Traffic Manager in Bristol

Project Teams’ Purpose: To deliver exceptional project efficiency and profitability.

Traffic Manager’s Purpose: To keep work flowing smoothly through the studio, ensuring projects are scheduled, prioritised and delivered on time. As Traffic Manager at Taxi Studio, you'll be the engine behind the studio's day-to-day workflow. You'll coordinate planning, schedules and priorities, ensuring the right people are working on the right tasks at the right time. You'll remove bottlenecks, communicate changing priorities clearly, and keep projects moving with pace and precision, while always working in accordance with our Code of Conduct.

Planning Coordinator
You'll oversee the daily flow of work across the studio, ensuring new projects are scheduled appropriately, priorities are clear and deadlines met. You'll work closely with Client Relationship Team and Heads of Team to allocate work efficiently, balancing workloads while responding quickly to changing client needs. You'll keep everyone informed and flag scheduling conflicts early so practical adjustments can be made to keep delivery on track. You'll also support the planning process by maintaining an awareness of project forecasts, upcoming demand and commercial priorities.

Delivery Guardian
You'll monitor project progress throughout the day, identifying risks before they become problems. You'll chase outstanding actions, ensure deadlines remain achievable and communicate changes quickly and clearly. You'll help maintain momentum across every project while supporting high-quality delivery. Where freelance support is required, you'll coordinate onboarding, manage their day-to-day scheduling and act as their primary operational contact, ensuring they are effectively integrated into project teams and studio processes.

Process Improver
You'll continually look for ways to improve how work moves through the studio. You'll help refine scheduling processes, resource tools and ways of working, making it easier for teams to collaborate and deliver exceptional work. You'll contribute ideas that improve efficiency without compromising quality. You'll also use scheduling and utilisation data to support continuous improvements to planning, forecasting and studio performance.

Trusted Partner
You'll communicate with clarity, confidence and empathy, ensuring priorities and changing demands are understood across the studio. You'll build trusted relationships by understanding the needs of different teams, thinking proactively on their behalf and finding practical solutions. You'll balance confidence with empathy, making decisions that support the team and the projects, always looking for solutions rather than obstacles. You'll remain calm under pressure, embrace changing priorities with a positive, can-do attitude, and help create an environment where people feel supported, informed and empowered to deliver their best work.

Team Supporter
You'll build strong relationships across the studio, becoming the first point of contact for day-to-day scheduling questions. You'll understand who's available, who's busy and where work can realistically be allocated. You'll manage holiday approvals, coordinating cover to minimise disruption to project delivery. You'll support the wider team by helping maintain a balanced workload while escalating capacity concerns to the Delivery Director where appropriate.

Five Important Things

• Our Code of Conduct: Taxi Studio’s three founders founded three values; they’ve since become the bedrock of our culture. So, on joining us, you’ll be asked to embrace (and sign) our Code of Conduct: Live Fearless, Form Real Relationships, Play Fair.
• Your Benefits: You’ll be remunerated and rewarded based on your contribution to the business, and you’ll benefit from an array of benefits, too, including Health Cashback Plan/Private Healthcare, Enhanced Pension Contributions, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity, Life Assurance Plan, Hybrid Working and Flexible Working Hours, plus a Paid Volunteering Day.
• Career Caretaking: We’ll regularly check in with you to see how things are going — celebrating wins, talking through challenges, and setting clear goals to review next time. You can choose to work with a mentor and will always have access to our in-house coach.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: No matter who you are, where you’re from or what experience you may or may not have, you are very welcome to interview for a position at Taxi Studio.
• Being an Independent B Corp Business: We believe how we work matters just as much as what we do. Being an independent B Corp helps us stay true to that.