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Position Purpose
The Marketing Support Designer is a member of the business unit responsible for driving tactical execution to achieve brand objectives, supporting the HCP customer and patient strategies.
The primary role of the Marketing Support Designer is to pull through design and art changes to promotional materials.
In a fast-paced industry where label updates and new indications are common events, there is urgency in ensuring that our marketing materials are updated accurately and quickly.
As Marketing Support Designer, you will play a key role in crafting visually engaging materials that align with the brand’s identity and strategic goals.
You will collaborate with our experienced creative team, marketing specialists, and medical professionals to translate complex information into clear, visually compelling designs across various platforms.
This role will work closely with the cross-functional brand teams and will provide opportunities to design/create graphic content and project manage execution of critical customer-facing activities (engagements with health care professionals, professional society meetings and conferences, etc.).
It is an ideal position for those with excellent graphic design skills who would like to gain experience with pharmaceutical marketing.
Role Specification
- Newly created marketing operations role, fully responsible and accountable for the creation and execution of graphic content for customer facing activities.
- Highly matrixed role in which you will be expected to work cross-functionally to deliver materials that represent the brand strategy.
- Work across multiple brands and have exposure to decision makers across many functions; report directly to the business unit director.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in the creation of design assets for digital and print campaigns, including social media graphics, brochures, presentations, infographics, and email templates.
- Collaborate with the marketing teams to produce visually appealing content that supports product launches and other initiatives – sharing best practices and ideas across teams & BU’s.
- Ensure consistency with brand guidelines while bringing fresh, creative ideas to projects.
- Connect with stakeholders to refine and revise designs based on feedback.
- Adapt global designs for the UK market, ensuring they resonate with various audiences based on discussions and guidance from the brand team.
- Stay updated with the latest design trends and technologies, especially those relevant to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
- Support marketing teams on content uploads and management/upkeep of promotional websites.
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously, meeting tight deadlines without compromising quality.
- Provide operational support for pull-through of content into customer facing events (i.e. Congresses, P2P events, local exhibits, etc.)
- Work with the brand team to project manage operational tasks related to execution of customer facing events
Compliant & Professional
- Understand & adhere to all BMS policies and work in accordance with the ABPI/IPHA Codes and the Medicines Products (Control of Advertising) Regulations of 2007 (S.I. No.541 of 2007) in the UK and Ireland
- Complete administrative tasks within BMS processes & timeframes.
- Demonstrate our BMS values: passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion & integrity
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
Essential experience
- Educational Background: Degree or diploma in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or related field.
- Demonstrable relevant experience
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); familiarity with After Effects and video editing software is a plus.
- Design Skills: Excellent layout, typography, and visual storytelling skills; ability to adapt to different styles and formats.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to interpret briefs and present ideas clearly.
- Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy in design and proofreading.
- Organisational Skills: Ability to manage multiple projects with effective prioritisation and time management
- Project management skills, certification
Desirable Attributes
- Experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry.
- Understanding of medical and scientific content.
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS for email design or a willingness to learn.
- Launch experience, introducing new medicines into NHS or equivalent
Behavioural Attributes
- Passion to pursue excellence to help patients prevail over serious disease
- Demonstrates consistent ambition, drive and personal development in the workplace
- Ownership and accountability of results and behaviours
- Ability to work in an agile, dynamic and changing environment
- Tenacious and resilient
- Willingness to share knowledge and best practice within the team and organisation
- Open to give and act on feedback
- Making decisions with urgency that impact positively on business and culture at BMS
- Works as a key member of a cross functional team building strong relationships both internally and externally
- Be bold and innovative to challenge status quo
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If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.
Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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What We Do
At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome.
Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients.
Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.
