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: 

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 exciting clients in our portfolio. You will have the opportunity to manage key campaigns across the year that will involve working with our data, strategy, influence, and 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 understanding 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 candidate will work with two Account Managers and an Account Executive to not only deliver content but ensure it is performing effectively on an on-going basis: leaning into our research and data team.

A bit about you: 

We are flexible on whether you have come from an agency of client background, but we think the following are 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 Project Manager to support with budgets and timings, you will 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 withing the tech, auto or charity sectors is not essential but would be helpful

More about your role at Ogilvy 

As an Account Director you lead large, more complex projects, armed with your experience and proven ability to think, and do. You can 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 and senior clients that is one of trusted partner, based on proven track record of delivery.
• Can 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 part of an integrated agency team across multiple external partners.
• Are 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 client’s 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.

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 
• Inclusion@Ogilvy – 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.