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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are looking for an outstanding content marketing team manager to lead our content efforts and manage a team of brilliant writers and content strategists. Canonical has a robust portfolio of open source products and offers support for a wide range of open source technologies. This role is for someone who cares deeply about narrative quality and wants to elevate our brand positioning. It requires process discipline and creative smarts, leadership skills and performance-driven strategy to ensure our content aligns with our business objectives.

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They would love to gain experience optimizing content processes, coaching others on their narrative skills and building brand authority. They enjoy learning and improving themselves, the team and the organization. They problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be metrics-driven, highly organized and skilled at team development, capacity planning and cross-functional collaboration.

This role reports to the Director of Communications.

Location: This role is home based in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

• Develop and execute a content marketing strategy that aligns with our business goals, SEO and brand.
• Manage our content calendar end to end, ensuring content is efficiently produced with minimum friction and process clarity.
• Ensure content quality, consistency and brand alignment in everything we produce.
• Collaborate with our web and growth engineering teams to optimize content for search engines, building on proven SEO expertise.
• Supervise quarterly content planning sessions and work closely with content specialists, product management and marketing to optimize content plans.
• Monitor and report on KPIs for our content program and use analytics tools to identify improvement opportunities.
• Align messaging to ensure integrated campaign support across channels, working closely with our marketing, product and brand teams.
  
  

• At least 5 years of work experience in content or related roles, preferably at technology companies, with 2+ years of experience as a manager or team lead.
• Proven experience creating authoritative and engaging content. Portfolio of written work required.
• Applied knowledge of SEO, experience with SEO tools and SEO-driven content calendars.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to create highly efficient processes for content production and reuse.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications or a relevant discipline.
• Someone who is passionate about technology and open source.
• A problem solver: you don't shy away from taking on challenges and see projects through to completion.
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards: you value quality and accuracy but can adapt quickly when the need arises.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing and Sales
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are looking for an outstanding content marketing team manager to lead our content efforts and manage a team of brilliant writers and content strategists. Canonical has a robust portfolio of open source products and offers support for a wide range of open source technologies. This role is for someone who cares deeply about narrative quality and wants to elevate our brand positioning. It requires process discipline and creative smarts, leadership skills and performance-driven strategy to ensure our content aligns with our business objectives.

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They would love to gain experience optimizing content processes, coaching others on their narrative skills and building brand authority. They enjoy learning and improving themselves, the team and the organization. They problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be metrics-driven, highly organized and skilled at team development, capacity planning and cross-functional collaboration.

This role reports to the Director of Communications.

Location: This role is home based in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

• Develop and execute a content marketing strategy that aligns with our business goals, SEO and brand.
• Manage our content calendar end to end, ensuring content is efficiently produced with minimum friction and process clarity.
• Ensure content quality, consistency and brand alignment in everything we produce.
• Collaborate with our web and growth engineering teams to optimize content for search engines, building on proven SEO expertise.
• Supervise quarterly content planning sessions and work closely with content specialists, product management and marketing to optimize content plans.
• Monitor and report on KPIs for our content program and use analytics tools to identify improvement opportunities.
• Align messaging to ensure integrated campaign support across channels, working closely with our marketing, product and brand teams.
  
  

• At least 5 years of work experience in content or related roles, preferably at technology companies, with 2+ years of experience as a manager or team lead.
• Proven experience creating authoritative and engaging content. Portfolio of written work required.
• Applied knowledge of SEO, experience with SEO tools and SEO-driven content calendars.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to create highly efficient processes for content production and reuse.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications or a relevant discipline.
• Someone who is passionate about technology and open source.
• A problem solver: you don't shy away from taking on challenges and see projects through to completion.
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards: you value quality and accuracy but can adapt quickly when the need arises.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing and Sales
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Join to apply for the Content marketing team manager role at Canonical

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are looking for an outstanding content marketing team manager to lead our content efforts and manage a team of brilliant writers and content strategists. Canonical has a robust portfolio of open source products and offers support for a wide range of open source technologies. This role is for someone who cares deeply about narrative quality and wants to elevate our brand positioning. It requires process discipline and creative smarts, leadership skills and performance-driven strategy to ensure our content aligns with our business objectives.

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They would love to gain experience optimizing content processes, coaching others on their narrative skills and building brand authority. They enjoy learning and improving themselves, the team and the organization. They problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be metrics-driven, highly organized and skilled at team development, capacity planning and cross-functional collaboration.

This role reports to the Director of Communications.

