About Ogilvy

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.

About the Role  

We’re looking for a Creative Communications leader to join our team to help further accelerate the momentum the agency has been building over the past year. This role will be responsible for championing Ogilvy’s iconic brand in a fiercely competitive industry with the primary objective of further bolstering the agency’s reputation through promotion of prolific creative work. This person will be ambitious, hard-working, and passionate about telling stories that showcase the impact creativity can have on a client’s business performance and on the people they serve. The ideal candidate will come to the role with media relations experience and an understanding of the agency marketing landscape. This will allow them to effectively identify the kinds of creative ideas that will bolster the reputation of the agency and our clients. This is a newly created role within the Global Communications team, so this person will need to have the energy, drive, personality, and initiative to shape the role into one that is essential to the agency’s creative reputation.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a strategic partner to the agency’s creative leadership and work closely with creative teams, primarily across North America, to shape and shepherd how we position/package creative campaigns so they land in culture and attract attention within the marketing industry.  
• Will be proactive, resourceful, persistent when it comes to engaging with creative teams to injecting earned first thinking into ideas throughout the creative process, not just before a campaign launch.  This includes tracking major campaigns that are in development across the region.
• Drive the making of materials and assets to promote creative work with a focus on generating ideas that go beyond the formulaic approaches to promoting creative campaigns.
• Be able to pitch creative campaigns and brand stories to tier one business/consumer media journalists as appropriate. Can supervise the pitching of campaigns to leading trade publications.
• Elevate the profile of select agency leaders and next-gen talent by identifying external opportunities that highlight the agency’s creative capabilities, talent, and thought leadership. This includes identifying speaking opportunities, interviews, op-eds, and panels that showcase their expertise.
• Help identify opportunities to raise visibility and build the reputation of key client partners in the market (creatively ambitious CMOs, senior clients, etc).
• Be a trend spotter who can collaborate with marketing team on editorial planning for The Red Papers, Ogilvy’s trademark thought-leadership platform, and other content development.
• As a senior member of the Communications team, will contribute to developing the agency’s communications strategy and implementation plan.
• Can be “on point” to direct media requests when the Global Chief Communications Officer is not available.

What You’ll Need 

• 10+ years of experience, ideally with creative agency experience
• Strong interest in the overall growth of the agency, its creative product, and clients
• Rigorous performance standards for themselves and for those with whom they work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong strategic thinker and storyteller
• Ability to anticipate needs and provide solutions/ideas
• Critical attention to detail
• Effective collaborator
• Good listener and reliable

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. 

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.