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 5 capabilities: Advertising, Growth and Innovation, Experience, PR and I, 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.   

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:

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 two really exciting clients in our portfolio. You will have the opportunity to support with ongoing social media activity for our clients across the year that will involve working with our design, creative, community management and production team to deliver best in class content.

This role is perfect for someone that has a passion for managing storytelling content, and the desire to build on their skills and experience in delivering social campaigns that get our audiences excited and wanting to find out more.

Most of the work is published across Instagram, facebook, YouTube and Strava, although a good understanding of the main social channels would be an advantage. For the most part the content will be focused on a UK audience although we also provide Community management and publish content across other key European markets including Germany and France. A working understanding of German or French is therefore advantageous.

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 efficient; you’ll need to ensure the accounts are managed with the right resource at the right time in order to ensure work is delivered in time and within scope

· Whilst you may not have experience of working in an agency, you’ll make up for this by showing your passion for social media, content and an eagerness to get involved with innovative campaigns for our 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!

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· A natural team player and enjoys working with others

· A willingness to take on new challenges

· Natural & effective collaborator

· Detail-oriented; you’ll need to use your excellent communication skills to ensure the accuracy required, whilst also reviewing work and ensuring it meets the brief before delivering to client

Your role at Ogilvy

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

As an Executive at Ogilvy, you will be an integral part of the day-to-day running of the business. You will work closely with the AM team to take client briefs and develop briefs for the Strategy, Creative and Production teams to ensure BAU campaigns launch and run smoothly across markets.

Client Services:

· Build and create productive client relationships with junior and mid-level clients throughout the delivery of projects, clearly communicating and managing expectations throughout

· Proactively consider how actions will affect clients; responding quickly to meet clients’ needs, resolve problems; and avoid over-commitment

· Understand the importance of account ‘admin’- issuing contact reports and weekly status reports

· Providing administrative support, including internal and client status reports, meeting scheduling, timing plans, budget tracking, competitor reviews etc.

· Conducting monthly hours reports across projects

Delivery

· Comfortably take responsibility for successful delivery of the projects assigned to you, with supervision

· Brief in-market agency contacts for translation needs where necessary, managing scope and issuing monthly POs

· Understand what decisions are within your remit, and what is not, and engage others accordingly to ensure that those who are accountable can assist and guide as needed

· Identify potential project risks and developing contingency plans

· Managing small projects and supporting more senior colleagues on larger projects

· Working to anticipate upcoming needs and hurdles and providing ideas to mitigate

· Staying on top of your projects and their finance, including recognising scope change, and knowing when to escalate

· Understanding the staffing requirements for your projects and booking resources in advance to the timeous execution of briefs and delivery

Commercial Acumen

· Recognise when to escalate issues which have commercial implications, and how to manage these situations with your partners

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 (now includes Bupa health assessment and menopause support)

· Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental leave

· We have a flexible working policy with core working hours (10am – 4pm) and have launched our 3.2 Hybrid Working model

· 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.

· 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]: To foster an inclusive environment we have our internal groups: Ogilvy Rewired, Roots, Equals, Proud plus 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 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 anyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.