Woodstock, Cape Town
R20 000 - R30 000 per month

About The Role:
The ideal candidate will have strong creative skills and a portfolio of work which demonstrates their passion for packaging, product manuals, illustrative design, sales support, and typography. This candidate will have experience in working with numerous different design platforms such as digital and print forms.

The successful candidate will be responsible for packaging for consumer products; photography (for internal, external, and online needs), and website/e-commerce channel support.

Responsibilities:
• Meet art department work standards by following production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving operational problems; identifying work process improvements
• Meet art department cost standards by monitoring expenses; implementing cost-saving actions
• Formulate art concepts (possibly supervising co-workers) engaged in executing layout designs for artwork and copy to be presented by visual communications media
• Keep Executive informed by reviewing illustrative material for presentation
• Implement restructuring and procedural methodology to organise and maintain art/image database for use of Art Department and Sales Team
• Review project production factors by studying budget, background information, objectives, presentation approaches, styles, and techniques
• Select and secure illustrative material by formulating basic layout design concept; conducting research
• Produce illustrative material by assigning layout design concept to artists and photographers; directing development of design concepts into art layouts
• Prepare layouts for printing by marking-up, pasting-up, and finishing layouts
• Obtain Executive approval by presenting final layouts, story boards, and illustrations; responding to executive commentary and requests
• Improve quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organisations
• Enhance art department and organisation reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments

Minimum Requirements:
• Packaging design experience
• Solid graphic design skills and experience
• Experience developing creative standards
• Social media development and management experience
• Experience with illustration tools
• Desktop publishing skills
• Multimedia content development experience
• Photography skills and experience
• Coordination skills
• Creativity
• Vision
• Project management skills
• Product management skills
• Organisation skills