Our Vision 

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, we call this Borderless Creativity.          

Which is why our teams work fluidly across five capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR and Influence, and Health. This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent.  We believe impact and magic lie at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep and diverse cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries in a way that celebrates our commitment to inclusion.    

Our mission: We inspire brands and people to impact the world. 

How we do it: We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities  

What we do: Borderless creativity  

About this role: 

As an integrated Project Manager, you are responsible for managing the day-to-day delivery of key client tasks and projects from inception through to delivery, focusing on the CRM side of the business. You are the person who makes everything run like clockwork: you use charm, persuasion, tact, and superb project management skills to keep things on track and budget. 

You’re a natural and creative problem solver who knows when to bring in senior support and who proactively offers solutions when things go wrong - usually with a cool head and a plan B to hand. You treat the client’s money as though it were your own and can easily balance the varying demands of scope, ambition, time, and budget. 

You readily take on more responsibility without being asked, always going the extra mile when it comes to finding the right delivery solution and rolling your sleeves up eagerly when you need to. You have impeccable attention to detail. 

Solid skills and experience in project management fundamentals are a must (budgeting, planning, developing statements of work etc.) however we are also after an individual with an appreciation and understanding of the creative process, strategy, data, media, and production- as well as the people skills to foster a team culture.

A bit about you: 

• Able to demonstrate a proven experience of managing and delivering CRM campaigns including DM and Email.
• Has a strong sense of personal responsibility for projects and can become known as the ‘go to’ person. 
• Actively builds good relationships within the organisation and outside stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work well under pressure, with a high degree of flexibility and fluidity and to have an objective focused and positive approach.
• Strong customer service ethos, a commitment to quality and to high standards of excellence and integrity.
• Previous experience working with key stakeholders to ensure that creativity is protected throughout the delivery of the project.

Building Client Relationships 

• Engage with clients, account, planning, and production team to ensure a full understanding and definition of client requirements and ensure that the project objectives are realistic and achievable within the specified timeframe and budget.
• Managing assigned projects from conception to completion, to time, to budget and expected quality.
• To coordinate the day-to-day running of the project and work closely with the other teams throughout the agency as appropriate
• Organise, chair and steer project meetings with project teams and agency peers.
• Creation and updates of the statement of work and timing plans
• Together with account management, take responsibility for project budgets
• Ownership of all project deliverables
• Assess the feasibility of concepts using your senior delivery team to support where required
• Resourcing assigned projects in full
• Accurately assess, communicate, and manage project risks and issues. Escalating to your senior delivery lead where required

Making Work We’re Proud Of 

• Build strong relationships with your project teams and clients.
• Demonstrate attention to detail throughout the life cycle of a project.
• Ensuring that all assigned projects have a clear brief.
• Be able to manage change effectively and calmly in a hectic environment
• A natural forward planner who critically assesses own performance.
• Reliable and determined with the ability to make things happen.
• Always taking responsibility for your actions.

Responsibility & Accountability 

• Takes responsibility for projects. And feels accountable for both the work, and the process.
• Drives decision-making around projects, ensuring that key stakeholders are involved and consulted at the right moments, resulting in projects being more efficiently delivered
• Can both take responsibility for decisions and hold their team members accountable, dealing with consequences as required

Commercial Acumen 

• Responsible for the commercial requirements on projects, and manages these to commercial success on average
• Understands and clearly makes commercial decisions on the delivery on their projects to the benefit of the project.

Collaboration 

• Facilitates and drives project collaboration, ensuring that key conversations happen in a timely manner
• Can both participate and mediate within project conversations
• Proactively consults with the business and wider specialisms to ensure project needs are met
• Can create conditions to collaborate between internal and external stakeholders which result in positive outcomes

Problem Solving & Decision Making. 

• Anticipates and resolve problems on their own projects, demonstrating an ability to manage an increased number of projects and decisions
• Can more actively resolve problems or escalate appropriately
• Demonstrates strong judgment in their decision-making ability

At Ogilvy UK, we want to make sure that you’re set up to grow and develop in your role and enjoy some of the best times of your working career. Our learning and development team are on hand to provide training for you, to help you excel in every aspect of your role. So, if you think you may not have experience in some aspects of this position, don’t worry, and apply away. We’re here to help you grow and nurture your skills.  

How we help you Thrive:  

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Bupa Healthcare (including Bupa health assessment and menopause support)
• Enhanced leave policies or parents and carers
• We have a flexible working policy with core working hours between 10am – 4pm. We also operate a 3:2 hybrid working structure
• A 1.5:1 matching pension structure
• Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership
• Opportunity to sign up for Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests
• Learning and development budgets plus enhanced and ongoing wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme 
• Life Assurance x4 salary 
• [email protected] – our employee networks Ogilvy ReWired, Roots, Equals, PROUD and Parents and Carers. See here for more information 

Dedicated to our people, we provide additional perks to help support your work life balance 

If this sounds like the right role and company for you, we’d love to hear from you. 

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.