Creative Services Team Lead at Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY)

This role focusses on supporting the delivery of the Africa market leadership strategy and business objectives through creative design that accurately reflects the firm’s brand and corporate identity. Africa Creative Services team is responsible for the design and production of proposals and marketing collateral that support our business objectives. The Creative Services team has its hub in Johannesburg with key spokes in major center across Africa. The Brand, Marketing & Communications team forms part of Accounts, Industries & Business Development.

Your key responsibilities
This role is mainly focused on developing concepts and implementing the creative design and layout of brochures, marketing collateral, proposals and other marketing material for internal and external distribution.

The key areas of accountability include:

• Quality – Adherence to agreed branding/design initiatives.
• Deliver and maintain a consistently high standard of quality.
• Apply innovative thinking to design problems to present the best possible solution to the business.
• Market Leadership – Ongoing support and communication to the firm on our design standards.
• Support the firm’s strategy and contribute towards consistent execution of brand strategy.
• People – Develop and maintain relationships with all clients.
• Provide continual support and ideas.
• Synergistic approach and interaction within studio team.
• Be a valued member of the AI&BD team and support their initiatives.
• Operational excellence – Concept to design, production, print and delivery of sales proposals, brochures and other marketing collateral, monthly internal publications, adverts, function material, posters, original artwork, multimedia etc.

Leadership

• Actively contribute to driving and leading innovation in specialization areas such as print, digital and production
• Proactively share ideas with the Africa Brand, Marketing and Communication management team.
• Develop and maintain relationships with vendors that will assist the firm in achieving its objectives
• Strategic support in terms of creative design and approach to the business leaders and managers involved in projects allocated to the senior graphic designer
• Proactively contribute to the firm’s culture of high-performance teaming

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Suitable technical training.
• Mac OS
• Graphic design qualification (minimum 3 years)
• Experience in Adobe Creative Suite: Premier Pro, After Effects, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
• Experience in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word. contributors.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to engage people in an effective way.
• An excellent eye for details
• Good personal time management skills
• Practive, focused, able to work well under deadline pressure
• Ability to self-manage