Softcom was established in 2007 with a mission to “connect people and businesses with meaningful innovation”. A technology company which aims to solve problems that will connect people and businesses to value that ultimately improves their lives. We want our products to enable inclusion and growth for people and businesses in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Digital Marketing Strategist
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- We are looking for a proactive, digital-oriented and experienced Digital Marketing Strategist to join our fast-growing marketing team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for concepting and building digital programs, including PPC campaigns, SEO strategies and email marketing and inbound activities from conceptualization through optimization and reporting
- This role requires adherence to a Project-based approach to managing and overseeing existing campaigns and making recommendations on how to optimize them.
- This role will serve as a strategic component across our integrated marketing approach.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and manage digital marketing strategy designed to achieve business goals and objectives.
- Set online marketing strategies that utilise all tools and channels, including emails, analytics, social media and paid media.
- Manage the day-to-day execution of digital marketing programs, including SEO, PPC and campaigns.
- Analyse web traffic and identify opportunities for improved SEO.
- Manage inbound marketing, Social Media Ads, PPC, AdWords, and SEO strategies
- Implement various frameworks available for building brand equity and value, continuallyassess alignment to the organisation’s strategic objectives.
- Recognise which digital marketing communication tools will be most effective inportraying a unique value proposition for our brand and products.
- Liaise with the content team to build SEO-optimised content designed for the website and social networking channels.
- Identify new digital marketing trends and technologies and develop cost effective solutions or strategies based on customer insight and data to enhance the overall marketing strategy.
- Monitor and analyse metrics across all digital assets and deliver reports on overall performance which consists of business insights and recommendations.
- Prepare and manage the digital marketing budget.
Education and Experience
- A Degree in Communication, Marketing or a related field may be required.
- 3+ years’ experience in digital marketing,
- Experience with Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube is essential.
- Strong experience with web analytics: developing reports, sharing dashboards, andcommunicating the story around overall performance. Proficient in Google Analytics,Google Adwords.
- At least two years’ experience managing social media platforms and managing paidsocial programmes.
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of marketing trends and techniques.
- Strong level of SEO knowledge
- Knowledge of online listening, publishing and analytical tools such Hootsuite, Meltwateretc.
- Experience working with creative teams by participating in concepting/brainstormingsessions and translating ideas.
The Person
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, in yourself and your ability to get the job done and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. As a result, you see gaps, and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Adaptability: You understand the requirements of working in a company with a startup culture like Softcom and are agile enough to take on responsibilities that advance the mission and objectives of the organization.
- Teachability: Your desire to deepen your knowledge of what you know and learn what you do not is insatiable. You leverage the people, tools and resources at your disposal to increase your capacity to deliver.
- Empathy: You seek first to understand and then to be understood. Where there is doubt, you err on the side of kindness. You de-escalate, you resolve; you constantly seek ways to foster harmony and cohesion with yourself, your teammates and the organization.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Communication, Community and Engagement (CCE) Specialist
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- The overarching vision of this unit is to create value through highly sustainable impact programs which enable micro and small businesses to take control of their own growth. The unit achieves this by designing such programs, validating them with a sample size, scaling them and accelerating their impact.
- We seek passionate, creative and intentional professionals to join our team. We offer you the opportunity to be a part of a committed, energetic and innovative team, and make a difference in the world.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Create effective communication strategies for Softcom programs.
- Coordinate external and internal communication flows.
- Create engaging content for our social media channels.
- Research and write press releases, and content for Softcom programs infographics, blogs and newsletters.
- Plan events, seminars and press conferences to promote Softcom programs.
- Collaborate with the Marketing team to implement Program strategies.
- Build long term relationships with influencers and key stakeholders.
- Support and evaluate results of communication campaigns with the team.
Community & Engagement:
- Build and Manage communities for Softcom’s program beneficiaries.
- Establish community guidelines, facilitates and moderates conversations among members.
- Engages with potential beneficiaries and building relationships with existing ones.
- Keeps beneficiary engagement with the program and with each other (via emails, social media and other offlinechannels).
- Feels the pulse of beneficiaries throughout the program. Conduct check-ins with beneficiaries to understandtheir challenges and needs and connect them to relevant resources.
- Ensure beneficiaries are complying with programme regulations through clear and consistent communication.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations, Communications or related field.
