The Fix Creative are looking for an ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR (ART)

The Associate Creative Director (Art) helps to lead and mentor the creative team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Interpreting client briefs and coming up with inventive and original ideas that take into account client expectations, audience, and business context
• Creating the project vision and communicating it effectively to the team, outlining all deliverables and ensuring everyone understands what is expected of them
• Managing the scope and budget of projects and ensuring these are respected throughout the creative process
• Sharing responsibility with client relationship team for the delivery of projects, getting involved in estimating and scheduling to ensure enough time is allocated to each project for the creative deliverables
• Executing world-class, exceptional creative content
• Presenting the P&P brand to the client articulately, logically, and clearly
• Presenting (the business, creative ideas) to the client articulately and logically, with clear and authoritative rationale
• Ensuring our ideas are presented and articulated to the client in a digestibleand relevant way
• Recording, actioning or pushing back on feedback with a clear and authoritative rationale
• Liaising with external suppliers to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness of materials and services provided
• Keeping abreast of industry thinking and trends

Team relations

• Facilitating effective collaboration by fostering open, honest, and regular communication within each project team and across the agency
• Building strong relationships with the client relationship team (and others), becoming a trusted creative partner and advisor throughout the end-to-end creative process
• Having regular catch ups with project teams to ensure they are on track, giving support and direction where necessary
• Acting as a mentor by providing guidance, feedback, and direction
• Supporting the creative development of peers and junior members of the team 
• Sharing learnings from past projects or research to help the team benefit fromyour experience
• Supporting on pitches, presentations, and meetings as needed
• Motivating, empowering, and inspiring others around you to ensure a consistently high level of creative output
• Communicating the value of creativity (with the creative team) to the wider business

Client relationships

• Building strong relationships with clients, becoming a trusted creative partner and advisor during the end-to-end creative process
• Demonstrating in-depth and authoritative understanding of client context, competitors,and industry 
• Collaborating with clients and client services to set out project timelines and budgets
• Joining regular client calls and meetings to provide progress updates and drive the creative direction of projects
• Presenting and articulating our ideas to the client in a digestible and relevant way through delivering a compelling message and explaining the underlying strategy
• Demonstrating in-depth and authoritative understanding of client context, competitors, and industry through a high level of client mapping

SKILLS

• Solid, successful experience in a similar level creative role
• Strong ad agency and/or design agency experience
• At least 5 years’ experience working within the healthcare space (pharma and med device)
• A strong track record of creating outstanding and award-winning creative work
• Proven experience of building successful client relationships, in order to earn client trust
• Experience of driving the creative process from initial briefing to final product and thorough knowledge of design and creative production processes and procedures
• Proven ability to set budgets, allocate resources, and plan and schedule projects
• Fluency in and comprehensive knowledge of creative packages: Adobe CC (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator. Motion Graphics in After Effects (preferred but not essential)
• Exceptional attention to detail and/or experience performing output quality control
• Excellent presentation skills
• An understanding of med-comms, advertising, and PR within the healthcare sector

ATTITUDE

• Happy to support and lend a helping hand to colleagues when they need it
• A true self-starter, your curiosity and keenness to be busy means you never have to ask for something to do
• Passionate about the work we do and always looking for ways to improve the way we do it
• A thoroughly nice person to have around with a decent sense of humour and keen to get on
• Honest and straightforward, we don’t beat around the bush if something is on our mind!
• Willing to go the extra mile and put in the work to ensure the success of the business
• A problem-solver who is not easily discouraged and won’t quit until a solution is found
• Willing to admit when you’ve made a mistake and become wiser for it