Head of Design

6 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa LRI Invest Full time

Description

HEAD OF DESIGN

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced design professional with a passion for brand, experience managing a team of designers and a desire for continuous design innovation to support in the evolution of the Apex Group brand as it continues to grow with over 13,000 people globally.

As a member of the Marketing & Communications Management team, you will report directly to the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer within a growing, cross-jurisdictional, energetic and high-impact marketing and comms team. You will be someone who is highly collaborative by nature, has strong stakeholder management skills, is exceptionally good at project management with a solid background in brand, design fundamentals and a passion for creative.

As Head of Design, you will be working within a small but busy brand team and have a natural

ability to work well under tight deadlines. You must be a results-driven, experienced and dynamic professional ready for a challenge.

Job Specification:

- Take the lead for the delivery of design and visual brand elements for the global Group across all sub-brands.
- Manage a cross-border small team of designers and develop and lead the visual brand strategy for the Group and its sub-brands.
- Continually evolve, innovate and improve on the visual manifestation of the brand seeking ways to improve on execution and output from the team.
- Ensure delivery on all briefs by prioritising, delegating and managing and overseeing output from the team.
- Be accountable for reporting on success metrics against a clear set of KPIs to determine the progress of brand strategies as part of a data-driven marketing team.
- Examine business needs and priorities to identify the role of design and translate this into measureable initiatives and objectives.
- Occasionally work with external providers on key briefs to support the strategy and be responsible for strict budget management of these initiatives.
- Work with the Head of Content to ensure all digital messages are delivering an integrated messaging strategy, inclusive of design elements and copy.
- Conduct Market research to support any required projects or initiatives and keep updated with the latest trends and best practices.
- Provide mentoring and development support for your team, upskilling them in areas required.

Skills Required:

- 7+ years’ experience in working in design and marketing.
- Experience in creating digital animation is required.
- Clear communication style in both written and verbal English.
- Demonstrable initiative, enthusiasm, and can-do attitude to be a hands on manager, ability to multi-task, organizing workloads, planning ahead and encouraging and driving the team.
- Willingness to roll-up sleeves and deliver hands-on help as part of the global team.
- Ability to work to deadlines and work under pressure.
- Good inter-personal skills and ability to build close-knit relationships.
- Enjoy taking responsibility for multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong relationship-building and negotiation skills to manage internal stakeholders and the ability to work at a fast-pace and align with the rest of the marketing team.
- Enjoy working with a diverse group of colleagues and stakeholders and also to work remotely with your colleagues and remain connected through regular calls and conversations.
- A natural aptitude for collaboration and thrive on working in a high-pressure environment.
- An empathetic leader who likes to both coach and empower their team to contribute to business and strategic goals.
- A ruthless prioritiser, able to execute on multiple objectives at once while ensuring key milestones are reached in a timely manner.
- Experience in the financial services space banking/fintech/professional services is a must

What you will get in return:

- A high level of visibility within a large organisation on an upwards trajectory.
- The ability to define and grow your team to really make a positive impact on the business.
- The opportunity to own brand development at a large corporate business at an inflection point in its growth journey.
- Be part of a dynamic and fast-paced team that is highly visible within the business and makes a genuine impact on revenue and sales pipeline.
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, agile and global marketing team.
- The opportunity to be creative, bring discipline to brand activity and really make a difference.

This role will be based in our Cape Town office in Mowbray.

About Apex

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers. Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented

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