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Job Description
Primary Responsibility
To lead & inspire the creative team/s to produce challenging, innovative, disruptive & conceptual
work promoting the Agency as Centre of Human Centric Retail Excellence.
Purpose of the Role
To lead the origination, craft & production of relevant and original concepts in response to
marketing & communication needs across this retail led portfolio. This role works in strong unison
with the Strategic- & Relationship lead functions. A vital requirement is the ability to build strong
partnership with clients on National- & Regional Levels.
Key Responsibilities
Creative:
- Comprehensive understanding of integrated consumer journeys in the development of concepts from conventional campaign work, to in-store, to digital & social.
- In-depth understanding, working collaboratively with Strategy, on the ever-evolving consumer landscape in SA.
- Resonant & relevant proposition development.
- To lead the creation of original and great concepts/campaigns inclusive of Reviews.
- To present, directly or via team members, work internally and externally in a clear and professional manner.
- To manage creative output of the department to ensure consistency and quality of work delivered.
- Lead and support the awards strategy for the Agency and SA Agency Group/Collective.
- To encourage teams to be proactive and to think beyond the job.
- To develop & nurture the client relationship to support the delivery of the creative work.
- Be the Creative Leader around the Leadership table.
- Work closely with relevant account- & creative teams, ensuring effective communication and management of expectations in a way that consistently supports the delivery of the brand/project.
- Actively encourage, facilitate & display collaboration within the team and other departments within the agency.
- Support and collaborate with the Agency Collective and its relevant Creative & Industry initiatives.
- Via operations, manage & direct the scheduling of work through the agency efficiently.
- Prioritization of workload to ensure teams demands are met and managed but works for team.
- To grow the creative department to anticipate & reflect the changing needs of the Agency/Group.
- Lead the accurate recording of work time for yourself and the team.
- To communicate business goals to the team and identify and articulate the creative contribution to these goals to the management team.
- Be involved in the setting of objectives for the department and the managing of budget.
- Be the Creative leader.
- Disseminate learning through your creative teams and coach team members.
- To develop skills and knowledge within yourself and your team through on-the-job development, active participation in the agency and department (e.g., Disruption X, training, and other company meetings)
- Shoulder responsibility & accountability for the teams’ performance.
- Decisively address non-performance.
- Create clear development plans for yourself and your team in support of the business plan.
- At least 15 years industry experience with Retail / Integrated experience preferred.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent relationship management skills.
- Reports to the Agency CEO.
- Based in Durban.
SIMILAR JOBS
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HR Business Partner (f/m/d)
Role
HR Business Partner
- Overall role and responsibilities will be to manage key HR processes and supporting management with successful delivery of the HR function at all stages of the employee lifecycle. The role holder will be expected to work with the wider HR team to help drive forward the global people agenda through participating in global HR projects and programs.
Key Responsibilities
- Recruitment
- Onboarding & Offboarding
- Performance Management Coordination and management of all performance review processes
- Learning and Development Draw-up a training plan in line with staff training requirements and drive implementation of the plan. Coordination of all learning and development initiatives with the assistance of group, liaise with senior management to define key training priorities.
- Employee/Labor Relations Management of all employee and labor relations matters and providing guidance and support to Exco
- Balance & Inclusion Responsible for implementing and monitoring company's Balance & Inclusion policies and suggesting additional relevant initiatives for the South African office.
Required Experience/Qualifications
- A minimum of 6 years’ experience in an HRBP position, preferably within Financial Services. Workday and Cloudpay experience would be advantageous and sound knowledge of Labor Law is essential.
Preference will be given to candidates with financial services, advisory and consulting experience.
Salary
R1.2M - R1.4M -
Head of Recruitment (f/m/d)
Role
Head of Recruitment
Suitable candidates must:
- Understand and align to the company value proposition.
- Will be responsible for developing and executing recruitment placements and to ensure recruitment goals are met with the best possible talent in the market.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaising with internal departments to clearly understand recruitment needs.
- Gain comprehensive understanding of the role to be recruited for from the hiring manager in order to draft appropriate job specifications.
- Ensure the sourcing of potential candidates through online company career portals, recruitment sites, job boards, social platforms, as well as print media and posters, when required.
- Manage the hiring processes via electronic Applicant Tracking Systems.
- Provide hiring manager with shortlist of candidates and skills summary in line with the internal SLA.
- Develop hiring strategies and procedures in line with industry trends, as well as keeping informed of advancements in the field.
- Ensure offers and remunerations are in line with industry norms and fair equitable and relevant legislation.
Required Experience/Qualifications
- HR degree or equivalent.
- Proven track record of at least 8 years recruitment including search and headhunting. Ideally, experienced in both "in-house" and agency recruitment.
- Management experience essential, having successfully managed a team of recruiters against set deliverables and SLA.
Salary Range
R800.000.00 - R1.100000.00 -
Head: Data (f/m/d)
About our client
Our purpose is making life better. We are a global healthcare provider delivering measurable clinical quality through a diversified offering and a people-centered approach.
Role
Head: Data, reporting to the Executive: Data and Analytics.
The successful candidate will have prime responsibility for data asset delivery for analytics and business needs, and as such, will have an important and high-profile strategic position in the group. The role is responsible for overseeing data architecture, infrastructure, governance, operations and development, but more than that, for designing and building the environment that will future-proof the delivery of data insights.
It calls for a visionary, a leader and a creator, not merely a technician and manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure the creation and preservation of data assets to allow the company to drive business value through reporting and analytics.
- In particular, transform the existing infrastructure (a data warehouse and multiple stored procedures leading to multiple data sources) to an integrated, aligned and reusable single source of truth.
- Future-proof data sources in a way that is closely aligned to the business's evolving reporting and analytics needs.
- Have a thorough understanding of business strategy and the objectives that flow from this.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand operational needs and how these evolve.
- Oversee the management and storage of data to support these objectives, ensuring data quality, availability and usability.
- Through direct line reporting, manage the Architecture and Data Governance Manager, the Data Operations Manager and the Data Development Manager, and through them indirectly the teams supporting these functions; through these reporting lines:
- Be accountable for organizational data architecture regarding operational needs, efficiency and cost.
- Research best-in-breed solutions and ensure that the data environment remains relevant and optimal to support organizational goals.
- Develop and nurture a high-performance, quality-obsessed, collaborative culture with other leaders in the broader data and analytics team.
- Drive innovation in data management and drive business implementation of the data management strategy.
- Be accountable for data governance, ensuring that data privacy obligations and data protection regulations are complied with.
- Effectively communicate to senior management, business, and staff in the data and analytics team the value and importance of sound data management and the analytical possibilities that flow from it.
- Oversee data operations and data development.
Required Experience/Qualifications
- Honors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or an equivalent field, or other equivalent qualifications.
- 8+ years of experience in the administration and management of data environments and the information life-cycle.
- 3+ years of management experience.
- Previous experience in overseeing the set up and management of enterprise data warehouses.
- Solid experience in cloud technologies and on premise solutions.
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Understanding of data systems, architecture and pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes that span multiple business areas, identify and understand requirements, and develop alternate solutions.
- Project management skills.
- Client relationship skills: demonstrated ability to build relationships with and deliver valuable solutions for stakeholders.
- Familiarity with relevant data environments and tools, including big data solutions.
- Healthcare experience will be a strong advantage.
Salary
R168000.00
The company has mandated that all employees be COVID-19 vaccinated.