We are a highly entrepreneurial and opportunity focused company who want to be the most desired creative company on the African continent and beyond. 
We believe that “the people with the best people win” and are looking for a world class Cape Town based Business Unit Director to join our team and be part of this audacious vision. We are looking for a brave, bright, optimistic problem solver.

Experience & Skillset required 

•    Two+ years experience as a Business Unit Director
•    Ten+ years of experience in the account management function 
•    Has extensive experience in ATL, BTL, Activations and Digital
•    Experience in FMCG/ Retail focused clients is preferred
•    Strong strategic and operational expertise required
•    Critical business understanding - achieving and exceeding forecasting, managing agency profitability, managing client budgets and all aspects of agency revenue/income reporting
•    Ability to successfully grow revenue on client businesses
•    Experience in running big blue chip businesses for an agency successfully for a number of years
•    Strong mentoring and coaching instincts, supporting growth for a team from Account Executives to Account Directors 
•    Ability to manage up effectively, to senior internal stakeholders/ Partners
•    Brutal Simplicity of Thought: Having the ability to process lots of information and distilling it down to a clearly defined ask 

4  Criteria for Success

1. Happy Clients: 
   Clients absolutely value your input on their business as you hold the relationship with the most senior clients and engages meaningfully to drive a partnership model. You demonstrate the ability to provide advice and direction to clients to meet marketing and communication objectives while identifying opportunities to improve our role within the client business
 
2. Happy Work:
   You hold a trusted and valued partnership relationship with creative teams and embed innovative thinking into the core of the business. Your involvement with the team actively promotes the development of creative and impactful work by embedding innovative thinking and strategic direction to the delivery of the work.
 
3. Happy Money:
   You confidently manage the client budgets and the financial fitness of the account (profitability, staff and income ratios) while driving / identifying additional revenue & business opportunities to increase forecasts.
 
4. Happy People:
    You are jointly responsible for the performance of your teams and setting a high benchmark for excellence in your department. You lead by example and build a respected and trusted team under your wing. You are the coach that imparts knowledge and the mentor that inspires the team to be and do their best.

We don't do ego.
We solve in the positive.
While we look at every CV submitted to us in detail, given the sheer volume of applications we’re not able to respond to every applicant personally. Rest assured that if we like what we see, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible. Alternatively, we’ll keep your details on record for future consideration. 
If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. 

account.management@mcsaatchiabel.co.za

M&C Saatchi Abel is looking for a Senior Strategist to join the Cape Town campus.  

We are a highly entrepreneurial and opportunity-focused company who want to be the most desired creative company on the African continent and beyond. 

We believe that “the people with the best people win” and as such, are looking for a dynamic Senior Strategist with experience in B2B and B2C communication across new economy and retail brands to join our Cape Town office and be part of this audacious vision.

We are looking for a brave, bright, optimistic problem solver who has a natural curiosity about people, ideas and the world we live in.

You're a great fit for this position if you:

•    Are obsessed with culture 
•    Understand what turns the consumer on
•    Have a natural ability to find lateral solutions to problems
•    Are flexible and can easily adapt
•    Love to roll up your sleeves and dig into a challenge
•    Have a knack for storytelling and narrative

Five simple ways in which you will be measured:

1.    Simplifer: Ability to distill broad information into a clear and interesting story
2.    Diligent: Always takes the time to understand the brief better: brand, competitor and consumer contexts
3.    Pro-active: Constantly brings new, interesting and relevant case studies, examples and inspiration on the client’s they work on
4.    Curious: Always looks beyond the brief to find more interesting consumer insights and inspiration
5.    Contributor: Offers original thoughts and fresh perspectives. Adds value to discussions. Drives brainstorms.

Three things you must have:

1.    At least 4 years strategy experience working across B2B as well as B2C clients
2.    Always in touch with the cultural, consumer, category and brand context to deliver sharper insight & thought leadership
3.    A proven ability to lead projects and build direct relationship with clients to drive more effective and efficient strategic focus & resolution

While we look at every CV submitted to us in detail, given the sheer volume of applications we’re not able to respond to every applicant personally. Rest assured that if we like what we see, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible.  Alternatively, we’ll keep your details on record for future consideration.  If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful.

keke.mahlelebe@mcsaatchiabel.co.za

We are a highly entrepreneurial and opportunity focused company who want to be the most desired creative company on the African continent and beyond. 

We believe that “the people with the best people win” and are looking for a dynamic CPT based Multimedia designer to join our team and be part of this audacious vision. If you are  brave, bright and an optimistic problem solver, then you might just be who we are looking for. 

Qualifications:
Successful candidates must have high attention to detail and excellent personal communication skills.
A degree and a very strong portfolio showcasing digital work will be required. We also require experience using a variety of design tools, including the Adobe Creative Suite.

• Experience or qualifications in all or some of the below: 
• Advertising and marketing communications degree (similar) 
• Visual communication & design/Animation/multimedia design degree or 3yrs or more experience
• Proficient in; Photoshop, Illustrator—as well as Adobe Premiere, Flash, and After Effects
• Photography (a bonus)
• Any advertising awards won. 

