Who are we?
Welcome to the Pharmacy+, the dedicated full-service creative studio situated within Virgo Health and Golin in London. We are a passionate group of designers, illustrators, art directors, motion designers, videographers, artworkers and presentation designers who are dedicated to raising the creative bar for leading global brands and healthcare clients.
We apply our work across a broad range of platforms, from social media to multi-channel integrated campaigns, creating award-winning creative.
What is the role?
This is a great opportunity for an experienced designer looking for a varied role, as due to the nature of the work, tasks will be different and across a broad range of media. A strong portfolio demonstrating your skill as an integrated designer and creative thinker is a must.
You’re still reading? Good, this is what a typical week in this role could look like. When we say this role is varied, we mean it.
What will you be doing?
- Day-to-day design and art working
- Data visualisation development
- Infographic design
- Illustration
- Animation and video editing
- Front-end digital/web design
- Presentation design and production
- Social asset creation (static and motion)
- Branding (could be an event or campaign)
- Conceptual ideation, everything from campaigns to theming an event
- Alongside all the usual design jobs of image re-touching, stock image searches, icon drawing and internal work.
What are we looking for?
- Around 3 years of design experience from an agency background
- A degree in graphic design/related subject or relevant work experience
- Highly motivated to work of their own initiative
- Outstanding design ability
- Ability to take concepts from initial brief through to final print-ready artwork
- Ability to prioritise and work within tight time frames
- Artistic eye, original thinking and creative ideas
- Expert knowledge of Adobe CS (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator a must)
- Expert knowledge of PowerPoint
- Proficient Ae animation and Pr editing skills - C4D experience is a bonus
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
What do we offer?
- Flexible working (2 days a week in the office)
- 2 volunteering days
- Monthly well-being allowance
- A dog-friendly office in the heart of Shoreditch
- Industry-leading gender neutral family-friendly policies
- Clear career progression and excellent training programmes developed by our L&D Director
- Many other perks!
At IPG we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.
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What We Do
We’re a global healthcare communications agency and our manifesto is Being real, Being relevant...Being Human.
Healthcare is an industry with people at its heart. Everything we do through communication is about helping people make better decisions about health and wellbeing.
Being Human means communicating in a personalised and authentic way. It means recognising what people really think, believe and do. It means understanding our clients and audiences as individuals. It means working together with conviction, integrity and passion to achieve exceptional results.
Our UK HQ is in Central London, with offices in New York and China and a global reach through the IPG network.
Our team works across two core divisions, supported by The Pharmacy, our in-house design and digital team.
Virgo Health Communications: Prescription PR and policy communications, corporate reputation, digital and internal communications for corporate and niche health industry clients. We also offer specialist consumer health PR services for high street health and wellbeing brands.
Virgo Health Education: Tailored content to educate and inform healthcare professionals using a range of communication channels.
The Pharmacy: Our creative studio houses experts in creativity and design, digital and social, and meetings. Our Pharmacy team use their expertise to develop bolder, braver content that captures the attention of our clients’ audiences.
We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to work with us – as a client or an employee: www.virgohealth.com
