Mid-Level Influence Creative

Business area:   PR & Influence

Location:   London

Contract type:   Fixed-Term

Contract duration: 6-month FTC

Full Time/Part time:   Full time

Reporting into: Influence Director / Creative Director

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.   

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR, 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.    

The result is multifaceted ideas for our clients that drive impact and are born from the intersection of platform x culture x technology.     

We call this Borderless Creativity.

The Role:

As part of the PR and Influence offering at Ogilvy UK, you will bring creative thinking, great production skills, experience in dealing and managing influencers and cultural connections to a broad range of high-profile (mostly consumer) brands.

You’ll be working primarily within the Influence team – so knowing how to earn attention through influencers and the channels they work on is key – but earned-first experience and insight is increasingly relevant for all of Ogilvy’s mega businesses.  From customer experience, behavioural science or advertising and branding – you’ll have plenty of shiny new toys and teams to play with.

The mission of the creative team is to produce first class award-winning ideas, activations, partnerships and content that gets talked about, written about, shared and envied.

As a dedicated creative, you will be directly responsible for injecting creative thinking and production excellence into all our work – coming up with concepts, finessing content, briefing influencers and making sure we produce unmissable and unskippable activations. Projects include everything from identifying up and coming influencers, producing quick-turn content, developing ideas to inspire partners and drive conversation, leveraging platform innovations and trending topics.

Working closely with our influence strategist, you’ll know what’s trending, who’s rising up the influence ladder, how to take advantage of platform changes and innovations and the best way to  produce great content for a range of budgets.

In our world, no day, nor brief, is the same, so embracing agility and efficiency are vital. You will know the importance of working collaboratively with other creatives and team members to solve problems, how to work with your strategy partner to shape and respond to briefs - bringing exceptional creative thought, brilliant copy, and art direction to a broad range of high-profile brands.

Creativity:

• Create modern, innovative, compelling influence work that lands culturally and editorially
• Devise modern, social and content-first creative solutions
• Abililty to produce, direct and deliver content for a range of different social channels
• Know who’s trending, what’s being talked about, where new influence trends are coming from and how to jump on them - quickly
• Confident producing clever, low-cost, quick turnaround ideas as well as big brand activations
• Bring a natural curiosity for the many different ways customers interact with brands
• Inspire the wider team, helping them develop and expand their ideas
• See projects through to the end, ensuring quality never dips
• Be culturally aware - surprise us with new thoughts, collaborators, talent and more so we sit up and listen
• Contribute to thinking around strategy and creative points of view on the whole brand experience (how it acts, looks, what it stands for/against, how a vision comes to life)
• Champion the ideas of juniors and support them in refining and developing their craft
• Concept and collaborate with other creatives, including art directors, copywriters, experience designers, technologists, and makers, to deliver an excellent customer experience across all channels

Communication:

• Exceptional copywriting and presentation skills, able to get ideas across to any audience, via simple articulation and concise presentation
• Give work the best chance of being bought by presenting it to clients persuasively and imaginatively
• Listen to and respect the thoughts and opinions of others and adapt your ideas accordingly
• See your projects through the production phase and ensure quality never dips

A bit about you:

• Passion for influencer marketing with a minimum of two years’ experience in the field (Either B2B or B2C both applicable) 
• Demostrate experience in building productive relationships with both clients & influencers
• An innovative, creative approach to the opportunity in influence
• A maker – experienced producing tweets that travel, content that engages and
• Keeping abreast of and utilising new industry tech & developments, and follower of relevant news & trends
• Proven experience of integrating digital and social media in campaign activity
• Self-motivated, action-oriented and ambitious with a positive "can-do" attitude 
• Team player, ability to work together, delegate and elevate others

How we help you Thrive:   

• 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 plus Dental cover, 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

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. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know and we will do everything we can to accommodate.