VP, Creative Director, Copy

Health Science Communications; New York (NY); On-site; USD 189,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Health Science Communications, part of Omnicom Health Group, seeks a VP, Creative Director, Copy to oversee and deliver high-quality pharmaceutical marketing projects. The role demands strong leadership in creative execution and client management, shaping powerful messaging to healthcare professionals. Candidates should have extensive experience in the field and be adept at managing teams to achieve strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of pharmaceutical copy experience.
• Must effectively motivate and develop people.
• High level of communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide input into budgeting/forecasting with account management.
• Maintain client relationships and present work stages.
• Ensure quality creative output and build client trust.

Skills

Leadership skills

Strategic instincts

Communication skills

Team orientation

Problem anticipation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Marketing, and/or Journalism

Job description

Omnicom Health Group is the largest healthcare marketing and communications network in the world—partnering with clients to achieve meaningful change through better, more innovative communications. With more than 5,000 dedicated healthcare communications specialists from every corner of science, medicine, marketing, and communications, we recognize that it takes the best of talent to deliver the best of health.

When you join Omnicom Health Group, you have access to opportunities across the most networked network. What does this mean for you? Your journey may start with one Omnicom Health Group company then pivot to another, followed by a move to another where you take your career in a whole new direction building your skills and experience each step on your journey. We’re eager for you to carve a path that works for you – and we’ll help you make it happen.

Title: VP, Creative Director, Copy

Location: New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Provide input into the budgeting/forecasting process by working with account management to determine approximate number of man-hours, materials, and processes necessary for project execution.
• Utilize effective delegation, approve the assignment/reassignment of appropriate resources to jobs, and provide direction and counsel as necessary.
• Maintain a consistently high level of executional excellence.
• Ensure appropriate resources are assigned to projects, timelines are managed, and strategic brand objectives are promoted internally and with clients. As a Creative Director/Copy, adhere to internal creative standards by reviewing concept ideas and projects for strength of overall design concept, structure, uniqueness, logic flow, consistency across brand line, relevance, etc.
• Maintain positive client relationships.
• Present various stages of work product, gain client buy-in, and effectively respond to client questions and concerns.
• Provide supervision and oversight to an agency's employees and freelance staff by determining appropriate project assignments based on individual skill sets and workload, orienting new employees to an agency's SOPs, providing necessary resources and direction, and responding to questions.
• Act as a mentor to departmental employees by creating developmental opportunities, responding to questions, providing on-the-job training, giving direction on appropriate resource utilization (internally and externally). Oversee the copy process by meeting regularly with copywriters and account management to assess project development, review work product, and determine whether project is on target and within the scope of the creative brief.
• Ensure a consistently high level of quality creative output by developing strategic and creative approaches to branding and advertising campaigns.
• Develop creative direction for projects by working with account management and clients to develop creative briefs that outline processes.
• Ensuring smooth internal workflow.
• Overseeing the delivery of work to clients that meets the highest quality standard.
• Building client trust in the teams you supervise and the agency as a whole.
• Acting as a trusted adviser to personnel throughout the creative department.
• Overseeing and generating disruptive creative work that consistently exceeds client expectations.

Experience :

• Must have pharmaceutical copy experience, messaging to HCPs (direct to physician).
• Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Marketing, and/or Journalism.
• 10+ years of demonstrating strong leadership skills.
• Solid strategic and tactical instincts.
• Ability to present and sell to the client.
• Must be effective at motivating and developing people.
• Have the ability to anticipate problems and react appropriately.
• High level of communication skills.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and time constraints.
• Must possess a strong team orientation.

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

• $189,000 - $220,000

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.

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