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Job Description
Lead creative direction for healthcare brand work across multiple media while partnering with Creative, brand, and design teams.
Responsibilities
- Set and elevate creative standards through the quality of your own work and active encouragement of others
- Develop and direct concepts for advertising and promotional campaigns
- Take a creative leadership role on brands and projects, collaborating with brand teams and creative colleagues to shape creative strategy and delivery
- Act as an authority on current creative thinking and help raise the agency profile in healthcare creative communications
- Build strong working relationships by collaborating smoothly while pushing teams to improve
- Champion a collaborative culture and reinforce the value of creativity across the agency
- Supervise, mentor, and actively train junior staff; identify and address training needs where relevant
- Constructively challenge others to strengthen the creative ideation process
- Support agency growth by identifying new business opportunities and helping develop new initiatives
- Understand commercial considerations and help ensure the Creative Department meets performance targets
- Lead new business pitch work, directing and presenting as required
Requirements
- Experience in a creative role within a recognized healthcare advertising agency
- Entrepreneurial mindset for exploring new creative opportunities
- Interest in shaping and improving offerings and ways of working; provide creative counsel to brand teams
- Ability to craft clear, compelling narratives through concept presentations that take clients through creative ideas
- Drive to test new methods and create innovative solutions that can improve patients’ experiences
- Understanding of communication platforms and design tools, including video, PowerPoint, websites, apps, print, and immersive experiences
- Evidence of mentorship, teamwork, and collaboration in recent work
- MUST BE PROFICIENT IN Figma
Technologies
- Figma
- PowerPoint
Benefits
- 401K plan with employer match up to 4% (immediately vested)
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work
- Option to work from anywhere across the globe for two weeks each year
- 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day
- Recognize 9 public holidays
- Gifted end-of-year holidays
- Early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
- Access free counselling through the employee assistance program and personalized health support
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies
About the Role
- Work with Art Directors, Copywriters, and Designers to conceive and execute brand communication and engagement projects across multiple media
- Hands-on role with reporting to the Creative Director, jointly responsible for creative quality and impact across agency output
- Act as Lead Creative on brands and mentor, develop, and nurture junior and mid-weight creatives
- Champion effective creativity internally and externally in partnership with brand teams and colleagues
Location: New York, NY (hybrid) | Salary: USD 145,000 - 175,000 per year