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.
The ideal candidate will be able to ideate and execute brave, innovative work. We’re looking for a motivated individual capable of generating new ideas and then implementing them; someone who gets passionate about what technology can do for creativity and what creativity can do for the world. We like hungry. We like strategic. We like kind. We like crazy. We like brutally simple, original thought. We like brand builders. We like insightfulness. We like diversity of thought. We like people who’re never satisfied with their list of awards already won; who remain obsessed with continually building their portfolios. We’re looking for a strong TTL writer, ideally with genuine digital ATL experience, but if you really can’t say goodbye to your current Art Director (and they’re at least as good you) we’ll consider applications from teams too.
Extra skills, like the ability to draw, art direct, take photos, make movies, write strategies, illustrate, animate, edit, debate, be funny, multiple languages, other super powers, will aid your cause.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The idea. The sell. The execution. (Be brilliant at all three. Inspire brilliance in all three from those you work with.)
Your number one job is to work with your art director to crack big, hairy, fresh ideas and then sell them hard and execute them perfectly. You’ll be expected to function well in a team, and bring a spirit of collaboration with you when you walk through the door every morning.
6 SPECIFIC THINGS YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
1. 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.
2. Digital Platforms: A thorough understanding of digital platform formats and how to write for them is essential.
3. Execution: You will need to have mastered the art of writing in various tones of voice and to produce work quickly.
4. 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 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
A FEW THINGS YOU MUST HAVE IN ORDER TO APPLY:
1. A varied (and award-winning) portfolio book, which contains a mix of powerful, beautiful, real work that highlight both strong conceptual ability as well as a mastery of the craft of writing. Please include your portfolio in your submission.
2. A hunger for the industry and an interest to grow.
3. An opinion on what the best work in the world is and why.
4. A proven track record in reputable advertising agencies (at least 3 years)
5. A list of awards won – and a driving hunger to add to it.
WHAT WE NEED TO SEE:
• Your solid creative portfolio with a variety of projects
• Your awards list
• Your work history/CV
1 WAY YOU WILL BE MEASURED:
1. Remarkable (and award winning) work that works.
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.
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 Jnr Copywriter with 1+ year’s work experience in a reputable advertising agency to join our us and be part of this audacious vision.
The key focus of this role is to work within our implementation and rollout team, helping the agency to execute and deliver brilliant, fast and effective creative work across our client base.
The ideal candidate will be obsessive over detail and the craft of writing – for all mediums and formats, but with proven experience and understanding of writing for digital platforms. You’ll need to be able to adapt your writing voice and tone for different audiences and brands. You’ll need able to edit the copy of others well as originate your own copy, both short and long, ATL, BTL, Social&Digital; from one liners on banners, to post copy, to headlines, to long copy.
This role is predominantly about excellent and efficient execution of writing deliverables on existing ideas, but you will be called upon from time to time to brainstorm and execute your own brave, innovative ideas. So we’re not just looking for a brilliant writer, but also for a motivated individual capable of both lateral and strategic thinking. The candidate should also have a keen interest and understanding of the digital world and digital communication platforms; who gets passionate about what technology can do for creativity and what creativity and technology can do to interrupt and transform an audience’s online and real-world experience.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
You’ll work closely with the creative director in dissecting briefs and discussing creative routes and ideas. You’ll be expected to function well in a team, and bring a spirit of collaboration with you when you walk through the door every morning.
Creative
• Monitor the conceptual evolution of each project
• Ensure that the highest creative standards are met
• Become a champion of the brands you work on
• Prepare and present your own creative solutions as well as that of your team’s
• Build presentations and arguments for your ideas in a clear and logical way
• Must love and understand big idea, media agnostic, brand building thinking
• Must love and understand the technical aspects of writing and thinking for a digital first world
Production
• Writing persuasive, original copy
• Assist when needed in pitches and client presentations
• Assist our team of writers with guidance on tone and output
• Be a champion of language in all forms
• Be your own proof reader and always be willing to proofread for others.
• Writing and editing for banners, social posts, brochures, headlines, post copy, content plans, headlines, radio, TV, outdoor, presentations.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
You’ll need to be adept in all relevant software and practices; these are the proficiencies we’re looking for:
• Excellence in Word, Keynote, Google Slides and PowerPoint
• Proven copy skills – writing, editing, QA
• A love for all things advertising and all things creative
• A hunger for greatness
• A thorough understanding of digital platforms: Web & Microsites, Digital Media, Social Media, Tech Innovation
• Attention to detail
• Positivity and Integrity
• Extra skills, like the ability to draw, art direct, take photos, make movies, write strategies, illustrate, animate, edit, debate, be funny, multiple languages, other super powers, will aid your cause.
WHAT WE NEED TO SEE:
• Your solid creative portfolio with a variety of projects
• Your awards list
• Your work history/CV
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.
jackie.roe@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 Johannesburg based Digital ECD (Ideally with a background as a Conceptual Advertising Copywriter, or Art Director) to join our management team and be part of this audacious vision and partner with us to lead our large and very quickly growing digital offering. We are looking for a brave, bright, optimistic problem solver. We’re looking for an ever-hungry, idea-monster, tech-lover, award-eater, inspirational leader.
Responsibilities include:
• The idea. The sell. The execution. (Be brilliant at all three. Mentor brilliance in all three.)
• Leadership.
• Push everyone you work with to push the limits of original thought, creativity, craft, technology and innovation to help our clients build the strongest, most iconic and most awarded brands in the world.
• Help to drive award-winning, digital-first thinking on digital only and social campaigns as well as on TTL briefs.
• Assume responsibility for the quality of the digital creative work across the agency and client portfolios.
• Drive innovation and best practice when it comes to all aspects of digital.
• Oversee creative teams: art directors, writers, designers, animators, editors, content managers and any other content creators that may work on your briefs. (all development is done externally)
• Look after the details: the integrity of the craft and the idea of every execution from beginning to end.
• Mentor & manage your team – keep the people you lead happy, inspired and motivated.
• Allocate work to teams in collaboration with traffic, your CDs and Business Partners.
• Inspire creatives and the agency at large to always know and continually supersede the best creative work, locally and in the world.
• Lead with strength, respect, honesty, compassion, discipline.
• Give recognition and encouragement to those that work with you and those that report to you.
• Build strong, open and trusting relationships with your clients.
• Do your own award-winning work.
• Have more fun, more often. Help those you work with to do the same.
Your success measure: Is the agency's digital work winning? Is the digital creative department happy and productive? Are you seamlessly integrated with the rest of the agency teams?
Key focus areas:
People
• Probably the most important part of your job. Rallying all agency disciplines from strat - account management - production - creative teams - traffic behind solving problems and creating great digital and of course digitally led TTL work.
• You are also responsible, along with the rest of the leadership team, for the happiness, performance and motivation levels of the entire digital creative department.
• You are both manager and mentor - you need to facilitate and inspire great work. You need to have the excellent interpersonal skills and buy–in from all.
Conceptual
• You are ultimately responsible for the quality of thinking and executions that you and the teams under you produce.
• This should be of a consistently high quality. You should be able to both develop and inspire great, fresh, impactful thinking.
• Drive a strong digital agenda that is integrated with the rest of the agency.
• Having an integrated view on work is essential. Channels do not live in isolation.
Execution
• You are the benchmark of quality and the standard for your discipline in the agency.
• The crafts of ideation, strategic thinking, writing, art direction, design, animation and so on for digital should be beyond question and be the envy of all, inside and outside the agency.
• Attention to the delivery of faultlessness on even the smallest jobs – and the delivery of at least ‘platform fit’ and ‘best practice’, when better than that isn’t possible.
Presentation
• You will need to be able to present work well to the most senior clients and organisational heads.
• You will be responsible for presenting your teams' pitch work.
• You will need to be able to present work right from strategy to creative execution.
Production
• You will be responsible for all production decisions: from the choice of suppliers to the quality of work you extract from them.
• You should feel confident having the final say on work before it goes to client and the media.
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.
jackie.roe@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 as such, are looking for a dynamic Digital Conceptual Art Director / Designer with 5+ years’ experience to join our JHB agency and be part of this audacious vision.
The ideal candidate will be able to ideate and execute brave, innovative work. We’re looking for a motivated individual capable of generating new ideas and then implementing them; someone who gets passionate about what technology can do for creativity and what creativity can do for the world. We like hungry. We like strategic. We like kind. We like crazy. We like brutally simple, original thought. We like brand builders. We like insightfulness. We like diversity of thought. We like people who’re never satisfied with their list of awards already won; who remain obsessed with continually building their portfolios. We’re looking for a strong art director with genuine digital experience, but TTL experience is always a plus – and if you really can’t say goodbye to your current writer (and they’re at least as good you) we’ll consider applications from teams too.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The idea. The sell. The execution. (Be brilliant at all three. Inspire brilliance in all three from those you work with.)
Your number one job is to work with your writer to crack big, hairy, fresh ideas and then sell them hard and execute them perfectly. You’ll work closely with the creative director in determining the art direction of new projects and then make sure that your great ideas are implemented to the highest standards. You’ll be expected to function well in a team, and bring a spirit of collaboration with you when you walk through the door every morning.
Creative
• Monitor the conceptual and visual evolution of each project
• Ensure that the highest creative and design standards are met
• Become a champion of the brands you work on
• Prepare and present your own creative solutions as well as that of your team’s
• Never just crack your briefs. Always be actively seeking out and working proactive opportunities
Production
• Lead projects from the brainstorming session all the way through to the very last element
• Assist when needed in pitches and client presentations
• Assist our team of designers to deliver the best possible work
• Make sure that design guidelines and consistency standards are met
• Craft every detail to death
• Work hard to inspire your partner, your colleagues and suppliers to deliver the best work of their careers.
EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:
You’ll need to be adept in all relevant design software and practices; these are the proficiencies we’re looking for:
• Lateral thinking
• Technical proficiency in all the usual software we use on a daily (Adobe suite etc)
• Mastery of the principals of design, art and art direction
• A love for presentation
• A thorough understanding of digital platforms: Web & Microsites, Digital Media, Social Media, Tech Innovation
• Extra skills, like the ability to draw, write, take photos, make movies, write strategies, illustrate, animate, edit, debate, be funny, multiple languages, other super powers, will aid your cause.
• Positivity and Integrity
WHAT WE NEED TO SEE:
• Your solid creative portfolio with a variety of projects
• Your awards list
• Your work history/CV
1 WAY YOU WILL BE MEASURED
• Remarkable (and award winning) work that works.
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.
jackie.roe@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 Johannesburg based Digital CD (Ideally with a background as a Copywriter) to join our team and be part of this audacious vision. We are looking for a brave, bright, optimistic problem solver.
Responsibilities include:
• The idea. The sell. The execution. (Be brilliant at all three. Mentor brilliance in all three.)
• Push everyone you work with to push the limits of original thought, creativity, craft, technology and innovation to help our clients build the strongest, most iconic and most awarded brands in the world.
• Help to drive award-winning, digital-first thinking on TTL briefs.
• Assume responsibility for the quality of the digital creative work across the agency and client portfolios.
• Drive innovation and best practice when it comes to all aspects of digital.
• Oversee creative teams: art directors, writers, designers, animators, editors, content managers and any other content creators that may work on your briefs. (all development is done externally)
• Look after the details: the integrity of the craft and the idea of every execution from beginning to end.
• Mentor & manage your team – keep the people you lead happy, inspired and motivated.
• Allocate work to teams in collaboration with traffic and other CDs and Business Partners.
• Inspire creatives and the agency at large to always know and continually supersede the best creative work, locally and in the world.
• Lead with strength, respect, honesty, compassion, discipline.
• Give recognition and encouragement to those that work with you and those that report to you.
• Build strong, open and trusting relationships with your clients.
• Do your own award-winning work.
• Have more fun, more often. Help those you work with to do the same.
