Company Overview:
Join a leading company in the beauty, skincare, cosmetics, and personal care industry! American International Industries (A.I.I.) is a manufacturer and distributor of beauty and personal care products sold worldwide. Founded in 1971, A.I.I. is one of the largest privately held beauty and personal care manufacturers in the U.S. and a recognized leader in the industry.
We are seeking an experienced Creative Traffic Manager to join our dynamic team and play a key role in driving efficient project workflows and creative processes.
Position Overview:
The Creative Traffic Manager will oversee a high volume of marketing and creative projects, ensuring efficient workflows from initiation to completion. This role serves as a central hub for communication between marketing, creative, and cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, proactive, and skilled at managing deadlines, resolving bottlenecks, and maintaining quality standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee a high volume and variety of marketing projects from inception to completion by owning the project workflow, creative timelines, and expected deliverables.
- Liaise with marketing, creative, and other cross-functional teams to create and maintain traffic schedules with an efficient workflow.
- Ensure that each stage of a project progresses in a timely manner and is approved for completion by monitoring status, managing tasks and change requests, and resolving discrepancies.
- Identify potential risks or obstacles that could impact project timelines or deliverables and develop contingency plans to mitigate these risks.
- Use project management tools to create, assign, and manage tasks for graphic designers, production artists, etc., while overseeing the feedback/approval process.
- Send approved artwork to external vendors and review incoming vendor proofs for final approval.
- Update the traffic log daily by tracking all active jobs, scheduling new projects, and marking completed ones.
- Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of traffic management processes.
- Schedule and oversee weekly status meetings with task owners to prioritize, set milestones, and ensure deadlines are met.
- Track and manage communication with offsite artists to ensure all required information is submitted to commence projects.
- Distribute and share approved files requested by other departments collaborating with the creative team.
- Generate and disseminate traffic status reports to keep management informed.
- Coordinate cross-departmental dependencies by working with Purchasing, R&D and Regulatory teams to ensure all project requirements, such as item forms or artwork regulatory approvals, are met on time.
- Prepare monthly or quarterly reports, providing performance insights and process improvement recommendations based on tracked KPIs.
Qualifications:
Required Skills & Experience:
- 3–5 years of experience in traffic management within an in-house creative department, advertising agency, or design firm.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong sense of urgency, persistence, and attention to detail.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to navigate multiple rounds of edits and changes.
- Proficiency with digital asset management systems (e.g., Canto, Bynder).
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite is preferred.
Technical Proficiency:
- Skilled in Windows and Mac OS environments.
- Familiarity with print and digital production workflows is a plus.
Please send your resume for consideration. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, holiday pay, a retirement plan, supplemental and voluntary life insurance,
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $50,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year
Ability to Relocate:
- Commerce, CA 90040: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
