Wonderful wordplay wanted! Let your love of the lexicon and cool creative take you to the top in this role as copy-based creative director at an outstanding digital marketing agency’s Cape Town office. We’re looking for a hands-on, highly decorated CD with both digital and traditional above-the-line experience. The ideal candidate is a natural leader with skills that bring the very best from the people around you. Don’t miss this opportunity to do great things.

Responsibilities

• Translate the brief and the strategic requirements into a compelling creative solution
• Put your ideas down on paper in the most effective way possible to sell them
• Being proactive and arriving at topical and tactical ideas
• Inspiring the people around you
• Conduct brainstorms and ideation activities to conceptualise campaigns with the team(s) involved
• Assume a mentorship role to grow junior, mid-weight and senior copywriters and designers

Requirements The successful candidate must have/be:

• A degree or diploma in copywriting and design or relevant qualification from a reputable institute
• An excellent creative portfolio showing award-winning campaigns executed across a variety of digital media
• Digital experience, particularly with, but not limited to web, social and emerging technologies
• Exceptional communication skills written and verbal
• Strong conceptual skills
• Strategic thinking that can deliver great campaign ideas
• Multi-tasking skills necessary for working on concurrent projects
• Staying on top of the latest trends to be at the forefront of innovation
• Team management

Please submit a relevant portfolio on application.

Should you not receive a response within one week, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Company Description

Viv Gordon Placements (VGP) is a specialist recruitment agency in the advertising, marketing, media, public relations and publishing industries.

Posted on 27 Jul 11:32