while enabling creative teams to do their best work, we'd love to hear from you.\nWhat you’ll do/Responsibilities:\nOwn day-to-day resource scheduling and allocation across the Mauritius and South Africa studios, matching the right skills to confirmed briefs to maintain high utilisation and meet agreed deadlines\nMaintain a clear, real-time view of studio capacity across both locations, tracking what's in flight, what's incoming, and where pressure is building\nWork closely with Project Managers to align resource plans with delivery schedules, ensuring handoffs between creative development and production are seamless\nManage brief intake and routing, assessing scope and skill requirements and assigning resource appropriately across the two studios\nIdentify and resolve resource conflicts before they affect delivery, escalating to the Brand Team where needed\nMaintain a skill-set matrix for production team members across both studios, ensuring capabilities are accurately mapped and consistently matched to brief requirements\nEstablish and embed consistent workflow and handoff standards between Mauritius and South Africa, keeping both studios operating in sync and to the same quality bar\nUse resource management and project tracking tools to plan, track, and report on studio capacity and allocation\nFlex capacity up or down as volume demands, sourcing additional support during peak periods or redistributing workload during quieter times\nProactively identify workflow bottlenecks and process gaps, proposing practical improvements that increase throughput and reduce friction\nWhat you bring / Experience required:\nProven experience managing resource allocation and workflow in a high-volume, fast-paced creative or production studio environment (essential)\nStrong understanding of creative and production workflows, project delivery lifecycles, and the skillsets that underpin them\nExperience coordinating across multiple teams or studio locations (essential)\nExcellent organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail; able to hold a clear picture of competing priorities without dropping anything\nClear, confident communicator, able to work effectively alongside Project\nManagers, creative leads, and brand stakeholders without duplicating effort\nProactive problem-solver; able to anticipate capacity risks and act before they become issues\nProficiency with resource management and project tracking tools; Excel or equivalent proficiency beneficial for capacity planning and reporting\nExperience in gaming, entertainment, or a similarly fast-moving, digital-first environment (advantageous but not essential)\nComfortable working fully on-site and embedded within the studio team\nFormal qualifications are welcome but not required\nGen AI & Agentic Thinking\nProficiency with Gen AI tools relevant to operations and project management to improve planning and workflow efficiency\nAgentic mindset: able to break down complex resource and workflow challenges into clear, manageable actions and execute systematically\nAble to critically evaluate AI outputs and apply sound human judgement to resource and delivery decisions\nIf you're excited about this role but don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. 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