We are seeking a bold, visionary Executive Creative Director from the copy side with deep pharmaceutical and healthcare experience to lead our creative team. This role blends high-level strategic thinking with hands-on creative leadership, delivering bold, compelling, and emotionally resonant campaigns that differentiate our brand in the competitive pharmaceutical landscape. We are looking for a copy-driven leader with expertise in video, scriptwriting, and brand storytelling, ensuring high-impact, regulatory-compliant creative across all channels. You will oversee all creative output, mentor and upskill the team, and champion our work within the agency to drive business growth.
This role will be 40 hours/week through the end of the year and is ideally hybrid with someone coming into their Rahway, NJ office a couple times a month but the rest will be remote.
Key Responsibilities:
Creative Vision & Leadership
- Ensure all creative work meets the highest standards while maintaining compliance with pharma regulations (FDA, OPDP, MLR review).
- Champion innovation and push the boundaries of creativity in pharmaceutical marketing, making complex science compelling and accessible.
Copy & Content Expertise
- Drive compelling, scientifically accurate messaging across video, digital, and print, with a strong emphasis on scriptwriting.
- Translate scientific advancements into compelling narratives that engage and educate.
Mentorship & Team Development
- Inspire, coach, and upskill the creative team, fostering growth and elevating overall creative excellence.
- Mentor and develop in-house creative talent, fostering an environment of innovation and bold thinking.
- Establish best-in-class creative processes and workflows to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Collaboration & Diplomacy
- Partner with medical, legal, and regulatory teams to ensure work meets industry guidelines while maintaining creative integrity.
Creative Advocacy & Business Development
- Champion the agency's creative work internally, identifying new opportunities to expand our impact and influence.
Fast-Paced Execution
- Thrive in a high-energy environment, balancing multiple projects while ensuring top-tier creative output under tight deadlines.
Creative Vision & Innovation
- Push the team beyond the expected, developing engaging, patient-friendly, and HCP-targeted creative that stands out in a regulated space.
- Stay ahead of creative, digital and healthcare marketing trends, identifying opportunities for innovation.
Strategic Thinking & Problem-Solving
- Translate complex scientific data into clear, engaging, and compelling brand stories that drive engagement and business success.
What We're Looking For:
- 10+ years of experience in pharma, healthcare, or regulated industries.
- Proven leadership experience in a fast-paced agency or in-house pharma environment.
- Strong background in copywriting, video, and script development, with a focus on patient and HCP engagement.
- A confident, inspiring leader with exceptional communication and collaboration skills.
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on creative direction.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills; ability to confidently influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Passion for pushing creative boundaries while maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks within the pharmaceutical industry is a plus but not required.
If you're a pharma-savvy creative powerhouse who can lead with vision, elevate teams, and drive impactful, compliant work, we'd love to talk.
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data, including medical data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment. Additionally, drug products may be present in the workplace.
Benefits
Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
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steve.pagnozzi@jobalert.creativecircle.com
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Steve Pagnozzi - Recruitment Manager
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 02/21/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
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