Life Sciences Associate Creative Director, Art

Accenture SongLife Art/Visual Design Leader

We Are: Accenture SongLifeA Partner for Growth The Agency of Record model we all grew up with was built for stabilitylong planning cycles, rigid campaigns, and success measured in outputs. Today demands something more. With evolving pipelines, diverse patient populations, and accelerated launches, the challenge is not just communicationit's staying continually relevant. At Accenture SongLife, we reinvented the AOR to be a true growth engine for biopharmaanchored in one objective: helping you fuel growth by building continual relevance. We do this by being Smarter, Faster, Better Smarterintelligence-led, powered by AI, data, and life sciences expertise, so your brand is always one step ahead. Fasteran agile, adaptive model that scales global blockbusters and targets rare disease communities with equal precision, moving at the speed of science and patient need. Betterworld-class creativity combined with Accenture's technology and consulting rigor, shifting from campaigns to outcomeslike launch uptake, adherence, and market share. The reinvented AOR is not a supplierit's a growth partner. Accenture SongLife brings creativity, technology, and strategy together to serve as your growth enginecontinually relevant, always accountable, and built to deliver impact for patients, providers, and your business.

You Are: A curious and collaborative life sciences creative art leader helping to drive customer success and business results globally at scale. You bring deep experience in pharmaceutical advertising and have worked across multiple brands and therapeutic areas. You enjoy learning about the latest trends in art, AI and other technology to bring new innovative creative ideas and solutions to all of our customers. You are a proactive, self-motivated and inspirational candidate who combines strong aesthetic sensibilities with an analytical and strategic mind. You know your way around MLR reviews and feel at home with both internal teams and diverse client audiences. You understand when the needs are more high-level or more tactical, and can pivot to being more hands on in execution of deliverables when it's needed.

The Work: An art/visual design leader who has a background in creating work that influences healthcare audiences (HCPs, patients, caregivers, etc.). They understand how to develop creative that will capture interest, build trust and work in a highly regulated industry life sciences and/or health sector. They are collaborative with team members from multiple disciplines, including copy, strategy, UX but also client services, performance marketers, data/analytics, and more. They understand how to create unique creative for emerging media and tech (especially helpful in unique healthcare platforms). The ACD, Art has experience creating unique campaigns for healthcare brands, can find compelling narratives in clinical data, and can interact confidently with both Life Sciences brand marketers as well as healthcare system/provider and patient audiences. They can easily become familiar with the brand, science, and strategic issues for each project they work on. Experience in multiple therapeutic areas is key. They will also understand how to create campaigns that aligns to our clients' strategic objectives.

If you have a passion for making a difference in patients' lives, and can thrive in a fluid, fast-paced, energetic environment, we'd love to talk to you!

Key Responsibilities:

Participates in strategic and tactical meetings to develop effective campaigns and activations reflecting the clients' objectives

Delves into the claims, the data, and all facets of the brand

Contributes innovative ideas and tactics appropriate to client marketing strategy

Brainstorms campaign ideas with colleagues

Contributes to thought leadership

Partners with copywriters as well as other creative team members to develop engaging materials that maintain a high level of scientific accuracy, compelling campaign creative, and achieve our client's strategic imperatives

Partners with internal team and provides onsite support at key client meetings or events

Attends and participates in MLR reviews as needed

Works to tight deadlines and can juggle multiple projects

Takes a proactive solutions-oriented approach into all tasks

Maintains high standards and ensures only the best work is released to the client

Here's What You'll Need:

8+ years of conceptual healthcare/art direction experience, preferably in a health care marketing or communications agency

5+ years of brand launch experience for both HCP and patient audiences

8+ years of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

8+ years of proven organizational and timeline prioritization skills; scheduling flexibility to accommodate work volumes and the ability to manage multiple assignments

5+ years of experience in strategic brainstorming, campaign development and creative execution and advertising (campaign concepts, websites, all digital tactics, print, etc.)

5+ years experience working in Adobe Creative Cloud

2+ years experience working with multiple GenAI tools (i.e. Firefly, MidJourney, OpenAI and more)

Bonus Points If: Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. We accept applications on an ongoing basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here.

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