Designer - Medcomms & Healthcare Advertising

Designer

Reports to Creative Team Lead

Job Summary

Supporting Creative Services function and creative excellence by delivering a wide range of high-quality multimedia projects. Interrogating and challenging briefs, working closely with the wider team and applying creativity alongside a keen eye for detail to ensure optimal and innovative solutions to client requests.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Produce high quality, visually appealing and technically accurate materials on schedule and according to brief, observing specified brand/style guidelines:
• o PowerPoint presentations, including styling, consistency checking, applying specified templates, animating and/or revisualization
• o Scientific posters and similar materials, either for print or screen display
• o Poster templates in both PowerPoint and InDesign, including clear and comprehensive style guides
• o Figures and illustrations for both on-screen and print use
• o Static and animated infographics capturing specified key information clearly and concisely
• o Intuitive, user-friendly interactive documents
• o Miscellaneous bespoke graphical content for onscreen or printed use
• o Source and amend appropriate imagery or stock according to internal procedures
• o Support with creative concept ideation
• Follow briefing instructions thoroughly and ensure all requirements and deadlines are met
• Push creative boundaries to exceed customer expectations
• Interpret and challenge creative briefs where appropriate, and drive collaboration within and across creative and account teams, to ensure the best possible solutions are delivered efficiently
• Action all requested amends carefully and accurately
• Effective proof-reading and quality checking of own work before returning, taking responsibility for errors and showing willingness to address feedback
• Proactive identification, proposing and implementation of improvements in quality of visuals in active projects
• Understand and interpret brand guidelines, ensuring outputs are brand compliant
• Willingness to seek support when required and ability to rationalize and defend design decisions
• Work with Creative Services Management and freelance staff/suppliers as required, to ensure timelines are communicated and all deadlines are met
• Support continuous improvement environment
• Adherence to all relevant internal, client and industry guidelines and SOPs, including maintaining agreed filing structures, naming conventions and version control

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent with a creative portfolio
• Experience in a medical communications or healthcare advertising agency
• Experience in developing design materials for medical/healthcare communications
• A passion for communicating scientific data in clear and visually appealing formats
• Enthusiasm for innovation in design, software and learning new skills
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of core design principles, including use of colour, typography, spacing, information hierarchy and white space; accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
• Experience in Microsoft 365, particularly PowerPoint is essential
• A creative approach to problem-solving and an open-minded attitude
• Ability to take design concepts and produce supporting deliverables for use across a wide variety of creative platforms
• Ability to take and interpret creative briefs
• Demonstrate good organisational skills and proactivity, with excellent written/oral communication skills
• Experience working with traffic/workflow management software advantageous
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, multi-tasking and working to tight deadlines
• Ambition, enthusiasm and a team player mentality

Travel Requirements

• As required by business needs

About OPEN Health

OPEN Health unites deep scientific knowledge with wide-ranging specialist expertise to unlock possibilities that improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing. Working in partnership with our clients, we embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver fresh thinking and solutions that make a difference.

OPEN Health is a flexible global organization that solves complex healthcare challenges across HEOR and market access, medical communications and creative omnichannel campaigns.

What we offer:

As a global organization, OPEN Health is committed to supporting our employees and their families through a comprehensive benefits program:

• Competitive pay, generous paid vacation and holidays, and health insurance programs across all our locations
• Ongoing training and development opportunities which foster and shape your individual career path
• An active and growing commitment to bettering the communities our employees call home through our Corporate Social Responsibility program
• The opportunity to thrive in a global, collaborative environment while working every day to improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing
• Diverse, inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your whole self to work

If we sound like the sort of business environment in which you would thrive, then we would love to hear from you.

OPEN Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.