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

Strategy at Ogilvy

Ogilvy is the home of Borderless Creativity.

The strategy team is the start point for making that intention a reality. We’re a diverse bunch of thinkers – Brand Strategists, Data Analysts, Experience Design, Insight, Social Content, CRM and PR. We come from all sorts of backgrounds to solve all sorts of problems.

This role sits within the wider strategy community (or nearly 100 people!). We share our knowledge and we foster a culture of curiosity and mutual support. The past few years have been tough for new strategists in particular and it is the responsibility of everyone in our team to help nurture the next generation of strategist thinkers – we’d love you to share that responsibility too.

Social and content

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. Strategy in this space is fast evolving and we want to make sure we are bringing best on class thinking to our clients and sharing it internally too. We are looking for someone who:

• Is a strategic thinker who is able to identify and distil, often complex, challenges into easily understood, actionable strategy
• Brings true leadership in social and content – is visionary about what’s next across for brands across channels and platforms and is truly excited by the potential
• Has experience of best-in-class hand-on delivery of campaigns of all shapes and sizes, from brand building to sales driving activity.
• Understands and can clearly map out the roles for social across paid, owned and earned and who can effectively work with a comms strategist / media agency to detail this for clients
• Can work with an overarching creative idea and translate that into a brief for relevant content across social platforms
• Can work with a brand strategy and ensure that activity is developed for a social-environments delivers against brand objectives
• Puts the consumer at the heart of any response using data and story-telling
• Has an expert understanding how Social Media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.) work and keeps knowledge on current formats and tactics up to date

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:

• The ability to simplify. Many of our clients are not expert in social and they are looking to us to bring that expertise. Our Strategy Director (you!) will most likely be the expert in this area in the room – the ability to bring the group along with you by laying out simple, clear, compelling thinking is essential
• Natural presenter, comfortable and convincing in client meetings and with the wider agency team
• A master story-teller who is able to build a compelling narrative around work and presentations
• Organised and autonomous (this role will be on one client but there are multiple work streams working together)
• Ability to plan for and measure effectiveness both holistically and across social channels
• Ability to work with and lead junior team members ensuring they are clear on the expectation of their role / specific task.
• The confidence to respectfully challenge a brief with the client and ensure that every brief we receive can lead to work we will be proud of

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 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 plus Dental cover, 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: To foster an inclusive environment we have our internal groups: Ogilvy Rewired, Roots, Equals, Proud plus Parents and Carers. See here for more information