Associate Creative Director, Copy

Job Overview:

The Associate Creative Director, Copy (ACD, Copy) is a strategic storyteller who brings clarity, emotion, and originality to complex scientific narratives. In partnership with the Group Creative Director and art leads, this role will help to drive concepting and copy development for integrated marketing campaigns—ensuring ideas are grounded in insight, scientifically accurate, and crafted with elevated creative expression.

This role balances hands-on writing with leadership responsibilities, mentoring writers while championing exceptional creative across omnichannel deliverables. The ACD, Copy excels at translating dense clinical information into engaging narratives, understanding the regulatory nuances of pharmaceutical copy, and helping shape the voice and story of brands preparing for or actively launching into market. This role is client-facing, requires strong presentation skills, and includes supervising and managing junior and mid-level writers.

Key Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

• Lead concepting efforts and craft clear, compelling narratives for campaigns across digital, print, social, video, HCP, and patient audiences.
• Translate strategic insights and scientific information into differentiated creative ideas.
• Partner closely with art/design leads to ensure unified storytelling across copy and design.
• Contribute to pitch work and new business opportunities by developing creative platforms and messaging approaches.
• Present creative work confidently and persuasively to internal teams and clients.

• Write and oversee copy for a wide range of deliverables, ensuring consistency of voice and message hierarchy.
• Translate complex clinical or scientific data into accurate, engaging, and compliant promotional copy.
• Guide annotation and MLR submission best practices.
• Develop brand stories, campaign manifestos, messaging frameworks, and tone-of-voice guidelines.

• Collaborate with Strategy,