Group Creative Director

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

The Group Creative Director is a trusted leader in the Creative Department and beyond, responsible for the growth of business and people on a group of brands. Recognized as a champion of Brave, Authentic, and Inspiring ideas. Partners closely with the Executive Creative Director and agency leadership to ensure that clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work, the value of our services, and our responsiveness to their needs.

This is a hybrid position requiring the ability to commute to our Irvine, CA office at least 3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

Creative/Hands-on Work (40%)

• Oversees a group of brands and manages a team of art directors and writers
• Actively participates in client meetings; co-leads strategy sessions with Account
• Shares responsibility with Account for shaping strategy and positioning
• Leads creative presentations
• Leads (and wins) new business pitches
• Attends market research as appropriate
• Understands that advertising is a service industry that sometimes requires extra time and effort to meet client commitments

Management (30%)

• Supports ACDs and CDs in securing resources and assigning brands/projects to maximize productivity and ensure that everyone is billable
• Troubleshoots personnel issues; identifies solutions for challenging deadlines and budgets
• Leads award-worthy creative execution with constructive feedback and clear direction
• Provides written and face-to-face feedback for annual performance reviews, as well as ongoing feedback throughout the year
• Identifies and interviews prospective creative candidates

Leadership (30%)

• Rallies the team with their presence
• Leads by example and contributes to the greater good of the agency
• Fosters excellent client relationships
• Works with Account partners to grow business with existing clients
• Proactively addresses performance, workflow, and quality issues
• Effortlessly absorbs entire brand situations to deliver meaningful insights that influence strategy
• An agency ambassador at client meetings
   

• 10+ years of experience in advertising agency (creative in pharmaceutical or healthcare industry preferred)
• BA degree preferred
• Proven leadership competencies to include setting vision and strategy, building teams, knowing the business, driving for results, and encouraging open exchange of ideas and knowledge.
• Strong, proven management experience across multiple functions including management of exempt personnel in fast-paced, service/team environment.
• Highly motivated change agent that can drive business-focused solutions.
• Experience with a wide array of media including print, video, online, events/displays.
• Proficient with design applications including In Design, Photoshop, Illustrator and PowerPoint as well as a thorough working knowledge of print production.
• Understanding of interactive media production.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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