Omnicom Health

Title: Freelance SVP, Group Creative Director, Art

Agency: Omnicom Health

Location: New York, NY

Department/Discipline: Art

Overview: The Freelance SVP, Group Creative Director/Art works closely with the Executive Creative Director to ensure the excellence of all Agency work for assigned brands. As the co-leader of a business group, along with the Copy and Account Leads, this person contributes to ensuring the quality of work and life of the team, serving as a mentor, establishing a collaborative and respectful work environment, providing career growth opportunities, and growing the client’s business. The Freelance SVP, Group Creative Director/Art helps to ensure appropriate utilization of team members within their group.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to collaborate with leadership partners (copy and account), motivate team, inspire/facilitate original thinking, and keep morale high.
• Lead concepting initiatives, contributing work, ensuring creative briefs are inspired and focused, evaluating work, and selling work to client.
• Partner with account/strategy/medical to develop proactive recommendations in anticipation of market events (i.e., launch of new competitors, new data, new campaigns, societal/cultural events).
• Stay abreast of creative trends and collaborate with CX team to recommend new technologies/social medial approaches to grow business.
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements within assigned business group and department and offer executable solutions.
• Keep Chief Creative Officer briefed on major creative projects in a timely manner and contribute to achieving departmental goals.
• Work closely with CCO, VP Creative Directors, and Associate Creative Director(s), to ensure that all final products demonstrate the highest quality creative and effectively communicate brand messages to target audiences.
• Be involved in the work, helping to execute ideas as needed.
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by demonstrating knowledge of Client’s business and team members.
• Exhibit strong content knowledge and work with UX/strategy group to ensure art teams are up-to-date on digital innovation and market shifts.
• Keep abreast of award-winning creative and the current promotional environment for assigned therapeutic categories and help teams identify and prepare work for award submissions.
• Act as a brand steward, maintaining the integrity and excellence of each brand in all materials developed.
• Be knowledgeable about all forms of art execution, including photography, CGI, motion, music, and sound.
• Consistently provide fresh, unique, and creative and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives.
• Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Client’s business.
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives.
• Act as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers.
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects.
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary.
• Collaborate effectively with Client/Agency Creative, Account, Customer Experience teams.
• Work collaboratively with the Imaging team, DEI, and art buying during concepting, and studio for file archiving.
• Help create a collaborative work environment among all departments and demonstrate ability to handle conflicts in a positive, professional and productive manner.
• Work with account service from beginning to end of projects, ensuring that each one meets creative, strategic, and budgetary goals.
• Maintain positive relationships with and utilize internal and OHG business group departments (editorial, project management) appropriately.
• Communicate effectively and professionally both internally and externally.
• Project a professional attitude and foster an atmosphere of respect, support, and cooperation.
• Monitor overall workload to effect efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized.
• Provide leadership within their department as well as across the Agency.
• Solicit feedback/suggestions that could impact agency policy and operations – ensure those ideas are explored and responses provided.
• Proactively manage the overall health of the team/department/business by ensuring agency values are being pulled through in daily interactions and work.
• Inspire direct reports to learn, teach, and mentor.
• Teach direct reports the importance of fiscal responsibility and the impact their role has on the team/department and Agency.

Experience:

• College degree.
• 10+ years of healthcare agency experience.
• 7+ years of supervisory experience.
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite, Figma, AI Tools, (XD preferred but not mandatory), Microsoft Office.
• Exemplary creative portfolio.
• Exemplary oral and written communication and presentation skills.

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

• $120/hr - $130/hr