Creative Director

Havas Lynx Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative communications agency is seeking a Creative Director to drive innovative healthcare communications. The ideal candidate will mentor their team, manage projects, and ensure the delivery of exceptional creative work that resonates with clients and makes a positive impact.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Early Friday finishes

Sabbatical opportunities

Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Experience in leading creative teams.
• Strong background in conceptual idea generation.
• Ability to oversee multi-channel creative projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the origination and delivery of conceptual ideas.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the creative team.
• Oversee the creative process across various media.

Skills

Creative leadership

Conceptual thinking

Financial awareness

Job description

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What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?

Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.

Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.

Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.

Our role

The role of Creative Director will see you take responsibility for creating insightful and effective conceptual ideas, whilst overseeing and producing impactful, original, intelligent work. You will excel across a broad range of media, whilst pro-actively furthering you and your team’s skills across all areas. You will be a mentor to all Creatives in your team, helping them to fulfil their potential.

Role responsibilities

• You will lead the origination and delivery of conceptual ideas whilst guiding and shaping these with the wider team.
• You will oversee and produce creative work across a broad range of media, which is appropriate and exceeds the clients’ brief.
• You will manage the day to day running of your creative team. Providing creative nurturing and day to day management.
• You will oversee and produce creative work across a broad range of media, which is appropriate and exceeds the clients’ brief.
• You will be the lead in pitch activity – leading the Creative Team’s activity and compliment the Accounts and Strategic Teams to ensure the creative put forward is appropriate, on brief and innovative to the client need.
• You will have a good financial awareness of projects, ensuring creative ideas and execution are realistic to budget

What you can expect from us

A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.

You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:

• Hybrid Working
• Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service
• Option to buy, carry or sell holidays
• Early Friday finish throughout the year
• Seasonal working hours
• Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme
• Extensive L&D support
• Sabbatical opportunities
• Season ticket interest free loans for travel
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life insurance (4x salary)
• Company pension scheme
• Fully compensated company events
• Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more
• 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme