Ogilvy UK
Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today’s world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth.
We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas.
Which is why our teams work fluidly across five capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR and Health. This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection.
Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.
The result is multifaceted ideas for our clients that drive impact and are born from the intersection of platform x culture x technology.
We call this Borderless Creativity.
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.
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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Influence Manager - Global Lifestyle Brand
Department : PR & Influence
Location : London
Contract type: 12- Month Fixed-Term Contract
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Working Pattern: Hybrid 3:2
Reporting into: Account Director / Business Director
About Ogilvy:
Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.
In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.
The Role:
As an Influence Manager at our agency, you will be an essential part of our influencer proposition, covering the full range of influencer work. At Ogilvy, our influence team are trained and treated as specialists and play a critical role in contributing to the influencer strategy and creative output, recommending objectives, targets, action plans, calendar, and budgets. Your strategic thinking and creativity will help develop best-in-class ongoing influencer programs for our diverse range of clients, integrating them into the overall strategy for owned, earned, and paid channels.
We work with some of the biggest brands in the world and pride ourselves on our high standards and award-winning work. We are part of the PR, Influence and Social Agency and we work in hybrid teams across clients which helps our specialists have a deep understanding of the earned media approach which benefits our creative strategy and client results.
In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day running of influencer campaigns, from identification, vetting, negotiation and implementation to overseeing and reporting. You will work collaboratively with media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders – internal and external, to deliver exceptional campaigns for our clients. As part of any role in our team your responsibilities will include managing the influencer database, ensuring it is up-to-date, and staying up to date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes.
We are looking for a self-motivated, action-oriented, and ambitious individual with a positive "can-do" attitude who really understands the landscape and the power and flexibility of influencer campaigns and activations to achieve brand objectives. You will have a keen interest in all things social and be an avid follower of relevant news and trends. You will also have experience in building consistently productive relationships and strong stakeholder management skills. In addition, you should have proven experience in integrating digital and social media into campaign activity.
Key Responsibilities:
- To work with the Head of Influence and an Influence Executive to develop the client portfolio to increase their market share with the influencer strategy
- The role involves leading the influencer plan across brands and working with the integrated Ogilvy team to support all brand activity
- Actively contribute to the Influencer strategy by recommending objectives, targets, action plans, calendars, and budgets.
- Align and collaborate with media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders, internal and external, to deliver best-in-class campaigns for our clients.
- Identify and nurture client-appropriate talent opportunities and relationships to help deliver the influencer program for clients.
- Manage the day-to-day running of influencer campaigns, from identification and implementation to overseeing and reporting.
- Maintain and build successful client relationships, selling in ideas and content streams in quick turnaround and high-pressure situations.
- Present creative and sell content solutions to internal stakeholders and new and existing clients.
- Building client trust and relationships to deliver great results and continue to increase the influence portfolio of brands
- Manage influencer posting across the year, ensuring regulations are met, brand sentiment is high and influencers are brand advocates delivering great work.
- Develop the campaigns
General Responsibilities:
- Manage the influencer database and ensure it is up to date.
- Stay up to date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes.
- Assist in the development and participation in promoting our influencer offering across the business.
- Support additional projects as required, such as new business pitches, market reviews, and competitive trends.
- A passion for influencer marketing with a minimum of two years' experience in the field.
- Self-motivated, action-oriented, and ambitious with a positive "can-do" attitude.
- A keen interest in all things social and an avid follower of relevant news and trends.
Requirements:
- Experience in working in a regulated category such as beauty
- Experience in culture driving campaigns in beauty, lifestyle (Nice to have)
- Strong understanding of influencer marketing trends and social media platforms.
- Excellent communication, project management, and organisational skills.
- Experience in a fast-paced agency environment
- Demonstrated experience in building consistently productive relationships.
- The ability to remain optimistic under pressure.
- Strong experience in key stakeholder management.
- A creative outlook with the ability to achieve the full potential from projects, keeping abreast of and utilising new industry developments and technology.
