Art Director

Responsible for leading the creative vision, approach, organization and process to ensure the delivery of superior marketing and brand communications solutions.

Overall responsibility for the strategic direction and overall management of the creative team.

The Art Director is responsible for creative’s contribution to new business development efforts in terms of concept and pitch development, packaging and communication.

The Art Director has overall responsibility for the output, on billable project delivery as well as business development and internal projects

Responsible for presenting coherently and in a compelling manner the direction and business value of our capabilities to the client.

Work closely with all members of the creative team, ensuring all communication, training and motivational needs of the team are met at all times by coaching and mentoring to engender a high calibre creative, productive and strong team environment.

Actively seek feedback from clients to quickly identify any training needs and concerns, acting promptly to rectify.

Provide excellent design management of multiple projects and reprioritise as needed, as well as ensuring accurate schedules and timelines, whilst providing continual monitoring of the project especially around budget, deadline and adherence to the brand guidelines

Qualification

• Excellent client-facing and communication skills, with a confident personality

• Excellent verbal, written and listening communication skills, team-building skills, as well as creative and artistic presentation skills

• In-depth knowledge of brand positioning, industry trends

• Creative and artistic presentation skills

• Ability to convey ideas in an oral presentation in an exciting and engaging manner

• In-depth knowledge of brand positioning, industry trends

• Substantial experience within the design industry of which a considerable period of this experience would be as a senior creative developing impactful marketing campaigns

• Superb written communication skills, can convey complex concepts clearly

• Prior experience in digital design, with digital media experience and information design

• Exceptional Adobe software skills

• Competency in HTML coding, a 'digital native’ with good experience as a web and digital designer is a huge plus

• Must be energetic with a proven strong track record.