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You’ll be responsible for ensuring that the work is not only creatively exceptional, but strategically sound, scientifically accurate, and meaningful to the patients and healthcare professionals we serve.\nAs a senior creative leader, you’ll provide clear direction to creative teams, mentor and develop talent, build strong client relationships, and help raise the creative bar across Purplemoon. You’ll remain close to the work—concepting, writing, reviewing, presenting, and pushing ideas forward—while increasingly leading the people and teams responsible for bringing those ideas to life. This role is equal parts creative thinker, storyteller, mentor, collaborator, and client partner.\nKey Responsibilities\n\nLead the creative vision and copy direction across assigned brands and accounts, ensuring exceptional, strategically grounded work across channels and deliverables.\n\nInspire and lead Art and Copy teams in developing unexpected, memorable ideas, partnering closely with Art leadership to integrate copy and visual thinking from the outset.\n\nOwn creative development from brief through production, including concepts, campaigns, storytelling, messaging, tactical execution, and opportunities to extend ideas across channels for broader brand impact.\n\nTranslate complex clinical, scientific, and strategic information into clear, compelling, human-centered stories.\n\nElevate creative quality by reviewing work and providing clear, constructive, actionable feedback that strengthens both conceptual thinking and executional craft.\n\nRemain hands-on as needed, contributing concepts, headlines, messaging, scripts, presentations, and other copy.\n\nStrengthen creative briefs to ensure strategic clarity while providing inspiration and direction for creative teams.\n\nPresent and champion creative work with clients, using strategic rationale and persuasive storytelling to build trusted relationships and demonstrate a deep understanding of their brands, business objectives, audiences, market dynamics, and creative challenges.\n\nCollaborate across Account Management, Strategy, Medical, and Project Excellence to deliver outstanding work efficiently and collaboratively.\n\nLead, mentor, and develop Copy team members through ongoing coaching, feedback, performance reviews, and career development, providing clear direction while empowering teams to explore, problem-solve, and contribute their own thinking.\n\nOversee team workloads and assignments, maintaining high standards for quality, responsiveness, and accountability while estimating copy hours and providing input on staffing, resourcing, and project planning.\n\nIdentify staffing needs and support talent acquisition, including interviewing and evaluating prospective creative talent.\n\nManage multiple brands, teams, and priorities, balancing ambitious creative thinking with timelines, budgets, business needs, and available resources.\n\nSupport agency growth through pitches, new business opportunities, organic account growth, and broader agency initiatives.\n\nChampion innovation by exploring emerging technologies, AI capabilities, new platforms, and creative trends that can elevate the work.\n\nStrengthen the creative culture by fostering collaboration, curiosity, accountability, ambition, and respect, while consistently raising the creative bar for both the work and the teams around you.\n\nQualifications\n\n12+ years of agency experience, including significant pharmaceutical and healthcare experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional conceptual thinking, copywriting craft, and strategically effective creative work.\n\nProven leadership experience overseeing creative teams and major brands/accounts, with a demonstrated ability to mentor, manage, and develop creative talent.\n\nStrong strategic thinking, with the ability to connect business, brand, audience, and creative needs while working both strategically and tactically in a fast-paced agency environment.\n\nDeep knowledge of pharmaceutical marketing, healthcare audiences, and the regulatory environment, with the ability to translate complex science into clear, compelling, human communication.\n\nExceptional presentation and storytelling skills, including experience presenting creative work directly to clients and senior stakeholders.\n\nExperience developing integrated campaigns across digital, social, video, print, experiential, and other channels.\n\nExperience supporting pitches, new business, and organic growth opportunities.\n\nPassion for creating meaningful work that positively impacts patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.\n\nPlease Note: In order to be eligible for this remote role, you must reside within the country where the position is posted.\nIQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at \nIQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. \nIQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.\nThe potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $86,600.00 - $241,200.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.\n\nThis job is curated by Lifelancer.Lifelancer is a talent-hiring platform in Life Sciences, Pharma and IT. 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