- Proven experience of integrating digital and social media in campaign activity.
How we help you Thrive:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
- A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
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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Job Title: Account Manager, Medical Communications (Ogilvy Health UK)
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!
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.
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Account Director - Consumer PR
Department: Consumer PR & Influence
Location: London
Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months)
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Client Partner
About Ogilvy:
Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. The agency specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fueled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Unilever and Mondelēz International.
Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally and the agency also hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – which is now in its 12th year. James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA), a boutique creative agency he co-founded in 2020, recently acquired by WPP.
The Role:
As Account Director, you'll champion "earned first" thinking to create impactful, culturally relevant consumer PR campaigns. You'll lead a team, build strong client relationships, and drive innovative strategies that generate buzz and deliver measurable results. This role is fun and energetic, offering great opportunities to learn and develop with a variety of complex but rewarding clients. You will be responsible for fostering a positive and collaborative work environment within the account management team, encouraging open communication and constructive feedback. You will manage relationships with third-party vendors, to ensure the agency delivers high-quality work that meets client expectations. You will also act as a liaison between the client and the agency's internal teams, providing clear communication and direction to ensure all parties are aligned on project goals and timelines. You can see opportunity in risk and you’re not afraid to be brave and challenge your clients to want to achieve a better result for all.
Key Responsibilities:
- Inspire & Lead: Mentor a team to develop and execute breakthrough, "earned first" PR & Influence campaigns.
- Client Partnership: Build trusted advisor relationships with clients, understanding their business and anticipating their needs. Guide them across media and social communications.
- Creative Strategy: Collaborate with creative teams to develop compelling narratives and assets that resonate with target audiences.
- Data-Driven Optimization: Monitor campaign performance, leveraging data and analytics to optimize results and demonstrate ROI.
- Innovation & Trends: Stay ahead of industry trends, identifying new opportunities and approaches to enhance campaign effectiveness.
- Budget Management: Manage client budgets effectively, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time and within budget.
- New Business: Support new business efforts, participating in pitches and developing compelling proposals.
- Crisis Management: Develop and implement crisis management plans to protect client reputation.
- Inclusivity: Champion inclusiveness, diversity, and equity in all aspects of work.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in consumer PR and influence, with a proven track record of driving successful campaigns.
- Share and use media knowledge to guide clients on what you believe is the best for their brand
- Deep understanding of consumer behavior and ability to develop creative strategies that resonate with target audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to think "earned first" and create campaigns that generate organic buzz.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Data-driven mindset and analytical skills.
- Knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
- Experience in crisis management.
- Champion inclusiveness, diversity, and equity in all aspects of work.
How we help you Thrive:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
- A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
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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Ogilvy 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.
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 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.
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Project Director
Large Tech Organisation
Department: Social & Influence
Location: Sea Containers, London
Contact type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Project Management Lead
About Ogilvy:
Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Molson Coors (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.
In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally, and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.
The Role:
As a Project Director, your experience will be invaluable as you navigate complex project landscapes. Your primary focus will be on guiding cross-functional teams to efficient collaboration, ensuring project milestones are met with precision. You'll orchestrate the synchronisation of resources, creating an environment where ideas evolve into tangible outcomes. Your strategic insight and seasoned judgment will be instrumental in propelling projects forward, adapting to evolving circumstances and unforeseen challenges while keeping business objectives front and centre.
Your leadership will also extend to mentoring junior team members, fostering their growth, and enhancing the overall capabilities of our teams. With strong communication skills, you'll be a reliable collaborator, working in harmony with account managers, creatives, and stakeholders to ensure a unified approach that consistently exceeds client expectations. Your dedication to detail will play a pivotal role in maintaining the high standards our agency is known for, ensuring that every project deliverable is of exceptional quality.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the main liaison between different agency functions to coordinate resources effectively.
- Oversee end-to-end execution of integrated projects, ensuring seamless delivery.
- Manage project setup, budgeting, and resource coordination.
