Role: Senior Multimedia Designer (FTC - 12 months)

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa (Onsite)

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the successful candidate will form a part of our client’s extended work bench delivering a vast range of different marketing material; from digital and motion, to animation and social. The role demands the fullest understanding of concepting, graphic design, motion graphics and animation. The experience in executing projects of all sizes, and completing them with resourcefulness and dedication is essential for success. The existing work-type split is around the 30% concept; 70% adaptation mark. This will fluctuate based on client requirement. 

The successful candidate will be heavily entrenched in the brand of our client, and will be the right-hand of the client-side creative team. 

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Work in true collaboration with client and be responsible for Brand Guardianship on their projects to ensure that the client experience is as positive as possible.   
• Ensure a collaborative working across teams on ideation, creation and implementation.   
• Creative responsibility to ensure solutions are realised and delivered to the highest quality of creative standards.  
• Develop a deep understanding of target audiences and the clients marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting the product or brand.  
• Keeping up to date with current cultural and design trends.  
• To pitch creative solutions in response to marketing strategies where applicable 
• To challenge and develop the client brand guidelines to ensure the creative work is delivered to the highest standard. 
• Provide leadership and direction to the wider creative team for the best creative output, where applicable. 

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• Excellent client engagement skills with the ability to proactively organise and influence clients and build strong and effective working relationships.  
• A highly developed and honed creative flair  
• A highly creative thinker with the ability to take and positively influence client briefs with your own innovative ideas, where applicable.
• Confident in bringing ideas and creativity to projects whilst working within a broad range of design & copy guidelines across a variety of artwork collateral. 
• Strong client liaison abilities, with a proven track record of developing strong client relationships and a consistent record of taking, interpreting and delivering design projects within agreed timeframes 
• Effective at organising and prioritising workloads to manage client delivery whilst simultaneously influencing clients with their own ideas and conceptual creativity 
• Understanding of how to integrate with a client-side team whilst maintaining a top tier agency service. 
• Highly creative with the ability to generate ideas and practically contribute to studio output.
• Experience in Technology sectors.
• 8+ years of relevant experience  

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

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We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.