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About the Role

As a strategic and composed leader accountable for creative excellence, client relationships, and financial profitability, you will serve as a credible partner to clients and an ambassador for the agency. You will proactively manage teams, foresee challenges, and plan contingencies while continuously identifying opportunities to grow the business. You will inspire and develop your team, foster strong morale, and maintain account profitability. Championing agility, innovation, and continuous improvement, you will optimize processes and ensure the agency consistently delivers exceptional work and service.

Responsibilities

Lead by creating conditions for brilliant solutions to appear and thrive.
Meaningfully input into the creative development process and understand how different crafts contribute to a brilliant creative solution.
Proactively identify potential creative opportunities and areas of growth for the business, turning this knowledge into a plan of action.
Think creatively to improve business operations and strategically sell in work.
Manage multiple projects, defining roles and responsibilities for your team, and holding them accountable to ensure delivery as required.
Make decisions on behalf of the agency and team, understanding the ramifications and managing up when necessary.
Demonstrate to clients that you are accountable for the agency's performance and relationship.
Engage with clients and internal stakeholders on commercial topics and problem-solve to protect the interests of the agency and the relationship.
Ensure senior stakeholders across the agency engage with the ambition and resources your team needs to support the work.
Manage key mid-level stakeholders in the client organization to protect and promote the agency's ambitions.
Work well with other crafts at Ogilvy, understanding their value and the role of earned media within the agency mix.
Take a holistic view of projects to identify future opportunities and risks.
Act decisively to solve problems quickly, understanding when leadership support is needed.
Serve as a trusted partner and adviser to mid-level clients, respected and valued by senior clients.
Understand the client’s business objectives and aspirations, providing a sounding board that encourages deeper conversations around potential opportunities.
Navigate issue resolution with clients and senior stakeholders.

Requirements

Strong advertising expertise across broadcast, digital, and social first channels.
Informed view of the commercial implications of internal decisions and external influences at both the micro (project) and macro (account) levels.
Ability to manage up as well as down.
Ability to manage key mid-level stakeholders in the client organization.
Ability to work well with other crafts at Ogilvy.
Ability to take a holistic view of projects to identify future opportunities and risks.
Ability to act decisively to solve problems quickly.
Ability to understand when leadership support is needed.
Ability to serve as a trusted partner and adviser to mid-level clients.
Ability to understand client’s business objectives and aspirations.
Ability to navigate issue resolution with clients and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Creative excellence
Client relationship management
Financial profitability management
Broadcast advertising
Digital advertising
Social media advertising
Team management
Communication
Problem-solving
Contingency planning
Business development
Leadership
Feedback delivery
Agility
Innovation
Process optimization
Commercial acumen
Stakeholder management
Collaboration

Location

London

Work Type

Full Time
6-Month FTC

Experience Level

Seasoned professional
Senior

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
Bupa Healthcare
Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
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 and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
Life Assurance

About the Company

Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago.
It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries.
Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.
Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP).
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Equal Opportunity

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to particular characteristics.
We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.