Fresh Job Openings at TBWA\ South Africa

Description

• Great in crafting, with love to details.
• A contemporary sense for beauty, fashion and design.
• Ideally awarded.
• Up to date and familiar with each and every communication channel
• Great graphic designer or an amazing motion designer – ideally both.
• Has relevant experience within a creative or advertising agency.
• Loves to take ownership and responsibility for projects.
• Is used to working independently yet transparent.
• Great team player.

Description

• Great in crafting, with love to details.
• A contemporary sense for beauty, fashion and design.
• Ideally awarded.
• Up to date and familiar with each and every communication channel
• Great graphic designer or an amazing motion designer – ideally both.
• Has relevant experience within a creative or advertising agency.
• Loves to take ownership and responsibility for projects.
• Is used to working independently yet transparent.
• Great team player.

Requirements

• 3 years Mid-level Designer experience within a reputable advertising or creative agency.
• 3 years Mid-level Designer experience within a reputable advertising or creative agency.

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JOB DESCRIPTION - SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with client
• Manage more than 1 client in line with overall strategy
• Assist the AD with strategy development
• Day-to-day activity relating to the account
• Manage and track influencers, including brainstorming of ideas / concepts
• Keeping media / influencer lists up to date / compiling distribution lists, media liaison and pitching stories
• Excellence in writing and editing materials including client press releases, articles, social media content plans, correspondence and reports
• Assist senior management with new business development
• Sourcing product, packing media drops, event support and relevant admin
• Provide support on campaigns, events and launches (setting up, carrying boxes and banners, social media support etc)
• Co-ordination of client meetings
• Ongoing update of status reports and assisting with generation of call reports
• Compilation of regular reports (feedback reports, campaign reports)
• Demonstrate excellence in administration and budgeting
• Ongoing management and negotiation of supplier costs

Skills Profile

• Enjoys fast-paced retail environment
• Excellent people skills
• Ability to brainstorm
• Ability to showcase strategic capabilities
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks, with excellent time management
• Excellent communication skills

Requirements

Knowledge and Experience

• Diploma or degree in Communications and/or Public Relations
• At least three years public relations experience as an AE, preferably at an agency
• Excellence in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint)
• Event management and social media management experience

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Key Purpose:

We are seeking a talented freelance copywriter with a strong background in telecommunications brands to join our team. As a copywriter, you will be responsible for crafting compelling and engaging content across various channels to promote out telecommunications products and services. The idela candidate will have a passion for storytelling, a keen understanding of the telecommunications industry, and the ability to tailor messaging to resonate with our target audience.

Creative

• To take accountability in ensuring all their creative output consistently meets the highest quality standards.
• To present creative work internally and externally in a clear, professional and impactful manner.
• To produce and craft original and great concepts and copy proactively and in response to creative briefs of existing clients or potential clients.
• Work with Strategy & Account Management to understand the clients’ brand and manage projects in a way that will support the delivery of iconic work for the brand.
• Work collaboratively within the creative department and with other departments in the agency.
• Stay aware of current trends, popular culture, ideas, work in order to confidently stay ahead of the curve and stay relevant and contemporary.
• Consistently develop and refine their craft in a way that demonstrates a real passion for the work they do.
• To contribute to the shop window (local and international awards).

 Business Management

• Accurate recording of work time.
• Actively participate in new business pitches and business development when required.
• Responsibility to spread positive sentiment and not to add fuel any negative sentiments in a way that is destructive to agency’s reputation both internally and externally.

People/Collaboration

• To anticipate and reflect the changing needs of agency and its’ clients through on the job development, active participation in the creative department (e.g. Disruption, training, and other company initiatives)
• Provide feedback to your Creative Director regarding improvements that could be made to the creative department.
• Has actively supported and involved team members at the appropriate time to resolve issues.
• Looks for collaborative ways to make the agency a great place to work.

Requirements

Knowledge and Experience required:

• 3-5 years as a copywriter in a leading creative agency/company that has generated or can generate and produce world-class ideas and copy for agency and their clients or potential clients.

Skills and Educational Requirements:

• World-class copywriting ability.
• Technical writing proficiency.
• Presentation skills.
• Strategically minded.
• Diverse writing style. (profound, comedy, epic, poetic)
• Technical understanding of tv & content production, edits, sound, music, voice and direction.

Optional extras:

• Influencer, opinion leader, blog site, editorial experience, poetry, After Effects, 3D rendering, illustration, editing, design, songwriter, sound production, artist.

Behavioral attributes:

• Inspirational, ambitious, determined, courageous, collaborative, creatively expressive, something to prove, chip on their shoulder, adaptable, can and does embrace change.
• And above all, accountable for the accounts and work he/she/they contributes towards.

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Description

• We're looking for a dynamic individual to join our sister agency, TBWA\Heimat and take up the role of Innovation/Creative/Marketing Lead!
• A technology lead with marketing or conceptual and creative skills - could be an Art Director, a Copywriter or from a client management, or marketing, communications background.
• Someone who can enrich and inspire our agency teams and clients with innovation ideas.
• Can easily straddle the world of innovation and technology and the world of communication and advertising.
• Loves to take ownership and responsibility for projects.
• Is able to work independently yet engage and inspire across different agency departments and levels of seniority throughout the organisation.

Requirements

Experience required:

• 10 years experience - 5 within a creative/marketing/advertising agency and 5 years within a tech/innovation environment
• User design, tech/innovation geek/nerd
• Marketing experience within a tech startup environment/background
• Understands product position
• Has experience in content planning
• Can come up with ideas without a brief