Location: This role is home based in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

• Develop and execute a content marketing strategy that aligns with our business goals, SEO and brand.
• Manage our content calendar end to end, ensuring content is efficiently produced with minimum friction and process clarity.
• Ensure content quality, consistency and brand alignment in everything we produce.
• Collaborate with our web and growth engineering teams to optimize content for search engines, building on proven SEO expertise.
• Supervise quarterly content planning sessions and work closely with content specialists, product management and marketing to optimize content plans.
• Monitor and report on KPIs for our content program and use analytics tools to identify improvement opportunities.
• Align messaging to ensure integrated campaign support across channels, working closely with our marketing, product and brand teams.
  
  

• At least 5 years of work experience in content or related roles, preferably at technology companies, with 2+ years of experience as a manager or team lead.
• Proven experience creating authoritative and engaging content. Portfolio of written work required.
• Applied knowledge of SEO, experience with SEO tools and SEO-driven content calendars.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to create highly efficient processes for content production and reuse.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications or a relevant discipline.
• Someone who is passionate about technology and open source.
• A problem solver: you don't shy away from taking on challenges and see projects through to completion.
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards: you value quality and accuracy but can adapt quickly when the need arises.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing and Sales
• Industries Software Development

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Overview

The Global Talent Network provided pay range. This range is provided by The Global Talent Network. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Part-time (20 hrs per week), Remote (South Africa). The Global Talent Co. is a leading community for the top 5% remote marketing talent. We match great talent with some of the US and Europe's most promising and attractive technology companies. At The Global Talent Co., we provide opportunities to work with leading innovative technology companies worldwide, offering stable employment, competitive compensation, career growth, and access to a community of 25k+ like-minded marketing professionals.

Join a fast-growing, innovative health & wellness company based in Germany that is redefining the way people take care of themselves. With a strong focus on science, customer experience, and creativity, they are scaling rapidly across Europe and beyond. Their mission is to empower individuals to improve their health and confidence through breakthrough solutions.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Performance Marketing Manager with exceptional expertise in Meta Ads to take full ownership of paid acquisition strategy and execution. This role is crucial in driving revenue growth through creative testing, campaign optimization, and budget management across Meta and Google Ads. The ideal candidate is not just a campaign manager, but a strategic operator who thrives on scaling winning ads, testing new creative angles, and extracting insights from data to fuel continuous growth.

• Lead creative testing: briefing, asset direction, and iterative testing to identify scalable ideas.
• Manage end-to-end campaign execution across Meta Ads and Google Ads (primary focus on Meta).
• Continuously optimize for ROAS, CPA, CTR, and other KPIs, scaling campaigns that deliver results.
• Collaborate with creative and product teams to produce high-performing ad assets.
• Implement A/B testing strategies across targeting, creatives, and landing pages.
• Monitor industry trends and platform updates to innovate and stay ahead of competitors.
• Manage and report on budgets effectively, ensuring efficient spend allocation.
• Provide transparent performance insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

• 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience, with a proven track record of scaling Meta Ads profitably at significant budgets.
• Strong experience managing performance campaigns for European brands or in highly competitive markets.
• Deep knowledge of creative testing, audience segmentation, and growth optimization.
• Hands-on expertise in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads; TikTok Ads a plus.
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in Google Analytics, Looker Studio, and Excel (or equivalent).
• Experience with DTC / e-commerce brands preferred.
• Strategic operator: decisive, fast-moving, and results-oriented.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work cross-functionally with creative and product teams.
• Availability to work 20 hours per week, aligned with CET.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Part-time
• Job function: Marketing and Sales
• Industries: Professional Organizations

Location: Remote (South Africa). This role is part-time and requires 20 hours per week.

Overview

The Global Talent Network provided pay range. This range is provided by The Global Talent Network. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Part-time (20 hrs per week), Remote (South Africa). The Global Talent Co. is a leading community for the top 5% remote marketing talent. We match great talent with some of the US and Europe's most promising and attractive technology companies. At The Global Talent Co., we provide opportunities to work with leading innovative technology companies worldwide, offering stable employment, competitive compensation, career growth, and access to a community of 25k+ like-minded marketing professionals.

Join a fast-growing, innovative health & wellness company based in Germany that is redefining the way people take care of themselves. With a strong focus on science, customer experience, and creativity, they are scaling rapidly across Europe and beyond. Their mission is to empower individuals to improve their health and confidence through breakthrough solutions.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Performance Marketing Manager with exceptional expertise in Meta Ads to take full ownership of paid acquisition strategy and execution. This role is crucial in driving revenue growth through creative testing, campaign optimization, and budget management across Meta and Google Ads. The ideal candidate is not just a campaign manager, but a strategic operator who thrives on scaling winning ads, testing new creative angles, and extracting insights from data to fuel continuous growth.

