Art Director: RA: Client and Intermediary Experience at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

Outputs/ Core Tasks: 

• The Art Director will supplement activities in the Design Hub with creative and conceptual direction, quality assurance and stewardship of creative output.
• The Design Hub changed their strategy, including a statement of ambition to improve and elevate its offering, quality of service, and output to business. As part of this strategy, the Design Hub has made it a priority to include an art direction function within the team in order to bolster the ability to provide high quality communication and marketing materials, as well as adding a creative and conceptual element.

The key responsibilities of the role include the following:

• Create a tangible creative concept and direction through design mock-ups, storyboards, prototyping and related deliverables.
• Communicate effectively and present creative concepts and related content to the team and key stakeholders within business.
• Oversee and drive conceptual coherence and direction between various communication materials, including but not limited to UX and UI artifacts, motion design, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), print and below the line materials.
• Provide oversight and quality assurance in end-to-end production.
• Provide also mentorship and knowledge transfer in improving skillsets.
• Drive improvement in team skills proficiency within current and prioritised digital skillsets (UX, UI, HTML, Motion Graphics).
• Follow a hands-on approach and provide ongoing involvement in assisting and contributing to production outputs.

What will make you successful in this role?

Role Requirements
Qualifications:

• Diploma/degree in Design or equivalent qualification in a related field.

Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience in digital and web design, art direction and desktop publishing.
• Exposure to digital marketing, communication and design.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of creative and design management.
• Knowledge of design tools and software (Adobe Creative Suite and Axure).
• Knowledge of UX, UI and HTML.

Competencies:

• Communicates effectively
• Excellent leadership and mentorship skills
• Decision quality
• Analytical thinking
• Cultivates innovation
• Plans and aligns
• Concern for accuracy
• Customer focus
• Balances stakeholders
• Collaborates
• Drives engagement
• Drives results
• Being resilient
• Advanced Excel skills

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Being resilient - Contributing through others

Closing Date: 06 March 2023