Senior Designer

Are you passionate about creating advertising that not only informs but also transforms lives within the healthcare sector?

At Havas Lynx, a global advertising agency at the forefront of healthcare communications, we combine unmatched creativity, extensive expertise, and a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical and healthcare field. Our communications resonate deeply with audiences and adhere to the highest standards of healthcare advertising.

Committed to driving meaningful change, a change built on a foundation of rich experience, inspired by innovation, and confirmed through our proven track record—we work in close partnership with healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and leading pharmaceutical brands to navigate the complex challenges of today's healthcare landscape. Our approach blends strategic insights and deep scientific acumen with cutting-edge creativity and digital innovation, crafting campaigns and solutions that significantly improve people's lives.

We’re a team of over 400+ people in Manchester and London, with a history spanning over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife through our You Tube #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, Linked In, and Twitter.

Everything this company achieves—every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins—is down to everyone who works here.

Summary of our role

We’re looking for a Multi-Disciplinary Senior Designer to join our creative team. You will be given the opportunity to take ownership of design excellence across projects, ensuring every piece of work meets and exceeds client expectations. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and play a role in shaping the visual direction of campaigns.

What you will be doing:

• Collaborate with a variety of disciplines, both internally and externally, to develop design solutions.
• Liaise with the client services team to determine project objectives, budget, background information and presentation approaches, styles and techniques.
• Proactively suggest effective builds and edits of briefs using your understanding of the client, audience and their needs.
• Push the understanding of this by interrogating your juniors and proactively making suggestions for improvement.
• Ability to show exceptional understanding of insights, target audiences, therapy area landscapes, brand benefits, communication objective and the idea outputs to proactively elevate the standard of work.
• Take responsibility for the work you produce through to sign off, ensuring it is completed to deadline, is of a high quality, demonstrating accuracy, attention to detail and ownership.
• Following internal and external meetings, guide the brief along with the client services team, helping them to get the best out of it.
• Be able to produce accurate estimates, clearly communicating how long you think is required to complete a piece of work, supporting the Lead Designer in troubleshooting any possible challenges that may impact the smooth progression of the project.

Technical Knowledge & Specialism

• Expert at translating client business needs and market insight into standout creative that exceeds the brief.
• Own projects end‑to‑end, managing time, budget, and quality while supporting junior team members where needed.
• Develop strong concepts and execute them across multiple mediums, shaping imagery, typography, motion, tone of voice, and localisation.
• Confident collaborator with UX/UI teams, applying digital best practice to deliver consistent, effective experiences.
• Strong experience using Figma to design, prototype, and collaborate on scalable digital systems, working closely with UX and UI teams.
• Support the Lead Designer in creative direction, production, and briefing external partners.
• Maintain a high standard of craft, detail, and effectiveness across all outputs, delivered on time.
• Actively track trends and award‑winning work, applying new thinking, including AI‑enabled workflows to creative development.
• Clearly communicate ideas and stories to internal teams, clients, and award juries.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong information design, creative use of data, and motion design.
• Self‑…