Qualities we are looking for:
• Strong conceptual ability. 
• Excellent visual communication skills to present ideas and information in a multimedia context combined with excellent technical & design skills
• Exceptional creative flair and an innovative approach to all design projects
• Excellent organisational, time and project management skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• An understanding of the latest trends (design & digital) and their role in a commercial environment
• Proven competence in design and image manipulation software
• Teamwork skills because most projects require input from individuals with different roles within the agency 
• Self-development skills to keep-up-to-date with fast-changing trends  & a professional approach to time, costs and deadlines

We don't do ego.
We solve in the positive.

While we look at every CV submitted to us in detail, given the sheer volume of applications we’re not able to respond to every applicant personally. Rest assured that if we like what we see, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible. Alternatively, we’ll keep your details on record for future consideration. 

If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. 

jake.bester@mcsaatchigroup.co.za

We are a highly entrepreneurial and opportunity focused company who want to be the most desired creative company on the African continent and beyond. 

We believe that “the people with the best people win” and our Cape Town Agency is looking for a dynamic and experienced mid weight copywriter with 3-5 years' experience to join our team and be part of this audacious vision. 

You will be responsible for bold creative ideas, copywriting, conceptual development and crafted storytelling across channels for recognisable, blue-chip brands. 

6 THINGS YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Concepts: Not only will you have to bring brave, new and diverse thoughts to brainstorms, but you will have to deliver strong integrated thinking. You will need to understand a brand's overall strategy and develop work that answers to this. You may also need to facilitate brainstorms where you are able to build on other's ideas and come to solutions quicker with the output being simplicity and thinking that is sharp and beautiful.
• Digital Platforms: A thorough understanding of digital platform formats and how to write for them is essential. 
• Execution: You will need to have mastered the art of writing in various tones of voice and to produce work quickly. 
• Selling and Presenting: You should be able to confidently present internally and externally to senior clients without the CD being there. You will need to be able to have a meaningful conversations with clients around the strategic direction of their brand and the brand's tone of voice and present creative off the back of strategy while linking the two seamlessly.
• Production: You will need to be able to choose the correct suppliers (directors/audio engineers/voice artists) and as such you should always be appraised of the latest and best people to partner with, in order to have an opinion on who executes your work. You will be expected to harness the best from those suppliers and build relations with them for the ultimate good of the work.
• People and Relationship Management: You should be able to form and hold close and respected relationships across all departments and people need to genuinely enjoy working with you. You may need to work with and get the best out of junior teams and be open to culturally diverse ideas that don't match your world view.

3 THINGS YOU MUST HAVE:

• A varied (and award-winning) portfolio book which contains a mix of real work and a strong conceptual ability. Please include your portfolio in your submission
• A hunger for the industry and an interest to grow
• A proven track record in reputable advertising agencies (at least 3 years)

1 WAY YOU WILL BE MEASURED:

• Remarkable (and award winning) work that works.

We don't do ego.
We solve in the positive.
While we look at every CV submitted to us in detail, given the sheer volume of applications we’re not able to respond to every applicant personally. Rest assured that if we like what we see, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible. 

Alternatively, we’ll keep your details on record for future consideration. 
If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. 

jake.bester@mcsaatchigroup.co.za

M&C Saatchi Abel JHB  is looking for a Digital & Content Strategist.  

We are a highly entrepreneurial and opportunity-focused company who want to be the most desired creative company on the African continent and beyond.
We believe that “the people with the best people win” and as such, are looking for a dynamic Digital & Content Strategist to join our JHB agency and be part of this audacious vision.
We are looking for a brave, bright, optimistic problem solver who has a natural curiosity about people, ideas and the world we live in.
You're a great fit for this position if you:

•    Are obsessed with digital content and platforms 
•    Understand all digital channels thoroughly and constantly look for what’s happening next
•    Have a natural ability to find lateral solutions to problems
•    You see opportunity to expand ideas in ways to reach a wider audicene
•    Love to roll up your sleeves and dig into a challenge
•    Have a knack for storytelling and narrative

Five qualities we are looking for:    

You are a simplifier 
You have the uncanny ability to distil complex, layered problems into a clear, simple and actionable story. There is no place for convoluted digital terms that only a handful of the agency understands. You are the digital translator. 

You are a lateral thinker 
You think outside the box by looking beyond the brief at hand and other categories, human behaviour and insights and greater digital platform understanding to generate more lateral thinking from the creative teams.

You are the creative inspirer 
You bring critical assessment of benchmark case-studies & references in and out of category that inspire the creative solution. You carve a path to allow the creatives to focus on what they are best at -  being creative – while you ensure that creativity solves the task at hand in the way that works best on the platforms.

You are the indispensable partner 
You form close, respected partnerships with agency teams and clients.

You are a thought leader 
You inspire the agency and our clients with pro-active thought leadership on topics and events relevant to the brand. You teach those who may not understand the “digital world” what it means for their thinking and how to incorporate it into their work.

Four things you must have:

1.    Must have at least 4 years' advertising background with digital experience 
2.    Experienced in working with senior clients across multiple stakeholders
3.    A natural leader with fantastic people skills - both within the agency environment and when dealing with client
4.    Social and \ or Google certification preferred

We don't do ego.
We solve in the positive.
While we look at every CV submitted to us in detail, given the sheer volume of applications we’re not able to respond to every applicant personally. Rest assured that if we like what we see, we’ll be in touch as soon as possible. Alternatively, we’ll keep your details on record for future consideration. 

If you haven’t heard from us within two weeks, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. 

MeganCoetzee@mcsaatchiabel.co.za