The Role
Leads art direction and creative strategy for major brands and smaller accounts within an agency. Manages creative teams, provides feedback and inspiration, directs deliverables, presents work to clients, handles personnel development, supports new business pitches, and contributes to agency policies and culture. Requires strong conceptual, strategic, presentation, leadership, financial, and medical-regulatory-legal navigation skills, along with proficiency in Adobe and Microsoft software.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
VP, ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ART
Creative Department
Reports to: SVP, Group Creative Director
A VP, Associate Creative Director, Art is an expert in art and successfully navigates both disciplines. They train teams to produce the highest-quality work that not only strategically delivers on client needs but anticipates them. They are expected to lead creative teams effectively, present new creative and strategic ideas to internal teams and clients, and help create new, effective agency policies and procedures. They are expected to take leadership roles in new business pitches and are responsible for maintaining team morale. At the VP-level, advanced performance is expected in both individual and management skills, as well as demonstration of substantial value to the agency and the brand team. Additionally, the VP, Associate Creative Director, Art embodies the Calcium+Company values of commitment, integrity, and respect, both in their work and in their relationships with their co-workers and external clients.
For U.S. Job Seekers, it is the policy of Calcium+Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.
EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.
VP, ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ART
Creative Department
Reports to: SVP, Group Creative Director
Job Summary
A VP, Associate Creative Director, Art is an expert in art and successfully navigates both disciplines. They train teams to produce the highest-quality work that not only strategically delivers on client needs but anticipates them. They are expected to lead creative teams effectively, present new creative and strategic ideas to internal teams and clients, and help create new, effective agency policies and procedures. They are expected to take leadership roles in new business pitches and are responsible for maintaining team morale. At the VP-level, advanced performance is expected in both individual and management skills, as well as demonstration of substantial value to the agency and the brand team. Additionally, the VP, Associate Creative Director, Art embodies the Calcium+Company values of commitment, integrity, and respect, both in their work and in their relationships with their co-workers and external clients.
Key Job Responsibilities (Duties may include, but are not limited to all or some of the following)
- Accountable as the creative and strategic lead on a large/primary brand(s) and 1-2 smaller accounts/projects
- Successfully manages team within core discipline (art or copy)
- Lead creative teams through important creative initiatives, providing clear feedback and strong direction
- Is a steady source of ideas and inspiration; has a meaningful and positive cultural impact across the agency
- Spearheads day-to-day deliverables, leads client presentations
- Manages personnel issues related to direct and indirect reports
- Creates opportunities for professional growth of all direct and indirect reports; provides feedback on performance and creative work of team, and keeps manager informed of new staff developments
- Works on new business with conceptual ideas and concepts that are on strategy
Job Qualifications (Skills/Requirements)
- 8+ years of agency experience
- Strong presentation skills
- Brand/market/agency knowledge
- Strategic and tactical planning/ideation
- Medical-regulatory-legal navigation
- Financial responsibility
- Interpersonal and leadership skills
- Strong conceptual ability
- Ability to work within appropriate software programs:
- Adobe Suite
- Microsoft Suite:
- PowerPoint
- Word
- Outlook
- Goes above and beyond the job description and has the willingness to be flexible for the team, agency, and ultimately the work
For U.S. Job Seekers, it is the policy of Calcium+Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.
EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of agency experience
- Strong presentation skills
- Brand, market, and agency knowledge
- Strategic and tactical planning and ideation skills
- Medical, regulatory, and legal navigation experience
- Financial responsibility experience
- Interpersonal and leadership skills
- Strong conceptual ability
- Ability to use Adobe Suite
- Ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
- Willingness to be flexible and go beyond the job description
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The Company
What We Do
Calcium+Company is an award-winning health communications group dedicated to nourishing companies and brands across their full lifecycle. To collaborate with a broad array of diverse clients and deliver innovative solutions, we’re organized around specialty divisions that include Calcium (healthcare marketing), Vitamin MD (medical communications), PRotein (public relations), Amino (oncology marketing), and Cobalt (commercial planning and market access). Our integrated strategy group, which combines brand, medical, and engagement strategy into one solution, works across Calcium+Company to deliver strategy grounded in behavioral science and data analytics. We are proud of our work but equally proud of our culture and were recently ranked one of MM+M’s 2024 Best Places to Work. Calcium+Company is led by CEO Judy Capano and Group President Greg Lewis. #nourishmentforlife
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