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 YouTube #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, 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 Mid - Weight Designer to join our creative team. You will have the opportunity to contribute to high-quality design work across a range of projects, helping ensure all outputs meet client expectations. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and support the development of the visual direction of campaigns.

Mid-Weight Designer Role Expectations:

Contribute to High-Impact Information & Data Design

Support the visual storytelling projects—helping to turn data, research and scientific content into clear, easy-to-understand design solutions. You'll work closely with Art Directors and Copywriters from the very start, using design to improve and generate campaign ideas to make complex information clearer and more compelling.

Creative Development & Growing Influence

Partner with Art Directors and Writers during brainstorming, bringing design thinking early to help shape ideas, not just make them look good. Contribute meaningfully to the creative direction of campaigns, with guidance from senior team members. Start exploring AI and new creative technologies to speed up your visual exploration during brainstorms and development—whilst learning when AI helps and when you need to design it yourself. As you grow, you'll increasingly shape client work and develop your voice as a core member of creative teams.

Learn From & Collaborate With the Design Team

Bring your energy and fresh perspective whilst learning from more experienced designers. Be the design voice in project teams—challenging ideas constructively, suggesting visual improvements, and making sure design adds real value rather than just decoration. You'll own specific parts of projects, deliver high-quality work, and start to mentor junior team members—building your leadership skills whilst contributing to the team's output.

Deliver Quality Craft Across Digital & Print

Execute design work to a high standard across websites, apps, brand identity, digital experiences and print. Work closely with Art Directors to develop and refine the visual look and feel that brings campaign ideas to life. You'll develop your eye for detail, learn to balance quality with speed, and experiment with AI tools that help you work smarter. You'll also start to work with external creative partners—photographers, illustrators, animators—learning how to brief them and guide their work as part of joined-up creative teams.

Core Capabilities

Visual Problem-Solving & Creative Thinking

Takes an active role in brainstorms—sketching, visualising, and developing ideas alongside Art Directors and Writers;understands creative briefs properly; creates 2-3 different visual approaches that fit the brand and audience; makes the case for design choices that strengthen the campaign idea, not just make it prettier; follows brand guidelines whilst beginning to recognise when breaking them might actually work better; reviews own work with growing awareness of what actually works vs. what you just personally like; asks good questions when unsure

AI Exploration & Quality Control

Uses AI tools to quickly visualise ideas during brainstorms—making vague concepts real for the team; speeds up exploration and creates initial directions; is learning to spot common AI problems (weird hands, generic-looking work, wrong brand colours); improves AI outputs through testing and adjusting; shows AI experiments to Art Directors and Writers to start conversations and develop ideas; knows when to show experiments to seniors vs. when to start again from scratch; can turn around initial concepts in hours that used to take days —enabling faster, more back-and-forth creative collaboration

Client Collaboration & Clear Communication

Works with Art Directors and Writers to question briefs together—bringing a design perspective to spot visual opportunities and challenges early; asks clarifying questions when briefs aren't clear; listens carefully to client feedback and turns it into design changes; presents work as part of the creative team, explaining how design choices support the main idea; admits when something isn't working rather than defending weak ideas; is building confidence through preparation and practice within collaborative creative partnerships

Creative Exploration & Visual Awareness

Brings visual references and design inspiration into brainstorms—helping the team see possibilities and spark new directions; absorbs design inspiration from multiple sources; references current design trends appropriately; challenges Writers and Art Directors (respectfully) when an idea needs stronger visual expression or when design could unlock a better direction; moves beyond obvious interpretations towards more interesting, layered thinking (with guidance); is developing a sense for what feels fresh vs. overdone; experiments with original ideas whilst staying within what makes sense for the brief

Cross-Team Collaboration & Creative Partnership

Talks about ideas, not just making things look nice—contributing to campaign concepts through visual thinking;understands how design can make or break a copywriting idea; suggests design-led solutions that Art Directors can take further; works back-and-forth with Writers to ensure visuals and words work well together; sees their role as essential to idea generation, not just production afterwards; builds trust with Art Directors by being reliably good at both thinking and making

What "Mid-Weight" Feels Like in Practice

• You're in the room when ideas are born - not just receiving finished concepts to design, but helping shape them from the start
• Art Directors see you as a creative partner - they bring you into thinking early because you make the work better
• Writers value your perspective - you help them see how design can strengthen or unlock their ideas
• You own projects with senior support - not waiting for constant direction, but knowing when to check in
• You're comfortable being wrong - you try things, some don't work, you learn fast and move on
• You're building judgement - not just following rules, but starting to understand why certain approaches work better and how design thinking shapes whether campaigns succeed
• You're curious about AI but realistic - excited to experiment and use it to visualise ideas faster for your team, but aware it's a tool that needs your creative brain behind it
• You're becoming someone juniors watch - they notice how you work, ask you questions, look to you for guidance
• You challenge constructively - you push back on ideas that won't work visually, but always with a better solution in mind
• You're hungry to grow - you see the gap between where you are and where seniors are, and you're actively working to close it by deepening both your craft AND your creative contribution to ideas

What you can expect from us:

A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.

You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:

• Remote working
• Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service
• Option to buy, carry or sell holidays
• Early Friday finish throughout the year
• Seasonal working hours
• Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme
• Extensive L&D support
• Sabbatical opportunities
• Season ticket interest free loans for travel
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life insurance (4x salary)
• Company pension scheme
• Fully compensated company events
• Volunteer days
• Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more
• +Medicash healthcare benefit
• 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme

Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.