About this Junior Account Executive - PR & Influencer Marketing role at Ogilvy UK
Junior Account Executive - PR & Influencer Marketing - Beauty Client
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.
About the Role
Role Summary
A PR Account Executive role working across The Boots Group account. The role sits within The Pharm – an integrated agency made up of experts from around the WPP network dedicated to The Boots Group.
This role provides the opportunity for ambitious, driven candidates looking to build a career in PR to work across Boots as well as the No7 Beauty Company portfolio, which comprises No7, Liz Earle, Botanics, Soap & Glory and Aromatherapy Associates. You will be part of a fun and collaborative 15-strong team of PR and influencer experts dedicated to this priority WPP client.
You must have a passion for beauty and consumer PR and the influencer landscape, ideally with some experience in consumer PR already under your belt. You should also be someone with strong organisational skills, and comfortable with important administrative responsibilities such as coverage tracking, measurement and evaluation.
You will enjoy working in a fast paced environment, and be confident in juggling different projects, and managing different deadlines.
Here’s what you’ll bring to the table
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable passion for the beauty industry, and a keen knowledge and interest in beauty influencers and beauty media
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle projects
- Willingness to take on new challenges and learn
- Strong team skills
- Detail-oriented
- Good research skills and ability to think creatively
- Some experience in a consumer PR or influencer agency or in-house is preferable
- Good knowledge and interest for social media trends and influencers
Key Responsibilities
- Overseeing press and influencer sample coordination and requests
- Monitoring editorial and press coverage and managing coverage logs for clients
- Responding to influencer and media enquiries
- Monitoring the news agenda, identifying opportunities for our clients
- Supporting on press and influencer events
- Client reporting across accounts and co-ordinating client facing updates
- Drafting press releases and media alerts
- Assisting with Influencer briefs and managing paid Influencer deliverables and timelines
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.
