Senior Art Director - Multimedia

📋 Description

• Combining impeccable art direction skills with technical expertise and strong creative leadership skills, the Senior Art Director works with the Creative Director (Multimedia, Advertising & Promotional) to oversee the visual and conceptual output of a wide range of projects across the commercial, promotional and healthcare advertising spectrum.

• Working in partnership with designers, creative copywriters, strategic planners, medical writers, account teams and the Creative Director, the Senior Art Director creates head-turning creative concepts, and bring them to life, across all media.

• Produce high quality creative ideation for internal and external clients

• Push creative boundaries to exceed customer expectations

• Oversee creative integrity of all linked project outputs

• Lead a team of creatives to deliver larger, more complex projects, under the supervision of the Creative Director

• Input and lead (where appropriate) pitches and RFPs, including presentation of creative concepts to end client – with a positive success rate in line with company objectives

• Interpret and challenge creative briefs, and drive collaboration within and across creative teams and account teams, to ensure the best possible solutions are delivered efficiently

• Understand and interpret brand guidelines, ensuring outputs are brand compliant

• Oversee conceptual outputs of other creatives, ensuring accuracy, compliance, calibre, quality and creativity standards

• Lead effective training for junior team members in skills, processes and software

• Work with Creative Services Management and freelance staff/suppliers as required, including taking and giving briefings, design and quality control, in conjunction with Creative Director

• Lead on/input into standard operating procedures, best practices and training programmes across Creative Services globally, in conjunction with the Creative SLT

• Support a continuous improvement environment

• Help drive team adherence to standard operating procedures and best practices to support smooth collaboration and global workflow management

• Lead by example in maintaining filing structures and naming conventions

🎯 Requirements

• Educated to degree level or equivalent with a proven creative portfolio

• Excellent conceptual, design, layout and typography skills with strong attention to detail, proven through extensive experience in a senior creative role

• Experience in healthcare communications, and specifically commercial, promotional and healthcare advertising communications, with proven ability to foster a supportive, collaborative, continuous improvement environment

• Ability to take design concepts and produce supporting deliverables for use across a wide variety of creative platforms

• Ability to take and give creative briefs

• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, any other specialist software experience advantageous

• Team leadership and line management experience advantageous

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, multi-tasking and working to tight deadlines

• Confident presentation skills – you inspire colleagues and clients to push great ideas

• Ambition, enthusiasm and a team player mentality

• A strong work ethic, excellent communication and organisational skills, and a drive to exceed customer expectations/push creative boundaries

• A creative approach to problem-solving and an open-minded attitude

• Enthusiasm for innovation in design, software and learning new skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay, generous paid vacation and holidays, and health insurance programs across all our locations

• Ongoing training and development opportunities which foster and shape your individual career path

• An active and growing commitment to bettering the communities our employees call home through our Corporate Social Responsibility program

• The opportunity to thrive in a global, collaborative environment while working every day to improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing

• Diverse, inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your whole self to work