Associate Creative Director, Influence & Social Strategy

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of Ogilvy’s capabilities and global talent—Ogilvy Health brings forth world-class creative solutions for its clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Agency Network of the Year (Ad Age)
• Global Agency of the Year (Adweek)
• One of the “Best Places to Work” for LGBTQ+ equality (Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index)
• Most Effective Agency Network (Effie Worldwide)
• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)
• Network of the Year (One Show)
• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)
• …and Ogilvy was the first agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100 in consecutive years

For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Threads.

About the Role

The Associate Creative Director will play a pivotal role in ideating and bringing to life bold, creative programs across social media and digital channels for top Ogilvy Health pharmaceutical and medical device clients. This individual must demonstrate exceptional conceptual thinking and the ability to develop big, breakthrough ideas across all mediums including social media, influencer marketing, brand storytelling, content creation, digital experiences and activations.  You’ll partner with strategic and creative teams and some of the best social and content experts in the industry. 

Your Mission: to conceptualize and develop creative concepts that could travel across the funnel creating ideas that are social-first and best-in-class creative expressions. 

You will tailor your creative and content to audiences, platforms and culturally relevant moments. You will confidently sell your ideas to internal teams, senior leaders, clients and partners. This is a position for a seasoned, driven, results-oriented, and highly creative individual with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines, and produce highly effective creative. You must drive the work forward through organization, delivering clear feedback and specific actions for all members of the team. 

You are passionate about the life-changing impact that communications can have on the healthcare industry, social-first, creating ideas that reflect a deep understanding of platform nuances, innovative and unafraid to bring bold, unexpected ideas to your teams—and able to defend those ideas based on a deep understanding of audience behavior and cultural trends. You are a great team player and able to independently and proactively drive your work forward. 

What You'll Do 

• Create platforms for your brands with your extensive knowledge of social and digital media and technology
• Partner with account and social teams to ideate, sell in and produce brave ideas for clients in a highly regulated space
• Translate creative direction and copy points from creative briefs into engaging and effective concepts and core creative ideas
• Push the envelope creatively, bringing ideas that could create change not only in advertising but also in culture, tech and design.
• Craft work that inspires behavioral change across patient, caregiver, healthcare provider and corporate health audiences
• Ensure creative executions meet the highest standard of craftsmanship
• Comp decks quickly
• Ensure visual tone and style are consistent with brand guidelines
• Write, shoot, edit, and produce content owned across multiple channels
• Understand business objectives and audience demographics to be able to successfully land