Senior Presentation Designer

Job Description:

Dentsu International is one of the world's leading media and digital communication groups. Our goal is to help clients communicate and build relationships with consumers around their products and brands. We partner with brands to achieve meaningful progress as a force for growth and good, creating world-class solutions and services that unlock new opportunities for growth and business transformation across the entire customer journey.

Our global team of world-class agency brands deliver at every stage of the customer journey. Through Media, we design, create, and optimize media experiences that connect people to brands; through Creative, we deliver idea-led experiences, designed for the digital age, delivered at global scale, and through CXM we develop data-driven strategies for bespoke experiences that customers love.

Dentsu studio are an internal creative team shared by UK operating agencies, working across all platforms including print, web, video, and presentations. Our mission is to help our internal clients win new business and produce effective marketing communications with best-in-class creative.

THE ROLE

We support numerous agencies within the network and are seeking a like-minded designer with 2+ years’ experience in a studio/agency environment to join our growing team of talented creatives (though also willing to consider exceptional graduates). The candidate must be able to produce outstanding visual design work across a number of different platforms and various disciplines – working across new business, marketing, and client-facing projects often to tight deadlines. In addition to this, the candidate must be a confident forward thinker who is willing to initiate new and innovative creative responses, as well as have a natural ability to present and discuss ideas in a group and at a senior level.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• The key role of the designer will be to provide creative support for Dentsu International's operating companies, primarily in new business pitches and creation of internal/external marketing materials.

• Work on external client projects - a great chance to work across a broad spectrum of creative output from offline print design & digital to storyboarding for animation.

• Provide creative support for New Business Pitch presentations and documentation.

• Work with client directors to create bespoke client presentations and provide design support to client teams.

• Assist in creating multi-media presentations, video production, and photography.

• Design and creation of mood boards and concept mock-ups.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign.

• Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint presentation design.

• Strong visual design skills and an excellent portfolio demonstrating these skills.

• Understanding of branding, brand design, and marketing.

• Enthusiasm and passion for design, specifically for print such as marketing DM material, conference brochures, and other corporate literature.

• Photography skills desirable.

• Experience working in a pitch environment would be beneficial.

• Confident presentation skills and ability to present ideas with clarity.

• Animation and drawing skills would be considered favorably.

• Premiere and After Effects skills beneficial.

• Must be able to work flexible hours when required.

• Ability to juggle a number of tasks at once and consistently deliver high-quality work to timescale.

• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.

• Basic knowledge of the media industry.

Location: Cape Town

Brand: Global Functions

Time Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent