About this role
Winning Form was founded in 1987 and has since grown to become a prominent brand in South Africa. Over the years, Winning Form has expanded to include four other companies, SplashOut, Star Merchant, Star Bar & Café and Racing Distribution, making it a large and dynamic brand with a wide range of expertise.
The Winning Form Group has created an environment where our Team can thrive. We believe in fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Our Team is made up of talented individuals who are passionate about their work and committed to delivering the highest quality results.
As a part of our Team, you will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with Team Members from different areas of the business, grow with our development plans and contribute to the success of the Wining Form Group.
- Graphic design team leadership, creative direction, design quality control and brand consistency across multiple portfolios
- Design workflow coordination, job ticket management, task allocation, workload prioritisation and deadline monitoring
- Graphic design and artwork development, creative concept execution, brief interpretation and visual communication
- Print production and pre-press knowledge, including dye sublimation, signage, litho and flexographic printing, and print-ready artwork preparation
- Brand management, corporate identity compliance, design standards, legal requirements and artwork specification control
- Project and campaign coordination, client brief management, design approvals, stakeholder liaison and cross-departmental communication
- Team supervision, staff performance reviews, mentoring, skills gap identification, training and development of junior designers and interns
- Quality assurance, artwork proofing, attention to detail, error detection and final design approval coordination
- Operational process improvement, design file management, stock library maintenance, job tracking and turnaround time reporting
- Problem solving, planning, time management, accountability, customer service, communication and continuous improvement
- Oversee the design team.
- Oversee look and feel as well as quality for all work generated from the department.
- Liaison between designers and other 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).
- Create processes and systems within the department as a whole.
- Conduct team member Performance reviews.
- Identify skills gap and suggest learning and development training in the areas that require attention
- Conduct weekly team member/team Leader 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.
- Attend and participate in campaign meetings to understand the artwork required from design team and to allocate it and brief team correctly.
- Have control measures in place to ensure that design requests are reasonable.
- Review draft designs against briefs to ensure that any small errors are corrected before sending and getting feedback from the requestor.
- Coordinate and control design submittals for requestor’s review and approval.
- Ensure that the brand guide and brand standards as well as legal requirements are adhered to at all times.
- Implement corrective measures for identified distractions or issues causing delays.
- Oversee and maintain order and standard processes of design files and stock library.
- Manage the job ticket list, providing reports on the amount of jobs processed and information on time frames to complete the various jobs.
- Assist designer on special research and technical projects. Develop interns and junior designers.
- Assign design champions in the department and maximise the various design strengths in the team.
- Checks with end-supplier the specs required for the job to be saved and ensure designers follows these specs as so it is print-ready.
- Keep up to date with design trends, training courses or webinars as well as seminars relevant to the department’s growth.
- Matric
- Diploma/Degree
- 5+ years in a design related position
- Some Knowledge of Print Works (Dye Sub, Signage, Litho and Flexo graphic printing)