Graphic Designer - Brand & Commercial Collateral Designer

Dream Hotels & Resorts; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Dream Hotels & Resorts is seeking a seasoned graphic designer to create brand-consistent collateral across the portfolio. You will balance layout, typography and information hierarchy with print production quality, ensuring scalable, reusable templates for future campaigns.

Join a dynamic team focused on delivering commercial collateral for sales enablement, menus, brochures, presentations and trade-show materials while maintaining high standards and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years graphic design experience.
• Strong Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop capability.
• Excellent layout, typography and information-hierarchy skills.
• Strong print-production knowledge, including preflight, proofing and supplier specifications.
• Experience producing multi-page documents, presentations and sales collateral.
• Experience creating screen-ready, interactive or digitally distributable document formats.
• Ability to work accurately with prices, dates, packages and detailed information.
• Hospitality or tourism portfolio advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Commercial collateral and sales enablement
• Design and produce brochures, fact sheets, sales presentations, rate and promotional collateral and sales toolkits.
• Create conference, events, wedding, trade and partner/co-branded collateral.
• Design menus and selected property or business-unit collateral within agreed scope.
• Create interactive or screen-ready PDFs and presentation formats suitable for digital sharing.
• Develop reusable templates and modular content systems to reduce unnecessary one-off production.
• Produce approved campaign, property, business-unit and format adaptations efficiently.
• Selected print and physical production
• Produce approved print advertisements, pull-up banners, posters, signage and trade-show material.
• Create print-ready artwork and manage bleeds, colour profiles, resolution and production specifications.
• Liaise with printers and suppliers where required and within the approved production process.
• Conduct artwork checks, proofing and final pre-production quality control.
• Confirm that print is the appropriate format and that quantities, specifications and versions are approved before artwork release.
• Maintain organised editable master files, print specifications and version control.
• Brand management and collaboration
• Apply Group and property brand standards across all commercial collateral and selected print work.
• Maintain master templates for presentations, fact sheets, brochures, menus and other recurring collateral.
• Ensure logos, typography, photography, information hierarchy and technical specifications are correct.
• Flag off-brand, duplicative or low-value requests to the Creative Lead and recommend a reusable digital or templated alternative where appropriate.
• Collaborate with the Digital Creative Designer so campaign concepts remain consistent across online, sales and physical touchpoints.

Skills

Layout design

Typography

Information hierarchy

Print production knowledge

Multi-page documents

Sales collateral

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

Dream Hotels & Resorts lives by its 8 core values. Our team is dedicated to being reliable and accountable, fostering empathy to understand others' feelings and collaboratively find solutions, and prioritizing sustainability in environmental, financial, and social aspects. Rooted in humanity, trust, dynamism, excellence, and joy, we celebrate diversity, prioritize integrity, embrace creativity, pursue quality, and foster a joyful work environment to connect people with our surroundings and each other. These play a part in our day-to-day decision making & operational requirements.

Job Overview

This role specialises in commercially focused collateral, brand production and selected print requirements that need strong layout, information hierarchy and production accuracy. The designer supports Group Marketing, Sales, properties, central support teams and wider business stakeholders with professional, brand-consistent materials that help promote and sell the portfolio. The role maintains essential print capability while prioritising reusable, digitally distributable collateral wherever practical.

Key responsibilities

• Commercial collateral and sales enablement
• Design and produce brochures, fact sheets, sales presentations, rate and promotional collateral and sales toolkits.
• Create conference, events, wedding, trade and partner/co-branded collateral.
• Design menus and selected property or business-unit collateral within agreed scope.
• Create interactive or screen-ready PDFs and presentation formats suitable for digital sharing.
• Develop reusable templates and modular content systems to reduce unnecessary one-off production.
• Produce approved campaign, property, business-unit and format adaptations efficiently.
• Selected print and physical production
• Produce approved print advertisements, pull-up banners, posters, signage and trade-show material.
• Create print-ready artwork and manage bleeds, colour profiles, resolution and production specifications.
• Liaise with printers and suppliers where required and within the approved production process.
• Conduct artwork checks, proofing and final pre-production quality control.
• Confirm that print is the appropriate format and that quantities, specifications and versions are approved before artwork release.
• Maintain organised editable master files, print specifications and version control.
• Brand management and collaboration
• Apply Group and property brand standards across all commercial collateral and selected print work.
• Maintain master templates for presentations, fact sheets, brochures, menus and other recurring collateral.
• Ensure logos, typography, photography, information hierarchy and technical specifications are correct.
• Flag off-brand, duplicative or low-value requests to the Creative Lead and recommend a reusable digital or templated alternative where appropriate.
• Collaborate with the Digital Creative Designer so campaign concepts remain consistent across online, sales and physical touchpoints.

Key deliverables and measures

• On-time delivery and agreed turnaround times.
• First-round approval rate and rework rate.
• Artwork and information accuracy.
• Brand compliance and consistency.
• Low to zero production errors.
• Percentage of recurring collateral delivered through approved reusable templates.
• Appropriate use of digital distribution formats versus print, based on the approved brief.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and quality of master-file management.

Experience And Qualifications

• 3-5 years graphic design experience.
• Strong Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop capability.
• Excellent layout, typography and information-hierarchy skills.
• Strong print-production knowledge, including preflight, proofing and supplier specifications.
• Experience producing multi-page documents, presentations and sales collateral.
• Experience creating screen-ready, interactive or digitally distributable document formats.
• Ability to work accurately with prices, dates, packages and detailed information.
• Hospitality or tourism portfolio advantageous.