Job Description:

We’re partnering with one of the world’s most creatively respected advertising agencies to find experienced Account Directors to join their healthcare team.

This is an opportunity to work on ambitious, high-profile healthcare communications that combine big strategic thinking, standout creativity and real-world impact.

 

The core client work sits within ophthalmology, but direct experience in this therapy area isn’t essential. What matters most is strong healthcare agency experience, confidence working in regulated environments, and the ability to lead accounts delivering work across multiple channels — including direct-to-consumer campaigns.

 

The role

As an Account Director, you’ll play a central role in shaping and delivering bold, integrated healthcare campaigns. You’ll act as a trusted senior partner to clients, guiding strategy, overseeing delivery and helping bring big ideas to life in a way that’s both creatively exciting and compliant.

This agency is known for applying the same level of creative ambition to healthcare that it brings to its most famous global brand campaigns — so you’ll be working on ideas-led work, not just outputs.

 

Key responsibilities

• Lead senior client relationships and act as a strategic day-to-day partner
• Oversee the development of integrated healthcare campaigns, including HCP, patient and direct-to-consumer work
• Brief, inspire and collaborate with creative teams to deliver strong, distinctive ideas
• Manage timelines, budgets and agency teams across multiple workstreams
• Confidently steer work through medical, legal and regulatory review
• Work closely with strategy, creative, medical and production teams
• Support and mentor junior account team members
• Spot opportunities to grow accounts and elevate the work creatively

 

About you

• Proven experience as an Account Director (or a strong Senior Account Manager ready to step up) within a healthcare or pharma agency
• Comfortable leading complex accounts and senior stakeholders
• Experience working on campaign-led, integrated and digital-first work
• Understanding of regulated healthcare environments
• Calm, collaborative and commercially aware
• Ophthalmology experience is welcome but not required

 

Why this role?

This is a chance to work at a genuinely ideas-driven healthcare agency, known for delivering big-name campaigns and applying world-class creative thinking to complex healthcare challenges. You’ll be part of a team that values strategy, craft and creativity in equal measure

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