About AXON
AXON is a global healthcare communications agency that ignites change in healthcare through life‑changing communications, contributing to medical advances and improving lives.
Team – Creative Marketing Location – UK London (Hybrid WFH)
Senior Designer – Creative Marketing
Creative Marketing at AXON is about honest consultation with clients, unlocking value and pushing creativity. We are building a new practice and seek a senior designer who can shape the practice, drive client accounts, and lead projects.
You will work closely with the Senior Art Director and the wider creative team to elevate every project from concept to final delivery. Bring strategic thinking, strong visual judgement and exceptional design craft to campaigns, digital, branding, and integrated healthcare communications.
Digital & AI Context
We actively encourage the team to embrace AI and emerging technologies. Successful candidates will demonstrate a growth mindset, leveraging new tools responsibly and transparently.
Accountability
- Lead and support the design and development of creative projects including campaign materials, branding, marketing collateral, digital assets and presentations.
- Translate briefs into compelling, strategically considered design solutions that meet client objectives.
- Present design concepts and proposals to stakeholders, incorporating feedback and refining work where necessary.
- Deliver strong creative ideas and a consistently high level of craftsmanship across all design outputs.
- Contribute fresh ideas and innovative thinking to the overall creative strategy and vision of the business.
- Demonstrate excellent typographic, layout and visual communication skills with strong attention to detail.
- Maintain professional standards of file management and workflow organisation.
- Act as a design guardian for client brands, ensuring colour, typography and visual equities remain consistent across all deliverables.
Client Services
- Build strong working relationships with client services, scientific/medical teams and wider stakeholders across the business.
- Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams to ensure cohesive and impactful creative solutions.
- Participate confidently in creative discussions, workshops and internal reviews.
- Demonstrate a proactive and solutions‑focused approach to feedback and project challenges.
- Communicate passionately and knowledgeably about creative work and the business challenges design can solve.
Project Management
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Deliver projects to agreed timelines and budgets while maintaining creative excellence.
- Ensure all work progresses through the appropriate internal review and approval processes.
- Coordinate effectively with external vendors and suppliers where required.
- Accurately complete time recording and expenses in Maconomy using appropriate job codes.
- Support the production and delivery of final assets across digital and print formats.
People Management & Leadership
- Mentor and support junior designers, fostering confidence, collaboration and creative growth.
- Contribute positively to a collaborative, supportive and ambitious creative culture.
- Maintain curiosity for industry trends, emerging technologies and best practices in design.
- Take ownership of personal development and continuous learning opportunities.
- Demonstrate enthusiasm for award‑worthy work and creative innovation.
- Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Strong conceptual thinking and creative problem‑solving ability.
- Excellent typography, layout and visual communication skills.
- Strong experience across branding, campaign and digital design.
- Ability to create and present well‑structured design solutions.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Demonstrable portfolio showcasing high‑quality professional and personal design work.
- Illustration, 3D or additional creative software skills advantageous.
- Previous healthcare or pharmaceutical agency experience beneficial but not essential.
Benefits
- Private Medical & Dental Insurance (for you and your family)
- Critical Illness cover
- Travel insurance (for you and your family)
- Employee Wellbeing: an annual “wellness” benefit after 3 months’ service, plus EAP, eye tests and flu vaccination and sick pay if you’re ever unwell
- Hybrid working options
- Generous Annual Leave, 25 days’ holiday in addition to bank holidays (plus extra days as you grow with us up to a maximum of 30 days)
- Income Protection, Life assurance service insurance at 4x your salary
- Paid sabbaticals after 5 years’ service
- Employee Referral Scheme: get rewarded for bringing in new talent to our team
- Personal Development: we invest in you with training and career growth
Equal Opportunity Statement
AXON is a diverse organization, committed to equal opportunities. We aim to recruit, develop and promote the very best people, basing judgment solely on suitability for the job.
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