About the Role
This role provides the opportunity to work on an exciting client with a portfolio of soft drinks brands, managing key campaigns across the year. You will collaborate with strategy, creative, and production teams to deliver best-in-class campaigns and content. The ideal candidate will have a wide knowledge of social media, experience managing content and campaigns that build brand advocacy, and understand how to create assets that drive purchases. You will effectively lead an account, steering processes internally, with agency partners, and with clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, complex projects with proven ability to think and do.
- Problem-solve and create effective working relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Collaborate with other Capabilities and Crafts.
- Ensure you and the team are working towards strategic objectives.
- Build trusted partner relationships with mid-level clients.
- Confidently lead conversations and problem-solve in the moment.
- Act as a point of escalation for junior clients.
- Manage multi-level stakeholders in complex matrix organizations.
- Manage resources and teams across all levels with diverse skills and personalities.
- Understand the client's strategic and business context to develop effective solutions.
- Collaborate with other capabilities and crafts to find the best social creative solutions.
- Act as a champion for the social craft.
- Demonstrate creative problem-solving in approaching tasks.
- Identify ways to improve internal processes.
- Ideate for innovative social solutions.
- Co-create inspiring ways to sell in work.
- Consider different angles on a brief.
- Take responsibility for larger projects and act accountably for work and process.
- Be accountable for the actions of the account team reporting to you.
- Guide and manage the account team, intervening and managing up as required.
- Manage client expectations when charging more for additional work without exposing the agency to financial risk.
- Be well-informed about project commercials and manage teams to meet agreed targets.
- Maintain strong partnerships with internal stakeholders across all crafts.
- Support cross-functional agendas for the benefit of the company and client.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with day-to-day clients and wider client stakeholders.
- Use client relationships to protect work, strengthen relationships, and activate new opportunities.
- Act as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues.
- Support the team in confidently navigating through problems.
- Manage content and campaigns that build brand advocacy.
- Create hard-working assets that drive to purchase.
- Lead an account, steering processes and ways of working internally, with agency partners, and with clients.
- Stay on the pulse of social trends and opportunities for brands.
- Understand how data, strategy, and community management contribute to social media success.
- Lead in other areas of the marketing mix.
- Utilize integrated marketing experience.
- Motivate the team to do great work.
- Anticipate areas that may hinder campaign success.
- Manage budgets and timings.
- Deliver social campaigns on budget and on time.
- Deliver proposals within client budgets.
- Ensure successful delivery of campaigns.
- Provide clear, succinct guidance to internal teams.
- Present work to clients.
- Collaborate with client and agency teams.
- Make things happen.
Requirements
- Experience managing content and campaigns that build brand advocacy.
- Understanding of how to create hard-working assets that drive to purchase.
- Ability to effectively lead an account, steering processes and ways of working internally, with agency partners, and with clients.
- Finger on the pulse across all things social.
- Thorough understanding of how data, strategy, and community management feed into the success of a brand's social media presence.
- Passion for delivering best-in-class social campaigns.
- Some integrated marketing experience.
- Organized and autonomous.
- Ability to motivate the team to do great work.
- Ability to anticipate any areas that may hinder the success of the campaign.
- Well versed in managing budgets and timings.
- Excellent understanding of processes and what it takes to deliver social campaigns on budget and on time.
- Financially savvy.
- Ability to work with the agency team to deliver proposals within client budgets.
- Excellent communicator.
- Ability to provide clear, succinct guidance to internal teams.
- Ability to present work to clients.
- Willingness to get stuck into a task.
- Experience within the retail sector is not essential but would be helpful.
- Proven ability to think and do.
- Solid understanding of strategy.
- Proven track record of delivery.
- Strong skills in paid and organic social.
- Experience 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.
- Understanding of how to work and lead project delivery in a Social first environment.
- Experience working as part of an integrated team.
- Ability for creative problem solving.
- Non-linear thinker.
- Accountable for the work and the process.
- Understanding of accountability for the actions of the account team.
- Ability to manage client expectations when charging more for additional work.
- Well informed about the commercials of all projects.
- Ability to maintain strong partnerships with internal stakeholders.
- Ability to support cross-functional agendas.
- Ability to use client relationships to protect work, strengthen relationships, and activate new opportunities.
- Ability to act as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues.
- Ability to support the team in confidently navigating through problems.
Skills
- Social media management
- Content creation
- Campaign management
- Brand advocacy
- Data analysis
- Strategy development
- Community management
- Integrated marketing
- Budget management
- Time management
- Client communication
- Team motivation
- Paid social
- Organic social
- Stakeholder management
- Resource management
- Creative problem solving
- Financial acumen
- Proposal development
- Project delivery
- Client relationship management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full Time
- 12-Month Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)
Experience Level
- Director level
- Mid-level client relationships
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
- Annual eye tests
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Life Assurance
About the Company
- Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients since 1948.
- The agency specializes in brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence, and consulting, fueled by Behavioural Science.
- Ogilvy's influencer marketing practice is the largest globally and has been the most awarded influencer agency for six consecutive years.
- Ogilvy UK hosts Nudgestock, the world's largest festival of behavioural science and creativity.
- James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA).
Equal Opportunity
- Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are integrated into everything they do.
- They believe creativity flourishes when diversity is at the core of how they work.
- Race, color, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability do not influence hiring decisions.
- Encourages everyone to express their true selves in an inclusive environment.
- Aims to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience.
- Offers guaranteed interviews under the Disability Confident Scheme for individuals with disabilities.
- Considers all reasonable adjustments for application process and working conditions.
