Group Creative Director

Montclair, NJ (Remote)

$108K/yr – $301K/yrSenior Level15+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Lead the agency's creative direction across marketing, training, promotions, and experiences while mentoring multidisciplinary teams and driving client relationships, growth, and innovation.

  • Own and elevate creative standards across the organization
  • Mentor and develop multidisciplinary teams to deliver strategic, breakthrough work
  • Drive client partnerships, presenting with clarity and persuasive rationale

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead creative excellence across the agency, ensuring consistently exceptional work across marketing, training, promotional, and experiential initiatives
  • Inspire multidisciplinary Art and Copy teams to develop strategically grounded, breakthrough work
  • Establish and uphold agency-wide creative standards, guiding concept development, storytelling, campaign architecture, and execution
  • Serve as the senior creative reviewer, ensuring quality client or leadership deliverables
  • Mentor, develop, and inspire creative talent while fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability
  • Identify staffing needs and build high-performing creative teams
  • Lead client relationships, presenting work with strategic clarity, confidence, and persuasive rationale
  • Partner with clients and internal teams to drive innovation, growth, and long-term success
  • Optimize creative operations, resource planning, and workflow efficiency
  • Review creative estimates, staffing recommendations, and workload allocation to maximize quality, efficiency, and profitability

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
  • 15+ years of agency experience, including pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing
  • Experience as a Group Creative Director, Executive Creative Director, Creative Director, or similar leadership role
  • Proven leader of high-performing, multidisciplinary creative teams
  • Deep understanding of client brands, business objectives, market dynamics, and business challenges
  • Strong portfolio of strategic, award-winning creative work
  • Expertise in healthcare/pharmaceutical marketing and omnichannel engagement
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and client leadership skills
  • Track record of driving agency growth and new business success
  • Strategic thinker with strong execution and cross-functional collaboration skills
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IQVIA

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IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. IQVIA’s portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected IntelligenceTM to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AITM, advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. With approximately 88,000 employees in over 100 countries, including experts in healthcare, life sciences, data science, technology and operational excellence, IQVIA is dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA’s insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific progress, in an effort to advance healthcare. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.

Founded in 1998
Durham, North Carolina, USA
80K employees (2,139 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.3%
Direct
44%
Referral
6.2%
Social
7%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~80.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,626 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
5.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Total Funding
$3.5B
Last Raise
$2B
Post IPO Debt, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $2B
  • Nov 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $500M
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $1B

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