Associate Creative Director - Copy

OPEN Health Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Associate Creative Director - Copy

Location: United Kingdom only

Reports to Executive Vice President, Sci Comms Centre

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of creative copy at OPEN Health, inspiring and guiding a team to deliver best-in-class work that makes a meaningful impact in healthcare communications.

Job Summary

The Associate Creative Director - Copy plays a pivotal role in leading and shaping the creative copy function within OPEN Health. This individual will combine exceptional creative copywriting skills with strong team and client leadership capabilities, driving innovative, high-quality creative outputs across multiple media channels. They will ensure the team delivers compelling, scientifically rigorous, and strategically aligned content whilst fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and shape OPEN Health’s Creative Copy function, setting and maintaining high creative and scientific standards
• Drive innovative, creative solutions that are both on brief and on strategy
• Ensure brand guardianship across client work, maintaining consistency and integrity
• Champion conceptual thinking to develop unique, compelling ideas that elevate creative work and ensure strategic storytelling
• Support organic and new business growth by contributing to pitches, proposals and thought leadership initiatives
• Stay ahead of healthcare creative trends, innovations and best practices, applying insights to enhance team output
• Drive development, implementation and adherence to quality standards best practices, processes and procedures
• Ensure team adherence to all external laws, policies and industry guidelines
• Plan and oversee creative copy workflow and resource planning in conjunction with other departments and external partners
• Address short- and long-term resource needs through the acquisition and mobilisation of staff and contractors
• Lead recruitment initiatives to ensure optimal team structure and complement
• Carry out due diligence to expand the network of creative partners to supplement our internal team
• Enhance team skills by fostering a culture of creativity and innovation, ensuring members can confidently develop content and both give and receive creative briefs
• Provide and oversee the provision of effective line management, supporting the career and personal development of assigned line reports and department members
• Ensure all line reports and department members undergo performance reviews, set clear objectives, and implement growth plans to support career progression
• Address underperformance proactively, implementing tailored support and development strategies as required

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Experience in a healthcare communications or healthcare advertising agency
• Significant prior experience leading a team of creatives within a healthcare communications or healthcare advertising agency
• Proven track record of delivering and training teams to produce innovative, high-impact creative content across diverse media channels
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to foster a collaborative and dynamic team environment
• Strong conceptual thinking skills, with the ability to develop original ideas that align with brand strategy and engage target audiences

Travel Requirements

• As required by business needs

About OPEN Health

OPEN Health unites deep scientific knowledge with wide-ranging specialist expertise to unlock possibilities that improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing. Working in partnership with our clients, we embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver fresh thinking and solutions that make a difference.

OPEN Health is a flexible global organization that solves complex healthcare challenges across HEOR and market access, medical communications and creative omnichannel campaigns.

What we offer:

As a global organization, OPEN Health is committed to supporting our employees and their families through a comprehensive benefits program:

• 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

If we sound like the sort of business environment in which you would thrive, then we would love to hear from you.

OPEN Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.