Senior Consultant Creative Design

Old Mutual South Africa; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Old Mutual South Africa is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer to craft digital and print collateral, ensuring on-brand, high-impact visuals across websites, emails, banners, and campaigns. You will guide production, influence brand direction, and collaborate with internal teams and external agencies.

The role requires a strong portfolio, 5–7 years of experience, and a deep understanding of digital design, email templates, and social media visuals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or related field.
• 5–7 years' experience as a Senior Graphic Designer or equivalent.
• Understanding of digital design, emailers, newsletters and social media.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-end digital design skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and produce digital, graphic and/or illustrative material for websites, emails, social media, banners and campaign identities.
• Ensure all work aligns with OM Brand standards and is on-brand and on-strategy.
• Lead production schedules, budgets and workflows for design projects.
• Provide guidance to designers and TFTs, supervise Junior staff as needed.
• Collaborate with clients, developers and other teams to ensure usability and accessibility.
• Translate marketing requirements into compelling campaigns and designs.

Skills

Senior graphic designer experience

Digital design understanding

Email newsletters design

Strong portfolio

Brand standards awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in graphic design

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

HTML

Premiere

Final Cut Pro

Job description

Let's Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

Role Overview: This role designs and produces a wide variety of digital, graphic and/or illustrative material, also provides input in the development of the OM Brand standards. It is also the design function for the e-commerce team as well as being competent to execute BTL collateral. The position is therefore also responsible for delivering effective, aesthetic, on-brand, and on-strategy creative for websites, web pages, product graphics, email promotional creative, email templates, social media graphics, motion elements, banner ads, bespoke PPT presentations while also being able to work on physical design elements such as pullup banners, brochures, campaign identities and integrated campaigns. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through efforts of others over periods of up to a year.

Key Result Areas

• Assist outside agencies regarding Brand Standards.


• Provides input into the development of the OM Brand standards and ensures that all work is Brand compliant.


• Works with clients to ascertain needs and to develop graphic directions, concepts and specifications for assigned projects.


• Plans production schedules for various steps in the design process; analyse and projects development costs and develops project budgets and workflow.


• Identifies specialist vendors as appropriate to the project, recommends contractors.


• Oversees the production process.


• Provides technical advice and guidance.


• Supervise other Designers and Desk Top Publishers.


• Shares relevant and important info with team.


• Implements new ideas and devises potential solutions.


• Produce the design and production for websites, product graphics, social media graphics and banners, static and rich banner ads, email campaigns, and email templates and basic motion elements.


• Translate product positioning, existing research, and offline/online marketing strategies into effective designs.


• Work with e-commerce team and internal and external developers to ensure aesthetics also are aligned with usability, accessibility, and web/mobile standards.


• Work with the Design Manager to translate and create marketing requirements into compelling, appropriate campaigns and designs.


• Produce digital design work, including banner sizing and versioning.


• Ensure consistency of brand and creative across digital customer touch points.


• Provide design support to other business lines to create product graphics, logos, identity design, or other similar offline graphics.


• Analyze projects development costs and develops project budgets and workflows.


• Designs and produces a wide variety of graphic and/or illustrative material. Plans production schedules for various steps in the design process.

Personal Effectiveness

• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.


• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks, and output quality.


• Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.


• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.


• Accepts and lives the company values.


• Able to manage stakeholders and influence outcomes and delivery.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications and Experience required

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design/Diploma in Graphic Design from a Technikon or Art School and/or bachelor's degree/Diploma in digital design, graphic design, graphic communications or related field.


• 5 - 7 years' experience as a Senior Graphic Designer and/or at least 5 years graphic design experience including advertising


• Must have an understanding of digital design, emailers newsletters and social media.


• Strong portfolio showcasing high-end digital design skills.

Additional Qualification

• Adobe After Effects


• Illustrator


• Photoshop


• InDesign


• HTML


• After Effects


• Premiere


• Final Cut Pro

Competencies

• Adaptability


• Client Focus


• Decision Making


• Ownership


• Planning & Organising


• Team Orientation


• Technical Knowledge


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills


• Ability to comprehend and uphold brand style guidelines, producing work of a suitable style.


• Ability to solve an array of challenges through visual design.


• Must be able to mediate creative problems to arrive at the best solution.


• Manage time effectively, ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.


• Detail-oriented individual who reviews his/her work carefully, quality control is key.


• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and collaborate with a team.


• Professional demeanor with high degree of comfort speaking with internal clients.

Competencies

• Business Insight


• Communicates Effectively


• Cultivates Innovation


• Decision Quality


• Ensures Accountability


• Manages Complexity
  
• Nimble Learning

Education

Bachelors Degree (B) (Required)

Closing Date

19 October 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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