Creative Director: Western Cape - Flash Group


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Job Role: 

This job is for a dynamic strategic-creative genius to work collaboratively alongside the brand, marketing and digital leads to manage, guide and grow our in-house agency team, driving impactful creative campaigns and aligning our creative approach and outputs with business, brand and digital strategies.

Responsibilities:

  • People management & mentorship - manage every aspect of a creative team – individually and as a collective - including learning & skills development, career growth, ongoing performance, product and brand knowledge & alignment
  • Stakeholder management – work with the business directors, division GMs and marketing leads to drive overall business-marketing alignment and effectiveness
  • Brand & product marketing – work with marketing leads and product owners to build stronger brands and drive relevant and impactful product marketing campaigns
  • Creative development and reviews – responsible for driving all creative outputs
  • Conceptual thinking – You’re able to solve problems creatively and drive better conceptual thinking across all creative disciplines
  • Creative excellence – work to deliver the best on-brand creative result and ensure consistency over time
  • Creative workflow processes – Optimise or strengthen existing workflow processes to ensure campaign deadlines are met
  • Production – Assist with production management for relevant campaigns
  • Media strategy – Contribute to media strategy, planning and best practice across all campaigns


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Requirements:

  • 10+ years’ experience working in the creative advertising/marketing space
  • 3+ years managing creative teams
  • 3+ years managing creative marketing outputs
  • Conceptual creative development across design/art direction, copy and content
  • Creative thinking and development across media channels and platforms
  • Experience working in an advertising agency
  • Required Knowledge / Technical Skills:
  • Creative brand strategy/ copywriting/ art direction or design background (but, must be able to consider all of these)
  • Working with project management tools like Slack and Asana

Advantageous Experience:

  • Experience working with and/or in a fintech business
  • Experience working with or in retail
  • Experience developing brand-led campaigns
  • Media strategy and planning
  • Production experience
  • Studio and workflow management
  • Digital marketing best practice
  • Working with mass/main market brands

Competencies / Attributes:

  • People management and mentorship.
  • You have the ability to work across creative disciplines (art direction/design, copy, content, video) and bring them together to form considered, brand-led campaigns.
  • You work collaboratively with other marketing leaders to drive the effectiveness and culture of a broader marketing team.
  • You love to make the complicated and/or mundane simple and interesting.
  • You value creative solutions to help drive both consumer resonance and business results.
  • You strive for creative excellence in even the smallest jobs.
  • You care about the business problems to be solved.
  • You put people first.
  • You thrive on getting your hands dirty and can wear multiple hats to help get the job done, from solutions to brand strategy to campaign messaging to actual execution.
  • You care about the bigger picture and not just individual tasks at hand.
  • You put people first and ego aside.
  • You’re brand-led in everything that you do.
  • You possess a deep understanding of South African people, culture and behaviours.


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