- 3+ years of working experience in communications strategy development.
- Experience in the startup/investment community is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience and knowledge in copywriting, proofreading and editing.
- Ability to use different technology applications to execute work (Google drive, Slack, Calendly, Typeform, Canva etc).
- Photo and video-editing skills.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Digital Marketing and social media knowledge.
- Experience in content production.
- Content writing experience for all media platforms.
- Proven social media and networking expertise.
The Person
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, in yourself and your ability to getthe job done and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. As a result, you see gaps, and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Adaptability: You understand the requirements of working in a company with a startup culture like Softcom and are agile enough to take on responsibilities that advance the mission and objectives of the organization.
- Teachability: Your desire to deepen your knowledge of what you know and learn what you do not is insatiable. You leverage the people, tools and resources at your disposal to increase your capacity to deliver.
- Empathy: You seek first to understand and then to be understood. Where there is doubt, you err on the side of kindness. You de escalate, you resolve; you constantly seek ways to foster harmony and cohesion with yourself, your teammates and the organization.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Associate, Marketing and Growth Specialist
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- The Project Management Oce (PMO) of Softcom’s Marketing and Growth unit will serve as the think tank and administrative hub of the unit, helping foster collaboration within Marketing and Growth and between the unit and other departments. It will also provide administrative and strategic support to other sub-units within its ecosystem.
- The Associate, Marketing and Growth will be domiciled in Marketing and Growth’s Project Management Oce and work with the Coordinator to support the delivery of projects being executed by different teams. It is in this unit that Associates will hone the skills they need to rise through the ranks of the Marketing and Growth function and to eventually lead teams within the unit.
- The ideal candidate will already have intermediate knowledge of marketing and other key concepts within the integrated marketing communication space and should have a decent track record of initiatives or projects they helped conceive or execute.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Understand a project’s scope and create documents for project requirements.
- Monitor projects on a regular basis, evaluating progress and quality, and managing the issue resolution process to ensure corrective actions are taken
- Maintain the quality of all project documents/data to assure the integrity of a project.
- Work with the Coordinator, PMO, to support team leads of various centrals or other team members as assigned.
- Coordinate the schedule of activities related to projects and help to record achievements, expenses, and measures for success.
- Monitor all project-related logistics for proper facilitation of payments.
- Coordinate, lead/participate in brainstorm and strategy sessions across marketing and growth centrals
- Prepare/support the preparation of project plans, budgets, implementation plans, and reports.
- Prepare/support the design and preparation of marketing and growth plans, budgets, implementation plans, and reports.
- Support the production/production management efforts of the entire unit
- Provide executive assistance to the Senior Vice President of the Marketing and Growth unit as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in the appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
- 3-5 years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects
- 3-5 years of experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment
- Foundational proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and SharePoint with experience presenting to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership
- Tools: MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
The Person
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, yourself and your ability to get the job done and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. As a result, you see gaps, and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Adaptability: You understand the requirements of working in a company with a startup culture like Softcom and are agile enough to take on responsibilities that advance the mission and objectives of the organization.
- Teachability: Your desire to deepen your knowledge of what you know and learn what you do not is insatiable. You leverage the people, tools and resources at your disposal to increase your capacity to deliver.
- Empathy: You seek first to understand and then to be understood. Where there is doubt, you err on the side of kindness. You de-escalate, you resolve; you constantly seek ways to foster harmony and cohesion with yourself, your teammates and the organization.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Account Associate – Retail
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Job Description
- As the Account Associate for Retail, you will be responsible for developing sales strategies and attracting new clients. You will source new sales opportunities and close sales to achieve quotas.
- The successful candidate will play a key role in increasing income and revenue by negotiating with clients, generating leads, qualifying prospects, and managing sales of our products.
Responsibilities
- Promote and sell our Retail products to target customers
- Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
- Reach out to customer leads through cold calling
- Expedite the resolution of customer problems and complaints to maximize satisfaction
- Coordinate sales effort with team members and other departments
- Analyze the territory/market’s potential, track sales, and status reports
- Keep abreast of best practices and promotional trends
- Meet or exceed sales goals.
- Prepare weekly and monthly reports.
- Give sales presentations to a range of prospective clients.
- Coordinate sales efforts with marketing programs.
- Other specific responsibilities as defined.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution.
