Rita Kanji

you looking at me? Resume EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY 2010 — current Freelance Consultant - Creative Director / Strategist / Designer / Storyteller Achievements: Various top tier agencies I work with clients to solve diverse and complex challenges, leading with curiosity and empathy to make things happen. — Leading, inspiring and managing teams. — Involvement and wins in pitches and proposals. — Project lead. I think and do with teams of designers, researchers technologists, writers, strategists, and managers to ensure we’re creating meaningful designed experiences. Sometimes it means saying no, but not without a vision towards a greater yes. My flexibility has allowed me to deliver award-winning projects both large and small, from a simple menu to intuitive digital applications and, full internal and external brand programs from strategy to implementation, and almost everything in between. Some creative agencies include: Push Collective / Tilt Creative / Zoo / DNA Design / Truly Deeply / Various recruitment agencies Specialties: Brand Strategy and Campaign Management / Concept Development / Design services for brand, digital and experiential design / Content Writing / Campaign writing / Art Direction 2010 — 2017 Creative Director Achievements: Wink Brand Design As Creative Director, I led a diverse creative team of designers, writers, and technologists, working closely with our clients and organisations to deliver tangible outcomes across brand identity and customer experience. — Strategy and rebrand of an entire region - the Eyre Peninsula. — Re-imagined a national start up business for a global communications. — Delivered a comprehensive global rebrand and brand engagement project across 3 continents and delivering an internal brand engagement program to over 30 countries in the process. My focus was about aligning customer insight and empathy to business needs (and challenges) and organisational culture - then creating a new concise strategy, and advising of the role their brand can play through storytelling and creating a meaningful relevant purpose for their business inside and out. The work we produced crossed the globe, inspired innovation, transformed organisations and was always influenced by human-centered design — in short, we identify new directions and offerings by designing for people’s needs, behaviours, and desires. Awards: — MADC / Brand — AGDA GOLD / Identity — AGDA GOLD / Print Specialties: Brand Strategy / Creative Delivery / Experience Design / Social Media Strategy & Writing / Content Writing / User Experience Design / Digital Design / Marketing / Client Communication and Account Management / People Management and Mentoring 2009 — 2010 Design Director Achievements: Innovatio Working closely with the Creative Director and the Managing Director, I led and managed a team of art directors, designers, developers, and finished artists. — Wins of 5 pitches and proposals, converting at over 75%. — Rebuild of creative team and development. Working with some of the most famous FMCG and technology companies in Australia and beyond, we created brands and campaigns that shaped their success. I was appointed to spearhead a culture change within the creative team, and being a catalyst for improving creative output and growing opportunities for new business acquisition. Central to this initiative was revitalising the businesses brand and shifting its offering as a competitive creative agency with renewed purpose and a culture driven by exceptional design. Awards: — EFFIE AWARDS / Above the Line — EFFIE AWARDS / Financial Services — MADC AWARDS / Campaign Specialties: Campaign Development / Brand Strategy / Creative Delivery / Media Writing / Content Writing / Digital Design 2005 — 2008 Senior Designer / design director Achievements: Truly Deeply I was a member of the leadership team, with shared responsibility for creative output, mentoring and business development opportunities. Integral to being a senior team member meant managing the brands — Helping a brand increase revenue by 35% in its first year of a rebrand. — Creation of an internship / mentor program story through awards, online presence, PR and collaborating with clients. I led strategy, with responsibility for understanding clients’ businesses, the culture of their organisation, their objectives and challenges, while creating compelling approaches to grow and creating meaningful and relevant outcomes and ultimately, affecting their bottom line. I led digital projects, from needs analysis, scoping, to digital strategy, wireframing, through to project management and tech direction of front and back end builds. I led and managed design teams and also working closely with client management teams and clients to deliver award-winning projects delivering projects such as brand identities, signage, workplace graphics, and communications. Awards: — AGDA SILVER / Brand Strategy — AGDA SILVER / Identity — AGDA GOLD / Design Effectiveness Specialties: Brand Design / Campaign Creation / Art Direction / Interaction Design / Experiential design / Client & Project Management / Writing 2003 — 2005 Designer Awards: Outerspace Design Small boutique agency. Print and digital designer for a wide range of Australian and international projects including FMCG and own-brand packaging, corporate identity programmes, environmental graphics, annual reports, web design and name generation. — AGDA BRONZE / Strategy Design — MADC / Self Promotion Distinction — AGDA / Publication Design Distinction EDUCATION SUMMARY 1999 - 2003 Bachelor of visual communication Massey University, New Zealand Diploma of Photography Massey University, New Zealand Business coaching Domonique Bertolucci LANGUAGES ENGLISH / Native GUJARAT / Fluent SPANISH / Basic (currently learning) how about a chat? EMAIL-WEBSITE RITAKANJI.COM SKYPE RITAKANJI MOBILE - LINKEDIN HTTPS://AU.LINKEDIN.COM/IN/RITA-KANJI INSTAGRAM INSTAGRAM.COM/LOVERITAXOXO PINTEREST HTTPS://AU.PINTEREST.COM/RITAKANJI/ REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST