Associate Creative Director

Responsibilities

• Serve as the embedded creative leader to agencies new to Lilly from scoping through completion, modeling Lilly ways of working and modulating support as the relationship matures
• Help sharpen briefs and consumer insights, pressure-test concepts for MLR viability and distinctiveness with consumer audiences
• Give constructive critique that pushes agency work past typical pharma conventions toward human, differentiated ideas
• Help define what agencies and Thread Collective each own, execute, consult on, QC, with agencies leading the big idea
• Join pre-production and shoots as needed, and guide work back from launch dates to set asset needs and delivery
• Verify agency handoff packages, then brief Thread Collective studio teams and oversee pull-through of tactics through final approval
• Connect creative to results that turn learnings into reusable standards that meet brand, accessibility, and regulatory guidelines
• Guide staff to generate case studies, sizzle reels and other documents promoting Thread Collective partnerships

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years as Creative Director, Associate Creative Director, or equivalent, including global creative agency experience and a portfolio of award-winning work (e.g., Cannes Lions, Effies)
• Link to portfolio required

Preferred

• Pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing experience, including MLR or similar regulatory review
• Proven ability to evaluate and elevate creative concepts developed by others
• Strong consulting and presentation skills to educate and influence partners at all levels
• Working knowledge of TV and video production, from pre-production to final asset delivery
• Experience with Adobe Suite, Figma, Microsoft office, Claude, and other relevant apps
• Effective capacity management across multiple concurrent agency engagements
• Ability to swiftly diagnose process pain points and implement solutions via project planning to successfully manage tight timelines to completion
• Agency experience on the Eli Lilly account or other similar pharmaceutical companies
• Understanding of healthcare marketing, including the rigorous claims compliance review process
• Hands-on experience with annotation, launch-readiness processes, and documentation and cross-functional reviews

Benefits

• comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities)