Graphic Designer

Department: Creative

The Graphic Designer works closely with a diverse team of creative and art directors, medical writers, project managers, and agency partners to translate scientific and brand objectives into an engaging visual story. They are accountable for their own projects and support other team members with larger projects and deadlines while remaining flexible through multiple revisions. Reporting to the Creative Director, this individual must be a solutions-oriented, self-directed individual with outstanding communication and teaming skills.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand project assignment, audience, and intended message.
• Ability to take direction and work efficiently
• Prioritize, manage, and execute project deliverables to meet associated deadlines
  • Approximately 50% of deliverables will be performed in PowerPoint
• Contribute to group meetings and brainstorm sessions, offering ideas and solutions
• Prepare files for print production 
• Prepare art for use in digital media, collaborating with web designers/developers
• Create and provide quotes for deliverables
• Develop concepts and solutions that translate scientific and client objectives into an engaging visual story
• Provide oversight to project deliverables to ensure compliance with brand guidelines and graphic best practices
• Liaise with other members of the graphic design team to maximize creativity and excellence in performance and delivery

Necessary Skills

• Good working knowledge of Adobe CC InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
• Strong attention to detail 
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint 
• Expert in print production and complex legal approval processes – like Veeva
• Outstanding ability in layout composition, typography and color theory
• Preparing art for video and animation, a plus
• HTML or web design skill a plus but not necessary
• Medical knowledge a plus but not necessary

Competencies

To be successful in a career position, an individual must not only be able to perform the essential functions of the job, but also excel at them in an expert manner. The following are essential to success: 

• Exemplification of FORCE attributes: This is the essence of FORCE. Every individual member of the team embodies these characteristics. These attributes include passion for success, accountability, sound judgement, adaptability, professionalism, creativity and innovation, ethical work with integrity, quality, and caring. 
• Good/basic Communication skills: The ability to effectively communicate is vital to success. These skills include speaking and writing clearly and effectively balancing both listening and talking in conversations and meetings, being resilient in difficult situations, presenting effectively to the needs of the intended audience, and giving and receiving feedback for continuous improvement
• Good/basic Relationship management skills: Relationship Management centers on an individual’s ability to manage interactions to provide service and to support the organization. These skills include being attentive to the customer’s needs, collaboration with teammates, leadership, the ability to influence, identifying and solving problems, working through conflicts by encouraging open communication, strategic thinking, and effective delegation.

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree in visual communication with 3 or more years’ experience.  Medical education, pharmaceutical marketing/advertising and/or healthcare marketing/advertising experience is a plus.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States as our organization does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status for this position. We participate in e-verify. FORCE is excited to offer fully remote positions in states where we currently operate, with the ability to travel to company headquarters in Indianapolis, IN.