- 1-3 Experience in a similar role in a similar capacity
- Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in sales
- Excellent selling, communication, and negotiation skills
- Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills
- Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to the audience needs
- Computer skills, especially MS Office and CRM software.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Associate Growth Marketing Manager
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Job Description
- The Marketing and Growth team of Softcom is tasked with the crucial responsibility of crafting market strategies and having a high-level oversight for all strategic marketing and growth planning that will be done within the Growth unit, ensuring that plans developed can meet/surpass the unit’s objectives at every given time.
- We are looking for Associate Growth Marketing Managers who will be responsible for driving go-to-market activities, competitive intelligence, messaging, positioning of and customer engagement for our products. The Marketing and Growth unit has significant profit and loss responsibility and will rely on its Growth team to meet its revenue aspirations.
- If you have a deep understanding of consumer behaviour and enjoy solving complex problems, if you are passionate about carefully researching customer pain points, recommending practical solutions, and developing great growth strategies to drive market success, then you’re the ideal candidate for this role.
- You will work with an experienced team of like minds across the Marketing and Growth department to develop and deploy strategies that drive innovation and growth. You’ll employ a strategic, analytical, and creative mindset to implement best-in-class campaigns and run experiments to improve our understanding of customer behaviour while continually ensuring we deliver results.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Driving both strategic and tactical marketing functions throughout the product life cycle
- Develop and execute product marketing plans, programs, and budget
- Create marketing campaigns to drive lead generation, customer acquisition, and revenue
- Develop clear messaging and tell eective stories that dierentiate our products and services in the marketplace and resonates with our target audience.
- Maintain and manage competitive intelligence and comparisons by working with cross-functional stakeholders and executing self-lead research
- Conduct market research, analysis, and evaluation of relevant data in assessing the marketplace, customers, competition, and trend
- Develop and deliver memorable consumer experience across all touchpoints both online and oine, including marketing activities such as product launches
- Optimize acquisition funnel and lead nurturing processes through paid social, organic and paid search, email, webinars, content and social media and sponsorships.
- Gain insight into customer use of current products, untapped opportunities, and buyer personas, and translate them into compelling business, product or service opportunities
- Measure and optimize the buyer journey as it relates to product feature adoption and usage. Recognize and recommend opportunities for improvement
- Measure and analyze the performance of all marketing activities and optimize marketing spend.
Education and Experience
- A Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferably in a field with strong Marketing, Business Development and Communications background
- At least 5 years experience in a B2B/B2C software marketing or an agency marketing role.
- Experience managing towards, and balancing, performance-oriented marketing goals to improve company-level P&L outcomes.
- Experience in marketing automation and Salesforce CRM.
- Experience using insights from analyzed data to inform future decisions or segmentation choices.
- Personal interest in staying up-to-date on the latest trends and emerging best practices in the community.
- Ability to prioritise resources and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
The Person
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, in yourself and your ability to get the job done and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. As a result, you see gaps, and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Adaptability: You understand the requirements of working in a company with a startup culture like Softcom and are agile enough to take on responsibilities that advance the mission and objectives of the organization.
- Teachability: Your desire to deepen your knowledge of what you know and learn what you do not is insatiable. You leverage the people, tools and resources at your disposal to increase your capacity to deliver.
- Empathy: You seek first to understand and then to be understood. Where there is doubt, you err on the side of kindness. You deescalate, you resolve; you constantly seek ways to foster harmony and cohesion with yourself, your teammates and the organization.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Finance Associate
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- Softcom is a leading technology company with a mission to ensure inclusive human growth through our products and programs. Our Programs division has been set up to deepen Softcom’s lifetime purpose of delivering inclusive human growth to society.
- The overarching vision of this unit is to create value through highly sustainable impact programs which enable micro and small businesses to take control of their own growth. The unit achieves this by designing such programs, validating them with a sample size, scaling them and accelerating their impact.
- We seek passionate, creative and intentional professionals to join our team. We offer you the opportunity to be a part of a committed, energetic and innovative team, and make a difference in the world.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for timely and accurate posting of all financial transactions in the accounting system.
- Maintain account reconciliations, journal entries, data compilation, and analysis to ensure accuracy of records and timely delivery.
- Ensures timely reconciliation of all bank statements.
- Analysis of actual expenditures against budget including budget tracking and provision of detailed reports to enable understanding of differences that may arise.