Your success measure: Is the agency's digital work winning? Is the digital creative department happy and productive? Are you seamlessly integrated with the rest of the agency teams?
Key focus areas:
People
• Probably the most important part of your job. Rallying all agency disciplines from strat - account management - production - creative teams - traffic behind solving problems and creating great digital and of course digitally led TTL work.
• You are also responsible, along with the other CDs, for the happiness, performance and motivation levels of the entire digital creative department.
• You are both manager and mentor - you need to facilitate and inspire great work. You need to have the excellent interpersonal skills and buy–in from all.
Conceptual
• You are ultimately responsible for the quality of thinking and executions that you and the teams under you produce.
• This should be of a consistently high quality. You should be able to both develop and inspire great, fresh, impactful thinking.
• Drive a strong digital agenda that is integrated with the rest of the agency.
• Having an integrated view on work is essential. Channels do not live in isolation.
Execution
• You are the benchmark of quality and the standard for your discipline in the agency.
• The crafts of ideation, strategic thinking, writing, art direction, design, animation and so on for digital should be beyond question and be the envy of all, inside and outside the agency.
Presentation
• You will need to be able to present work well to the most senior clients and organisational heads.
• You will be responsible for presenting your teams' pitch work.
• You will need to be able to present work right from strategy to creative execution.
Production
• You will be responsible for all production decisions: from the choice of suppliers to the quality of work you extract from them.
• You should feel confident having the final say on work before it goes to client and the media.
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.
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.
5 THINGS YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
3 THINGS YOU MUST HAVE:
1 WAY YOU WILL BE MEASURED:
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.
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 to work on the TAKEALOT account.
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 AEs to ADs
• 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.
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.
CONNECT is a dynamic media company, which operates as part of the M&C Saatchi Group of companies in South Africa.
We employ brave and bright individuals with an entrepreneurial attitude to build and evolve our offering in a fast-changing, competitive landscape.
We work on some of the best brands in South Africa within diverse categories.
Our CPT office is looking for a Media Planner to join our team.
Four focus areas:
1. Project Management- You take ownership of media plans and implementation. Your media plans are considered & accurate and you commit to adhere to the deadlines made to our clients.
2. Stakeholder & Integration Management - You understand that your role is not in isolation of the other partners – e.g Media owners, Account Management, Buying Agencies and Creative teams. As such, your orientation is to drive collaboration and integration in an effort for your teams to work better together.
3. Client facing – We are looking for a planner that would be comfortable to share the rationale behind a plan with clients and pro-actively manage the client relationship when it comes to planning and implementation (alongside a strategist.)
4. Attention to detail: You pay attention to the detail and worry about the little things, with strong organization, admin and time management skills. You are pro-active to flag any elements that could impact delivery.
Qualities we are looking for:
1. Media Savvy: You have the ability to have your finger on the pulse when it comes to the media landscape: you are genuinely interest in how people consume media.
2. Proactive Problem Solver - Your ability to solve in the positive, makes all the difference, because you not only find and implement solutions, but you do so by consulting with relevant stakeholders to ensure no deadline is missed. You never panic, and instead provides calmness to the storm.
3. Integrated: You are able to "connect the dots" and willing to work as an integrated part of our media team. You don’t distinguish between online and offline plans.
4. Can-do attitude: We are a small business, so this person will need to have a can-do attitude and willing to work and learn in a fast-paced, exciting environment without feeling overwhelmed.
Six things you must have:
1. Matric certificate with college or university exemption
2. Must have at least 3 years' advertising background with TTL (ATL, & Digital) experience and an understanding of the key departments, processes and structures within a Media Agency
3. Maths literate: You must take ownership for your media plans and be super diligent with numbers and a master around excel sheets. We expect the you to quality control your own media plans and client’ budgets; accurately calculate commissions and discounts,be super detailed to track media budgets and commitment deals; spot mistakes.
4. Computer literate: Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel
5. Media industry tools expert: You must have recent experience using Telmar, Transit and Adex.
6. Good understanding of the SA research landscape and the various studies to profile media consumption – eg E.S.
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