- Handle a variety of projects across social, and influencer campaigns.
- Cultivate strong relationships with project teams, the commercial division, and the PMO Lead.
- Develop a deep understanding of client remuneration and commercial models. • Monitor project finances and proactively address resource allocation challenges.
- Effectively manage project schedules, adhering to scope, timelines, and budgets.
- Identify and mitigate potential project risks, ensuring smooth delivery.
- Collaborate effectively with multi-agency teams for streamlined project execution.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry-standard project tools, processes, and platforms.
- Strategically schedule meetings to ensure comprehensive participation of key team members.
- Oversee thorough review and approval processes prior to client engagement.
- Initiate purchase orders (POs) if required for projects.
- Collaborate closely with the resource manager and PMO Lead for efficient resource management.
- Uphold professionalism, precision, and excellence across project documentation.
Requirements:
- Proven expertise as a Project Manager in a creative agency or similar setting.
- Solid understanding of project management principles and methodologies.
- Proficiency in effective project setup, budgeting, resource management, control, and reporting.
- Experience with integrated accounts and understanding of global project dynamics.
- Financial acumen for managing project budgets, monitoring financial status, and projecting resource allocation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, essential for building relationships with diverse project teams.
- Effective collaboration with stakeholders including account management, creatives, design, strategy, and production.
- Strong organisational and time management abilities for managing multiple workstreams, schedules, and deliverables.
- Proactive approach to identifying potential project risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Familiarity with industry-standard project tools, processes, and platforms.
- Experience in strategic meeting scheduling to ensure comprehensive team involvement.
- Attention to detail and commitment to maintaining high-quality standards across project documentation and deliverables.
- Solution-oriented mindset, particularly in challenging scenarios.
- Adaptability to navigate change and innovation in a dynamic work environment.
- Understanding of digital opportunities and evolving trends.
How we help you Thrive:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
- A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
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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Department: PRSI & Advertising
Location: London
Contract type: 12-Month FTC
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Business Director / Client Lead
About Ogilvy:
Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Argos, , Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.
In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally, and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.
The Role:
An Account Director is a leader within the team, responsible for directing larger, more complex projects and ensuring they align with both client objectives and agency goals. You’ll act as a trusted partner to mid-level clients, building relationships based on strategic insight and creative excellence.
With a solid understanding of strategy and how it connects to creative development, you’ll guide teams to deliver impactful work that solves client challenges. You’ll also play a key role in mentoring junior team members, setting the standard for collaboration, problem-solving, and accountability.
You’ll need to be a confident and inspiring leader, capable of navigating challenges, anticipating risks, and driving high-quality results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be the client’s trusted advisor – Build strong partnerships with mid-level clients, acting as a point of escalation and a source of strategic guidance. Know your clients’ businesses, challenges, and expectations inside out, acting as their trusted advisor.
- Be the creative problem-solver – Anticipate challenges and proactively develop solutions. Push for creative excellence while ensuring projects stay on track.
- Be the strategic leader – Lead the development of strategies that connect client objectives with creative solutions. Ensure all work aligns with the client’s broader business goals.
- Be a driver of creative excellence - Actively participate in creative reviews, offering thoughtful and well-substantiated insights to challenge and enhance our work. Possess a keen understanding of what resonates with audiences and delivers results, applying this knowledge to ensure all creative aligns with strategic objectives and market effectiveness.
- Be commercially focused – Oversee financial management, including fee/scope tracking and profitability. Ensure projects meet financial targets and contribute to the agency’s success.
- Be the team guide – Oversee project execution. Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work. Provide mentorship and support to junior team members, empowering them and helping them grow and succeed.
- Be a role model – Set the standard for collaboration, accountability, and resilience. Inspire teams to deliver their best work, even in high-pressure situations.
- Be the connector between strategy & delivery - Drive your projects with confidence, ensuring they deliver on client objectives from strategic development to creative execution and production. Lead strategic discussions, questioning and refining strategies to ensure they are robust and aligned with your clients’ goals.
