Senior Designer in Warrington

Are you passionate about creating advertising that not only informs but also transforms lives within the healthcare sector? At Havas Lynx, a global advertising agency at the forefront of healthcare communications, we combine unmatched creativity, extensive expertise, and a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical and healthcare field. Our communications resonate deeply with audiences and adhere to the highest standards of healthcare advertising. Committed to driving meaningful change, we work in close partnership with healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and leading pharmaceutical brands to navigate the complex challenges of today's healthcare landscape.

Our approach blends strategic insights and deep scientific acumen with cutting-edge creativity and digital innovation, crafting campaigns and solutions that significantly improve people's lives. We’re a team of over 400+ people in Manchester and London, with a history spanning over 35 years and an ever-evolving future.

Summary of our role: We’re looking for a Multi-Disciplinary Senior Designer to join our creative team. You will be given the opportunity to take ownership of design excellence across projects, ensuring every piece of work meets and exceeds client expectations. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and play a role in shaping the visual direction of campaigns.

What you will be doing:

• Collaborate with a variety of disciplines, both internally and externally, to develop design solutions.
• Liaise with the client services team to determine project objectives, budget, background information and presentation approaches, styles and techniques.
• Proactively suggest effective builds and edits of briefs using your understanding of the client, audience and their needs.
• Push the understanding of this by interrogating your juniors and proactively making suggestions for improvement.
• Ability to show exceptional understanding of insights, target audiences, therapy area landscapes, brand benefits, communication objective and the idea outputs to proactively elevate the standard of work.
• Take responsibility for the work you produce through to sign off, ensuring it is completed to deadline, is of a high quality, demonstrating accuracy, attention to detail and ownership.
• Following internal and external meetings, guide the brief along with the client services team, helping them to get the best out of it.
• Be able to produce accurate estimates, clearly communicating how long you think is required to complete a piece of work, supporting the Lead Designer in troubleshooting any possible challenges that may impact the smooth progression of the project.

Technical Knowledge & Specialism:

• Expert at translating client business needs and market insight into standout creative that exceeds the brief.
• Own projects end‑to‑end, managing time, budget, and quality while supporting junior team members where needed.
• Develop strong concepts and execute them across multiple mediums, shaping imagery, typography, motion, tone of voice, and localisation.
• Confident collaborator with UX/UI teams, applying digital best practice to deliver consistent, effective experiences.
• Strong experience using Figma to design, prototype, and collaborate on scalable digital systems, working closely with UX and UI teams.
• Support the Lead Designer in creative direction, production, and briefing external partners.
• Maintain a high standard of craft, detail, and effectiveness across all outputs, delivered on time.
• Actively track trends and award‑winning work, applying new thinking, including AI‑enabled workflows to creative development.
• Clearly communicate ideas and stories to internal teams, clients, and award juries.

Portfolio & Approach:

• Portfolio demonstrating strong information design, creative use of data, and motion design.
• Self‑starter with a hands‑on mindset; comfortable working across multiple formats and channels.
• Proactive in leveraging AI tools and workflows to enhance ideation, efficiency, and creative output.

What you can expect from us:

• A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters.
• Hybrid Working – 3 days in the office (flexible working options are available for in-office days).
• Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service.
• Option to buy, carry or sell holidays.
• Early Friday finish throughout the year.
• Seasonal working hours.
• Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme.
• Extensive L&D support.
• Sabbatical opportunities.
• Season ticket interest free loans for travel.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life insurance (4x salary).
• Company pension scheme.
• Fully compensated company events.
• Volunteer days.
• Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more.
• 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme.

Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.