Being a part of the Hollywoodbets Purple Team is an opportunity to become a part of one of South Africa’s biggest success stories. From humble beginnings in Durban, Hollywoodbets has grown into a powerhouse brand operating across Africa and the United Kingdom. And that’s just the beginning. Our talented Team is on a mission to increase our global footprint, ready to take on any challenge because at Hollywoodbets, not even the sky is the limit. Join our Team and let’s reach for the stars. We have an amazing opportunity for 2 X Senior Graphic Design Team Leader . Do you think you have what it takes to be our newest Purple Star? The core role of the Senior Graphic Design Team Leader is to lead a graphic design team pod, from concept to execution on all 360 projects and the design team’s day to day requirements. This role reports into and will work closely with the Creative Head: Design to ensure all graphic elements deliver engaging content for our brand. This role will manage the DTP, Junior, Midweight, Senior graphic designers, Team leader/s and collaborate with the traffic, copy and video teams, delivering engaging content that meets the expectations of our customers. With Hollywoodbets You Will: Innovate and create as part of a like-minded, authentic Team eager to achieve goals. Embrace challenges and the thrill of working in a vibrant and fast-paced industry. Grow with our development plans and culture that allows you to further your career. You Bring: Diploma/Degree 5+ years in a Senior design related position A Bonus to Have: 3-5 years in a Design management role What You’ll Do for The Brand: Manage, lead and oversee the design pod team. Manage the liaison between pod heads and other creative HODs to ensure collaboration on project start-up. Lead the brainstorming, conceptualizing, development and execution of all 360 projects, adhoc projects and all campaign requirements. Present creative concepts to the broader business teams and management. Manage the day to day creative requirements, business as usual within the design pods. Develop, and oversee look and feel as well as quality of all work generated from the design pod. Liaison between designers and other business departments for all design job requests as well as ensuring the brief is adequate to start the job with all information on deadlines and scope covered. Coordinate design work coming in with a job ticket system and allocate jobs accordingly (Traffic management). Contribute to, implement and ensure work processes are efficient and adhered to within the design pod. Submit daily reports to Creative Head: Design Conduct team member Performance reviews Identify pod team skills gap and suggest learning and development training in the areas that require attention Conduct weekly design pod team meetings. Oversee design progress against schedule, priority, brief and deadlines. Provide feedback and seek any missing information from job requestor, in order to complete the job. Ensure 360 campaign kick start meetings take place in order to conceptualize the campaign artwork required and understand the full scope of the job. Review, approve and present all creative work generated by the design pod team members, prior to creative services internal management approval and sending onto the requestor. Ensure that the brand guide and brand standards as well as legal requirements are always adhered to. Have a strong understanding and opinion on illustration, typography, layout, powerful copy and what makes a good graphic design Find proactive solutions for design team challenges. Ensure that the design files and stock library are maintained. Be an inspiration to the team while providing them with mentorship and career development. Ensure that design specs are aligned to the requirement of the job, and it is correctly print-ready. Keep up to date with design trends, training courses or webinars relevant to the department’s growth. Share and implement these trends where relevant. Be able to work late and travel when required Attending various company events. Conducting interviews for new hires to the respective design pod. Developing Brand Guide (CI for various entities) Ad hoc duties as required. What You’ll Bring to The Team: Follows through and delivers results despite obstacles. Managing and prioritizing activities and ensure monitoring of results to accomplish a specific goal. Excellent attention to detail. Excellent Problem-solving skills Making customer needs a primary focus of one’s actions Prioritize and anticipate timeframes. Exceeding the clients' expectations about service delivery. So, are you ready to level up, learn, and perform at your best? Apply now! Please be advised that should you not be contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful. 5 people have applied for this job. 366 people have viewed this job. About Hollywoodbets At Hollywoodbets, we believe that everyone should be treated like a STAR. Whether they are in one of our retail branches or online in the comfort of their own home, all our customers get the larger-than-life Hollywood experience, glitz, glamour and world-class entertainment. But behind the success of every Hollywood Star, is a dedicated and hard-working Team, who strive for success. Born and bred on the sunny coast of Durban, our brand has expanded beyond our 90 branches to offer state-of-the-art online, telephonic and mobile betting platforms on a global scale. Our success is driven by our Purple Team who pride themselves on first-class customer service while working together to go beyond the limits, ensuring that we are the bookmaker of choice in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Ireland and the UK. Being a part of our Team also means being associated with sporting stars like the Hollywoodbets Dolphins, Cell C Sharks as well as Premiere League football club, Brentford FC. Team Members can take pride in being part of a company that has naming rights to the Hollywoodbets Kingsmead cricket stadium, Hollywoodbets Kings Park rugby stadium and racecourses such as Hollywoodbets Greyville, Hollywoodbets Scottsville, Hollywoodbets Kenilworth and Hollywoodbets Durbanville. #J-18808-Ljbffr