Associate Creative Director (Copy)

Overview

As Associate Creative Director (Copy) you will lead concept and copy for healthcare and pharmaceutical campaigns, shaping messaging across channels and ensuring medical accuracy. You collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to balance creative ambition with regulatory requirements. You will mentor writers, review work, and present thinking to senior stakeholders. This role offers the chance to raise copy quality and contribute to high-impact, integrated campaigns within Klick’s creative craft.

Responsibilities

• Lead concept and copy development for integrated healthcare campaigns across multiple channels from brief to delivery
• Direct copy quality across projects, shaping messaging frameworks, narratives, headlines, and channel adaptations
• Collaborate with Art Direction, Strategy, Medical, Regulatory, and Client Services to ensure creative is grounded in science and compliant
• Present concepts and copy rationale to senior stakeholders and clients, incorporating feedback while preserving strategic integrity
• Mentor copywriters through development, reviews, and feedback, and contribute to pitches and account growth initiatives

Key requirements

• 7+ years of copywriting experience in advertising/healthcare communications or related agency environment
• Experience leading conceptual creative work for healthcare/pharma/life sciences with integrated campaigns across channels
• Strong portfolio showing copy craft across campaigns and multi-channel deliverables
• Experience presenting work to senior stakeholders and clients, with ability to justify decisions and respond to feedback
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects within agency workflows and regulatory processes
• Experience mentoring writers and improving team capabilities

• strong collaboration and teamwork
• excellent communication and presentation skills
• mentorship and leadership
• copywriting for multi-channel campaigns (digital, social, CRM, print)
• concept development and messaging framework design
• ability to use AI as part of creative process

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