- Identify, diagnose and resolve data issues where necessary.
- Active role in the annual audit engagement.
- Provide support in handling all financial needs of the organization and ad hoc functions that may arise.
The Person
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, in yourself and your ability to getthe job done and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. As a result, you see gaps, and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Adaptability: You understand the requirements of working in a company with a startup culture like Softcom and are agile enough to take on responsibilities that advance the mission and objectives of the organization.
- Teachability: Your desire to deepen your knowledge of what you know and learn what you do not is insatiable. You leverage the people, tools and resources at your disposal to increase your capacity to deliver.
- Empathy: You seek first to understand and then to be understood. Where there is doubt, you err on the side of kindness. You de escalate, you resolve; you constantly seek ways to foster harmony and cohesion with yourself, your teammates and the organization.
Education and Experience
- A First Degree in a relevant field of study
- Relevant certification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or have started qualification exams will be a plus
- Previous experience in the technology industry
- A minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in a similar capacity
- Great communication skills both written and oral
- Great Analytics Skills
- Collaborative skills
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Programs Learning Facilitator / Instructor
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- The overarching vision of this unit is to create value through highly sustainable impact programs which enable micro and small businesses to take control of their own growth.
- The unit achieves this by designing such programs, validating them with a sample size, scaling them and accelerating their impact.
- We seek passionate, creative and intentional professionals to join our team. We offer you the opportunity to be a part of a committed, energetic and innovative team, and make a difference in the world.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Design training curriculum for Softcom’s Programs.
- Organize learning development (internal and external) programs.
- Strategically align the training and learning development programs with Softcom’s goals ofinclusive human growth.
- Oversee training methods and ensure continuous improvement.
- Ensure implementation of learning development programs and provide reports to seniormanagement.
- Develop training manuals and course materials in various formats- including written handoutsand audio-visual materials.
- Monitoring, evaluating, and taking an accurate records of training activities and programeffectiveness.
- Knowledge Management retention.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Organizational Psychology or other relevant fields.
- 5+ years of working experience in facilitating business growth workshops and training.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Sound knowledge of modern educational techniques.
- Experience with Learning Management Software (LMS).
- Well-developed understanding of learning development processes, problem solving, andorganizing and structuring agendas for appropriate results.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to effectively research new markets.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Illustrator / Visual Designer
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- A highly artistic person with a passion for creative technologies. You should be able to draw, paint and work on digital software in a variety of styles and mediums.
- Unlike artists, Illustrators have set deadlines and must always communicate with the company and clients on the overall progress and development of the artistic image.
- Ultimately, an Illustrator is a creative individual who can turn concepts into artistic marketable images.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Brainstorming with the marketing and design team to come up with image ideas.
- Preparing and designing rough draft illustrations according to the team specifications.
- Defining any budget or time limitations.
- Creating complete illustrations by combining painting, hand-drawn and digitally createdimages.
- Refining image design using illustration software.
- Enhancing the design concept using a wide range of colours and graphics.
- Applying complex isometric techniques to add perspective to design shapes.
- Formatting final illustrations using CAD softwares.
- Knowledge of layout and design principles
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts or relative field
- Portfolio of completed illustrations.
- Prior work experience as an Illustrator, graphic designer, or similar.
- Work experience using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
- Drawing, painting and digital drawing skills.
- Knowledge of image editing and design software such as Adobe Illustrator, Sketchbookand Photoshop.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Strong conceptual and artistic skills.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Business Coach
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- Softcom is a leading technology company with a mission to ensure inclusive human growth through our products and programs. Our Programs division has been set up to deepen Softcom’s lifetime purpose of delivering inclusive human growth to society.
- The overarching vision of this unit is to create value through highly sustainable impact programs which enable micro and small businesses to take control of their own growth. The unit achieves this by designing such programs, validating them with a sample size, scaling them and accelerating their impact.
- The Business Coach provides advice and assistance to entrepreneurs through developing business coaching plans, determining business needs, identifying business strengths and weaknesses, finding solutions to various business issues, making recommendations accordingly.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop a comprehensive coaching plan (strategic plan and roadmap) for program participants (business owners).
- Schedule and provide in-program and-post-program support through 1:1 virtual coaching sessions to participants
- Communicate with participants to better understand their vision and goals.