- Be the external face of the agency - Own all client-facing elements, including scopes, presentations, and communications, ensuring alignment with both client and agency goals.
- Be the advocate - Advocate for your account’s needs within the agency, ensuring it receives the resources and attention required to succeed
Key Skills:
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to connect client objectives to creative solutions and long-term goals.
- Strong leadership skills to guide teams, inspire collaboration, and set the standard for excellence.
- A creative problem-solver who can anticipate challenges and develop innovative solutions.
- Exceptional organizational skills to manage complex projects and ensure smooth delivery across multiple stakeholders.
- Confident and persuasive communication skills to present ideas, negotiate effectively, and manage client expectations.
- A deep understanding of the creative process and the ability to champion bold, impactful work.
- Resilience and adaptability to thrive in high-pressure situations and deliver outstanding results.
- A relentless focus on advocating for the client’s needs and ensuring their objectives are prioritised.
- A creative problem-solver who thrives on tackling complex challenges and finding innovative solutions.
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
- A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
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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Influence Director
(Large Tech Business)
Department: PR & Influence
Location: London
Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months)
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Business Director/ Client Partner
About Ogilvy:
Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. The agency specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fueled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Unilever and Mondelēz International.
Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally and the agency also hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – which is now in its 12th year. James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA), a boutique creative agency he co-founded in 2020, recently acquired by WPP.
The Role:
As an Influence Director at Ogilvy, you will play a crucial role in leading some of the most exciting and challenging projects in the industry. We are lucky to work with big global brands who play a role in shaping culture. Our aim, as a specialism, is to deliver strategic and impactful campaigns that achieve our clients' objectives and prove the power and diversity of influence in the marketing mix. The Influence Director will lead their projects and team with excellent client service and bring a solid understanding of influence strategy, creative output, recommending objectives, targets, action plans, calendar, and budgets.
In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day running of a number for workstreams for a huge Tech Client in the UK, this will involve leading a team on influencer campaigns, from criteria, vetting, identification, negotiation and implementation to overseeing and reporting. You will work collaboratively with influencers, media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders – internal and external, to deliver exceptional campaigns for our clients. As part of any role in our team your responsibilities will include managing the influencer database, ensuring it is up-to-date, and staying up-to-date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes.
As an Influence Director, you will have the opportunity to lead on additional projects, such as new business pitches, market reviews, and competitive trends. You will be at the forefront of the industry, working with a team of experts to deliver innovative and effective influence campaigns.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the client service and day-to-day running of influencer campaigns and supporting managers and executives, from identification, creative, implementation, and reporting.
- Responsible for influencer process across the accounts and strategy
- Attend high profile events in line with the brand strategy
- Working with the senior team on the integrated Tech account to ensure objectives and service levels are met, and thinking what’s next.
- Design and define industry-leading Influencer strategy: recommend objectives, targets, action plan, calendar, and budget.
- Align and collaborate with media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders – internal and external – to deliver best-in-class campaigns for our clients.
- Nurture client-appropriate talent opportunities and relationships to help deliver the influencer program for clients.
- Stay up-to-date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes.
- Assist in the development of and participate in promoting our influencer offering across the business, including writing thought leadership and attending industry events.
- Lead additional projects as required – such as new business pitches, market reviews, and competitive trends.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with mid-level clients based on a proven track record of delivery.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to provide senior council to clients, advising on industry developments as they occur and showing relevance for clients on the ground.
Requirements:
- Proven experience as an Influence Director (ideally 2+ years at this level)
- Strong understanding of influence strategy and experience managing large brands
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to create highly effective and fruitful working relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Solid understanding of the strategic and business context the client is operating in and uses this knowledge to develop solutions and approach tasks in a way that is effective for the client.
- Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work confidently with other capabilities and crafts in service of finding the best integrated influence creative solution to the client's business problem.
- Interest in culture or sport
How we help you Thrive:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
- A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
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 UK