The Senior Graphic Designer is also responsible for mentoring more junior members of the team while introducing new and innovative methods of creative execution to enhance effective performance and delivery amongst team members.
Requirements:
- A Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in graphic design.
- 10+ years of related industry experience in an agency or corporate setting creating integrated content across all marketing channels from digital, social media, paid media, mobile, offline and print.
- Competence across all fields of marketing, with a strong digital focus.
- The ability to storyboard or translate ideas to designers and others, influencing external and internal stakeholders.
- A strong working knowledge of online and offline design.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Oversee all design projects, from conception to delivery.
- Design original pieces, including illustrations and infographics.
- Refine images, fonts and layouts using graphic design software.
- Apply typography techniques.
- Generate new ideas to portray concepts and advertise products/services.
- Increase user friendliness in digital products.
- Maintain brand consistency throughout marketing projects and business units.
- Liaise with marketing and design teams to ensure deadlines are met.
- Stay up to date with industry developments and tools.
- Study design briefs and determine requirements.
- Crafting creative strategy and execution.
- Schedule projects and define budget constraints.
- Prepare rough drafts and present ideas.
- Ensure final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand.
- Create visual solutions to meet the corporate communication needs of the Netcare Group by using a mix of creative skills and commercial awareness.
- Conduct creative research on projects.
- Support the Group Head of Design: Mentor and supervise the creative team while challenging and introducing new and innovative methods of creative execution.
- Oversee teams of designers, illustrators, photographers, videographers, production staff, and writers to take concepts from draft to completion, and through to publishing or promotion.
- Overseeing the marketing department's individual projects.
- Manage the creative team to drive high performance and culture.
- Drive continuous compliance to organisational policies, practices and procedures in order to ensure compliance with relevant legislations and statutory regulations.
Key Competencies:
- Customer Focus and Service Delivery: The capacity to identify and respond to the needs of. Internal and external customers. Internal and external customers include patients, doctors, colleagues, suppliers, visitors, vendors, and any other person that requires a relationship.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to accomplish/complete a task while demonstrating a thorough concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. This means monitoring and checking work or information while organising time and resources efficiently.
- Coaching Others: The capacity to recognise development areas in others and support them to facilitate personal development through coaching.
- Leading and Managing Change: The capacity to implement and support change initiatives and to provide leadership in times of uncertainty.
- Performance Development: The ability to evaluate and develop different levels of capacity within a team to achieve set objectives.
Location: Sandton, Johannesburg (on-site)
What you can expect from the company: At Netcare, our core value is care. We care about the dignity of our patients and all members of the Netcare family. We care about the participation of our people and our partners in everything we do. We care about truth in all our actions. We are passionate about quality care and professional excellence.
Care - The basis of our business. The professional, ethical patient care and services we offer at every level of the organization.
Truth - The crucial element in building relationships that work. Open communication with honesty and integrity is essential.
Dignity - An acknowledgement of the uniqueness of individuals. A commitment to care with the qualities of respect and understanding.
Compassion - We engage everyone with empathy and respond with acts of compassion in all interactions with our patients and their families.
Participation - The willingness and desire to work in productive and creative partnerships with others and the commitment to communicate.
