Associate Creative Director, Copy
Reports to Head of Copy
This role offers an exciting opportunity to inspire and guide a team to deliver best-in-class creative work that makes a meaningful impact in healthcare communications, while supporting the future shaping of Creative Copy at OPEN Health.
Job Summary
The Associate Creative Director, Copy combines exceptional creative copywriting skills with strong client leadership capabilities, driving innovative, high-quality creative outputs across multiple media channels. They will ensure the team delivers compelling, scientifically rigorous, and strategically aligned content while fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration and continuous improvement, and playing a strong supporting role in shaping the Creative Copy function within OPEN Health.
Opportunity will be provided, alongside other creative leads, for the Associate Creative Director, Copy to make a splash from day one and, within a collaborative team, shape the direction of our entire company's creative work. They will sit at a roundtable where all ideas are respected, and every perspective matters. The Creative Copy team are united by passion for impactful creative projects, and the right candidate will bring energy and experience to grow our business and guide the team to offer expertise to internal colleagues and clients.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Drive innovative, creative solutions that are both on brief and on strategy
- Champion conceptual thinking to develop unique, compelling ideas that elevate creative work and ensure clarity of strategic storytelling
- Ensure brand guardianship across client work, maintaining consistency and integrity
- Support the shaping of OPEN Health’s Creative Copy function, setting and maintaining high creative and scientific standards
- Support organic and new business growth by contributing to pitches, proposals and thought leadership initiatives
- Stay ahead of healthcare creative trends, innovations and best practices, applying insights to enhance team output
- Drive development, implementation and adherence to quality standards, best practices, processes and procedures
- Ensure team adherence to all external laws, policies and industry guidelines
- Support creative copy workflow and resource planning in conjunction with Head of Copy, other departments and external partners
- Support recruitment initiatives to ensure optimal team structure and complement
- Carry out due diligence to expand the network of creative partners to supplement our internal team
- Enhance team skills by fostering a culture of creativity and innovation, ensuring members can confidently develop content and both give and receive creative briefs
- Provide and oversee the provision of effective line management, as required, supporting the career and personal development of assigned line reports and department members
- Ensure all line reports and department members undergo performance reviews, set clear objectives, and implement growth plans to support career progression
- Address underperformance proactively, implementing tailored support and development strategies as required
Experience, Skills, and Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Experience in a healthcare communications or healthcare advertising agency
- Strong conceptual thinking skills, with the ability to develop original ideas that align with brand strategy and engage target audiences
- Significant prior experience in a senior creative capacity within healthcare communications
- Proven track record of delivering and training teams to produce innovative, high-impact creative content across diverse media channels
- Strong leadership potential with the ability to foster a collaborative and dynamic team environment
Travel Requirements
- As required by business needs