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Agency Traffic Manager Employment Contract UK

Name: Agency Traffic Manager Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: advertising_and_marketing_traffic_manager_operations_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Define fair, visible movement of creative work through briefing, allocation, review and delivery bottlenecks.

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This contract includes Validate briefs dependencies deadlines and approval owners. Allocate work within skill capacity and priority rules. Maintain workflow boards forecasts and delivery status. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Working hours

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Holiday entitlement

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Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

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When to use this contract

Deliver validated work intake, balanced visible resource schedules, and reliable workflow status and escalation.

Workplace context: Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering teams clients tools and workflow scope. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering intake standards allocation and priority authority. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering capacity freelancers hours and confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering status metrics escalation and performance boundary. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The traffic manager cannot promise impossible delivery, approve creative content, commission external resource or determine formal performance outcomes without delegated authority. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

the teams and work types coordinated
the intake and priority rules
the planning tool and reporting cadence
the freelance and overtime authority
the escalation and performance-management boundary

Day-to-day operating brief

What Traffic Manager (Operations) work looks like in practice

An Agency Traffic Manager controls how briefs enter and move through creative, production and approval teams. The role requires operational challenge: an urgent label is not enough when information, budget or reviewers are missing. Terms should define intake standards, scheduling tools, allocation authority, utilisation reporting, freelance requests, deadline negotiation, confidential client work, escalation, handovers and the boundary between coordinating workflow and assessing employee performance.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Validate briefs dependencies deadlines and approval owners.
Allocate work within skill capacity and priority rules.
Maintain workflow boards forecasts and delivery status.
Coordinate review slots freelancers and handovers.
Surface overload blockage rework and missed-deadline causes.

A realistic working scenario

An account lead demands immediate work but the brief lacks sizes, copy and approval ownership. The traffic manager records the missing inputs and agrees a realistic start point instead of displacing ready work with an unstartable job.

Outputs to agree

validated work intake
balanced visible resource schedules
reliable workflow status and escalation

Records and evidence

Brief readiness and accepted date.
Allocation capacity and priority decision.
Review rework and dependency status.
Delivery variance and escalation.
Work records.
Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Senior Manager, Director or Business Owner. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

The traffic manager cannot promise impossible delivery, approve creative content, commission external resource or determine formal performance outcomes without delegated authority.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

Allocate work within skill capacity and priority rules.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

HR systems.

Workplace context

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Contract priorities

teams clients tools and workflow scope
intake standards allocation and priority authority
capacity freelancers hours and confidentiality
status metrics escalation and performance boundary

Information the employer should prepare

the teams and work types coordinated
the intake and priority rules
the planning tool and reporting cadence
the freelance and overtime authority
the escalation and performance-management boundary

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Work setting

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Primary duties

Validate briefs dependencies deadlines and approval owners.
Allocate work within skill capacity and priority rules.
Maintain workflow boards forecasts and delivery status.
Coordinate review slots freelancers and handovers.

Tools and training to confirm

HR systems.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering teams clients tools and workflow scope. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering intake standards allocation and priority authority. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering capacity freelancers hours and confidentiality.

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Traffic Manager (Operations) duties

Deliver validated work intake, balanced visible resource schedules, and reliable workflow status and escalation.

Validate briefs dependencies deadlines and approval owners. Allocate work within skill capacity and priority rules. Maintain workflow boards forecasts and delivery status. Coordinate review slots freelancers and handovers. Surface overload blockage rework and missed-deadline causes.

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What is added to the finished contract

The traffic manager cannot promise impossible delivery, approve creative content, commission external resource or determine formal performance outcomes without delegated authority.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering teams clients tools and workflow scope.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering intake standards allocation and priority authority.

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Frequently asked questions

Can an Agency Traffic Manager reject a brief?

They may return work that fails documented intake requirements and escalate disputed urgency through the priority owner.

Who changes a creative delivery deadline?

The traffic manager models capacity and dependencies, while client or commercial commitments follow delegated approval.

May a Traffic Manager book freelancers?

Only within stated supplier, rate, budget, confidentiality, rights and approval controls.

Does traffic management include staff appraisal?

Workflow evidence may inform managers, but formal assessment authority should be stated separately rather than assumed.

How is agency capacity reported?

Define available time, booked work, leave, skill constraints, rework and assumptions instead of one misleading percentage.

Can account teams bypass the traffic queue?

Only through an agreed exception route that records the displaced work and accountable priority decision.

How should rework be classified?

Record whether it arose from changed scope, missing brief information, quality correction or client preference.

What should an Agency Traffic Manager hand over?

Queue status, priorities, capacity, reviews, freelancers, blocked work, deadline risks and pending decisions.

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