SUMMARY:
Exciting opportunity to make a name for yourself with one of South Africa’s most successful and best-known retail fashion chains. Your focus will be on designing, formatting, editing, updating and finalising all documents and items that are either printed or published online. Experience in retail clothing environment advantageous.
POSITION INFO:
The nature of the work done in this role will be focused more on technical expertise than on creative design skills.
(In accordance with our clients Employment Equity Plan this position will be open to EE Candidates only)
Responsibilities
- Retouching – retouching of fashion campaigns, in-store material, digital and commerce elements
- Design work – designing promos, packaging , in-store signage
- Final artwork – Branding elements and packaging, In-store material, PPC Banners, Logos
- Filing - ongoing maintenance of the server housing design elements
- Operating external cloud – uploading, downloading, folder system, maintenance.
Required Skills and Experience
- Excellent technical skills on Apple Mac equipment and a good understanding of desktop PCs
- Advanced technical skills with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator, In-Design, Photoshop, Word, Excel
- Understanding of Adobe XD
- Artistic and creative with an eye for good design and a love of fashion
- Good understanding of servers, external clouds, meticulous filing
- Graphic Design experience with excellent layout skills
- Minimum of 5 years DTP experience with 3-5 years retouching experience
- Graphic design degree required – Graphic Design or Graphic Communications
Additional Competencies
- Can work well under pressure with quick detailed turnaround
- Able to prioritise workloads
- Professional approach
- Pride in your output
- Flexible and able to adapt to new briefs
- Attention to detail is ESSENTIAL
- Can work methodically
- Organised with good admin skills
- Can work well in teams and able to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Able to multitask
- Innovative and progressive in your area of expertise
- Positive, enthusiastic and energetic approach
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