Senior Consultant Creative Design

oldmutual; Cape Town; Vor Ort; ZAR 360.000 - 540.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Old Mutual in Cape Town is looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to design and produce digital, graphic and illustrative materials, while upholding the OM Brand standards across assets for websites, emails, social and campaigns.

You will lead design for ecommerce, banners, presentations, and offline pieces, ensuring on-brand, on-strategy creative and coordinating with developers and agencies. Strong portfolio and 5–7 years’ experience are required.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in graphic design or related field.
• 5-7 years' experience as a Senior Graphic Designer or equivalent.
• Strong digital design, email newsletters and social media knowledge.

Aufgaben

• Design and produce a wide variety of digital/print materials.
• Translate marketing strategies into compelling campaigns and visuals.
• Oversee production schedules, budgets, and workflow.
• Supervise other designers and ensure brand standards are followed.
• Collaborate with internal/external teams to ensure usability and accessibility.

Kenntnisse

Brand standards

Digital design

Email graphics

Social media

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in Graphic Design

Tools

Adobe After Effects

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

HTML

Premiere

Final Cut Pro

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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 u