The Role
Leads pharmaceutical creative copy initiatives across HCP and patient marketing, from concept through completion. Oversees copy, design, UX, interactive, motion, and print projects; manages teams, workflows, budgets, and client relationships; mentors junior creatives; and ensures work reflects strategic insights, clinical data, competitive landscapes, and brand objectives. Requires sickle cell disease or gene therapy experience, multicultural experience, pharma launch experience, and extensive creative copywriting leadership.
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About Avalere Health
United by one profound purpose: to reach EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE. At Avalere Health, we ensure every patient is identified, treated, supported, and cared for. Equally. Our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams come together – powerfully and intentionally – to forge unconventional connections, building a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind.
Achieving our mission starts with providing enriching, purpose-driven careers for our team that empower them to make a tangible impact on patient lives. We are committed to creating a culture where our employees are empowered to bring their whole selves to work and tap into the power of diverse backgrounds and skillsets to play a part in making a difference for every patient, everywhere.
Our flexible approach to working allows our global teams to decide where they want to work, whether in-office or at home based on team and client need. Major city hubs in London, Manchester, Washington, D.C., and New York, and smaller offices globally, serve as collaboration hubs allowing our teams to come together when it matters. Homeworkers are equally supported, with dedicated social opportunities and resources.
Our inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do. We proudly support our employees in bringing their whole selves to work with our six Employee Network Groups – Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity. These groups provide opportunities to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and to connect, learn, and socialise through regular meetings and programs of activity. We are an accredited Fertility Friendly employer with our Fertility Policy, enhanced parental leave, and culture of flexibility ensuring every employee feels supported across their family planning journey and can work in a way that suits their family’s needs.
We are deeply invested in supporting professional growth for our employees through day-to-day career experiences, access to thousands of on-demand training sessions, regular career conversations, and the opportunity for global, cross-capability career moves.
We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.
About The Role:
This role requires experience working in Sickle Cell Disease or gene therapy and Multicultural Experience
The Associate Creative Director, Copy (ACD, Copy) works with teams of art directors, copywriters, and strategists to conceive and execute a variety of communication projects through a wide range of media. The Associate Creative Director is responsible for ensuring that design, copy and UX are greater than the sum of their parts and ladder up to strategic insights on all projects that they lead.
What You'll Do:
- Deliver breakthrough creative work, while influencing your peers
- Lead projects from conception to completion
- Understand strategic and financial goals for clients and AH
- Master the clinical data and competitive landscape associated with your brands/account
- Actively participate in staffing and evaluating the scope of work
- Champion creativity by frequently sharing inspiring work
- Develop and/or strengthen client relationships
- Share the spotlight so that junior creatives can shine
- Manage delegation and workflow on multiple projects/brands
- Empower others to reach their full potential
- Manage multiple teams and multiple work streams efficiently, effectively, and profitably
- Communicate actively with project teams to keep deliverables on track and on schedule
About You:
- Multicultural experience
- Experience in both HCP and Patient marketing
- Experience working in Sickle Cell Disease or Gene Therapy
- Bachelor’s Degree in advertising, marketing, writing or equivalent area of study (preferred but not required)
- Experience in leading teams and mentoring junior creatives
- Minimum 9 years creative copywriting experience, with at least 3 years in writing for pharma
- Pharmaceutical experience required
- Launch experience required
- Demonstrates ability to direct writing and design of interactive, motion and print projects.
- Strong customer service skills with a commitment to superior quality
- Must be self-motivated, professional, detail-oriented, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills
- Can share a digital portfolio that includes a wide range of interactive work across multi-media channels and platforms
What we can offer
You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.
Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.
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Skills Required
- Multicultural experience
- Experience in both HCP and patient marketing
- Experience working in sickle cell disease or gene therapy
- Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, writing, or an equivalent field
- Experience leading teams and mentoring junior creatives
- At least 9 years of creative copywriting experience
- At least 3 years of writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical experience
- Pharmaceutical launch experience
- Ability to direct writing and design for interactive, motion, and print projects
- Strong customer service skills and commitment to superior quality
- Self-motivated, professional, and detail-oriented
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Digital portfolio demonstrating diverse interactive work across multimedia channels and platforms
Avalere Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Avalere Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Avalere Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as generous, including vacation, sick leave, and a year‑end holiday shutdown. Remote work flexibility is frequently highlighted as a strong complement to PTO.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Work-from-home flexibility is emphasized through a “magnet not a mandate” approach with collaboration hubs. Wellbeing resources are visible, including mental-health support networks.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-forming support and external fertility-friendly accreditation are promoted. This signals investment in parenthood pathways alongside broader inclusion initiatives.
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our team of 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen. We partner with our clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
