VP, Associate Creative Director. Copy

Omnicom Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Health seeks a VP, Associate Creative Director, Copy in New York to lead the Copy department, ensure strategy alignment, and elevate creative output across client brands. This role acts as the Creative Director’s right hand and mentors junior staff, with a focus on attracting top talent and driving growth for the agency’s pharmaceutical accounts.

Responsibilities include guiding creative strategy, overseeing vendors, and presenting concepts to clients and prospects, while maintaining

Qualifications

• College degree.
• 8+ years of art/design/direction experience.
• Pharmaceutical advertising experience is a must have.
• 3-4 years of supervisory experience.
• Proficiency with Macintosh and all creative programs/suites.
• Advertising or design portfolio.
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities to motivate team and sustain morale.
• Proactively seek improvements in the department and offer executable solutions.
• Keep Creative Directors briefed on projects in a timely manner.
• Develop knowledge of Clients' business and maintain brand integrity across materials.
• Manage outside vendors/resources including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors.
• Keep abreast of current advertising, design and visual communications.
• Contribute to new business efforts and present work effectively to clients.

Skills

Leadership

Copywriting

Creative direction

Team leadership

Presentation

Education

College degree

Tools

Macintosh

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Job Description

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

Title: VP, Associate Creative Director, Copy

Location: Wildtype/ New York

Department/Discipline: Copy

Overview: The VP, Associate Creative Director, Copy is responsible for ensuring that all Agency work is on strategy and meets or exceeds the highest level of creative accomplishment. He/she contributes to growing the Clients' business. They act as the Creative Director’s right hand and can step in to fulfill these functions when necessary. The VP, Associate Creative Director/Copy also acts an advocate for the agency. They help to identify and recruit new talent as well as provides leadership and guidance within their department.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high.
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements in the department and offer executable solutions.
• Keep Creative Director(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner.
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Clients' business, both the brand itself and people involved (i.e. internal client structure, individual responsibilities, and interaction between groups/individuals with respect to their impact on client jobs).
• Manage outside vendor/resources effectively from both cost and creative standpoints, including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors for premiums and printing.
• Keep abreast of current advertising, design, and other visual communications.
• Continuously explore cutting-edge, current, and unique design styles and imagery.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print production process.
• Contribute to new business efforts creatively, as a reliable steward of the work, and presenting the work in the new business effort.
• Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed.
• Consistently provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives.
• Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Clients' business.
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives.
• Attend photo-shoots; provide necessary on-the-spot feedback to vendors to effectively accomplish agency and client goals.
• Acts as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects.
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary.
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with Client/Agency Creative/Account teams.
• Help create a collaborative work environment between all departments and demonstrate ability to handle conflicts in a positive, professional and productive manner.
• Work with account service from beginning of project until the end to make sure all projects meet budgetary guidelines.
• Maintain positive relationships with and utilize the internal business group departments (electronic studio, editorial, traffic, imaging and production) appropriately.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage time and prioritize all jobs effectively, as well as oversee junior members of the art brand team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments and approving work.
• Monitor overall workload to effect efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized.
• Help supervisor manage and resolve staff issues including performance, personal presentation and internal interactions.
• Recommend adjustments/additions to the roles and procedures of the department to achieve continuous improvement and efficiency across all accounts and/or specific accounts.
• Help interview, train and orient new team members to the agency, department, and account(s) at the direction of Creative Director.
• Mentors reports by providing constructive, ongoing feedback to them as well as completing annual performance reviews.
• Provide ongoing guidance to all team members and be available to them as a resource for account/agency/departmental policies, procedures, etc.
• Keep supervisor or department head appraised of any workload challenges/concerns on assigned team accounts that may necessitate hiring freelancers or moving creatives around to better utilize their time.
• Oversee team’s time off schedules, time reporting, etc. to ensure appropriate coverage at all times for accounts.
• Maintain accurate time sheets for self and team.
• Monitor, review and approve direct report’s time sheets in terms of hours worked on specific jobs.
• Provides leadership within their department as well as across the Agency.
• Proactively provides suggestions that impact agency policy and operations.
• Demonstrates support of the Agency’s goals and mission.
• Presents a professional and positive image of the Agency both internally and externally.
• Motivates direct reports, and acts as a mentor to all within Agency.
• Identifies, recruits, trains and develops talent.

Experience

• College degree.
• 8+ years of art design/direction experience.
• Pharmaceutical advertising experience is a must have.
• 3-4 years of supervisory experience.
• Proficiency with Macintosh and all creative programs/suites.
• Advertising or design portfolio.
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.

$150,000 - $193,500

Office policy

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.

We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

For US Job Seekers

It is the policy of Omnicom and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.