General Manager R40 000 - R50 000

Our client has been crowned the most innovative web design agency in the Western Cape.

They are a small team of 3 designers and the owner. Our client has a strong emphasis on team culture and is now looking for a general manager to take over the running of the daily operation of the business from the owner.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Technical & Creative Project Management: Website, corporate identity, and photography projects. Managing promotional gifts and apparel shop. Proactively tracking all projects while managing specific details. Seeing projects through their full life cycles, solving problems as needed. Client briefings and progress meetings. Team resource management for both new projects and existing clients. Hosting setups: domain registrations/transfers, email setups. Creative design sound-boarding.
2. Business Administration: Dealing with client account queries like onboarding, invoicing, billing, cancellations, and unhappy clients. Daily/weekly bookkeeping and financial. Executing strategies and implementing systems and processes as directed by the owner.
3. Sales: Facilitating needs analysis meetings with prospective clients. Drafting quotations. Attending business networking events to generate leads.

Desired Experience & Qualification

1. Bachelor's degree in marketing and/or business management.
2. At least five years of experience with website design and/or creative company management.
3. Practiced in full turnkey web design, from concept to completion.
4. Solid working understanding of project management tools, methodologies, and best practices.
5. Effectively completing projects according to pre-determined scope, budgets, and timelines.
6. Good administrative and organizational skills, with a strong attention to detail.
7. Proficient English and professional writing skills. Copywriting skills are beneficial.
8. Great leadership qualities.

Personal Attributes

1. Passionate about online communication solutions.
2. Able and willing to work in a collaborative, innovative, flexible, and team-oriented environment.
3. Self-confident and self-motivated.
4. Able to multi-task between different roles.
5. Self-starter and quick learner who takes initiative.
6. Uncompromising integrity – transparent and accountable.

Package & Remuneration

Job Title: General Manager

Department: Projects, Sales & Business Administration

Travel Requirement: To clients in and around Durbanville and Cape Town

Salary: R40 to R50 pm Depending on experience