Creative Head

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 9,066,183 - 13,599,274; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Joining and relocation support

Maternity and paternity benefits

Medical coverage for family

Life coverage

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company in Hyderabad seeks a Creative Head to set strategic design direction and elevate the design team's quality. With 12-18+ years in design leadership, the role demands expertise in engaging senior leadership, structuring key presentations, and guiding design teams. Candidates should possess strong storytelling skills and a proven ability to navigate complex design challenges. This position offers career development opportunities, competitive benefits, and a supportive work culture focused on empathy and shared success.

Qualifications

• 12–18+ years of experience in design, preferably in senior leadership roles.
• Strong background in experience design, product design or brand systems design.
• Ability to critique and elevate other designers' work.

Responsibilities

• Define overall approach to complex design problems across projects.
• Own flow, structure, and narrative of key design presentations.
• Act as senior design partner to business and executive leadership.

Skills

Design Direction

Creative Leadership

Storytelling

Stakeholder Engagement

Presentation Skills

Job description

Job Description

Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company with over 24,000 employees worldwide, committed to accelerating access to affordable and innovative medicines as we believe Good Health Can’t Wait.

Dr. Reddy’s maintains a work environment, free from discrimination, and is an equal‑opportunity employer. We are committed to employing and nurturing a qualified diverse workforce without regard to race, colour, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender expression, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We started in 1984 and now operate research, manufacturing and commercial units in 66 countries. We prioritize access, affordability, and innovation, building a sustainable future that respects people, planet and purpose.

Role Purpose

The Creative Head is responsible for setting the creative and strategic direction across multiple design engagements. This role is not about executing individual screens or artifacts, but about shaping how design problems are approached, explored, framed, and presented.

They will define the paths we explore, how many routes we take, what boundaries we push, and what we deliberately choose not to do. The individual will elevate the quality of thinking, critique, storytelling, and executive presence of the studio, while building its reputation as a trusted, strategic partner to leadership.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design Direction & Creative Leadership
   • Define the overall approach to complex design problems across projects.
   • Frame the problem, identify opportunity spaces, determine creative routes, set quality benchmarks.
   • Guide designers and researchers through clear creative intent, avoiding prescriptive solutions.
   • Provide structured, high‑quality critique that sharpens thinking, improves outcomes, and builds capability within the team.
   • Ensure consistency and depth across domains, geographies and stakeholders.
2. Presentation Design & Narrative Craft
   • Own the flow, structure and narrative of key design presentations.
   • Decide how design work is revealed, sequenced and contextualised for different audiences.
   • Translate complex research and design work into clear, compelling executive narratives.
   • Elevate presentation quality so design work is understood, trusted and acted upon.
3. Stakeholder & Leadership Engagement
   • Act as a senior design partner to business leaders, functional heads and executive leadership.
   • Lead conversations that help stakeholders understand what good design looks like, how it improves outcomes, and where it adds most leverage.
   • Confidently challenge briefs, assumptions and expectations maintaining trust and credibility.
4. Studio Reputation & Design Maturity
   • Play a key role in building Studio 5B’s internal reputation as a high‑calibre design and thinking partner.
   • Represent the studio in senior forums, reviews, and leadership discussions.
   • Help define and articulate point of view on design for the organisation.
   • Contribute to improving overall design aptitude and maturity across teams.
5. Capability Building
   • Coach senior designers and leads to think beyond execution into direction, judgment and influence.
   • Raise the bar on how design decisions are explained, defended and evolved.
   • Identify gaps in skills, thinking or approach and work with studio leadership to address them.

What This Role Is Not

• Not a pure execution role.
• Not a production or delivery management role.
• Not limited to visual or UI design alone.
• Not about volume of output, but quality of thinking, direction and impact.

Qualifications

Ideal Profile

• 12–18+ years of experience in design, with significant time spent in senior creative or design leadership roles.
• Strong background in experience design, product design, brand or systems design across agency, in‑house or hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to set creative direction across multiple parallel projects.
• Critique and elevate other designers’ work.
• Design and lead high‑stakes presentations.
• Comfortable engaging with very senior leadership and holding strategic design conversations.
• Clear point of view on design, balanced with humility and openness to learning.
• Strong storytelling, articulation and facilitation skills.
• Experience working in complex organisations or regulated environments is a plus.

Additional Information

About the Department

Emerging Markets – Branded generics is one of our biggest businesses, with branded products available in 48 countries across five regions. Key markets include Russia, China, Brazil and Latin America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN, CIS and Romania, with 13 new geographies added in the last five years.

In the last four years, our emerging markets business growth rate doubled (June ’22). We continuously advance technologies, enhance operational efficiency and expand our portfolio of high‑quality products.

With nearly 40 products and six mega brands, Russia is a key market. As of FY22, our year‑on‑year growth was 32% driven by improved performance and new product launches.

We are among the earliest Indian pharma companies with a presence in China, operating a representative office focused on filings, approvals and GPO. Our joint venture entity offers a portfolio of niche and essential products, strengthening our presence in China.

In Latin America we have a strong presence in Brazil and Colombia, with a focus on oncology and institutional products. Our team in Colombia was certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’.

Through our comprehensive COVID‑19 portfolio, we reached over 5 million patients in low‑ and middle‑income countries, aiming to reach more patients worldwide with deep science capabilities.

We keep track of emerging healthcare needs to contribute to patient welfare. Good Health Can’t Wait.

Benefits Offered

At Dr. Reddy’s we actively support career growth and professional development through personalised learning programmes. Benefits include joining and relocation support, family support (maternity and paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

Our Work Culture

We foster a culture of empathy, dynamism and shared success, with people at the core of our journey. We support individual ability while promoting teamwork and a common purpose.

Contact

For more details, please visit our career website at https://careers.drreddys.com/#!/