Remote Senior Art Director

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.

Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you’d like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.

Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits

Location: Remote (US)

About the Role:

The Senior Art Director will be responsible for the conception and design of integrated advertising campaigns, managing the creative process, and ensuring all work is strategically and creatively on point. Ensures all projects are completed on time and within budget.

What you’ll do

• Independently conceptualize, develop and design content based on strategic direction on digital tactics
• Work with senior art staff and copywriters to develop concept and layout for client, in-house, and new business projects
• Work with senior art staff to develop conceptual abilities
• Prepare detailed layouts and storyboards
• Timely turn around on assignments
• Work with in-house art department/studio as well as outside suppliers for completion of comps
• Work closely with the editorial and project management departments to ensure that projects are completed according to deadlines
• Create and format content
• Handles multiple projects simultaneously while working under tight deadlines
• Possesses strong time management skills and is highly organized
• Fosters positive relationships between creative and other agency functional areas. Encourages strong collaborative relationships with account management and other areas.
• Will execute initial concepts through to final completion.
• Manages and leads entry-level designers/art directors. Allocate appropriate personnel and outsource freelancers, as appropriate, for all creative assignments
• Monitors overall quality of agency creative output and provides direction and leadership
• Present creative in client meetings as requested
• Performs other duties as assigned
• A digital portfolio of creative samples is required. Pharmaceutical marketing samples preferred

About you

• Minimum 4-8 year’s creative/creative management experience with a digital agency
• Pharmaceutical and/or medical device experience preferred
• Must be self-motivated, professional, detail-oriented, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable working under pressure within tight deadlines
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite experience, specifically Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
• Strong communication and customer service skills with a commitment to superior quality
• Must be self-motivated, professional, detail-oriented, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Advanced experience with MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Proficient in Sketch

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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