Associate Creative Director

Havas Life Mumbai; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Havas Life Mumbai is seeking an Associate Creative Director to lead and elevate creative output across healthcare, pharma, and wellness brands. The role blends conceptual thinking with team leadership and explores AI-driven workflows.

The candidate should bring 6-15 years in a creative agency, a strong portfolio in healthcare campaigns, and proven ability to guide cross-functional teams while ensuring regulatory compliance and impactful storytelling.

Qualifications

• 6-15 years in a creative role within an agency
• Strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns in healthcare/pharma/wellness
• Experience leading teams and managing multiple projects
• Understanding of medical communication, regulatory nuances, and patient-centric storytelling
• Working knowledge of AI tools and their application in creative processes
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end creative development across campaigns (digital, print, film, and integrated).
• Drive innovative, insight-led concepts for healthcare, pharma, and wellness audiences.
• Collaborate with strategy, servicing, and medical teams to ensure accuracy and impact.
• Mentor and manage a team of designers, copywriters, and junior creatives.
• Ensure high-quality output aligned with brand guidelines and regulatory requirements.
• Integrate AI tools into ideation, content creation, and workflow optimization.
• Present ideas confidently to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Stay updated with industry trends in health communication and digital innovation.

Skills

Creative leadership

Healthcare comms

Team management

AI in creativity

Regulatory knowledge

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

Job Title: Associate Creative Director (ACD)Location: Mumbai Experience: 6-15 years Industry: Advertising Healthcare / Pharma / Wellness

About the Role

Havas Life Mumbai is looking for a dynamic and strategic Associate Creative Director to lead and elevate creative output across healthcare, pharma, and wellness brands. This role demands a blend of strong conceptual thinking, storytelling, team leadership, and an understanding of emerging technologies like AI in creative workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end creative development across campaigns (digital, print, film, and integrated).
• Drive innovative, insight-led concepts tailored to healthcare, pharma, and wellness audiences.
• Collaborate closely with strategy, servicing, and medical teams to ensure accuracy and impact.
• Mentor and manage a team of designers, copywriters, and junior creatives.
• Ensure high-quality creative output aligned with brand guidelines and regulatory requirements.
• Integrate AI tools and platforms into ideation, content creation, and workflow optimization.
• Present ideas confidently to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Stay updated with industry trends, especially in health communication and digital innovation.

Key Requirements

• 6-15 years of experience in a creative role within an agency setup.
• Strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns, preferably in healthcare, pharma, or wellness brands.
• Prior experience in leading teams and managing multiple projects.
• Understanding of medical communication, regulatory nuances, and patient-centric storytelling.
• Working knowledge of AI tools (e.g., generative AI, content automation, design tools) and their application in creative processes.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on global healthcare brands.
• Exposure to digital-first and omnichannel campaigns.
• Ability to balance creativity with compliance-driven environments.

About Havas Life Mumbai

Havas Life Sorento is India’s leading Health & Wellness marketing, communications, digital & health tech company. It’s a part of Havas Health & You, the world’s largest global health & wellness network & part of Havas India, which unites 18 companies and diversified services across Creative, Media, and Health verticals. Centred around Human Purpose, agency believes that brands rightly have a role to play in culture and make a positive impact on the wider world, thus creating meaningful brand platforms that don’t just grow, they grow well. It has deep strategic, creative, and technology expertise for modern health-brand marketing.

For more information, visit https://in.havas.com/havas-life/ and follow Havas Life Sorento on social media.

About Havas India

Havas India gathers the expertise of 20 agencies and specialised divisions across 3 verticals: Havas Media Network - Havas Media, PivotRoots (integrated digital), Arena Media, Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home), Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (sports, entertainment & content), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (pure play social media), and Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing) Havas Creative Network - Havas Worldwide India (creative), Havas People India (talent communications & employer branding), Havas CX India (customer experience), Think Design (UX/UI), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions) Conran Design Group Mumbai (branding & design), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR), and Prose on Pixels (content-at-scale) Havas Health & You - Havas Life Sorento (health & wellness communications). With its unique Village model, it is an integrated network present across 3 Villages in Mumbai, Gurgaon, and Bengaluru, and regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai, with over 2000+ professionals and associates. As one of India’s fastest growing and agile networks, Havas India has bagged multiple new clients across verticals and won several prestigious awards over the last 2 years including the group being Great Place To Work® Certified™ twice in a row (Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 & Dec 2023 - Dec 2024), consistently being featured in the top 3 at R3 New Business League rankings, and winning at Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year awards, e4m Indian Marketing Awards 2023, ABBY One Show 2023, Campaign Women Leading Change awards, and more. Our CSR programs, DE&I initiatives, and active involvement in industry associations keep us invested as a network with a clear mission to make a meaningful difference for brands, businesses, and people. For more information, visit https://in.havas.com/ and follow Havas India on social media.