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.
Social Account Director
Large Tech Organisation
Department: Social & Content / Advertising
Location: London
Contact type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract
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 fuelled 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; we are proud to be the most awarded influencer agency for six years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.
Ogilvy UK 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.
About this role:
Social and content has never been more important for clients. Showing up authentically, with intention, across social platforms helps brands connect with their audiences. It helps them to sell and serve better.
This role provides the opportunity to work on a really exciting client that have a portfolio of soft drinks brands. You will have the opportunity to manage key campaigns across the year that will involve working with our strategy, creative and production team to deliver best in class campaigns and content.
This role is perfect for someone that has a wide knowledge of social – they will have experience managing content and campaigns that build brand advocacy as well having an understanding of how to create hard working assets that drive to purchase. The ideal candidate will know how to effectively lead an account, steering processes and ways of working internally, with agency partners and with our clients.
The ideal candidate will have their finger on the pulse across all things social – from what’s trending that could be a good opportunity for a brand to leverage, through to a thorough understanding of how data, strategy, community management feed into the success of a brands social media presence.
Whilst the candidate will have a passion for delivering best in class social campaigns, they will also be required to lead in other areas of the marketing mix, and the idea candidate will have some integrated experience.
A bit about you:
We are flexible on whether you have come from an agency of client background, but we think the following are really important for this role:
- Organised and autonomous; you’ll be responsible for motivating the team to do great work, whilst anticipating any areas that may hinder the success of the campaign
- Whilst you will work with a Account Manager to support with budgets and timings, you will also be well averse in taking this on and have an excellent understanding of processes and what it takes to deliver social campaigns on budget and on time
- Financially savvy; you’ll need to work with the rest of the agency team to deliver proposals that are within the client’s budgets and ensure successful delivery
- You will be an excellent communicator; providing clear succinct guidance to the internal teams as well as being able to present the work to clients
- You’ll be someone that loves to get stuck into a task, and collaborate with the client and agency teams, and make stuff happen!
- Experience within the retail sector is not essential but would be helpful
More about your role at Ogilvy:
As a Social Account Director you lead large, more complex projects, armed with your experience and proven ability to think and do. You are able to problem solve and create highly effective and fruitful working relationships with clients and colleagues, collaborating with other Capabilities and Crafts instinctively.
You may also have a solid understanding of strategy and always ensure that you and the team are working towards strategic objectives.
- Has a relationship with mid-level clients that is one of trusted partner, based on proven track record of delivery.
- Is able to confidently lead conversations and problem solve in the moment as required, and act as a point of escalation for junior clients.
- Has strong skills in paid and organic social and has worked across a wide variety of clients and projects from small response driven workstreams to larger more complex social experiences across multi platforms and touch points
- Understands how to work and lead project delivery in a Social first environment, as well as as part of an integrated team.
- Is confident managing multi-level stakeholders in complex matrix organisations as well managing resources and teams, across all levels, with diverse skills and personalities.
- Understands 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
- Collaborates confidently with other capabilities and crafts in service of finding the best Social creative solution to the clients business problem. Is seen as a champion for the craft with all those they come in to contact with.
- Demonstrates their ability for creative problem solving in how they approach every task – whether that’s identifying a way to improve the internal process, ideating for an innovative social solution, or co-creating an inspiring way to sell in the work. Able to consider different angles on a brief – a non linear thinker.
- Takes responsibility for larger projects. And acts accountable for both the work, and the process.
- Understands that they are accountable for the actions of the account team reporting into them on projects; guiding them and intervening and managing up as required.
- Will manage client expectations when having to charge more for additional work in a manner which does not expose the agency to financial risk
- Is well informed about the commercials of all projects they are responsible for, managing those below them to meet agreed targets
- Able to maintain strong partnership with internal stakeholders across all crafts in and support cross functional agendas for the benefit of the company and the client.
- Has strong relationship with their days to day clients and wider client stakeholders, and uses these relationships to help protect the work, strengthen the relationships and activate new opportunities.
- Acts as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues. Supports the team in confidently navigating through problems
How we help you Thrive:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- 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.
- 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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Social Business Director
Global Tech Organisation
Department: PR & Influence / Social & Content
Location: London
Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months)
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Managing Partner / 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. 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:
Social and content have never been more important for clients. Showing up authentically, with intention, across social platforms helps brands connect with their audiences, sell, and serve them better. This role provides the opportunity to work on an exciting tech client portfolio, leading the day-to-day business and managing key campaigns throughout the year.
As a Business Director, you will lead large, complex projects, working closely with the strategy, creative, and programme leads across the Social, Influence, and PR teams. You are perfect for this role if you have a wide knowledge of social, from managing campaigns that build brand advocacy to creating hard-working assets that drive purchase. The ideal candidate knows how to effectively lead an account, steering processes and ways of working internally, with agency partners, and with our clients to deliver best-in-class social campaigns and content.
Key Responsibilities:
- Social & Campaign Leadership: Lead large, complex social-first projects and manage key campaigns for an exciting tech client portfolio, from ideation through to execution.
- Strategic Counsel: Provide senior-level strategic guidance to clients, confidently holding your own in strategic conversations and ensuring all work aligns with strategic objectives.
- Integrated Team Management: Lead and motivate an integrated team, including an Account Manager, Community Manager, and Creatives, to deliver best-in-class social content and campaigns.
- Content & Performance Oversight: Oversee the delivery of social content and ensure it is performing effectively on an ongoing basis by leveraging insights from the research and data team.
- Client & Stakeholder Management: Build trusted partner relationships with senior-level clients, manage multi-level stakeholders in complex organisations, and act as a key point of escalation.
- Commercial Acumen: Take responsibility for the commercials of all projects, managing profitability, resource requirements, and growth opportunities. Ensure proposals are delivered within budget and manage client expectations on costs.
- Process & Delivery: Steer processes and ways of working internally and with partners, ensuring social campaigns are delivered on budget and on time in a Social-First environment.
- Creative Excellence: Collaborate with creative teams to inspire, spot, and push for creative genius, ensuring the best social creative solution is delivered for the client's business problem.
Key Leadership Competencies:
- Social & Digital Expertise: Possess strong skills in paid and organic social, with experience across a wide variety of clients and projects from small, response-driven workstreams to larger, complex social experiences across multiple platforms.
- Strategic & Non-Linear Thinker: Understand the strategic and business context the client is operating in and use this knowledge to develop effective solutions. Demonstrate creative problem-solving and consider different angles on a brief.
- Relationship Builder: A strong relationship builder who can make friends, influence people, and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to protect the work and activate new opportunities.
- Leadership & Accountability: An organised and autonomous leader who takes responsibility for large projects, motivating the team while holding them and yourself accountable for the work and the process.
- Excellent Communicator: Provide clear, succinct guidance to internal teams and confidently present work to clients, acting as a champion for the social craft.
- Financially Savvy: Possess good commercial acumen, with a strong understanding of how to manage resource requirements, ensure profitability, and drive growth.
Skills for Your Growth to Client Partner:
To support your progression, you will be expected to develop capabilities in the following areas:
- C-Suite Partnership & Business Acumen: Transition from a practice leader to a C-suite strategic advisor. Develop a deep, holistic understanding of the client's entire business model, competitive landscape, and financial drivers to become an indispensable partner to their most senior leaders.
- Integrated Solution Leadership: Evolve from leading a single capability to orchestrating the agency's full suite of services. Master the art of integrating diverse crafts—from brand advertising and PR to consulting and data—to solve the client's most complex business problems.
- Enterprise Commercial Strategy: Shift focus from departmental P&L management to owning the entire client commercial relationship. Drive enterprise-level growth by identifying strategic opportunities across the client's organization and negotiating large-scale, multi-year partnerships.
- Relationship as the Core Product: Move from a role where the craft is the primary product to one where the strategic client relationship itself is the core deliverable. Your success will be measured by your ability to build unwavering trust and long-term loyalty at the highest levels.
Personal Qualities:
- You’ll be someone that loves to get stuck into a task, and collaborate with the client and agency teams to make stuff happen!
- You know how to execute with digital, social, platform-first thinking and how the brand needs to behave within these environments to drive engagement.
- You will be charismatic with an energy that’s infectious and inspires people to do their best.
- You’ll understand the importance of brand metrics and how to orientate the operation in service of driving them and delivering business success.
- You know how to have fun and how to build a culture that is happy to work hard in an enjoyable environment.
- Experience within the retail sector is not essential but would be helpful.
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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Social & Influence Account Director
Large Tech Organisation
Department: Social, PR & Influence
Location: London
Contract type:
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Social & Influence 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:
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Account Director to join one of our Top 10 accounts, where everyone plays to their strengths delivering award-winning campaigns.
