Creative Manager
5 days ago
**Position Summary**:
**Industry**:Wholesale & Retail Trade
**Job category**:Packaging
**Location**:Cape Town
**Contract**:Permanent
**Remuneration**:Market Related
**EE position**:Yes
**Brand**:Clicks Group
**Introduction**:
This is an ideal opportunity for a visually talented and highly skilled Packaging Creative Manager who is able to deliver high quality, innovative and powerful packaging design solutions across our brands. You should have strong general management and coaching skills to lead the Clicks in-house Packaging Design and Finished Art teams to deliver their very best. The role reports into the Creative Executive.
**Job description**:
**Job Purpose**
Responsible for the Creative development of superior brand packaging design to guide the creative packaging team to deliver best creative solutions. You will be expected to have a strong understanding of the various brand CI’s as well as brand tiering and brand architecture, and be able to develop and communicate our brand objectives, by planning, creating and delivering compelling packaging designs and communications.
**Job Objectives**
- Guide, oversee, assist and mentor Clicks packaging design team, including senior and junior creative designers, finished artists, illustrators, photographers and freelance designers to deliver on brief objectives
- Provide creative direction to all concept designers, consistently attaining highest standards of creativity and meeting brief objectives.
- Ensuring and maintaining Brand consistency is in-line with relevant marketing strategies and Corporate Identity guidelines.
- Ensure accurate creation and implementation of all Clicks Private label style guides, including all sub-brands of Clicks private label.
- Work closely with traffic and client services to ensure smooth workflow and delivery of work, while ensuring the team’s creative brief is attainable within respective timelines.
- Maintain good client relationships as well as create strong partnerships with the marketing teams in order to co-create content and campaigns which compliment our brand equities which make a real impact with consumers
- Manage creative work-flow process to deadlines.
Be able to multi-task and be willing to work hands-on when necessary.
- Responsible for all freelance hiring, rate negotiation and management whilst making sure the internal design team is working to full efficiency.
- Sourcing of and directing outside resources ie: producton agency, photographer, make-up artists, stylists illustrators and models, while building and maintaining professional relationships with a network of resources.
- Excellent multi-tasking skills essential, with ability to work under pressure.
- Work on multiple projects from initial concepts, through to development and the execution thereof.
- Provide strong support base to Creative Head to maintain brand consistency and set high design standards across Clicks Private Label.
- Assist with the accurate and timeous flow and execution of all work designated from brief to final presentation, to print execution.
**Minimum requirements**:
**Essential Skills, Abilities and Job Related Knowledge**
- Must have at least 10 years packaging and brand design experience with a working knowledge of finished Art and all print processes.
- Minimum 5 years management experience with experience in conducting performance appraisals in line with business objectives.
- Graphic Design qualification.
- Matric or equivalent qualification
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite CC: Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign.
**Qualifications and Experience**
- Must have at least 10 years packaging and brand design experience with a working knowledge of finished Art and all print processes.
- Minimum 5 years management experience with experience in conducting performance appraisals in line with business objectives.
- Graphic Design qualification.
- Matric or equivalent qualification
- Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite CC: Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign.
**Competencies**
- Detailed knowledge of packaging processes and in touch with developments in manufacturing best practices relating to quality checks and high standards of consistency.
- Ensure direct reports are aligned to team and individual goals in accordance with development plans and enforce accountability standards through performance appraisals.
- Be able to originate strong concepts based on marketing/business requirements
- Planning and Organising
- Delivering Results and Meeting client Expectations
- Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
- Deciding and Initiating Action
- Leading and Supervising with excellent people skills
- Confidence and strong presentation skills at all levels
- Must have excellent knowledge and understanding of print processes and finished art across multiple formats and substrates.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Advantageous: Working knowledge of packaging technology.
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