Creative Director

Ogilvy Health UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ogilvy Health UK is seeking a Creative Director with a strong art direction background to lead creative work on key healthcare accounts. You will balance hands-on creative leadership with team development, ensuring exceptional work and a thriving creative culture.

The role requires 8+ years in advertising, a portfolio showing strong storytelling, and collaboration with client service and strategy to deliver insights-driven ideas.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in advertising/agency creative roles.
• Proven experience as an Art Director progressing into creative leadership.
• Healthcare/pharma experience preferred (HCP and/or DTC).
• Portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual and visual storytelling ability.
• Experience mentoring junior creative talent.
• Excellent collaborator who thrives in cross-functional, client-facing environments.
• Comfortable navigating regulatory/compliance considerations inherent to healthcare marketing.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive creative direction across key accounts, ensuring bold ideas that meet client and patient needs.
• Bring strong conceptual thinking to briefs and balance hands‑on art direction with leadership across digital, print, and campaigns.
• Mentor and develop art directors, designers, and copywriters on the team, fostering a high-standard culture.

Skills

Art Direction

Creative Leadership

Team Mentoring

Stakeholder Management

Job description

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.

Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

Ogilvy Health is seeking a Creative Director with a strong art direction background to lead creative work on key accounts within our healthcare portfolio. This individual will balance hands‑on creative leadership with team development, ensuring both exceptional work and a thriving creative culture.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

• Own and drive creative direction across key accounts, ensuring big, effective ideas that meet client and patient/HCP needs
• Bring strong conceptual thinking to every brief—pushing beyond the expected to deliver work that's both strategically sound and creatively distinctive
• Maintain hands‑on involvement in art direction, from concept through execution, across digital, print, and campaign work

Team Development

• Mentor and grow art directors, designers, and copywriters on the team
• Foster a collaborative, high-standards creative environment
• Provide constructive feedback and creative direction that elevates the work and the people making it

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Client Service to align creative solutions with business objectives and timelines
• Work hand-in-hand with Strategy to ensure ideas are rooted in insight and built to perform
• Present and defend creative concepts confidently to clients and internal stakeholders

What We\'re Looking For

• 8+ years in advertising/agency creative roles, with proven experience as an Art Director progressing into creative leadership
• Healthcare/pharma experience preferred (HCP and/or DTC)
• A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual and visual storytelling ability
• Experience managing and developing junior creative talent
• Excellent collaborator who thrives in cross-functional, client-facing environments
• Comfortable navigating regulatory/compliance considerations inherent to healthcare marketing

How We\'ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We\'ll empower you with the tools you\'ll need to succeed. We\'ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We\'ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we\'ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you\'ll be proud, with people you\'ll be proud to call your teammates.

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they\'re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we\'re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.