Saatchi & Saatchi

Creative Director, Art

Saatchi & Saatchi$129K — $207K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of creative direction experience, particularly in pharma
  • Proven success with HCP and DTC high science projects
  • Experience in onset and production
  • Demonstrated client relationship management and business growth
  • Strong collaboration skills with account management and strategy teams
  • Excellent presentation abilities
  • Experience in leading and managing creative teams

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with copy team to enhance creative quality through strategy and client interaction
  • Inspire creativity in teams through knowledge of advertising and technology trends
  • Develop innovative strategies and creative concepts
  • Create and review detailed creative briefs for strategic insight
  • Manage account workloads to optimize creative productivity
  • Demonstrate understanding of client marketing challenges
  • Ensure high standards in client presentations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability benefits
  • 401K plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

We're Heartbeat, the marketing agency for Healthcare Challenger Brands and the brave clients behind them. And hopefully you're our next Creative Director, Art, helping us to deliver game-changing campaigns for Consumers & HCPs.

The Creative Director, Art at Heartbeat is responsible for making things that matter. Through a strong partnership with copy, strategy, and account, they foster creative solutions that make healthcare decisions easier, more accessible, and ultimately more enduring for patients and healthcare providers.

Read on to learn more about what qualities we're looking for in a new member of the crew and why you're going to dig working with us.

Responsibilities

  • Work with copy counterpart to address creative quality through strong brand strategy, client management and team dynamics.
  • Inspire creative teams to produce the best work possible through a deep understanding of the current advertising landscape as well as technological trends and innovations.
  • Develop innovative creative strategies and ideas.
  • Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight(s) and creative inspiration.
  • Manage the workload for assigned account(s) to maximize the productivity and quality of work from the creative staff.
  • Demonstrate to clients that you understand and appreciate their marketing challenges and are responsive to their strategic needs.
  • Ensure that creative presentations to the client meet the highest professional standards.
  • Work with account services to foster client relationships.
  • Work with upper management to plan and participate in new business development, client presentations and selling creative concepts internally and externally.
  • Work with current creative staff to help them achieve professional and personal goals.
  • Help ensure that deadlines and budgets are met.

Qualifications

Across 10+ years of experience, you know what it takes to slay Creative Direction. These are the core skills you've totally nailed:
  • Pharma agency experience is a must.
  • A proven track record of conceptual creative ability and judgment across HCP and DTC projects, including high science projects.
  • Onset, production experience
  • Successful client contact experience and ability to grow business organically
  • The ability to work collaboratively with account management and strategy
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Successful experience in managing and leading creatives

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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Compensation Range: USD $129,485.00 - USD $207,324.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/17/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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