Branding and Design Specialist

Core Purpose of the Role:
The Branding and Design Specialist will be responsible for strengthening the marketing function by owning day-to-day marketing execution and brand delivery, enabling the Marketing Manager to focus on customer, product, and strategic requirements as the business scales. This role reduces design lead times, improves cross-departmental collaboration, and ensures consistent branding across all internal and external initiatives, including internal events.

Position of the job in the organisation:
The Branding and Design Specialist will report directly to the Marketing Manager.

Principal responsibilities:
The Branding and Design Specialist will play a key role in strengthening both internal and external brand presence. This role will support the planning and delivery of brand-led initiatives, marketing events, and internal initiatives, while managing external design suppliers and producing some in-house design work. The ideal candidate is hands-on, organised, creatively minded, and comfortable working across multiple marketing disciplines.

Key Responsibilities:

Ownership & Execution of Company Branding

• Develop and execute company-branded collateral across digital and print E.g. Posters, PowerPoint Presentations, Word documents, Brochures, Branded Giveaways, Digital Assets including Slack comms, signatures, GIFs, Google Ads
• Ensure consistent application of brand guidelines across all marketing materials & promotional items
• Produce and update brochures, presentations, signage, merchandise, and promotional materials
• Act as brand custodian in the execution phase, ensuring quality control before release
• What does success look like: Consistent, high-quality branded materials across the organisation.

Events Support & Coordination

• Coordinate marketing logistics for events (collateral, branding, supplier coordination, timelines)
• Manage branded materials required for events (banners, presentations, digital assets, giveaways)
• Support on-site execution where required
• Assist with post-event follow-up communications and reporting

Graphic Design Coordination & Execution

• Brief, coordinate, and manage graphic design work (with external designers)
• Ensure all artwork aligns with brand standards and campaign objectives
• Maintain version control and proper storage of all creative assets
• Produce basic to intermediate design work such as social media graphics, internal communications assets, Power Point Presentations and templates, event collateral

Campaign Execution Support

• Support rollout of marketing campaigns across digital and offline channels
• Assist in coordinating timelines, assets, and stakeholder inputs
• Prepare campaign collateral (email, social, landing page content coordination, HubSpot)
• Track and report on campaign execution milestones

Maintenance & Upkeep of Company Templates & Brand Documents

• Maintain and update branded templates (presentations, letterheads, email signatures, reports,
• proposals)
• Ensure all departments use the latest approved templates
• Archive outdated materials and manage document version control
• Support internal teams with access to approved branded resources

Experience & Skills

• Experience in a marketing or brand-focused role
• Strong understanding of branding principles and marketing fundamentals
• Experience supporting events and working with multiple stakeholders
• Experience managing external suppliers or agencies
• Basic to intermediate design skills using tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, In-design or similar
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Knowledge of digital marketing channels (social media, email, websites)

Specific attributes:

• Highly organised and proactive
• Creative with a strong visual eye
• Confident communicator with good stakeholder management skills
• Able to work independently and collaboratively
• Adaptable and comfortable juggling multiple priorities

Desirable attributes:

• Team Player
• Must be adaptable and resilient

What Does Success Look Like?

By 3 Months

• I will be fully embedded in brand guidelines, templates, and workflows.
• I will independently deliver day-to-day marketing and design outputs with minimal rework.
• I will noticeably reduce design and execution bottlenecks for the Marketing Manager.

By 6 Months

• I will confidently manage cross-departmental marketing requests end-to-end.
• I will deliver consistent, on-brand support for internal initiatives and events.
• I will be seen as a reliable execution partner across the business.

By 12 Months

• I will operate as a trusted brand custodian across teams.
• I will enable the Marketing Manager to focus on strategy, customers, and product priorities.
• I will contribute to scalable marketing processes that support business growth.

Core Values:

We hire, reward, and recognise our team against these values. It is imperative that you believe in these values and demonstrate them consistently.

• We are passionate and proud of what we do.
• We communicate candidly, especially when it is difficult
• We take the initiative, share our mistakes, and grow together
• We are dependable and take accountability
• No one person is bigger than the solution - no egos.

We are currently only considering candidates based in South Africa with valid working rights. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider applications from outside the country at this time.