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# Creative Director at  Ogilvy Health UK

- **Company:**  Ogilvy Health UK
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthuk/jobs/4718748005

## Job description

## About Ogilvy

Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.

Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.

## About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit [WPP.com](http://wpp.com/).

Ogilvy Health is seeking a Creative Director with a strong art direction background to lead creative work on key accounts within our healthcare portfolio. This individual will balance hands-on creative leadership with team development, ensuring both exceptional work and a thriving creative culture.

## Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

- Own and drive creative direction across key accounts, ensuring big, effective ideas that meet client and patient/HCP needs
- Bring strong conceptual thinking to every brief—pushing beyond the expected to deliver work that's both strategically sound and creatively distinctive
- Maintain hands-on involvement in art direction, from concept through execution, across digital, print, and campaign work

## Team Development

- Mentor and grow art directors, designers, and copywriters on the team
- Foster a collaborative, high-standards creative environment
- Provide constructive feedback and creative direction that elevates the work and the people making it

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner closely with Client Service to align creative solutions with business objectives and timelines
- Work hand-in-hand with Strategy to ensure ideas are rooted in insight and built to perform
- Present and defend creative concepts confidently to clients and internal stakeholders

## What We're Looking For

- 8+ years in advertising/agency creative roles, with proven experience as an Art Director progressing into creative leadership
- Healthcare/pharma experience preferred (HCP and/or DTC)
- A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual and visual storytelling ability
- Experience managing and developing junior creative talent
- Excellent collaborator who thrives in cross-functional, client-facing environments
- Comfortable navigating regulatory/compliance considerations inherent to healthcare marketing

## How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.

## About  Ogilvy Health UK

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ogilvy Health UK is the health-specialist division of Ogilvy, providing integrated healthcare communications including advertising, medical education, public relations, and data-driven brand strategy to pharmaceutical and wellness clients.
- **Entity Type**: Public (division of Ogilvy, a WPP company; WPP is listed on NYSE: WPP)
- **Headquarters**: South Bank, London, United Kingdom (additional offices in Manchester and Oxford)
- **Founded**: 1948 (parent company Ogilvy founded by David Ogilvy; Ogilvy Health operates as a dedicated health practice)
- **Founders**: David Ogilvy (Ogilvy)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare communications, medical education, advertising, public relations, data & insights, digital marketing, behavioural science.
- Target customers: B2B – pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, professional medical societies, health innovators, NGOs; B2C – wellness brands and health consumers.
- Mission or purpose statement: “Inspire brands and people to impact the world by creating iconic, behaviour-changing, value-driving ideas” with a specific health focus to “improve health and wellbeing” (Ogilvy Health UK Greenhouse jobs page; [ogilvy.com/uk/about](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/about)).

## Products & Services
Ogilvy Health UK offers integrated services, often combined in bespoke teams per client:
- **Brand Development & Advertising**: Promotional campaigns for pharmaceutical and wellness brands across paid, owned, and earned media.
- **Medical Education**: Scientific content, medical writing, and educational programmes for healthcare professionals (HCPs).
- **Public Relations & Influence**: Reputation management, media relations, influencer engagement, and corporate communications for health clients.
- **Data & Insights**: Market research, analytics, and the proprietary “Wellness Gap” insight to identify growth opportunities.
- **Digital & CRM**: Digital strategy, customer relationship management, and technology-led engagement solutions.
- **Behavioural Science**: Application of behavioural science to drive lasting behaviour change among patients, HCPs, and consumers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (division of WPP; WPP market cap ~£9bn as of mid-2026)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue and funding are not publicly disclosed. The UK office employs approximately 128 people (as of mid-2026, per LinkedIn; [linkedin.com/company/ogilvyhealthuk](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/ogilvyhealthuk)).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company WPP (NYSE: WPP). Clients include major pharmaceutical companies, professional societies, and NGOs.
- **Growth Signals**: Job postings increased +200% year-over-year (9 open positions as of mid-2026); however headcount declined 14.9% YoY. The practice continues to invest in Medical Education, Account Management, and Creative roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global Network Backing**: Access to Ogilvy’s world-renowned creative capabilities and WPP’s data, technology, and media resources.
- **Deep Healthcare Expertise**: Specialised knowledge across therapeutic areas (infectious disease, oncology, mental health, vaccines, cardiology, immunology, etc.) combined with integrated promotional and educational disciplines.
- **Behavioural Science & Data**: Proprietary research (e.g., “Wellness Gap”) and a dedicated behavioural science practice that differentiates their approach from pure creative agencies.
- **Client Trust**: Long-standing relationships with top pharma companies and a reputation for delivering “behaviour-changing” campaigns.

## Strategic Focus
- **Closing the Wellness Gap**: Using proprietary research to help brands make health benefits believable and actionable for consumers.
- **Integrated Health Communications**: Breaking silos between advertising, PR, medical education, and digital to create seamless client solutions.
- **People & Talent Investment**: Despite headcount contraction, the agency is actively hiring across Medical Writing, Account Management, and Creative roles, with a focus on inclusive culture (neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, racial equity networks).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & DEI**: Ogilvy UK has a strong “people first” strategy championed by the Chief People Officer and supported by employee networks: ReWired (neurodiversity), PROUD (LGBTQ+), Parents & Carers, and Roots (ethnicity/race/culture). These networks inform talent management and client work.
- **Work Policy**: Office-based presence in London (South Bank), Manchester, and Oxford. Hybrid working likely (common for agency roles), though not explicitly stated.
- **Perks & Development**: Access to global WPP learning resources; opportunities to work on high-impact health campaigns; clear career progression from Account Executive to Director level.
- **Job Openings**: As of mid-2026, open roles include Account Director, Scientific Director, Principal Medical Writer, Senior Medical Writer, Midweight Designer, and Midweight Art Director. Applications via [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthuk).

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse – Ogilvy Health UK Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthuk)
2. [LinkedIn – Ogilvy Health UK Company Page](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/ogilvyhealthuk)
3. [Ogilvy UK – About](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/about)
4. [Ogilvy UK – Health Capabilities](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/capabilities/health)
5. [Ogilvy UK – Team (Leadership)](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/team)

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