Graphic Designer

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Company Description

Mantis, part of the Luxury & Lifestyle division of Accor, is a leading, conservation-focused hotel group with curated hotels, eco-lodges and waterways experiences located all over the world. Sustainable travellers have been enjoying eco-tourism, safaris and adventure travel with Mantis since 2000. Rooted in conservation, Mantis pursues sustainable business practices and develops tourism products that are respectful of the environment and communities in which they operate. Whether small and intimate or vast and complex, on a sweeping African plain, beach-side escape or bustling city, each is an exceptional place for guests to find themselves. While uniquely different in the experiences they offer, all are linked through a collective obsession to be extraordinary, to be rare in a world that mass-produces sameness.

Job Description

Graphic Designer

As a Graphic Designer, you'll craft compelling visuals for both print and digital mediums, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and the hotel's positioning. Your role includes conceptualizing and designing diverse marketing materials, maintaining awareness of design and hospitality trends, and collaborating with teams to meet deadlines. You'll support campaigns across departments, especially in social media and mobile marketing, while analyzing market trends. Additionally, you'll manage e-tools, contribute to web strategy development, and provide professional service. Collaboration with Sales & Marketing is key for driving profit growth, alongside fulfilling ad-hoc responsibilities within hotel protocols.

What is in it for you:

·  Unleash the excitement: enticing rewards and unbeatable benefits are waiting for you!
·  Ignite your skills with our cutting-edge Academies for rapid professional growth.
·  Cultivate your talents and watch your career flourish, locally and globally.
·  Drive change through impactful Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
·  Immerse yourself in a vibrant work environment with extraordinary colleagues.
·  Join us on a direct path to success as we skyrocket to new heights!

Key Responsibilities:

·  Graphic Design and Branding: Developing and delivering high-quality graphic designs for print and digital channels, adapting creative concepts to various materials and mediums, while ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and hotel positioning. It also involves conceptualizing, directing art, and designing artwork and collateral.
·  Collaboration and Communication: Collaborating closely with the team and other graphic designers to conceptualize ideas and execute accordingly, as well as liaising with suppliers and production companies to ensure accuracy and high-quality printed materials. Additionally, supporting the team throughout campaign and project execution and assisting with other responsibilities in the absence of team members or as assigned by the direct in-charge are key aspects.
·  Deadline Management and Support: Ensuring all artwork is submitted within specified deadlines and supporting all departments with design requests and execution, particularly for social media, mobile marketing, tracking, analysis, and control.
·  Market Analysis and Strategy: Gathering and analyzing intelligence on market threats and opportunities, building a destination-focused web strategy, and stimulating support for the development of the hotel's online strategy.
·  Technology Management: Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of design and hospitality software, technologies, trends, and updates, as well as managing various e-tools such as eCRM, CMSs, and social media management platforms.
·  Customer Service and Profit Growth: Consistently offering professional, friendly, and engaging service, executing design plans in collaboration with the Sales & Marketing department to drive profit growth, and adhering to all hotel policies and procedures.

Qualifications

·  Technical Skills and Design Expertise: Proficient in graphic design software including Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash), MS Office, Corel Draw, and Acrobat. Strong technical understanding of web technologies (HTML, Flash, CSS, AJAX) and printing processes for digital and print mediums. Creative design skills adaptable to current trends and market demands.
·  Project Management and Attention to Detail: Ability to effectively manage multiple projects/tasks of varying complexities, meet deadlines, and remain composed under pressure. Good project management skills and strong attention to detail.
·  Communication and Qualifications: Excellent organization and communication skills. A degree in Graphic Design and/or proven experience in a similar role. Prior experience in Hospitality will offer a definite advantage. Understanding of the luxury environment. Great written, spoken, and ready proficiency in English. Knowledge of Arabic will be an added advantage.

Additional Information

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:  We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.

Why work for Accor?  We are far more than a worldwide leader. We welcome you as you are and you can find a job and brand that matches your personality. We support you to grow and learn every day, making sure that work brings purpose to your life, so that during your journey with us, you can continue to explore Accor’s limitless possibilities.

By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow's hospitality. Discover the life that awaits you at Accor, visit  https://careers.accor.com/

About Mantis Collection: Mantis is a boutique hospitality group that was founded by conservationist Adrian Gardiner in 2000, with its main focus predominantly in Africa and the Middle East. Mantis grew from Adrian’s vision to restore and rewild degraded farmland which he developed into a widely-acclaimed Private Game Reserve. This was the first private game reserve in the Eastern Cape and the beginning of eco-tourism in a poverty-stricken province that had few opportunities outside of commercial farming. Adrian and the Mantis team successfully created a place where man and nature could co-exist sustainably. From this initial success, the Mantis model was then developed worldwide, understanding that consumers could use the Mantis portfolio as a mark of quality, consistency and character. Today the diverse portfolio of handpicked properties links up to create travel journeys, which offer guests the opportunity to experience the essence of the location in a setting of tailored luxury. Rooted in conservation, Mantis pursues sustainable business practices and develops tourism products that are respectful of the environment and communities in which they operate.

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