Associate Creative Director - Copy

Publicis Groupe ANZ; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401K plan

Parental and family care leave

Job summary

Saatchi & Saatchi Health in New York, NY is seeking an Associate Creative Director, Copy to lead creative work and teams, partnering with account management to ensure client satisfaction with output. The role demands a strong track record in copywriting, healthcare campaigns, and executive-level collaboration.

The candidate will guide briefs, inspire teams, and maintain high standards for all client deliverables while supporting new business efforts and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of copywriting-focused agency experience.
• Minimum 2 years pharmaceutical agency experience.
• Consumer-focused campaign samples to share inclusive of broadcast and onset experience.
• A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment as displayed in a strong book of work to share.
• Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creative work with the Creative Directors to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and plan for team growth.
• Inspire creative teams to produce exceptional concepts and final work for healthcare clients.
• Develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight and direction.
• Ensure presentations to clients meet high professional standards and align with strategy.
• Manage workload and deadlines to maximize productivity and billable hours.

Skills

Copywriting

Agency experience

Presentation skills

Client communication

Team management

Travel flexibility

Pharmaceutical advertising

Job description

Company description

At Saatchi & Saatchi Health, we believe in making the impossible possible in health. We partner with our clients to turn complexity into clarity, ideas into impact, and ambition into real-world outcomes.

By combining creativity, data, and technology, we create work that doesn’t just reach people--it moves them, connects with them, and makes a difference in their lives. Because when our people bring curiosity and courage to the work, we unlock new possibilities for our clients, and better outcomes for the patients they serve. We’re here to push what health can be. And to make it matter.

Overview

The Associate Creative Director, Copy is responsible for leading the creative work. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently produce exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Work with the Creative Director(s) to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the team.
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand and appreciate their marketing challenges and are responsive to their strategic needs.
• Train new employees on responsibilities and agency procedures, and work with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
• Work with the upper management team to plan and pursue continuing strategic growth of agency billings and participate in new business pitch opportunities.

Creativity

• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration.
• Inspiring creative teams to produce the best work possible.
• Evaluating concepts, copy and art, at pre-determined points and providing direction prior to review by account management.
• Setting high creative standards that lead to a body of work that creates enthusiastic customers and clients, and is consistently recognized by agency management as on strategy and unique to the healthcare sector.
• Leading the creative efforts on new business assignments, as needed.
• Ensure that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.

Productivity

• Manage the workload for assigned book of business to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
• Manage book of business to ensure that the creative team maintains a high percentage of billable hours.
• Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of copywriting-focused agency experience
• Minimum 2 years pharmaceutical agency experience
• Consumer-focused campaign samples to share inclusive of broadcast and onset experience
• A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment as displayed in a strong book of work to share
• Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically
• The ability to work collaboratively with account management
• Excellent presentation skills
• Successful experience in managing creatives
• The availability to travel to meet client and agency needs
• The availability and commitment to work extra hours as needed to ensure client satisfaction

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $170,937.00/Annually.

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/5/2026.