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SVP, Creative Director - Copy
at Wunderman Thompson HealthWho we are:
At Wunderman Thompson we exist to inspire growth for ambitious brands. Part creative agency, part consultancy and part technology company, our experts provide end-to-end capabilities at a global scale to deliver inspiration across the entire brand and customer experience.
We are 20,000 strong in 90 markets around the world; our people bring together creative storytelling, diverse perspectives, inclusive thinking, and highly specialized vertical capabilities to drive growth for our clients. We offer deep expertise across the entire customer journey, including communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology.
Wunderman Thompson Health, a division of Wunderman Thompson, works with companies to build world-class healthcare and pharmaceutical brands among medical professionals and consumers, with a transmedia storytelling approach that covers print, digital and television broadcast media, medical education, sales force presentations and managed access strategies.
Who we are looking for:
Wunderman Thompson Health is seeking a SVP, Creative Director (Copy). The primary responsibility of the SVP, Creative Director is to have sufficient knowledge of our oncology clients and their business to be able to partner with the client and their Account Services counterpart effectively.
What you’ll do:
- Manage | Supervise oncology copywriters and art directors to ensure their work meets the objectives of the assignment and the standards of the Division and Wunderman Thompson Health. Assign and resource internal and external staff to projects. Manage copy and art staff administratively, i.e. perform reviews, approve vacations. Nurture copy and art staff through mentoring and training.
- Create | Generate creative concepts and provide specific copy direction to execute those concepts to an HCP audience.
- Collaborate | Be front-and-center with their account services counterpart on the execution and presentation of new business pitches. Successfully partner with division account teams as well as other agency departments such as Art, Project Management, Editorial, Production, and Studio. Foster relationships and provide assignments to other Wunderman Thompson Health divisions. Ensure that staff is aware of and utilizing the most future-forward tools and thinking to conceive and execute work.
Who you are:
- A builder | Entrepreneurial attitude. Ability and appetite to create bring people together. Posses an Innate knack to marshal people and create gravity around ideas.
- Open and collaborative | Our team is close-knit and supportive and we’re working with a lot of unknowns – you must be a champion of team environments that are comfortable with ambiguity and encourage collaboration.
- An experimenter | Embrace the unknown and ready to break process. You’ll be excited by opportunities to create new rather than default to plugging-in to existing ones, while leaning towards experimentation. You see technology as a tool for creativity.
- Ego-less | We all wear the hats that need wearing, it’s a mentality that makes the team successful.
What you’ll need:
- Deep experience in oncology and other therapeutic categories.
- Demonstrated leadership, ability to manage multiple accounts, and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience effectively translating & presenting strategy to creative executions to clients and potential clients.
- At least 6 years of supervisory/management experience required, overseeing both Art and Copy preferred.
- Direct experience in broadcast, print, interactive, collateral and environmental advertising preferred.
- Experience in developing promotional content.
- Great portfolio showing excellent use of creative and conceptual capabilities.
- Undergraduate BS degree in relevant human sciences, Doctoral degree (PharmD, PhD or MD) in medically related field preferred.
- At least 10 years’ experience as a copywriter (various seniority levels) required.
Wunderman Thompson is a WPP agency. For more information, please visit our website and follow Wunderman Thompson on our social channels via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
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Established in 2019, Wunderman Thompson has a combined history of 150 years, setting the standard for marketing, communications and business innovation. We bring together over 20,000 creatives, analysts, strategists, customer experience designers and business consultants across 90 markets.
We’re always looking for the best talent to add to our diverse and talented mix that is Wunderman Thompson.
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