Associate Creative Director - Copy

Concentric is seeking an Associate Creative Director, Copy with a solid science background to oversee and drive the creative across a diverse portfolio of clients and brands. Partnering with Account, Strategy, and IP leads, you are responsible for the overall brand strategy, client management and creative quality on these brands and leading a small team of creatives. You are a disruptor, a problem solver and a go-getter who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You have a passion for ideas, healthcare and making a difference. You are an approachable hardworking team player and an open-minded, active listener with the ability to unpack complex problems with simplicity. Reports to: Creative Director What You Will Do:

• Lead the creative strategy and execution of all work generated by your team from development to execution based on marketing objectives and informing strategy
• Encourage and motivate your team to make great work; Lead by example by creating a positive force for growth on your team, your brands, and the agency as a whole
• Understand what makes great creative as well as how to run a great team. You think about and manage the business while driving creative excellence.
• Develop and maintain strong Client relationships, understanding their business and providing solutions through the development of campaigns
• Understand target audience and marketing goals for each assigned brand; Own the vision and distill it down to its essence
• Work with Account team to ensure quality and efficiency on all creative and brand projects and troubleshoot when necessary
• Present creative ideas, concept development, and brand work to client
• Manage your team - hiring new team members, performance management, and ensuring your employees are fully utilized, billable and using their talents on the right projects.
• Contribute to the greater good of the agency; you lead the way to advance the agency's mission and business - identifying opportunities and turning them into realities
  
  7+ years' experience at an advertising agency, with a clear focus on and expertise in pharma and life sciences.
• A portfolio of creatively exceptional work across therapy areas and media
• A track record of success in creative awards, whilst not essential, would be a significant factor.
• Curiosity for science with the ability to pick up therapeutic areas and concepts quickly as needed
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confident and engaging presentation skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to manage deadlines
• Ability to tell a simple story and connect strategy through creative for our pharma clients
• A drive to elevate thinking and the work
• A curious mentality
• The desire to be great
  
  ConcentricLife, a part of Accenture Song, is a full-service health and wellness advertising agency spanning three distinct specialist practices that bring over 20 years of deep subject matter expertise: healthcare, rare disease, and wellness. Our core mission is to create brands that live at the very center of the human health experience.
Our core mission is to create brands that live at the very centre of the human health experience and build brand interactions that change health trajectories and restore life. We are a community where great minds and talent gather to discover something unexpected, dream like visionaries, and embrace the do with hustle and agility. We are spirited collaborators. We love to be challenged. We know smart always wins. And, above all else. We never settle. As a testament to our success, ConcentricLife has been named Agency of the Year 9 times, most recently in 2021, and awarded Best Places to Work by MM+M in 2019 and 2023. Collaboration Importantly, while the aim is to build a strong London offering, ConcentricLife UK is connected to the wider US ConcentricLife agency and can share resources where necessary, such as brand designers, project managers, creative teams, medical writers, video editors, and animators via the agency's in-house studio team known as The Furnace. In addition, as part of Accenture Song we can also utilize the Song studio team in London and in the Accenture Song network across EMEA and Africa and Costa Rica, giving us a broad scope of talent to draw upon. Who We Are Looking For, ConcentricLife is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, military status, color, sex, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Equal Employment Opportunity Statement All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process. Accenture

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