Senior Analyst - Graphic Designer

Job Title: Senior Analyst-Graphic Designer

Are you passionate about using design to make a impact in healthcare? As a Senior Analyst - Graphic Designer, you will be part of a Medical Information & Communication team that supports the delivery of life-changing medicines by enabling clear and effective communication across global collaborators.

Working in a hybrid environment (three days in the office), you will collaborate with diverse cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and evolving landscape. This role offers the opportunity to apply your creativity, problem-solving skills, and visual communication expertise while chipping in to innovative solutions that enhance collaborator engagement and support informed decision-making.

Accountabilities:

• Visual Communication Delivery: Collaborate with Medical Affairs partners to translate scientific content into clear visual communications for internal and external audiences, enabling faster comprehension and more confident decisions.
• Design and Production: Develop and refine graphics, medical/scientific illustrations, infographics, and interactive PDFs for publications and medical communications; bring rigor to composition, typography, and color to elevate visibility and compliance.
• End-to-End Creative Leadership: Be responsible for the full creative development of assets including slide decks, infographics, data visualizations, medical illustrations, logos, and digital components; set standards that improve consistency and scalability.
• Presentation and Posters: Build presentation slide decks and presentations; develop structured poster layouts for conferences and gatherings that complex data with precision.
• Data Visualization Accuracy: Develop graphical displays for publications, including complex visuals such as forest plots; ensure fidelity to source data and alignment with scientific conventions.
• Brand and Quality Governance: Apply and implement brand guidelines and documentation standards; deliver high-quality outputs within agreed timelines and review cycles, reducing rework and accelerating approvals.
• Project Ownership: Independently handle assigned projects; communicate progress and risks early; provide proactive creative input to collaborators and the creative lead to unlock better outcomes.
• Process and Compliance: Adhere to project management tools, utilization standards, defined workflows, and technical requirements across graphics, print, digital, and illustration; ensure audit-ready work.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze design challenges and constraints; propose optimizations that improve effectiveness and efficiency across templates, tools, and processes.
• Teamwork and Learning: Partner with interdisciplinary groups; show flexibility and continuous learning to address changing program needs and developing technologies.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in design, visual communication, or media development, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4–8 years of professional graphic design experience; experience with medical/scientific content and/or healthcare/pharmaceutical domain preferred.
• Portfolio demonstrating relevant work, including anatomical and scientific visualizations, diagrams, data-driven charts and graphs for publications, PowerPoint templates and decks, and infographics.
• Sophisticated proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro); validated understanding of XD or Figma.
• Sophisticated PowerPoint skills, including charts, graphs, animations, and complex data visuals (e.g., forest plots); proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Good understanding of digital asset creation, versioning, and management; ability to work across platforms and formats.
• Strong interpersonal skills (written and verbal communication); ability to handle collaborator expectations and provide clear rationale for build decisions.
• Meticulous attention to detail; consistent delivery in organized, feedback-focused environments.
• Shown ownership and accountability for quality, timelines, and outcomes; ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams; able to work independently, including from a home studio if required.
• Adaptability to support evolving scope and learn new tools and techniques as needed.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Direct experience creating scientific research posters for congresses and professional meetings.
• Experience translating clinical content and scientific narratives into compliant, brand-aligned visual communications.
• Advanced skills in data visualization for publications, encompassing forest plots and other sophisticated statistical graphics.
• Experience producing interactive PDFs and motion graphics for medical communications.
• Familiarity with digital asset management systems and structured documentation standards within regulated environments.
• Exposure to medical review processes, compliance requirements, and multi-stage approval workflows.
• Experience optimizing templates, design systems, and libraries to improve speed and consistency across teams.

Why AstraZeneca:

Become part of an international, science-led company where your build craft helps sophisticated data travel faster and clearer to the people who need it. We bring authorities together to spark high-reaching ideas and use modern tools to reinvent how work gets done across the enterprise. You will operate with trust and accountability, learn from a network, and see your visuals influence how we deliver life-changing medicines. We value understanding alongside ambition, encourage thinking and, and create the conditions for you to supply at pace while developing your skills and impact.

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a global, fast paced enterprise where teams with varied strengths sit together to ignite ideas, take smart risks, and turn data into decisions that matter for patients. Here, engineering perfection drives every function to run faster and more efficiently. Your efforts will alter how the company operates daily. Being part of an encouraging, high-performing network that values kindness and ambition, you gain accountability to drive significant change. You also benefit from a world-class organization’s backing and investment in modern technology.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.