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Nokuthula Mhlungu

Nokuthula Mhlungu

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Summary

Results-oriented Traffic Manager with expertise in scheduling and resource allocation. Coordinates project resources, resolves scheduling conflicts, and oversees teams to meet deadlines and budgets. Fosters collaboration across departments to enhance workflow and ensure high-quality deliverables.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Resouce Manager

Oliver Agency
Johannesburg
08.2025 - Current

Managed daily projects and account reporting, including project status and workloads.

Provided timely communication between digital accounts and creative teams' daily schedules.

Coordinated project resources and supported freelance booking requirements and schedules.

Analysed campaign data and ran regular production meetings with status updates.

  • Led campaign delivery from initial stages to final handover against brief.
  • Monitored traffic processes and logged improvement ideas for current practices.
  • Ensured work is planned ahead and prioritised based on most urgent based on due date and live date

Traffic Manager

Joe public shift
Johannesburg
09.2024 - 08.2025

Allocate tasks to resources and resolve scheduling conflicts day to day.

Oversee teams to deliver responsibilities on time and within budget.

Oversee studio operations to keep approved processes followed at all times.

Encourage collaboration and team spirit across resources and partner departments.

Coordinate with department heads to review, manage, and book resources.

Schedule and manage studio meetings, including kick-off reviews and updates.

Run account status meetings with client services for each account.

Conduct daily stand-ups with development, QA, design, and client services teams.

RETAIL & DIGITAL traffic MANAGER

Riverbed agency
08.2023 - 07.2024
  • Assigning tasks to resources and problem-solving any resource or scheduling conflicts
  • Overseeing teams, ensuring that they complete their required responsibilities and tasks on time and budget
  • Overseeing the studio to ensure the proper processes are followed
  • Encouraging collaboration and team-spirit amongst resources
  • Working closely with the relevant department heads to review, manage and book the right resources for the job
  • Scheduling and managing any meetings relating to in-studio work (e.g. kickstarts, reviews, etc.)
  • Conducting status meetings with Client Service per account
  • Conduct and manage daily stand ups with the development, QA, design and client services teams

RETAIL & DIGITAL traffic MANAGER

WUNDERMAN THOMPSON JHB
01.2021 - Current
  • Assigning tasks to resources and problem-solving any resource or scheduling conflicts
  • Overseeing teams, ensuring that they complete their required responsibilities and tasks on time and budget
  • Overseeing the studio to ensure the proper processes are followed
  • Encouraging collaboration and team-spirit amongst resources
  • Working closely with the relevant department heads to review, manage and book the right resources for the job
  • Scheduling and managing any meetings relating to in-studio work (e.g. kickstarts, reviews, etc.)
  • Conducting status meetings with Client Service per account
  • Conduct and manage daily stand ups with the development, QA, design and client services teams

studio manager

Brandtruth Digital
03.2019 - 06.2020
  • Daily management of projects and account handling
  • Reporting on project status, workloads and accounts
  • Providing timely communication between relevant departments including digital, accounts and creative
  • Managing daily schedules
  • Overseeing project resources and assisting with the management of freelance requirements and bookings
  • Analyzing campaign data
  • Holding regular production meetings and status updates
  • Leading and coordinating campaigns from initial stages through to delivery
  • Ensuring the stages of the project are met according to client and creative brief, budget, resource and deadline deliverables
  • Monitoring current traffic processes and inputting ideas on how to improve current practices where required.

traffic manager

ogilvy jhb
07.2015 - 09.2017
  • Receiving briefs, ensuring all the required info is there, scheduling on Chase and managing creatives diaries, setting up meetings, doing follow up on jobs, getting sign offs once approve share pdfs with account managers for client approval to send to clients depending on the format, they want e.g. Jpegs/tiffs.
  • Reporting on project status, workloads and accounts
  • Providing timely communication between relevant departments including digital, accounts and creative
  • Managing daily schedules
  • Overseeing project resources and assisting with the management of freelance requirements and bookings
  • Analyzing campaign data
  • Holding regular production meetings and status updates.

traffic manager

MCSaatchiAbel
05.2013 - 07.2015
  • Receive client briefs from account management open jobs in Chase and schedule monitoring traffic processes and inputting ideas on how to improve current practices
  • Managing campaign resources and updating key stakeholders on requirements and supply
  • Working across multiple projects and ensuring all parties are informed of progress and problems.
  • Liaising with account management on deliverables, requirements timings based on approved CE’s
  • Ensuring all jobs in the system are scheduled in creative calendars and tasked on Chase

Assistant Traffic MANAGEr

lesoba difference
03.2010 - 04.2013
  • Receive briefs from account managers ensure all client requirements are clear for designers to execute, ensure follow ups are done based in discussions in the reviews to meet client deadline, get approvals before time in order to be able to end if needed, once received all approvals to share with client.
  • Reporting on project status, workloads and accounts
  • Providing timely communication between relevant departments including digital, accounts and creative
  • Managing daily schedules
  • Overseeing project resources and assisting with the management of freelance requirements and bookings

Traffic MANAGEr

TBWA Hunt Lascaris
01.2008 - 02.2010
  • Receive briefs from traffic managers to design catalogues and advertising ads for Joshua Doore and Bradlow’s, ensuring all client requirements are followed and delivered on time.
  • Preflighting all jobs once approved internally to be prepped for print
  • Ability to understand a client’s project requirements
  • A team player with good interpersonal skills to deal with various personalities
  • Ensuring there are no RGB colors it’s all in CMYK
  • Ensure the catalogue is made up to the correct size with bleed

Education

Operations Management

VARISTY COLLEGE
01-2011

Desktop Publishing

south african printing college
01-2007

Advanced Microsoft Office

alpine computer college
01-2001

Skills

  • Excellent command of the English language
  • Attention to detail
  • Organizational skills
  • Time management skills
  • Process improvement
  • Client project understanding
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Trello
  • Chase
  • Microsoft Office
  • Workbook
  • Tempo
  • Outlook
  • Jira
  • Multitasking skills
  • Web development knowledge
  • Mobile development knowledge
  • Assertiveness
  • Confidence
  • Willingness to learn
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Workflow optimization
  • Resource allocation
  • Project management
  • Scheduling coordination
  • Team collaboration
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Conflict resolution
  • Deadline prioritization
  • Strong communication
  • Coordination
  • Staff motivation
  • Resource and budget management
  • Effective negotiation skills
  • Time-management
  • Decision making
  • Relationship-building
  • Computer literacy
  • Risk Assessment

Timeline

Resouce Manager

Oliver Agency
08.2025 - Current

Traffic Manager

Joe public shift
09.2024 - 08.2025

RETAIL & DIGITAL traffic MANAGER

Riverbed agency
08.2023 - 07.2024

RETAIL & DIGITAL traffic MANAGER

WUNDERMAN THOMPSON JHB
01.2021 - Current

studio manager

Brandtruth Digital
03.2019 - 06.2020

traffic manager

ogilvy jhb
07.2015 - 09.2017

traffic manager

MCSaatchiAbel
05.2013 - 07.2015

Assistant Traffic MANAGEr

lesoba difference
03.2010 - 04.2013

Traffic MANAGEr

TBWA Hunt Lascaris
01.2008 - 02.2010

Operations Management

VARISTY COLLEGE

Desktop Publishing

south african printing college

Advanced Microsoft Office

alpine computer college
Nokuthula Mhlungu