- Provide advice, clarity and support by identifying business needs, finding solutions and makingtangible recommendations on their growth goals.
- Assess participants’ strengths and weaknesses and propose guide for development.
- Assist participants in utilizing their personal skills for their business growth.
- Guide clients in the completion of strategic business growth tasks.
- Monitor business growth and establish methods for improvement.
- Keep participants accountable and motivated.
- Analyze strategic plans that have contributed to the company’s successes and/or failures
- Work with the Program Intelligence Specialist to gather, document and present data onparticipants’ progress.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Business Administration, Organizational psychology or other relevant fields.
- 7+ years of experience in business consulting, analysis or management.
- Relevant experience in supporting start-up growth.
- Strong business acumen and problem solving skills
- Effective communication and active listening skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills; motivation, leadership and patience.
- Strong digital competence and experience with virtual office management and calendaringsoftware.
- Organizational skills, attention to detail.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Lead, Financial & Management Reporting
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- The Lead, Financial Reporting function will focus on delivering monthly/quarterly/annual management and financial reports.
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for the process flow and organization of all general ledger posting and balance sheet items reconciliations.
- He/she will maintain accounting controls by executing and operating in line with all policies and procedures and coordinating with Finance Business Partners for the timely delivery of financial information relevant to each division of the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for timely delivery of financial and regulatory reporting requirements
- Preparation of statement of financial, statement of profit or loss, cash flow statement, andforecast
- Keep abreast of relevant regulatory requirements including applicable IFRS and TaxLegislation that affect business operations.
- Analysis of all proposed and existing legislation to avoid legal challenges in all financialreports.
- Scheduling for all filing deadlines (VAT filing, WHT filing, and Filing of Annual report) andensure compliance with all regulatory bodies.
- Maintain account reconciliations, journal entries, data compilation, and analysis to ensureaccuracy of records and timely delivery.
- Lead role in the external audit process.
- Analysis of actual expenditures against forecast and provision of detailed reports toenable understanding of differences that may arise.
- Coordinate with Finance Business Partners to compile and review individual units’ financialinformation.
- Provide support in handling all financial needs of the organization and ad hoc projectsthat may arise.
Education and Experience
- A First Degree in a relevant field of study
- Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in a similar capacity
- A relevant certification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or have started qualification exams
- Previous experience in the technology industry
- Great communication skills both written and oral
- Great Analytics Skills (key for reporting function)
- Collaborative skills and are a team player.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Creative Designer
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Job Description
- The Creative Designer role includes the entire process of defining requirements, visualizing, and creating graphics including social media creatives, illustrations, brochures, flyers, logos, and layouts.
- Your creatives should capture the attention of those who see them and communicate the right message. For this, you need to have a creative flair and a strong ability to translate requirements into design.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Study design briefs and determine requirements
- Schedule projects and define budget constraints
- Conceptualize visuals based on requirements
- Prepare rough drafts and present ideas
- Develop illustrations, logos and other designs using software or by hand
- Use the appropriate colors and layouts for each graphic
- Work with copywriters and creative director to produce a final design
- Amend designs after feedback
- Creating and delivering graphics and motion graphics for various media
- Ensure final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on-brand
- Working with art and creative teams to select audio, video, colors, animation,etc. for graphic design
- Editing video footage and adding effects/elements to enhance motion graphics
- Prepare design plan, concept and layout for motion graphic projects
- Create and deliver motion graphics for various media such as web, mobile, etc.
- Assist in designing and creating storyboards
- Participate in brainstorming sessions to share new design perspectives and ideas
- Maintain and follow best practices for version control, naming conventions and organization of graphic files
- Stay up to date on the latest motion design styles and technique
The Person
- Creativity: The Creative Designer must have the ability to come up with new ideas, innovative designs, and tap into your creative resources. Having a great visual eye, accuracy, and attention to detail are also essential. A never-ending desire to learn new techniques and technology to advance your craft. The Creative Designer must be very comfortable with traditional paper sketching of objects and characters.
- Technical skills: Experience using technology is a basic tenet of creative design. Knowing how to use Adobe’s creative software—specifically Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop is a base requirement and common motion graphics design software
- Teamwork skills: You must be able to collaborate and get along with other creatives in the design team.
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, in yourself and your ability to get the job done, and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. You see gaps and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Time management skills: You’ll often find that you’re juggling several projects almost simultaneously.
