Senior Graphic Designer

Applied Intuition Inc.; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare communications agency is looking for a Senior Graphic Designer to enhance scientific communication through impactful visual content. This role requires strong design skills, experience with data visualization, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will hold a relevant degree and be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite. A hybrid working model is offered, with a focus on team collaboration and innovation in healthcare.

Benefits

Free snacks

Generous holiday and paid time off

Options for private medical, dental, and vision plans

Access to online classes with LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in academic or scientific settings.
• Expertise in creating custom and improving existing visualizations to enhance scientific narratives.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced agency environment.

Responsibilities

• Create visually engaging graphics for scientific communications.
• Answer creative briefs and deliver projects on time.
• Collaborate with teams to translate client requirements into design options.

Skills

Data visualization skills

Technical proficiency in design platforms

Creative and adaptable

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or closely related field

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Graphic Designer - Healthcare Comms

Locations: Edinburgh - UK; London - UK; Manchester - UK

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human‑centred creativity, and AI‑driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact‑obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.

Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience #LifeatRealChem.

We are seeking a publications designer who is highly skilled at design and data visualization, and passionate about science and medical innovation. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse design projects for our global clients. The focus is to help grow our scientific publications offering, requiring the individual to create impactful visual content that supports and enriches scientific communications.

Key Qualifications

• Experience in academia or scientific disciplines: Proven experience working in academic or scientific settings.
• Data visualization skills: Expertise in creating custom and elevating existing visualizations such as diagrams, tables, charts, icons and graphs to enhance and explain scientific narratives.
• Technical proficiency: Strong skills using design platforms, particularly InDesign and PowerPoint, for both print and digital applications.
• Creative and adaptable: Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced agency environment, continuously pushing the boundaries of creativity while maintaining technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Create visually engaging and informative graphics and data visualisations for scientific communications and medical education materials across a range of digital and print channels, including scientific publications, presentations, and posters.
• Answer each creative brief, delivering projects on time.
• Collaborate with creative, art, copywriting, and medical writers to translate client requirements into exciting design options.
• Work well in a team structure.
• Provide input on design strategy, suggesting styles/techniques based on client requirements, objectives, budget, and background information.
• Present design solutions to the art director/creative director for final approval before delivery and presentation to clients.
• Partner with account managers and other designers to deliver and maintain creative work to consistently high standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or closely related field, or foreign degree equivalent.
• Experience in a MedComms/Healthcare Communications agency.
• Experience designing graphics for scientific publications.
• Intellectual curiosity about science and comfort with scientific ideas essential.
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
• Proficiency integrating design into Microsoft PowerPoint.

Benefits

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefits program and perks tailored to your region, including free snacks, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vision plans, support in saving for the future, mental wellness coaching, and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. For more details, visit https://www.realchemistrybenefits.com.

Real HART Policy & Hybrid Working

Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people want to work. We have offices in the US, UK, and Europe, with many employees and clients serving as hubs. For employees within an hour of an office, we expect in‑office attendance two days per week at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are actively opening new office locations; if one opens near you, the Real HART policy will apply. We believe team meetings, 1:1s with managers, on‑site learning, and client partner interactions are critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. Outside these offices, employees work remotely but collaborate quarterly for culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.