Oliver Wyman is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com.
Oliver Wyman is now looking for a Presentation Designer to be based at our Johannesburg Office !!
Please include a link to your portfolio in the CV before submitting
Weekend support is mandatory for the role.
The Opportunity
As part of a global team of over 150 graphic specialists you will work alongside international project teams to design and layout impactful presentations and solve problems creatively. In this role, you are first and foremost a business communicator who collaborates with partners and consultants to transform concepts into compelling visual presentations.
You are providing weekend coverage to our global consulting teams. We are flexible with the working hours but working on Saturday and Sunday is mandatory plus at least one additional day.
You should apply if you are highly motivated, willing to learn new things, have an aesthetic eye, excellent attention to detail and are fluent in written and spoken English. You are also deadline driven, organised and understand how people view and understand content.
Key Responsibilities
Who we think will be perfect for this role
- Design, edit and lay out information in a variety of PowerPoint and MS Office templates; from day-to-day project material, to high-profile pitch or conference presentations.
- Collaborate effectively with partners, consultants and team members to create compelling presentations.
- Keep up-to-date on software, technical knowledge and design trends.
- At least 1 year of presentation design experience
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Good knowledge of PowerPoint and MS Office Suite
- Very strong layout and design skills
- Client-centric mentality, can-do attitude
- Ability to interact with people at all levels of the company
- Excellent time management skills
- Aesthetic eye and good understanding of design principles
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Self-starter who is also able to work effectively as part of a team
- Excellent attention to detail
- Eager to learn new skills
- Microsoft PowerPoint (Expert)
- Microsoft Word (Expert)
- Microsoft Excel (Expert)
- Adobe Acrobat (Skilled)
- Adobe InDesign (Skilled)
- Adobe Illustrator (Skilled)
- Microsoft Outlook (Skilled)
At Oliver Wyman, we lead with heart - we love what we do and have fun while we do it! We also strive for breakthroughs by questioning, seeking diverse perspectives, and finding powerful and sustainable solutions. If you share these values and want to work as one and own our impact at the same time, be brave and achieve the amazing with us!
- Were individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do
- We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow and shape the environment around us
- We value an environment where every member of Oliver Wyman is encouraged and expected to voice his or her opinion
- We believe that to create a true meritocracy we need to remove artificial barriers to opportunity
- We value people whose lives balance work and non-work activities because we believe they are both more interesting colleagues and are able to make better contributions to the Firm.
- We push ourselves hard to deliver excellence, but we also work to extract the maximum benefit from the flexibility of a project-based business. We provide the ability to take career breaks for personal or family reasons. We fundamentally value each others time and are sensitive to how it is used. We are an output not input-based culture, have respect for peoples personal decisions, and believe that one's workload must be sustainable. We seek balance for ourselves and our colleagues.
Marsh & McLennan Companies and its Affiliates are EOE Minority/Female/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity employers.
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