We have developed strong client relationships which spans over 7 years working with their UK & European Teams supporting on Strategy, Creative, Advertising, Channel and Product marketing and Measurement.
As a Social & Influence Director, you are the driving force behind our campaigns playing a central role in delivering our social & influence marketing proposition across one of our biggest clients. You will manage your workload autonomously, taking full responsibility for the quality and end-to-end execution of multiple social and influencer programs. In this role, you will act as a role model for Ogilvy's values, building trusted client relationships and communicating effectively across internal teams.
You will be accountable for resolving problems on your projects, managing timelines, and proactively communicating your status to senior leadership. A key part of your role will be to support the growth of junior team members by providing constructive feedback, sharing knowledge, and acting as an informal mentor. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for the industry and a proven ability to lead projects with confidence and a positive attitude.
Key Responsibilities:
Campaign Management
- Manage the day-to-day running of multiple social and influencer campaigns from start to finish, including:
- Identifying and vetting talent
- Negotiating contracts and fees
- Implementing campaign across relevant channels
- Overseeing delivery and ensuring quality
- Reporting on performance against agreed KPIs
- Serve as the first point of escalation for your projects, resolving day-to-day problems independently by consulting with stakeholders as needed and escalating to senior leadership only when appropriate.
Strategic Contribution
- Actively contribute to social & influencer strategy by recommending objectives, targets, and creative concepts. Confidently present creative solutions, campaign reports to internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify and nurture client-appropriate talent opportunities and relationships to help deliver the social & influencer programs for clients.
Client Management
- Act as the primary point of contact for your clients, managing expectations, providing timely updates, as well as advice and solutions.
- Build long-term client relationships by delivering work that meets agreed objectives, deadlines, and taking responsibility for the quality of all client outputs in your remit.
Communication & Collaboration
- Communicate effectively across internal teams (media, PR, data & insights), proactively sharing updates and coordinating timelines to ensure smooth handovers and integrated campaign success.
- Share updates proactively, coordinate timelines, and resolve potential blockers before they impact delivery.
- Effectively prioritise tasks across all projects proactively communicating your status to senior leadership, reassuring them that work is on track and meeting deadlines.
Resource Management
- Manage campaign budgets and timelines, ensuring projects are delivered profitably and on schedule. Proactively communicate about your workload and capacity to your line Director.
Team Growth & Mentorship
- A key part of your role will be to support the growth of junior team members by providing constructive feedback, sharing knowledge, and acting as an informal mentor to aid their growth and development
Skills for Your Growth to Business Director:
To support your progression, you will be expected to develop capabilities in the following areas:
- Strategic Development: Move from contributing to strategy to leading the strategic design, defining industry-leading approaches.
- Commercial Acumen: Develop a strong understanding of account profitability, identify opportunities for organic growth within your clients, and contribute to new business pitches.
- Senior Client Counsel: Evolve from a trusted day-to-day contact into a strategic advisor for mid-level clients, providing proactive counsel on industry trends and challenges.
- Team Leadership: Build on your informal mentoring to develop formal line management skills, becoming a role model who can inspire and lead a team.
What You Will Need:
- A passion for social and influencer marketing with a minimum of two years' experience, preferably in a fast-paced agency environment.
- Proven experience in autonomously managing multiple social and influencer campaigns from start to finish, including budget and timeline management.
- A track record of building strong client relationships and proactively managing their expectations.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound decisions and escalate appropriately.
- Experience in guiding or mentoring junior team members is highly desirable.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to facilitate meetings and collaborate effectively across teams.
- A commitment to your own growth, with a keen interest in keeping up-to-date with social and influencer marketing trends and sharing knowledge with colleagues.
How we help you Thrive:
- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- 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.
- 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.
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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Social Business Director
Global & European FMCG Drinks Portfolio
Department: PR & Influence / Social & Content
Location: London
Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months)
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Managing Partner / 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. 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 a Social Business Director on the European and Global drinks portfolio business within Social, you will lead client partnership, strategic counsel and integrated delivery across the portfolio, designed to provide the client with fully focused, senior leadership on some of the world’s most iconic FMCG brands.
The role sits at the intersection of Social-first thinking, culture-led marketing, and integrated agency delivery, ensuring that PR, social, influence and advertising work together to create impact at scale across diverse markets
This pivotal role places you at the heart of our operations for large drinks portfolio, one of the world's most iconic and dynamic brands. As a key leader within WPP Open X, our bespoke, fully integrated agency solution dedicated exclusively to this FMCG Brand.
