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# Senior Art Director at Ogilvy Health Canada

- **Company:** Ogilvy Health Canada
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $65k–$115k
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthcanada/jobs/4751651005

## Job description

## About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Art Director to bring well-known Health & Wellness brands to life across all touchpoints from acquisition to recognition. The Senior Art Director will develop a vision of creative possibility in virtually any media and will have the ability to form dynamic working partnerships with every level of the team.

## What You’ll Do

- Be a brand steward
- Ideate and execute sound creative ideas for client marketing materials in an efficient and economical manner
- Create concepts that show a thorough understanding of the strategy and are extendable into campaigns
- Works closely with creative lead to bring the team’s visual concepts to life
- Work independently and collaboratively with a Copywriter partner to develop ideas, refine concepts and ensure creative vision is achieved and client expectations are met
- Work with account teams to obtain project specifics: strategy, budget and schedule
- Team up with peers to overcome obstacles and create client success
- Offer client and team members innovative advice and solutions from industry examples and experience
- Help organize, maintain, and oversee creative standards and guidelines
- Offer insight on creative briefs and schedules
- Work within tight deadlines
- Prioritize workload and manage time effectively – personally and for the team as needed

What You’ll Need

- 5+ years’ experience as an Art Director
- Experience presenting to and working with clients and internal partners
- Demonstrated understanding of clients’ business needs, and the ability to concept and design compelling solutions that align with overall creative strategy
- Proven ability to listen, digest and resolve client feedback with a creative solution and a positive, can-do attitude
- Capable of working on multiple projects, small or large, with various project leads
- Strong creative and conceptual vision, with the ability to approach every assignment with a fresh perspective
- Exceptional design aesthetic, variations on styles, and awareness of design trends and innovation
- Proficiency with FIGMA, AfterEffects, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, Keynote and PowerPoint
- Solid typography and layout skills

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.

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.

Salary Range $65,000—$115,000 CAD

## About Ogilvy Health Canada

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ogilvy Health Canada is a specialized healthcare communications agency that delivers brand-building, medical education, and customer engagement solutions for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients as part of the global Ogilvy network.
- **Entity Type**: Division of a Public Company (parent WPP plc; NYSE: WPP)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with a second office in Montreal, QC)
- **Founded**: 1948 (parent Ogilvy founded by David Ogilvy; Canadian health practice established later)
- **Founders**: David Ogilvy (founder of Ogilvy)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare advertising and marketing communications
- **Target customers**: B2B – pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, healthcare organizations (HCP, patient, and payer audiences)
- **Mission**: “To inspire brands and people to impact the world” by keeping audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint.

## Products & Services
- **Brand Development & Promotion**: Full-service creative strategy, HCP and consumer promotion, and brand planning.
- **Medical Education (MedEd)**: Scientific content development and continuing medical education (CME) programs.
- **Data, Intelligence & Strategy**: Data-driven insights, market research, and analytics to inform campaign strategy.
- **PR, Social & Influence**: Public relations, social media management, and influencer programs tailored to healthcare.
- **Experience & Innovation**: Digital transformation, customer experience design, and omni-channel engagement.
- **Market Access & Payer**: Communication strategies to support pricing, reimbursement, and market access.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (part of WPP, which has a market cap of ~£8B as of mid-2025)
- **Key Metric**: Revenue is not publicly disclosed for the Canada entity; LinkedIn reports 34 employees as of June 2025
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company WPP; clients include major pharmaceutical companies
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount declined ~27% YoY (from ~47 to 34); recent hiring activity for Account Manager, CME positions suggests selective growth in medical education

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global network leverage**: Access to Ogilvy’s worldwide resources, proprietary tools, and cross-market expertise.
- **Deep healthcare specialization**: Decades of experience navigating regulatory environments and delivering compliant, impactful campaigns.
- **Integrated service mix**: Combines creative, medical, PR, digital, and data capabilities under one roof, reducing need for multiple agency partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: The agency is actively exploring how artificial intelligence can transform pharma marketing, with internal initiatives and client-facing pilots (see LinkedIn posts on AI in pharma advertising).
- **Digital transformation**: Emphasis on new delivery models and ways of working to unlock the promise of AI and improve outcomes.
- **Talent retention and diversity**: Continued investment in employee development and inclusive culture to attract and retain top talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Ogilvy positions itself as a “people-first” company with a focus on continuous learning, career growth, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Employee resource groups like RedLotus, Black Diaspora, and Pride support belonging.
- **Work model**: Hybrid presence expected in Toronto and Montreal offices; specific remote policy not publicly detailed.
- **Perks**: Part of a global creative network with opportunities for cross-border collaboration; emphasis on mentorship and professional development.
- **Engineering/creative environment**: Creative teams account for 66% of staff (Marketing 49%, Design 17%), with directors and specialists making up the majority of roles.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – Ogilvy Health Canada](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ogilvy-health-canada)
2. [Ogilvy Canada Careers Page](https://www.ogilvy.com/ca/careers)
3. [Ogilvy Canada About Page](https://www.ogilvy.com/ca/about)
4. [Ogilvy Health Global Site](https://www.ogilvyhealth.com/)
5. [Greenhouse Careers – Ogilvy Health Canada](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthcanada)

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