Creative Director, Art (Health)

About the role

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . About VML Health: VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between. It operates fluidly within the VML agency, as a core group of health specialists (a 'vertical') that has the benefit of autonomy in management, but with support of non-health expertise. At the heart of health is the story of life - all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities. But facing a health challenge can suddenly pull people away from these stories, knocking them off course. Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning. We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals' and patients' needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call 'radical empathy'. VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live. Get to the heart. Connect for life.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for on-brand creative concepts for assigned projects, working closely with copy partner, and ensures consistency of concepts across tactics.
• Grasp the creative brief for core insight and ensures creative is aligned with strategy.
• Prepare designs for review with supervisor and internal teams and is able to present a variety of execution options.
• Conduct image searches and attend shoots to assist with pre-postproduction process.
• Show experience in developing mood boards, talent selection, client review and developing shot lists.
• Understand roles and responsibilities of different functions within the brand team.
• Take detailed notes for personal reference to ensure all feedback and direction are addressed.
• Stay up to date with latest industry trends, artists, film, CGI, photography, etc.
• Be able to present confidently to client and clearly communicate how creative work/design meets the strategic and business objective.
• Manage multiple assignments of diverse scope ensure all deadlines are met.

Requirements

• Able to drive the visual approach throughout the life of a project.
• Consistently respond to creative brief with a critical eye and able to create multiple interesting concepts for execution.
• Eager to collaborate with copy partner and cross-functional teams including Account, Strategy, Social and UX.
• Proficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
• A portfolio that demonstrates creative and conceptual thinking, preferably in the healthcare/pharma industry.
• 8-10+ years of equivalent experience with 5+ years of supervisory experience.
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• $100,000 - $230,000 USD
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