Art Director

BGB Group

Art Director

Our Agency

BGB is a healthcare communications agency that offers a wide range of services including traditional pharmaceutical advertising promotional medical education payer marketing and consulting services. Known for excellence and professionalismwerehired as strategic and creative partners by our biopharmaceutical clients to drive category/brand awareness and growth.

The Art Director is responsible for developing designs and concepts across a wide range of media on multiple brands. This position reports to the Art Supervisor.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Develop and oversee design and concepts as a brand lead
• Keep all work consistent and on brand guidelines and strategy
• Clearly present and communicate internally
• Helps establish and maintain the highest possible standards of reproduction for all digital print audio/visual and collateral materials produced by the agency
• Monitors the quality of finished mechanical/digital art and conceptual materials produced by internal and freelance artists
• Provides direction and guidance to graphic designers
• Informs and advises creative leadership on the status of departmental affairs including all design-related computer hardware/software needs (upgrades equipment needs/problems training etc.)
• Ensures the efficient visual execution of creative concepts according to a prime account responsibility list or by managements assignment
• Consults with creative leadership as well as account service traffic and other agency team members as necessary to achieve agency objectives
• Help to identify and eliminate factors creating a crisis and minimize recurrence
• Meets established deadlines or provides reasonable notice of special circumstances requiring deadline extension
• Maintains a current list of available freelance artists web designers art and photography stock houses photographers and other contributory talent and vendors
• Engage in personal development necessary to stay current in advertising
• Researches to become more familiar with clients businesses

Requirements:

• A Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minimum of 2 years experience in a fast-paced high-volume environment preferably in pharmaceutical advertising
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Demonstrated supervisory management judgment and decision-making skills
• Excellent design skills including a highly developed overall design/concept aptitude as well as typography color photography and art
• Passionate about design and visual communication
• Knowledge of print and digital production
• Demonstrated organizational and analytical skills
• Proven ability to multitask handle stressful situations and deadline pressures
• Ability to prioritize workflow and redirect agency projects to meet competing and changing deadlines
• Excellent computer skills especially as they apply to desktop design including advanced proficiency in the following Adobe applications: Acrobat InDesign Photoshop Illustrator; as well as an understanding of Flash HTML and Aftereffects. Proficient in Microsoft Word PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Proficiency with Figma and general AI tools

Salary range: $70000 - 90000 CAD

The salary range provided represents what a potential hire may expect to earn in this role at BGB. Actual salary decisions will be influenced by several factors that we use to determine overall fit including experience (both direct and indirect) education training demonstrated qualifications and organizational need. Salary is only one component of the total rewards package offered at BGB Group.

BGB Group is an equal opportunity applicants will be considered without regard to race color religion sex age national origin citizenship status sexual orientation disability veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.