Careers at LifeLearn Animal Health

Description:

The Creative Director plays a pivotal dual role within the Industry Solutions team, balancing corporate operations and strategic creative direction. This leadership position requires an agile, solutions-oriented approach to both the execution of corporate priorities and the delivery of bold, strategic creative vision that elevates client experiences and drives innovation.

Strategic Creative Leadership:

• Inspiring innovative thinking and best-in-class creative execution aligned with scientific accuracy and strategic objectives.
• Acting as a brand ensuring creative work reflects client and organizational values, tone, and impact.
• Leading ideation and conceptual development across diverse channels and project types.
• Cultivating a high-performing creative culture through mentorship, talent development, and cross-functional collaboration.

Business Operations Leadership

• Driving workflow consistency and compliance through SOPs and project management tools (Monday.com).
• Ensuring timely, on-budget project execution in alignment with financial targets and resource allocations through resource planning and forecasting accuracy.
• Leading creative operational efficiency by minimizing rework and optimizing team capacity.
• Establishing review structures and processes that ensure accountability and adherence to performance KPls.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor a team of biomedical communicators and graphic designers to elevate and build new skill sets and efficiencies.
• Work collaboratively with the Director of Project Services to evaluate and guide their performance to ensure strategic objectives are clearly communicated and implemented within projects, deadlines are met, and quality and compliance standards are maintained.
• Creative and strategic leader to drive creative execution while inspiring creative ideation in the creative team through briefings, guidance, design reviews and brainstorming.
• Leading the team through development of creative assets from ideation and design; liaising with client and internal stakeholders through to completion of client deliverables
• Taking business goals and translating them into creative projects. Collaboration and influence to build effective relationships with stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Take ownership of Creative workflow processes, troubleshoot efficiency issues, state priority deliverables, and manage the day-to-day activities of the Industry Solutions team.
• Work collaboratively with the Director of Project Services, Editorial Director and Director of Veterinary Services to provide coaching, leadership, and guidance to drive consistency in execution throughout the team.
• Consult with Account Executives, in collaboration with the Editorial Director and Director of Veterinary Services to review draft SOWs to help ensure effective allocation of resources, and timely delivery when meeting client needs.
• Maintain discipline to manage allocated project hours by role and stay on budget.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with a diverse group of individuals.
• Strategically recruit and engage both permanent and freelance resources to support client deliverables on time and within the stated scope and budget.

Skills Required:

• Proficiency in creative and elearning tools including Articulate 360 (Storyline), Adobe Creative Cloud (lnDesign, After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop), PowerPoint (advanced), and video editing tools. Familiarity with Monday.com for project tracking, and experience with LMS platforms an asset.
• Resource and Fiscal Management – including effective use of team capacity, materials, and project budgets to ensure efficient delivery of creative outputs within financial targets.
• Project Management – Accurately estimates duration and level of difficulty of tasks and projects. Completes resource allocations, sets goals, objectives, and work plans to complete projects on time and on budget.
• Leadership – Works well with a wide range of individuals to provide support, coaching, encouragement, and strategic direction.
• Accountability – Works collaboratively with peers to lead the creative team. Taking ownership of team deliverables while leading efficiency and quality of solutions delivered by employees under his/her direction.
• Organized – Highly organized, with good project management and time management skills to ensure all deadlines are met. Able to juggle multiple, and sometimes conflicting priorities and
  needs.
• Communication – Expresses and transmits expectations and information with consistency and purpose driven clarity.
• Managing Performance – Identifies employees’ strengths and weaknesses and provides direction and support regarding areas of professional growth while building on strengths.
• Problem Solving – Able to break down a situation into smaller pieces to identify key issues and figure out cause and effect relationships in order to solve.

Experience:

• Graduate degree or an advanced degree in a related field or appropriate experience – BMC preferred.
• Eight+ years of progressive experience in creative or content development role including 3-5 years in a senior leadership role (Creative Director or Associate Director) where you owned end-to-end delivery of projects – Agency experience preferred.
• Proven experience with coaching, mentorship and motivating professional growth in teams.
• Expertise in managing external partners, agencies, and freelancers.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written with proven ability to communicate with all stakeholders including technical, professional, and senior management.
• Flexibility to adjust to shifting priorities and deadlines.

Work Conditions:

• Dog friendly office
• Occasional travel within North America
• Flexible hours
• Operation of desktop computer and peripherals
• Working in an office environment

If you are interested in applying for this position please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected]

We thank all applicants for their time, however we will only be contacting those individuals that we wish to interview.

Description:

The Meeting and Events – Project Manager, under the direction of the Meetings & Events Manager, will primarily be responsible to lead project management strategies and actions to ensure effective milestone planning and timely completion of deliverables. This position will participate in contract negotiations and maintain ongoing relationships with a variety of vendors. This role will also strive to advance your knowledge, skills, and abilities and consistently share these with others. The Meeting and Events – Project Manager must have three years of related experience and ability to analyze and interpret the needs of customers and offer the appropriate options, solutions, and resolutions when required.

Competencies:

• Project Management – Working independently to accurately estimate duration and level of difficulty of tasks and projects. Sets out goals, objectives, and work plans to complete tasks and projects. Determines where work needs to be delegated.
• Problem Solving – Able to break down a situation into smaller pieces to identify key issues and figure out cause and effect relationships in order to solve. Use logic and analytical methods to come to realistic solution.
• Teamwork – Works cooperatively and effectively with others to reach a common goal. Participates actively in group activities fostering a team environment.
• Accountability – Takes ownership of personal workload, as well as the workload of employees under his/her direction.
• Time Management – Balances a myriad of tasks; prioritizes duties as needed.
• Communication – Expresses and transmits information with consistency and clarity.
• Client/Customer Focus – Provides superior service to both internal and external customers.
• Negotiation – Gains support of ideas, proposals, and solutions from others; reaches deals and compromises on what will work best for the organization; considers other opinions while holding strong to firm directions and goals.
• Attention to Detail – Attends to details and pursues quality in the accomplishment of tasks, regardless of the volume of duties encountered.
• Organization – Able to create or maintain processes to ensure all relevant information or tools are easily accessible.

Responsibilities:

• Independently manages and implements successful custom meeting/events and speaker bureaus for multiple clients.
• Oversee project management to ensure effective milestone planning and timely completion of deliverables
• Reconcile expense statements and project budgets
• Prepare travel schedules, book travel arrangements, and make reservations for attendants and presenters
• Prepare, review, and print various forms of correspondence such as invoices, presentations, publications, expenses and reports
• Participate in contract negotiations and maintain ongoing relationships with a variety of vendors

Qualifications:

• College diploma or University degree in related field
• Three years of related event planning experience in veterinary or medical events
• Strong working knowledge of project management principles, methods, practices, and techniques
• Ability to analyze and interpret the needs of customers and offer the appropriate options, solutions, and resolutions required
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
• Expert level skills in Microsoft office, particularly PowerPoint and Excel
• Ability to prioritize and manage conflicting demands
• Ability to work individually as well as part of a team
• Demonstrated time management skills
• Experience with project management software systems
• High flexibility with strong interpersonal skills that allow one to work effectively in a diverse environment

If you are interested in applying for this position please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected]

We thank all applicants for their time, however we will only be contacting those individuals that we wish to interview.