Ogilvy Health UK
Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, is the health division of Ogilvy – the most highly-awarded creative agency worldwide in 2021. Our health division is one of the largest global networks in healthcare communications and provides strategic, integrated communication solutions for our clients, including many of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Project Manager
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About Ogilvy
Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.
Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
About the Role
Do you love seeing a plan come to life, from initial concept through to flawless execution? We're seeking a highly organised and proactive Project Manager to join Ogilvy Health, focusing on the seamless delivery of a full suite of promotional materials across one of our large, dynamic global accounts.
In this pivotal role, you will be the 'glue' that binds our projects together, ensuring everything runs smoothly from brief to completion. While you'll be partnering closely with our clients on project specifics, your core focus will be on internal coordination and driving delivery. You'll work as an integral part of an account team, becoming a key point of contact for our brilliant creative, strategy, editorial, and technical teams, as well as external suppliers.
This role offers the chance to immerse yourself in the operational heart of our agency, championing efficient workflows and ensuring our ambitious projects are delivered to the highest standards, on time and on budget.
What You'll Do
- Orchestrating Project Delivery: Steering complex projects from initial brief through to final delivery, ensuring clarity on scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Internal Collaboration Champion: Acting as the primary coordinator between our diverse internal teams (creative, strategy, editorial, technical) and third-party suppliers, ensuring everyone is aligned and moving forward effectively.
- Facilitating Client & Supplier Communication: Serving as the day-to-day contact for clients and suppliers on individual project deliverables, managing expectations and fostering productive partnerships.
- Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identifying potential roadblocks and developing solutions to keep projects on track.
- Quality & Standards Guardian: Ensuring all project outputs meet the exceptional quality standards expected by Ogilvy Health and our clients.
- Process & Efficiency Driver: Contributing to the continuous improvement of project management processes within the team.
About You
We're looking for someone who excels at juggling priorities and getting things done. While a formal project management qualification is a plus, we value practical experience and a proactive mindset above all.
- Proven Experience: Ideally, you’ll have gained experience working in a networked agency, specifically within healthcare, at a global level.
- HCP Promotional Expertise: Hands-on experience working on promotional campaign materials targeted at Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) is essential.
- Project Mindset: Solid understanding and practical application of project management fundamentals throughout the full project lifecycle – balancing time, budget, scope, and ambition.
- Comfort with Complexity: Confident operating within a large agency environment, comfortable with the demands of global, multinational clients and comfortable partnering with them on project delivery.
- Team Player: Excellent people skills to foster a collaborative team culture and effectively manage multiple internal and external teams.
- Commercial Acumen: Understanding the commercial implications of project decisions and contributing to profitable delivery.
- Communication Powerhouse: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Professional & Passionate: Driven by a desire to deliver the very highest standards for our clients, the agency, and yourself.
You are great at:
- Making Things Happen: You have an innate ability to drive teams towards action, ensuring tasks are completed well and on time.
- Building Bridges: You effortlessly build rapport with both clients and colleagues, fostering strong, collaborative working relationships.
- Support & Collaboration: You're a true team player, always willing to roll up your sleeves and support others to achieve shared goals.
- Attention to Detail: You possess superb quality control skills, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
- Problem Solving: You thrive on identifying challenges and proactively coming up with creative and practical solutions.
- Driving Success: You have a genuine desire to contribute to the growth and development of our business through flawless execution and exceptional delivery.
Why Join Ogilvy Health?
At Ogilvy Health, you'll be part of a non-hierarchical, eclectic team united by a shared commitment to doing the best work of our lives (its one of our values!). Beyond client work, you'll have opportunities to engage with our vibrant culture and social teams, and contribute to our fantastic DEI initiatives, championing diversity across our agency and industry.
