Associate Creative Director, Art

Company Description

At Pfizer LifeSpeed, it is both our model and culture to establish fully integrated cross-discipline teams that put our clients wholly at the center and enable us to provide best-in-class services in a fluid and modular way. Publicis LifeSpeed uses living data to create brand movements at the speed of people’s lives. We move faster, create movements, and deploy real time data that connects world class creative to content and media in service of growth and ROI.

Job Description

The Associate Creative Director (ACD) is responsible for leading the creative work that is produced on two or three accounts, depending on the account size. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently product 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, the value of our services, and our responsiveness to their needs. 

Specifically, the ACD, ART has the following responsibilities: 

Creative/Hands-on Work (40%) 

• Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight and creative inspiration 
• Work with ACD, Copy to produce standout and strategically focused concepts and campaigns 
• Take on appropriate projects and own them, start to finish 
• Manage and work independently, under tight deadlines, while juggling multiple projects 
• Estimate art hours 
• Participate in client meetings  
• Lead concept presentations 
• Attend market research as appropriate 
• Share responsibility with planning to shape strategic branding 

Management (30%) 

• Assign creative teams best suited for each project based on ability and workload 
• Manage workloads to maximize productivity of the art team, ensuring that everyone is busy and billable 
• Work closely with art, editorial and project management departments to ensure that deadlines and budgets are met 
• Provide written and face-to-face feedback for annual performance reviews, as well as ongoing feedback throughout the year (written when requested) 
• Identify and Interview prospective creative candidates 

Leadership (30%) 

• Become the creative voice for your accounts 
• Develop good relationships with your clients 
• Work with account management to grow our business at existing clients 
• Work with creative management to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the creative group 
• Lead the creative teams in development of concepts and execution of all projects  
• Assure that all designers and creatives are trained and, where needed, mentored to maintain the standards and expectations of the agency and the client, and to meet their own career goals 
• Demonstrate to clients that you understand their products and marketing challenges and are responsive to the strategic and creative needs 
• Represent the agency at client meetings and social events as appropriate 

Qualifications

Qualifications: 

• 10+ years’ agency experience
• BA degree (Advertising, Communications, Fine Arts or related field preferred)
• A proven track record of creative ability and judgment, successful client contact experience, the ability to work collaboratively with account management, excellent presentation skills, successful experience in managing creative teams and multiple accounts, and the commitment to go the extra mile in time and effort to produce the very best work 

Additional Information

About Publicis Health 

Publicis Health is the premier global health and wellness communications network. We are one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, the third-largest advertising and media company in the world, giving us unparalleled global reach. We manage top-tier agencies specializing in promoting innovative solutions in advertising, medical education, clinical trial program development, sales and marketing, digital, market access, and medical and scientific affairs. Our nearly 6,500 employees work at 15 agency brands across 60 offices located in 10 countries. We are a connected solutions hub, equipped for continual business  
transformation in today’s world. We integrate services across our global offices and brands to deliver on our clients’ needs. Each of our agencies brings a unique approach to business, which makes us even stronger together. We understand the rapidly changing healthcare environment and leverage it to maximize the potential of our clients’ brands.  

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