Your remit will span from the initial spark of ideation – identifying trends and innovative opportunities that drive cultural relevance – through the meticulous development of cutting-edge strategies tailored to diverse market nuances and brand objectives. You will lead the charge on defining compelling creative narratives and content frameworks, ensuring brand consistency and breakthrough engagement. Subsequently, you will oversee flawless execution, transforming strategy into impactful activations across various platforms and geographies.
This role demands a holistic leader capable of driving innovation, navigating complex client relationships, and delivering measurable results within a dynamic, multi-market agency environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Social & Campaign Leadership: Lead large, complex social-first projects and manage key campaigns for an exciting tech client portfolio, from ideation through to execution.
- Strategic Counsel: Provide senior-level strategic guidance to clients, confidently holding your own in strategic conversations and ensuring all work aligns with strategic objectives.
- Integrated Team Management: Lead and motivate an integrated team, including an Account Manager, Community Manager, and Creatives, to deliver best-in-class social content and campaigns.
- Content & Performance Oversight: Oversee the delivery of social content and ensure it is performing effectively on an ongoing basis by leveraging insights from the research and data team.
- Client & Stakeholder Management: Build trusted partner relationships with senior-level clients, manage multi-level stakeholders in complex organisations, and act as a key point of escalation.
- Commercial Acumen: Take responsibility for the commercials of all projects, managing profitability, resource requirements, and growth opportunities. Ensure proposals are delivered within budget and manage client expectations on costs.
- Process & Delivery: Steer processes and ways of working internally and with partners, ensuring social campaigns are delivered on budget and on time in a Social-First environment.
- Creative Excellence: Collaborate with creative teams to inspire, spot, and push for creative genius, ensuring the best social creative solution is delivered for the client's business problem.
Key Leadership Competencies:
- Social & Digital Expertise: Possess strong skills in paid and organic social, with experience across a wide variety of clients and projects from small, response-driven workstreams to larger, complex social experiences across multiple platforms.
- Strategic & Non-Linear Thinker: Understand the strategic and business context the client is operating in and use this knowledge to develop effective solutions. Demonstrate creative problem-solving and consider different angles on a brief.
- Relationship Builder: A strong relationship builder who can make friends, influence people, and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to protect the work and activate new opportunities.
- Leadership & Accountability: An organised and autonomous leader who takes responsibility for large projects, motivating the team while holding them and yourself accountable for the work and the process.
- Excellent Communicator: Provide clear, succinct guidance to internal teams and confidently present work to clients, acting as a champion for the social craft.
- Financially Savvy: Possess good commercial acumen, with a strong understanding of how to manage resource requirements, ensure profitability, and drive growth.
Skills for Your Growth to Client Partner:
To support your progression, you will be expected to develop capabilities in the following areas:
- C-Suite Partnership & Business Acumen: Transition from a practice leader to a C-suite strategic advisor. Develop a deep, holistic understanding of the client's entire business model, competitive landscape, and financial drivers to become an indispensable partner to their most senior leaders.
- Integrated Solution Leadership: Evolve from leading a single capability to orchestrating the agency's full suite of services. Master the art of integrating diverse crafts—from brand advertising and PR to consulting and data—to solve the client's most complex business problems.
- Enterprise Commercial Strategy: Shift focus from departmental P&L management to owning the entire client commercial relationship. Drive enterprise-level growth by identifying strategic opportunities across the client's organization and negotiating large-scale, multi-year partnerships.
- Relationship as the Core Product: Move from a role where the craft is the primary product to one where the strategic client relationship itself is the core deliverable. Your success will be measured by your ability to build unwavering trust and long-term loyalty at the highest levels.
Personal Qualities:
- Someone that loves to get stuck into a task, and collaborate with the client and agency teams to make stuff happen!
- You know how to execute with digital, social, platform-first thinking and how the brand needs to behave within these environments to drive engagement.
- Demonstrated track record of P&L ownership and delivering significant, year-on-year business growth.
- Proven success in leading and winning multi-million-pound new business pitches.
- Understand the importance of brand metrics and how to orientate the operation in service of driving them and delivering business success.
- Know how to have fun and how to build a culture that is happy to work hard in an enjoyable environment.
- Exceptional leadership skills with experience in shaping departmental culture and developing senior talent.
- Strategic visionary with the ability to anticipate market trends and define a clear, forward-looking path for the business.
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