We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package, including:
- 25 days annual leave, with the option to purchase up to an extra 5 days per year, plus your birthday off and a paid volunteering day
- Generous enhanced parental leave policies
- A robust pension scheme (up to 17.5% total contributions after probation)
- Choice of Private Medical Cover (Bupa from day one), Dental cover, or a monthly £45 leisure allowance for your health & wellbeing
- A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme (Telus) offering support, advice, and specialist counselling
- Help at Hand: quick, free access to a remote GP, mental health support, physio, or a medical second opinion
- Free 1-2-1 Coaching through Thrive Partners for professional or personal growth
- A comprehensive Learning & Development programme to support your career trajectory
Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.
We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.
If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.
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Account Manager
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About Ogilvy
Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.
Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
Job Title: Account Manager, Medical Communications
Full time: 37.5 hours per week
Location: London or Manchester UK (Hybrid Working)
Join Ogilvy Health UK, an agency consistently recognised for its excellence in medical communications! We're proud to hold the #1 position in PMLiVE's 2025 Top 40 UK healthcare agency rankings. Our dedication to creative and strategic work recently earned us 8 gold awards at The Creative Floor Awards in 2025, solidifying our status as the top-awarded agency in EMEA!
We are currently seeking a highly experienced and dynamic Account Manager to join our thriving medical communications team.
The Opportunity
This is a pivotal role within our medical education team, offering exposure to a broad range of impactful medcomms work. Due to continued growth and significant client activity, you'll step into a fast-paced environment managing diverse projects. You'll contribute to accounts working across various therapy areas and stages of the product lifecycle, from pre-launch strategy to post-market support. This role offers substantial future potential within a leading agency, collaborating with integrated internal teams and global colleagues.
If you're looking to lead key initiatives, drive strategic delivery, and contribute to impactful health communications, this is your chance to shine.
What You'll Do
As an Account Manager, you will be instrumental in the smooth running and strategic growth of key client accounts. Your responsibilities will include:
- Project Leadership: Lead the delivery of diverse medical and commercial communications projects, ensuring they meet strategic objectives, timelines and budgets.
- Client & Team Coordination: Provide project management support, coordinate internal integrated teams and support account leads in client relationships.
- Content Oversight: Oversee the content development process, ensuring scientific accuracy and compliance.
- Collaboration & Efficiency: Work closely with colleagues across various project teams and therapeutic areas to ensure optimal project delivery, alignment and efficiency.
- Financial Stewardship: Manage project financials, including budgeting, forecasting, reconciliation and supporting client invoicing conversations.
- Mentorship: Provide ongoing support and training to more junior team members assigned to the account.
What You'll Bring
We're looking for a passionate and skilled Account Manager with:
- Dedicated experience already gained within a medical communications / medical education agency.
- An understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug development process (pre and post-launch).
- Proven project management expertise within a highly regulated pharmaceutical environment.
- Experience across a broad range of medical communications project types, consistently delivering to time and budget.
- In-depth experience liaising with top-tier global clinicians and other healthcare professionals, always within permitted guidelines.
- Expertise in collaborating with diverse pharmaceutical client functions (e.g., Medical Affairs, Marketing, Research and Development, Legal/Regulatory, Procurement).
- Working knowledge of and strict compliance with key industry guidelines (e.g., ABPI, Sunshine Act, or relevant regional equivalents).
- In-depth knowledge of the content development process and pharmaceutical company approval systems (Medical, Legal, Regulatory).
- Demonstrated ability to oversee financial management of projects, including budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, and client financial discussions.
Benefits & Culture
Join a friendly, non-hierarchical, and eclectic team united by a shared commitment to doing the best work of our lives (it's one of our values!). Beyond client work, you'll have opportunities to engage with our vibrant culture and social teams, and contribute to our fantastic DEI initiatives, championing diversity across our agency and industry.
We offer a flexible working hybrid model: 2 /3 days in the office (all-agency anchor days for collaboration and socialising) and the remaining days working remotely from wherever you work best.
