Havas
Website:
havas.com
Job details:
Job Title: Associate Creative Director (ACD)
Location: Mumbai
Experience: 6–15 years
Industry: Advertising Healthcare / Pharma / Wellness
About the Role
Havas Life Mumbai is looking for a dynamic and strategic Associate Creative Director to lead and elevate creative output across healthcare, pharma, and wellness brands. This role demands a blend of strong conceptual thinking, storytelling, team leadership, and an understanding of emerging technologies like AI in creative workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end creative development across campaigns (digital, print, film, and integrated).
- Drive innovative, insight-led concepts tailored to healthcare, pharma, and wellness audiences.
- Collaborate closely with strategy, servicing, and medical teams to ensure accuracy and impact.
- Mentor and manage a team of designers, copywriters, and junior creatives.
- Ensure high-quality creative output aligned with brand guidelines and regulatory requirements.
- Integrate AI tools and platforms into ideation, content creation, and workflow optimization.
- Present ideas confidently to internal stakeholders and clients.
- Stay updated with industry trends, especially in health communication and digital innovation.
Key Requirements
- 6–15 years of experience in a creative role within an agency setup.
- Strong portfolio showcasing integrated campaigns, preferably in healthcare, pharma, or wellness brands.
- Prior experience in leading teams and managing multiple projects.
- Understanding of medical communication, regulatory nuances, and patient-centric storytelling.
- Working knowledge of AI tools (e.g., generative AI, content automation, design tools) and their application in creative processes.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on global healthcare brands.
- Exposure to digital-first and omnichannel campaigns.
- Ability to balance creativity with compliance-driven environments.
About Havas Life Mumbai
Havas Life Sorento is India’s leading Health & Wellness marketing, communications, digital & health tech company. It’s a part of Havas Health & You, the world’s largest global health & wellness network & part of Havas India, which unites 18 companies and diversified services across Creative, Media, and Health verticals. Centred around Human Purpose, agency believes that brands rightly have a role to play in culture and make a positive impact on the wider world, thus creating meaningful brand platforms that don’t just grow, they grow well. It has deep strategic, creative, and technology expertise for modern health-brand marketing.
For more information, visit https://in.havas.com/havas-life/ and follow Havas Life Sorento on social media.
About Havas India
Havas India gathers the expertise of 20 agencies and specialised divisions across 3 verticals:
- Havas Media Network – Havas Media, PivotRoots (integrated digital), Arena Media, Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home), Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (sports, entertainment & content), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (pure play social media), and Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing)
- Havas Creative Network – Havas Worldwide India (creative), Havas People India (talent communications & employer branding), Havas CX India (customer experience), Think Design (UX/UI), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions) Conran Design Group Mumbai (branding & design), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR), and Prose on Pixels (content-at-scale)
- Havas Health & You – Havas Life Sorento (health & wellness communications).
With its unique Village model, it is an integrated network present across 3 Villages in Mumbai, Gurgaon, and Bengaluru, and regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai, with over 2000+ professionals and associates.
As one of India’s fastest growing and agile networks, Havas India has bagged multiple new clients across verticals and won several prestigious awards over the last 2 years including the group being Great Place To Work® Certified™ twice in a row (Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 & Dec 2023 – Dec 2024), consistently being featured in the top 3 at R3 New Business League rankings, and winning at Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year awards, e4m Indian Marketing Awards 2023, ABBY One Show 2023, Campaign Women Leading Change awards, and more. Our CSR programs, DE&I initiatives, and active involvement in industry associations keep us invested as a network with a clear mission to make a meaningful difference for brands, businesses, and people.
For more information, visit https://in.havas.com/ and follow Havas India on social media.
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