Senior Art Director

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking agency as a Senior Art Director, where your creativity will shape impactful visual concepts for leading healthcare brands. You'll collaborate with diverse teams, mentor junior creatives, and produce award-winning work that resonates deeply with audiences. This role offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to balance office and remote work. Be part of an eclectic, supportive team that values innovation and encourages personal growth. If you're passionate about making a difference in the healthcare space through design, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus birthday off

Enhanced parental leave

Generous pension scheme

Private medical cover

Monthly leisure allowance

EAP support

Quick access to remote GP

Free online coaching

Qualifications

• Proven experience in healthcare marketing with a strong portfolio.
• Ability to create visually stunning designs for complex ideas.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of innovative visual concepts across projects.
• Collaborate with teams to meet client objectives and brand standards.

Skills

Healthcare marketing

Creative design

Collaboration

Communication

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Job description

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Ogilvy 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. In 2023, Ogilvy was recognised as the most creative and most effective agency network in the world, ranking #1 on WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100 lists. The WARC 100 lists act as an industry benchmark for success based on results from the most prestigious global and regional industry competitions. Ogilvy Health is one of the largest global networks in healthcare communications and provides strategic, integrated communication solutions for our clients, including many of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry. We are 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.

About the Role

We are seeking a talented Senior Art Director to join our team and help shape the future of our creative offering. As a key member of our team, you will report directly into our Executive Creative Director and be responsible for leading the development of innovative and effective visual concepts across a range of projects.You'll work across a broad range of clients and therapy areas using creativity to help people living with a variety of health conditions, with your keen eye for detail you'll love creating content that hits at the heart, mind and soul of the viewer.

As a Senior Art Director your craft is incredibly important, we look to you to make things beautiful! You're someone with a stream of original impactful ideas and a natural curiosity for the many ways customers interact with content.

You'll work closely with the wider team to uncover and tell fascinating truths, and produce award-winning creative work. Sitting within the wider central creative team you will work with experts across the business to create work without boundaries - we call this borderless creativity.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to create visually stunning designs that effectively communicate complex ideas. You should also ideally have experience working within the health space and an understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities it presents.

There are lots of ongoing initiatives within Ogilvy Health outside of client work that you can choose to get involved in including our culture and social team andour various fantastic DEI groups, created to champion diversity in the industry, our agency and our work.

You will discover that we are a very friendly, non-hierarchical, eclectic team, bound together by a desire to do the best work of our lives.

We offer hybrid working with 2 anchor days (Tues & Weds) in our London office, Sea Containers, and 3 from wherever you work best.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development of innovative and effective visual concepts across a range of projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure all creative deliverables meet client objectives and brand standards
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the creative team
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to inform creative decisions

About you:

• Healthcare marketing/advertising industry experience as a creative, with fully rounded skills and extensive experience within an agency environment
• A proven track record of successful and ideally award-winning creative projects for pharma companies and global brands
• Strong portfolio showcasing your ability to create visually stunning designs that effectively communicate complex ideas
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - you're able to get the best from different types of people
• Ability to lead and mentor junior members of the creative team - you'reapproachable and knowledgeable, inspiring confidence in others.
• Deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities within the health space

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.

• 25 days holiday plus your birthday off and a paid volunteering day - after 2 years service you can purchase up to an additional 5 days per year
• Enhanced parental leave
• A generous pension scheme - you pay in 4% we pay 6%, following probation contributions are matched up to 10.5% (17.5% in total)
• Private medical cover (Bupa) OR dental cover OR a monthly leisure allowance of £45 to spend on your health & wellbeing
• A fantastic EAP provided by Telus which offers support, expert advice and specialist counselling
• Help at Hand - quick free access to a remote GP, mental health support, physio or a medical 2nd opinion
• Free 1-2-1 Coaching - online coaching for your professional or personal growth provided by Thrive Partners