- 25 days holiday + your birthday off and a paid volunteering day - after 2 years service you can purchase up to an additional 5 days per year
- Enhanced parental leave
- A generous pension scheme - you pay in 4% we pay 6%, following probation contributions are matched up to 10.5% (17.5% in total)
- Choose from either Private Medical Cover (Bupa from day one) OR Dental cover OR a monthly leisure allowance of £45 to spend on your health & wellbeing
- A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme provided by Telus which offers brilliant support, expert advice and specialist counselling
- Help at Hand - quick free access to a remote GP, mental health support, physio or a medical 2nd opinion
- Free 1-2-1 Coaching - online coaching for your professional or personal growth provided by Thrive Partners
- A comprehensive Learning & Development programme
Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.
We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.
If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ogilvy Health UK
Account Director
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About Ogilvy
Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.
Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
In medical education, our approach is founded on expertise that combines biomedical science, learning theory and behaviour change to create impactful medical and professional education.
We’re ‘Scientifically Grounded, Creatively Driven’.
About the Role
Due to significant growth and a rapid resurgence of activity on a high-priority, strategic account, we are seeking an experienced and dynamic Account Director (Medical Communications) to join our team. This is a pivotal role within a fast paced environment, offering the chance to lead and shape key workstreams on an account with substantial future potential. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive continued success, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
What You’ll Do
As an Account Director, you will be instrumental in guiding and growing this crucial account. You will lead the delivery of diverse medical communications projects, provide expert strategic direction to our clients, and inspire your internal teams. This role demands a proactive leader who can manage multiple workstreams, contribute to business development, and ensure financial oversight and long-term client success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the strategic planning and delivery of a broad range of medical communications projects.
- Serve as a key client contact, providing expert counsel and direction.
- Oversee and direct internal project teams, fostering collaboration and excellence.
- Drive forward planning and ensure seamless execution across workstreams.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve account objectives.
- Contribute to ongoing business development initiatives, identifying opportunities for growth and partnership.
- Maintain full financial oversight of projects, including budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, and client invoicing.
- Ensure the continued long-term success and growth of this busy, priority account.
What You’ll Need
- Demonstrable experience within medical communications.
- An in-depth understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug development process across pre- and post-launch environments.
- Proven experience in account direction, programme management, and providing client counsel within highly regulated pharmaceutical settings.
- A track record of delivering strategically effective projects that consistently meet pharmaceutical company clients' objectives, budgets, and timelines.
- Experience across a broad range of medical communications project types.
- In-depth experience liaising with top-tier global clinicians and other healthcare professionals, always within permitted guidelines.
- Expertise in collaborating with various specialties within pharmaceutical clients (e.g., Medical Affairs, Marketing, Research and Development, Legal/Regulatory, Procurement).
- Working knowledge of and strict compliance with key industry guidelines (e.g., ABPI, Sunshine Act).
- In-depth knowledge of the content development process and pharmaceutical company approval systems (Medical, Legal, Regulatory).
- Demonstrated ability to oversee the financial management of projects, including budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, and client management.
How We’ll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
Our Culture & Benefits
Join a friendly, non-hierarchical, and eclectic team united by a shared commitment to doing the best work of our lives (it's one of our values!). Beyond client work, you'll have opportunities to engage with our vibrant culture and social teams, and contribute to our fantastic DEI initiatives, championing diversity across our agency and industry.
We offer a flexible working hybrid model: 2 days in the office (all-agency anchor days for collaboration and socialising) and 3 days working remotely from wherever you work best.
- 25 days holiday + your birthday off and a paid volunteering day - after 2 years service you can purchase up to an additional 5 days per year
- Enhanced parental leave
- A generous pension scheme - you pay in 4% we pay 6%, following probation contributions are matched up to 10.5% (17.5% in total)
- Choose from either Private Medical Cover (Bupa from day one) OR Dental cover OR a monthly leisure allowance of £45 to spend on your health & wellbeing
- A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme provided by Telus which offers brilliant support, expert advice and specialist counselling
- Help at Hand - quick free access to a remote GP, mental health support, physio or a medical 2nd opinion
- Free 1-2-1 Coaching - online coaching for your professional or personal growth provided by Thrive Partners
- A comprehensive Learning & Development programme
Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.
We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.
If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ogilvy Health UK