Group Creative Director Jobs

About the role:

The Group Creative Director is responsible for inspiring and managing the overall creative initiative for the largest account in the agency and all Creative team assignments on this account. Partners with the Head of Creative to provide creative leadership to the agency.

About Fishawack Health:

Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,300+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our 4 core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Value, Evidence and Access; and Marketing.

Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We value difference. We play for the team. We own the challenge. We enjoy the journey. At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.

What you’ll do:

• Educating the client as to what advertising is and how it can work;
• Develop and maintain an effective department structure, and help to create and maintain a high energy level and strong morale throughout the Creative team working on this account
• Participate in account planning sessions to innovate and bring next-level thinking to campaign strategy and approach to any significant client projects
• Actively train, direct and manage creative personnel
• Demonstrate exceptional design thinking and concepting skills to critically evaluate in-flight work, initiate and contribute to organic-growth opportunities, and lead new business pitches
• Evaluate creative personnel and make recommendations on headcount/staffing
• Play a significant role in and champion of new business activities and continued growth of the agency
• Possess exceptional presentation skills, demonstrating thorough understanding of subject matter. Has the ability to persuade based on a solid grasp of issues and personalities involved
• Responsible for the quality of the agency’s creative product on its largest account, as well as the quality of operation of assigned Creative personnel to this account. By example and direction, the GCD fosters an agency reputation for creative excellence. The GCD assigns and reassigns creative personnel across this account for that express purpose
• Showing how advertising can make an important contribution to the client’s marketing effort
• Explaining the kinds of input needed by creative people in terms of information along with exposure to distribution channels and consumers
• Cultivate a relationship and partner with client management and be involved with the client on the servicing of the account
• Through all of the above, pursue the objective of better creative work supported by higher advertising appropriations – with increases in measurable results for the client and profit for the agency
• Together with the account service staff and agency management, works to foster an increasingly effective and profitable client/agency relationship by:

About you:

• Proven creative leadership on consumer and HCP accounts; experience on products with multiple indications preferred
• 15+ years of professional art direction/design or copy marketing experience, with at least 10 years of pharmaceutical advertising
• Experience managing a team
• BA/BS, with coursework emphasis in communication design, advertising, or visual arts
• Demonstrated ability to produce digital and printed creative materials
• Specialty therapeutic category experience preferred

Essential skills:

• Ability to provide sound analysis of clinical data
• In-depth understanding of color theory and color relationships, typographic terms, page composition, current production techniques, photographic process for print and digital
• Must possess standout presentation skills, demonstrating thorough understanding of subject matter. Has the ability to persuade based on scientific acumen, a solid grasp of therapeutic category, the brand’s challenges, and the personalities involved
• Mastery of composition techniques (multiple elements and interactive pieces) to produce polished finished pieces, with strong attention to detail
• Comprehensive computer photo-retouching and imaging development skills
• Ability to provide insightful and creative interpretation of product research
• Superior skills in full Adobe Creative Suite, MAC O/S, MS Office
• Must be able to multitask, working quickly and effectively under pressure
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Web-based design tools a plus
• Demonstrated ability to provide effective direction at photo shoots, effectively check and approve work on press, effectively organize and prepare electronic materials for output, and communicate knowledge of assigned product(s)

What we can offer:

Fishawack Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization to encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and innovative solutions. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have offices in 19 city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

Reasonable adjustments:

We'll consider any reasonable adjustments you'd like us to put in place in the interests of fairness and equal opportunities.

Reasonable adjustments

Fishawack Health is an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in our differences and only by embracing these differences can we build a healthier world together. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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