Creative Director, Art (London)

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally. Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind. We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, Sense Making. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, Sense Making allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as Sense Makers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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About the role

As our Creative Director (art), you’ll be an adventurous thinker and admired practitioner – from conception to craft. You’ll join a team of experienced senior creative leaders who share a passion for Every Patient Possible, our purpose to reach the overlooked and underserved. Together, we’ll establish Avalere Health as a creative powerhouse, ready to truly push what’s possible in health. You’ll be responsible for delivering exceptional work for a diverse range of clients and help lead a diverse team.

About you

You are an experienced Creative Director or Associate Creative Director with 10 years+ leadership in health. Your background is in art, and you remain absolutely committed to the craft. It’s not just about keeping your hand in. You understand agencies; you know how to manage teams and communicate with clients to deliver the very best work possible. You have a solid track record of line management and leadership, some awards under your belt, and pride in the teams you’ve helped build. You are at your best in a pitch, nurturing ideas and executions and selling them effectively internally and externally. You are in love with ideas.

Key responsibilities

• The Work

• Work with the creative leadership team (other Creative Directors & Executive Creative Directors) to define and consistently deliver creative excellence.
• Contribute to the overall vision of the creative department, helping to set ambitious targets for our creative product, including recognition for effectiveness through creativity by our end customers (including patients and healthcare professionals), our clients, our colleagues and top tier awards institutions.
• Be part of a hands-on new business team who plan out, create, and execute brilliant, pitch-winning work.
• Regularly bring creative inspiration to the team, from the healthcare arena and beyond.
• Lead by example, demonstrating your ability to create high quality work.
• Work proactively with business leaders (strategy/client service) to look for creative opportunities across clients and accounts.
• Work on and across accounts, being ready and willing to step in whenever needed.
• Set KPIs and assess progress: course-correct and celebrate successes.

• The Clients

• Build a positive, trusting relationship with our clients.
• Impress our clients with every interaction, whether that’s surprising and delighting during a presentation, or dealing with challenges with openness and proactivity.
• Have a strong and clear understanding of our clients' business, context, and challenges.
• Look for opportunities for organic growth within the brand/business, proposing appropriate initiatives etc.

• The Agency

• Represent the agency at industry events and across industry platforms and media.
• Help ensure we are living our values and our behaviours and are true to our creative vision.
• Help set the tone and culture within the agency through your actions in (and out of) work.
• Support other departments in whatever way you can.
• Contribute to, and participate in, agency events from our ‘All Wings’ meetings, to training and client functions.
• Lead initiatives and proactively participate in the management team.
• Be proactive in creating and maintaining agency processes.

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 behaviour, 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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