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Sr. Interactive Traffic and Project Manager

Post Date
3/18/2014

Expiration Date
5/16/2014

Details:
Job Description

As Senior Interactive Traffic Manager, you are responsible for managing project schedules, deliverables and establishing clear communication among team members and company stakeholders. In this key role in our growing interactive team, you will have multiple and varied projects under your supervision and will have overall responsibility to ensure quality of the deliverables on time, per their project plan. The ability to facilitate rapid change management is a must. Your resources will include Copywriters, Graphic Artists, Email and Web Producers, and Developers. It is the senior traffic manager’s responsibility to have clear deliverables, promote teamwork, and ensure timely communication among their teams and team members, inclusive of their management, peers and direct reports.

Past experience in creative and/or technical management of interactive projects, and experience in developing interactive solutions is required. Past experience in print production and project desired, as the digital TM will need to work on many integrated projects.

Vantage Deluxe World Travel is a $250+ million, state-of-the-art direct marketer of travel to the affluent mature market. When you join the Vantage team you become part of a global company, headquartered in Boston, with eight regional offices around the world. Our worldwide teams work together to provide exciting, culturally enriching travel programs to destinations on all seven continents, including on our European river cruise fleet. Since 1983, more than 400,000 travelers have joined us to see the world.

Vantage values motivation, commitment, initiative, and a sense of humor. If you have an interest in the world, a passion for quality, and the ability to work as part of a team, then Vantage may be for you.

Description of Duties:

• Ensures that all interactive and creative jobs are moving through the company in a timely fashion.
• Works with project planning tools and co-workers to ensure all projects are staying on their assigned timelines.
• Assists in documenting the flow of approvals for the various types of documents, graphic files and content.
• Ensures that all content has passed through the proper approval processes.
• Interacts with Email Marketing Systems to setup emails and lists to facilitate email blasts to our client's customers.
• Ensures process for collection of assets for website content population in CMS.
• Trafficking display advertising to various vendors for publication.
• Understand results of the channels managed (penetration rates, profitability including budget-to-actual and costs)
• Execute Change Form requests from the field from the buyers, sales managers and operations personnel
• Strategizes on project schedules with Corporate Traffic Manager to ensure internal and external project deadlines are met.
• Document marketing and creative processes, tools and workflow when necessary
• Write clear, concise and accurate requirement definitions for projects

Qualifications:
Key Competencies for Position:

• Planning: Sees ahead clearly; breaks down work into process steps; has the ability to foresee potential production challenges or issues in advance and can head them off prior to them happening
• Project Management: Is good at establishing clear directions; sets stretching goals; distributes the workload appropriately; lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner; maintains two-way dialog with others on work and results; is a clear communicator, reports out on results.
• Internet Technology: Knowledge of and solid understanding of internet technologies, platforms, tools, email and reporting applications.
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Required Experience

• BA/BS with significant coursework in advertising, production, creative and/or marketing and MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 3-5 years’ experience in internet and/or catalog marketing, with at least 3+ years project management.
• Knowledge of and comfort with a variety of Interactive and Creative tools (Adobe CS,etc)
• Ability to execute changes to Photoshop files and HTML content as well as content within the various site content management systems (CMS).
• Ability to provide analysis of website project analytics and statistical reports to monitor trends and goals.
• Creative thinking, exceptional analytical skills coupled with solid business foundation, particularly in Interactive/Production.
• A self-starter who is innovative, positive, and has a positive attitude – interested in “figuring out” solutions.
• Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills.

Comments:
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Vantage Travel is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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