• Lead creative testing: briefing, asset direction, and iterative testing to identify scalable ideas.
• Manage end-to-end campaign execution across Meta Ads and Google Ads (primary focus on Meta).
• Continuously optimize for ROAS, CPA, CTR, and other KPIs, scaling campaigns that deliver results.
• Collaborate with creative and product teams to produce high-performing ad assets.
• Implement A/B testing strategies across targeting, creatives, and landing pages.
• Monitor industry trends and platform updates to innovate and stay ahead of competitors.
• Manage and report on budgets effectively, ensuring efficient spend allocation.
• Provide transparent performance insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

• 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience, with a proven track record of scaling Meta Ads profitably at significant budgets.
• Strong experience managing performance campaigns for European brands or in highly competitive markets.
• Deep knowledge of creative testing, audience segmentation, and growth optimization.
• Hands-on expertise in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads; TikTok Ads a plus.
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in Google Analytics, Looker Studio, and Excel (or equivalent).
• Experience with DTC / e-commerce brands preferred.
• Strategic operator: decisive, fast-moving, and results-oriented.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work cross-functionally with creative and product teams.
• Availability to work 20 hours per week, aligned with CET.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Part-time
• Job function: Marketing and Sales
• Industries: Professional Organizations

Location: Remote (South Africa). This role is part-time and requires 20 hours per week.

Overview

The Global Talent Network provided pay range. This range is provided by The Global Talent Network. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Part-time (20 hrs per week), Remote (South Africa). The Global Talent Co. is a leading community for the top 5% remote marketing talent. We match great talent with some of the US and Europe's most promising and attractive technology companies. At The Global Talent Co., we provide opportunities to work with leading innovative technology companies worldwide, offering stable employment, competitive compensation, career growth, and access to a community of 25k+ like-minded marketing professionals.

Join a fast-growing, innovative health & wellness company based in Germany that is redefining the way people take care of themselves. With a strong focus on science, customer experience, and creativity, they are scaling rapidly across Europe and beyond. Their mission is to empower individuals to improve their health and confidence through breakthrough solutions.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Performance Marketing Manager with exceptional expertise in Meta Ads to take full ownership of paid acquisition strategy and execution. This role is crucial in driving revenue growth through creative testing, campaign optimization, and budget management across Meta and Google Ads. The ideal candidate is not just a campaign manager, but a strategic operator who thrives on scaling winning ads, testing new creative angles, and extracting insights from data to fuel continuous growth.

• Lead creative testing: briefing, asset direction, and iterative testing to identify scalable ideas.
• Manage end-to-end campaign execution across Meta Ads and Google Ads (primary focus on Meta).
• Continuously optimize for ROAS, CPA, CTR, and other KPIs, scaling campaigns that deliver results.
• Collaborate with creative and product teams to produce high-performing ad assets.
• Implement A/B testing strategies across targeting, creatives, and landing pages.
• Monitor industry trends and platform updates to innovate and stay ahead of competitors.
• Manage and report on budgets effectively, ensuring efficient spend allocation.
• Provide transparent performance insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

• 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience, with a proven track record of scaling Meta Ads profitably at significant budgets.
• Strong experience managing performance campaigns for European brands or in highly competitive markets.
• Deep knowledge of creative testing, audience segmentation, and growth optimization.
• Hands-on expertise in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads; TikTok Ads a plus.
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in Google Analytics, Looker Studio, and Excel (or equivalent).
• Experience with DTC / e-commerce brands preferred.
• Strategic operator: decisive, fast-moving, and results-oriented.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work cross-functionally with creative and product teams.
• Availability to work 20 hours per week, aligned with CET.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Part-time
• Job function: Marketing and Sales
• Industries: Professional Organizations

Location: Remote (South Africa). This role is part-time and requires 20 hours per week.

Overview

The Global Talent Network provided pay range. This range is provided by The Global Talent Network. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Part-time (20 hrs per week), Remote (South Africa). The Global Talent Co. is a leading community for the top 5% remote marketing talent. We match great talent with some of the US and Europe's most promising and attractive technology companies. At The Global Talent Co., we provide opportunities to work with leading innovative technology companies worldwide, offering stable employment, competitive compensation, career growth, and access to a community of 25k+ like-minded marketing professionals.