- Superb visual and conceptual skills to solve problems and create novel solutions
- You have a keen eye for design and aesthetics
- You are organized and can prioritise effectively
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and can clearly articulate your ideas
- You are a strong team player who can collaborate effectively with different creatives
Requirements
- 3+ years of motion graphics experience
- Proficiency in Adobe CC – Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premier.
- Proficient in 2D & 3D design, animation, and compositing, a plus.
- Demonstrated experience in storytelling, composition, texture, color, and animation.
- Experience creating brand identity through creative motion design.
- Experience in layout and animation of typography.
- A desire to learn and share new techniques and tools.
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team is a must.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt techniques and tools in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills and able to articulate ideas in a clear and concise manner
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Team Lead, Partnerships, Marketing and Growth
Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Job Profile
- The Partnership sub-unit of Softcom’s Marketing and Growthunit will deliver the relationships we need to multiply and deepen our reach online and offline – locally and internationally.
- The ideal candidate will be a vital source of counsel and thought leadership to the Senior Vice President, Marketing and Growth. You will be an expert in creating and managing a portfolio of partners, and creating/executing a strategic partnership development plan for soliciting, securing, and deepening partnerships on an ongoing basis.
- This position is critical to the growth and overall impact and revenue objectives of Softcom. We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of designing and driving partnership initiatives and who has built a considerable network of high-impact partners by virtue of his/her experience.
- As the Team Lead, Partnerships, you will develop and maintain a partnership management system at Softcom’s Marketing and Growth (MxG) unit. Working with other team leads and cross-functionally across the organization, you will help develop a partnerships strategy, develop tools and systems to support partnership development and management activities, and help manage specific projects and/or relationships that are uniquely dependent on our partners.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop an overarching partnerships strategy, framework and implementation plan for sourcing, engaging and managing strategic relationships across the globe
- Source, engage and onboard new partners to drive our marketing, growth and revenue objectives.
- Develop strategies to monetize Marketing and Growths platforms, media assets and strategic initiatives, driving sustainability for the unit and the organization.
- Lead the development, implementation, and delivery of the overarching partnerships strategy at the Marketing and Growth unit.
- Take responsibility for acquiring existing partners and working with them to ensure promises made by Softcom are kept.
- Continuously evaluate partnerships for opportunities to deepen, optimise and monetize opportunities as they become evident.
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure partner implementations are delivered as agreed and comply with our branding/marketing standards.
- Providing ongoing actionable insights into partnership performance to relevant stakeholders within the unit and across the organization.
- Analyzing the performance of existing partnerships to extract actionable insights (e.g. best practices, areas of improvement).
- Creating insightful presentations/reports that facilitate decision-making for internal stakeholders and the group at large.
- Work with project owners to ensure maximum visibility for Softcom, its products or initiatives
- Liaise with agencies where necessary to reach maximum engagement and impact.
The Person
- Belief: You believe in the company and its mission, yourself and your ability to get the job done and in your teammates and the sincerity of their intentions.
- Ownership: You are dependable. You will do what is required, not what is requested. As a result, you see gaps, and you continually work to ensure they do not impact the outcomes of your deliverables.
- Adaptability: You understand the requirements of working in a company with a startup culture like Softcom and are agile enough to take on responsibilities that advance the mission and objectives of the organization.
- Teachability: Your desire to deepen your knowledge of what you know and learn what you do not is insatiable. You leverage the people, tools and resources at your disposal to increase your capacity to deliver.
- Empathy: You seek first to understand and then to be understood. Where there is doubt, you err on the side of kindness. You de-escalate, you resolve; you constantly seek ways to foster harmony and cohesion with yourself, your teammates and the organization.
Requirements
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Social Sciences, Humanities or the Arts
- Minimum 6 years of experience in consulting, Integrated marketing communications, international development/relations or similar fields.
- Entrepreneurial experience with a proven track record driving profitable/impactful partnerships for client/own initiatives is a major advantage.
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills, but also able to work independently
- Adept at managing multiple projects and stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Skilled in preparing effective and well-structured presentations with clear narratives.
- International experience is a big plus; the candidate must have high enthusiasm about working with multicultural partners across markets globally.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note: Must have a portfolio/reel highlighting your range and quality of professional creative work to be considered for this position
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