Art Director

BGB Group•Ontario, Canada, ON

About The Position

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 professionalism, we’re hired 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.

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

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 management’s 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