The purpose of this role is to contribute to shaping Sasol’s reputation and corporate brand through the development, design, and production of creative content across a range of traditional and online communication channels in line with defined business objectives
This includes conceptualising and producing high visual impact design solutions and creative concepts.
Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities
Key accountabilities:
- Provide high quality, professional, real-time assistance in support of client projects
- Responsible for designing and formatting of deliverables such as PowerPoint presentations, posters, infographics, brochures, newsletters, e-mailers, excel dashboards, charts/graphs, template creation and Word documents
- Maintain quality and brand consistency, along with timely delivery of graphic design services
- Support the creation and maintenance of Digital Screen content
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Production of PowerPoint presentation graphics and other corporate communications materials as per brand guidelines
- Liaise with stakeholders and team members to deliver work that is timely, accurate and on brand
- Adhere to graphics best demonstrated practices
- Assess project requests ensuring that all information relevant to start a project is available
- Produce high quality error-free deliverables
- Provide technical support for trouble-shooting graphical issues
- Proactively offer graphic and slide layout suggestions
- Meticulously proof deliverables and ensure consistency in layout and design, and strictly adhering to process and brand guidelines
Job Requirements
Personal Attributes:
- Professional customer service attitude
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task under pressure whilst maintaining a calm, professional, customer-focused attitude
- Ability to follow comprehensive brand guidelines
- Demonstrable layout skills and colour appreciation
- Excellent English communications skills both verbal and written
- Ability to adhere to deadlines and prioritise workload accordingly
- Proactive approach to learning and personal development
- Understanding of digital and press print production practices
- Creative, hands-on, innovative; results oriented; strong ability to prioritize objectives and meet aggressive timelines
- Self-motivated, proactive, capable of working independently and as part of a team
- Capacity to understand creative/graphic trends and recommend visual and design direction.
- Ability to influence others and achieve results through direct reporting teams and indirectly through various functional specialists across Sasol.
- Team player and being able to build strong relationships across multi-functional teams and at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to work across cultures and diverse backgrounds and virtual teams.
- Strong eye for detail, excellent proof reading and customer service skills
- Practical and tactical thinker, who can translate written briefs into creative design elements across various channels
Formal Education
A degree in graphic design/ Visual Communication or similar
Min Experience
- Knowledge and understanding of advertising, brand management, sponsorships, exhibitions, and events.
- Exposure to working with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign
- Must be proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel
Certification & Professional Membership
None
Competencies
Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something
Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration
Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work
Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.
Project Coordination: Knowledge and experience with Project Coordination is planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a objective this include an administrative, liaison and support role that supports one or more projects. Usually used during smaller non capital projects.
Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
Tech Savvy: Knowledge of the Information Technology Industry including trends, emerging technology, best practices, competition, regulations, and legislation.
Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible
Additional post information
- Ref No: 107928
- Closing Date: 11 April 2022
- Creative Services Graduate Trainee
- Org Structure No:65007595
- OME: Corporate Centre – HR & SR
- Business Unit: HRS: Brand & Comms
- City/ Town: Sandton
- Short Description / Purpose of Job
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