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Lead Designer (Pharma Agency)

Avalere Health· Global Marketing – Creative Services
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Hybrid (London / Manchester)Permanent/full-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Lead Designer role at Avalere Health, acting as the day-to-day creative lead across projects and accounts, shaping high-quality design solutions across print, digital, social, presentation, and emerging channels.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the primary day-to-day creative lead across projects, ensuring work is strategically aligned, creatively strong, and delivered to the highest standards.
  • Lead the development of integrated creative solutions across print, digital, social, presentation, motion, and emerging channels.
  • Challenge briefs constructively, identifying opportunities to strengthen creative effectiveness and deliver greater impact.
  • Translate complex scientific, healthcare, and technical information into compelling visual communications.
  • Build and embed reusable templates, toolkits, frameworks, and design systems that improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and reduce duplication while maintaining creative excellence.
  • Champion innovation in design approaches, tools, technologies, and AI-enabled workflows where appropriate.
  • Influence stakeholders through strong design thinking, clear communication, and evidence-based creative decisions.
  • Lead collaboration between Design, Copy, Strategy, Client Services, Studio, Digital, and Production teams to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Ensure creative intent is maintained throughout the project lifecycle from briefing to final delivery.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 4 years design agency experience, including some experience leading design projects from initial brief through to final delivery, bringing strong conceptual thinking and art direction expertise.
  • A standout integrated portfolio showcasing work across digital, print, social media, presentations, and multi-channel campaigns within an agency environment.
  • Confidence building relationships with clients and stakeholders, presenting creative ideas and influencing decisions through strategic and compelling design solutions.
  • Ability to transform complex information into engaging and impactful visual communications, ideally within healthcare or other highly regulated industries.
  • Experience creating design systems, templates, toolkits, and scalable creative frameworks that drive consistency, efficiency, and quality.
  • Excellent collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering effectively with strategists, copywriters, client services, digital, production, and studio teams to deliver exceptional creative work.

Skills

Required:Design leadershipIntegrated designClient collaborationVisual communication of complex informationDesign systems and templates

Benefits

  • up to 7% pension contribution
  • life insurance
  • income protection
  • private medical insurance
  • flexible hybrid working
  • option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year
  • 25 days of annual leave plus two personal well-being days
  • gifted end-of-year holidays
  • early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
  • free counselling through employee assistance program
  • personalized health support
  • enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies
  • on-demand support from Peppy
  • continuous opportunities for professional development, on-demand training, global mobility opportunities
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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