Creative Lead (Pharma Agency)

• The Lead Designer role at Avalere Health is the day-to-day creative lead across projects and accounts, responsible for shaping high-quality, strategically effective design solutions across print, digital, social, presentation, and emerging channels. Working closely with writers, strategists, client services, studio and production teams, the Lead Designer guides creative development from brief through execution, ensuring work is cohesive, brand-aligned, and impactful
• Act as the primary day-to-day creative lead across projects, ensuring work is strategically aligned, creatively strong, and delivered to the highest standards
• Lead the development of integrated creative solutions across print, digital, social, presentation, motion, and emerging channels
• Challenge briefs constructively, identifying opportunities to strengthen creative effectiveness and deliver greater impact
• Translate complex scientific, healthcare, and technical information into compelling visual communications
• Build and embed reusable templates, toolkits, frameworks, and design systems that improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce duplication while maintaining creative excellence
• Champion innovation in design approaches, tools, technologies, and AI-enabled workflows where appropriate
• Influence stakeholders through strong design thinking, clear communication, and evidence-based creative decisions
• Lead collaboration between Design, Copy, Strategy, Client Services, Studio, Digital, and Production teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Ensure creative intent is maintained throughout the project lifecycle from briefing to final delivery

Benefits

• The tools, skills, and support you need to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges
• Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career
• Personalized learning and training
• Flexible working practices
• Company pension/retirement plan
• Private medical insurance
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Compelling time-off policy
• Hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization- Confidence building relationships with clients and stakeholders, presenting creative ideas and influencing decisions through strategic and compelling design solutions
• Excellent collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering effectively with strategists, copywriters, client services, digital, production, and studio teams to deliver exceptional creative work
• Ability to transform complex information into engaging and impactful visual communications, ideally within healthcare or other highly regulated industries
• A standout integrated portfolio showcasing work across digital, print, social media, presentations, and multi-channel campaigns within an agency environment
• Minimum 4 years design agency experience, including some experience leading design projects from initial brief through to final delivery, bringing strong conceptual thinking and art direction expertise
• Experience creating design systems, templates, toolkits, and scalable creative frameworks that drive consistency, efficiency, and quality- Please apply with a CV and up to date portfolio for review