Join a fast-growing, innovative health & wellness company based in Germany that is redefining the way people take care of themselves. With a strong focus on science, customer experience, and creativity, they are scaling rapidly across Europe and beyond. Their mission is to empower individuals to improve their health and confidence through breakthrough solutions.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Performance Marketing Manager with exceptional expertise in Meta Ads to take full ownership of paid acquisition strategy and execution. This role is crucial in driving revenue growth through creative testing, campaign optimization, and budget management across Meta and Google Ads. The ideal candidate is not just a campaign manager, but a strategic operator who thrives on scaling winning ads, testing new creative angles, and extracting insights from data to fuel continuous growth.

• Lead creative testing: briefing, asset direction, and iterative testing to identify scalable ideas.
• Manage end-to-end campaign execution across Meta Ads and Google Ads (primary focus on Meta).
• Continuously optimize for ROAS, CPA, CTR, and other KPIs, scaling campaigns that deliver results.
• Collaborate with creative and product teams to produce high-performing ad assets.
• Implement A/B testing strategies across targeting, creatives, and landing pages.
• Monitor industry trends and platform updates to innovate and stay ahead of competitors.
• Manage and report on budgets effectively, ensuring efficient spend allocation.
• Provide transparent performance insights and recommendations to stakeholders.

• 5+ years of hands-on performance marketing experience, with a proven track record of scaling Meta Ads profitably at significant budgets.
• Strong experience managing performance campaigns for European brands or in highly competitive markets.
• Deep knowledge of creative testing, audience segmentation, and growth optimization.
• Hands-on expertise in Meta Ads Manager and Google Ads; TikTok Ads a plus.
• Data-driven mindset with proficiency in Google Analytics, Looker Studio, and Excel (or equivalent).
• Experience with DTC / e-commerce brands preferred.
• Strategic operator: decisive, fast-moving, and results-oriented.
• Excellent communication skills, able to work cross-functionally with creative and product teams.
• Availability to work 20 hours per week, aligned with CET.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Part-time
• Job function: Marketing and Sales
• Industries: Professional Organizations

Location: Remote (South Africa). This role is part-time and requires 20 hours per week.

Who are we?

Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent. We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. Our culture us that of agility and constant deployment, we believe in learning fast, learning cheap and learning forward. Our aim is to provide a work environment where knowledge workers can accelerate the development of their ideas and bring innovation to market, at the same time provide compelling career and development proposition that will enable them to realize their dreams.

We’re seeking a Growth Marketing Manager to lead full-funnel growth initiatives that drive measurable business results — from customer acquisition to lifecycle optimization. This is a cross-functional role that blends performance marketing, product thinking, data-driven experimentation, and strategic storytelling to fuel user and revenue growth.
You will be responsible for strategizing, executing, and optimizing campaigns across digital channels, as well as developing frameworks for continuous testing and iteration. If you’re a creative yet analytical marketer who thrives in a fast-paced, test-and-learn environment, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Customer Acquisition:
  Own paid marketing campaigns across key channels: Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and programmatic display
  Build and manage campaigns to drive high-quality traffic, conversions, and lower CAC
  Continuously optimize bidding strategies, creative, and targeting based on performance data
• Growth Experimentation & CRO:
  Design and execute A/B tests across the marketing funnel (landing pages, ads, emails, onboarding flows)
  Work with product and design teams to improve conversion rates and reduce churn
  Create testing roadmaps and develop clear hypotheses tied to KPIs
• Data & Analytics:
  Track and report performance of all growth initiatives using analytics tools
  Monitor core growth metrics: CAC, LTV, retention, payback period, MRR/ARR, etc.
  Build dashboards to provide visibility to cross-functional teams and leadership
• Lifecycle & Retention Marketing:
  Develop email, SMS, and push marketing strategies to increase engagement and customer retention
  Create segmented drip campaigns and onboarding sequences aligned with customer behaviour
  Work with CRM and product marketing to personalize and automate lifecycle journeys
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  Collaborate with marketing, product, sales, and content teams to align growth initiatives with company goals
  Feed insights from experiments into brand, UX, and product roadmaps
  Partner with agencies or freelancers as needed to scale operations

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Data Analytics, or related field
• Proficient in MS Office 365
• 4–6 years of hands-on experience in growth or performance marketing roles
• Strong experience with paid digital advertising and campaign management (Meta, Google, TikTok, etc.)
• Proficiency in Google Analytics, marketing attribution tools, and A/B testing platforms
• Familiarity with marketing automation (e.g., HubSpot, Klaviyo, Iterable) and CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce)

• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills; you’re comfortable with SQL, spreadsheets, and interpreting data models
• Strong project management and prioritization skills
• Creative thinker who can blend storytelling with science in growth campaigns
• Results-oriented mindset with a bias toward experimentation and iteration
• Experience in startups or scaling brands is a strong plus
• Advantageous: Familiarity with mobile attribution, affiliate marketing, or growth hacking tools

• Customer acquisition cost (CAC)
• Conversion rate (CVR) across funnel stages
• Monthly active users (MAU) or paying users
• Revenue growth / ARR / LTV:CAC ratio
• Churn rate and retention metrics
• ROI of paid campaigns

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

This is an ideal opportunity for a visually talented and highly skilled Packaging Creative Manager who is able to deliver high quality, innovative and powerful packaging design solutions across our brands. You should have strong general management and coaching skills to lead the Clicks in-house Packaging Design and Finished Art teams to deliver their very best. The role reports into the Creative Executive.

Job Purpose
To deliver packaging designs through the development, conceptualisation and timeous roll out aligned to the 18 month, Christmas and Unicorn plans to ensure that innovation and powerful design solutions lands within our business in support of sales and operating margin growth across the brands.
To build and manage a sustainable, internal design studio and hub, with top talent to deliver the very best in branding and packaging design for the business and South African market.

• To lead, manage and mentor the Clicks packaging design team, including senior and junior creative designers, finished artists, illustrators, photographers and freelance designers in order to deliver to plan.
• To develop and communicate our brand objectives, by planning, resource sourcing and multitasking workload across the internal staff and external agencies to deliver.
• To ensure that all work delivered is aligned to the brand CI’s as well as brand tiering and brand architecture.
• To ensure and maintain brand consistency in-line with relevant marketing strategies and Corporate Identity guidelines thus accurate implementation across all sub-brands are key.
• To collaborate with industry leaders to foster inspiration & learnings as well as the know how of keeping up with international trends in order to continually bring an edge to Private Label design continually.
• To recruit, retain and develop the best design talent in order to deliver the best in class and invest in the future of Clicks Private Label.
• To lead and create innovative spaces by leading brainstorming sessions to promote design thinking in order to achieve the highest standard in creativity and ensuring all briefs are met.
• To manage budgets and costings across all resources to ensure we remain within budget constraints.
• To work closely with traffic, client services and the Creative Executive to ensure smooth workflow and delivery of work, while ensuring the team’s creative brief is understood and executed within respective deadlines.
• To maintain good client relationships as well as create strong partnerships with the marketing teams in order to co-create content and campaigns which complement our brand equities making a real impact with consumers.
• To maintain responsibility for all freelance hiring, rate negotiation and management whilst making sure the internal design team is working as efficiently as possible.
• To perform the sourcing of and directing outside resources ie: production agency, photographer, make-up artists, stylists, illustrators and models, while building and maintaining professional relationships with a network of resources.
• To provide a strong support base to the Creative Executive in order to create the best sustainable design agency & design hub with top South African talent.

Essential Skills, Abilities and Job Related Knowledge

• Strategic and creative design thinking.
• Strong knowledge of packaging construction, holistic design solutions, brands CI’s and implementation thereof essential.
• Strong market and trend related knowledge.
• Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite CC: Illustrator, Photoshop, In-design.
• A strong understanding of design management systems and studio workflow to drive efficiencies.
• Strong understanding of all printing processes.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing best practices relating to quality checks and high standards of consistency.
• Have strong understanding of the various brand CI’s as well as brand tiering and brand architecture.
• Excellent multi-tasking skills.
• Resilience under pressure.
• Strong verbal and communications skills.
• Budget Management skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of language and copy.
• Strong influencing and presentation skills.
• Delivering against demanding deadlines.
• Excellent knowledge of all packaging design principles, brand development, creative processes.
• Excellent conceptualisation and packaging design skills.
• High pressure solution solving ability.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Graphic Design & Art or equivalent Graphic Design qualification.
• Packaging Diploma.
• At least 10 years packaging and brand design experience with an outstanding working knowledge of concept artwork, finished Art and all print & packaging processes.
• Minimum 7 years management experience in leading teams, conducting performance reviews & measurements.
• Experience of developing high performing design teams.

Competencies

• Working with People
• Leading and Supervising
• Persuading and Influencing
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Creating and Innovation
• Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations
• Adapting and Responding to Change
• Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking

All positions will be filled in accordance with our Employment Equity plan. We also encourage people with disabilities to apply.