Senior Art Director

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in healthcare, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities—the elements of advertising, experience, public relations, health, and consulting work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries to spark world-class creative solutions for our clients.

About the Role

Senior Art Directors at Ogilvy Health own their brands, managing the evolution of the branding through design and concept development. They collaborate within a multi-functional team that includes Art Directors, Medical and Creative Copywriters, as well as Client Services, to deliver the best result while ensuring branding consistency.

It is a great opportunity for a creative, curious person to be part of a bright, collaborative team dedicated to pushing the envelope in healthcare advertising to bring freshness and excitement to a highly regulated industry. The challenges are many and varied, with brands in both Canadian and global markets, and communications for HCPs, patients, consumers, and more.

What You’ll Do

· Work in a collaborative environment on various projects and campaigns

· Execute layouts to deliver on objectives of project briefs; updates as needed

· Oversee consistency across pieces, compliance with regulatory bodies, and manage evolution of your brands from a creative perspective

· Demonstrate skill in conceptual development when new creative is required

· Review layouts before release and back up Art Directors on their brands

· Complete updates for ongoing projects and communicate creative changes

· Attend project briefs and provide input/suggestions as needed

· Collaborate with copywriters to deliver on objectives of creative execution

· Deliver layouts on time and provide creative rationale for pieces

· Ensure consistency across pieces, and evolution of the brand

· Review and sign off on final layouts before release

What You’ll Need

· 5+ years’ experience in an agency or similar environment

· Team player who is eager to collaborate and mindful of others

· Solutions-oriented and resourceful

· Skill in conceptual development

· Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines

· Meticulous – attention to detail is a must

· Avid listener, learner and contributor

· Interest in science, health and marketing, with a desire to keep learning

· Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere a bonus)

· Knowledge of Figma/Sketch

· Strong background in developing digital pieces and campaigns, and experience developing pieces destined for print

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy Health celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work that makes you proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

Ogilvy Health Canada employees are encouraged to bring their unique ideas, experiences and perspectives to the workplace. We strive to create an environment in which all employees can feel comfortable to contribute to their fullest potential regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

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