- Oversee CGI projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring seamless execution and client satisfaction.- Track progress of multiple projects through standardized production workflows, ensuring adherence to timelines.- Cultivate strong client relationships, managing expectations and delivering projects on time.- Coordinate internal and external resources to optimize project efficiency.- Facilitate and lead team meetings to provide project updates and ensure alignment.- Develop and distribute detailed timelines and SOW to guide project delivery.- Demonstrate a strong understanding of design and creative processes, ensuring the preservation of visual quality.- Proficient in managing data and financials using Excel.- Experienced in utilizing project management tools such as Click-Up and Airtable.

- Manage and support the MarCom team’s projects ensuring they are delivered on time, on brief and on budget.- Implement and transition all daily project management into Trello.- Day-to-day planning and management of the project management tool (Trello).- Continuously improve team processes and workflows to make ways of working more efficient.- Manage expenses, supplier contracts and new vendor set up.- Strong relationship management with internal team and external creatives (freelancers and agencies).- Organize and coordinate team / agency meetings.- Coordinate monthly internal report out of the team’s results and successes.

- Serving as the Group Production and Studio Manager led to an increase of over 40% in the company gross profit while driving, planning, executing, and implementing production schedules for all media departments.- Spearheading all printing, flighting, digital and image-based print-related production work, including color management, creating production-ready finished artwork, resizing and other artwork/print requirements for multiple mediums in outdoor, indoor, airports advertising, transit branding, taxi rank branding, malls, activations, events, PRASA (Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa), POS and bus shelter formats.- Ensuring client deliverables set out by the sales team meet and exceeds the client’s expectations while ensuring continuous improvement and optimal production solutions for new and existing marketing materials and concepts via skilled Vendor and Stakeholder Management.- Responsible for scheduling daily tasks and workloads, delegate briefs received from Account Managers to internal teams, designers, planners, project managers, and individuals using the online project management tools and production trackers and schedules. - Proactively resolving any operational issues while successfully meeting budgets, exceeding KPIs', reducing expenses, digitising and streamlining workflows to meet the demands of internal and external clients and ensuring smooth production and operational processes.

- Spearheaded researching and developing new concepts, structures, and technologically astute solutions for clients while ensuring milestones were met in the given budget.- Generate and revise finished artwork for a variety of image based related production needs (digital static images, OOH) for all round marketing campaigns. Managing retouching and review to ensure high-quality standards are maintained.- Generated annual rate cards per element and product offered by the company, in line with the business strategy, cost estimates for studio time, conceptualizing, design, implementation, and execution.- Assembled an integrated team of experienced designers, DTP operators, and Divisional Production Managers while placing substantial importance on solid customer and supplier relations.

- Served as Studio Manager and Senior DTP to skillfully design menus and store branding for clients like Steers, Wimpy, Nando's, KFC, Debonairs, ANAT, Fish Aways, McDonald's and execute general DTP work, managing color specification requirements to match with client's corporate identity. - Worked in partnership with all clients and the agencies associated with the client in designs and aided with any challenges that may have arisen with the client's artistic desires and profiling of computers and machines using Gretag Macbeth & OCE printing machine.- Streamlined workflow in the studio, researched and educated department members on vehicle branding, and trained new studio staff resulting in knowledge team and increased knowledge and awareness on vehicle branding.

- Successfully directed all operational aspects, including distribution, customer service, human resources, administration, and sales, following the organization's objectives.- Provided training, coaching, development, and motivation for bank personnel post-understanding the marketing, production, website design, corporate identity, product packaging, advertisements, and multimedia design.- Illustrated and planned concepts by designing examples of art arrangement, size, type size, and style and coordinating with outside agencies, art services, web designer, marketing, printers, and colleagues as necessary.

- Performed desktop publishing and word processing of complex materials for the general and graduate catalogs and updated content, implemented correlative changes, designed and formatted page layouts.- Creatively created windows, POS material, out-of-home campaigns, magazine ads, and sometimes online banners, turning designs into production files and correcting work files with the team.- Built window prototypes for internal approval, supported the marketing team by creating presentations and modified multiple master pages, added extensive hyperlinked cross-references, and applied various formats and styles for specific uses.

- Reviewed text, graphics, or other materials created by writers and designers and edited graphics, such as photographs or illustrations.- Imported text and graphics into publishing software and integrated images and text to create cohesive pages.- Revised layouts and make corrections as necessary before submitting final files for printing or online publishing.

- Inspected and examined the coordination of the printed products with the quality team for print clarity, color accuracy, conformance to specifications and external defects to ensure that product met set requirements and specifications (colorfastness, durability, and accuracy)- Ensured proper maintenance and security of printing software, database storage, and related documentation and manuals while being responsible for components of variable data printing, including the creative aspects and print production.- Communicated with designer and sample department, color department, coordinators, and merchant team for good product development issues and collaborated with Material Managers and Developers to test innovation opportunities and identify solutions to meet innovation objectives.

- Interpreted project briefs and meetings with clients, engineers, and architects to ensure all blueprints and technical drawings were according to specifications.- Produced rough sketches and using CAD software to prepare detailed drawings, plans, blueprints, updated software, drawings, and other documents.- Ensured drawings are compliant with building regulations and engineering principles and continually tracked and monitored engineering and design changes.