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About the Role

We are looking for a visionary Creative Lead to guide the work for a global FMCG powerhouse. This role involves leading creative direction for diverse brands, driving global and regional campaigns that blend bold ideas with real-world impact. It's an opportunity to inspire teams, elevate craft, and deliver ideas that leave a lasting mark on culture.

Responsibilities

• Set and articulate a compelling creative vision, raising the standard of craft across copy, design, film, digital, social, and experiential touchpoints.
• Guide platform-level thinking and ensure ideas are culturally resonant, strategically grounded, and effectively modernise the brand’s expression.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior clients, translating business goals into inspiring creative briefs and presenting work with clarity and conviction.
• Oversee end-to-end creative for integrated campaigns across paid, owned, and earned channels, partnering closely with strategy, data, media, and production.
• Mentor, coach, and grow creative talent, fostering a rich, accountable culture that prizes curiosity and creates space for emerging voices.
• Guide work from pitch through production—including casting, edit, and delivery—ensuring insights are transformed into executionally flawless work.

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading and inspiring global or multi-market creative teams.
• Portfolio of culturally impactful, platform-level campaigns.
• Mastery of integrated channels—from film and social to experiential and commerce.
• Fluency in current trends, platforms, and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills.
• Comfortable navigating high-stakes decisions and advising C-suite stakeholders.
• Deep production experience across the entire lifecycle.
• Courage to challenge conventions, take smart risks, and defend great work.
• Open, collaborative, and adaptable.
• Passionate about building vibrant creative cultures and developing emerging talent.
• Experience stewarding legacy brands through modernisation (bonus).
• Deep sensitivity to cultural nuances in global markets (bonus).
• Experience working with high-velocity consumer brands (bonus).

Skills

• Creative direction
• Campaign development
• Brand strategy
• Integrated marketing
• Team leadership
• Client advisory
• Storytelling
• Presentation
• Production management
• AI tool utilization

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Hybrid Working

Experience Level

• Creative Lead

Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Paid volunteering day
• Option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Generous matched pension scheme
• BUPA Private Medical Insurance
• Discounted BUPA dental cover
• Financial contribution towards wellness
• 24/7 access to remote GPs
• Mental health support
• Physio consultations
• Nutrition consultations
• Confidential counselling
• Free 1-to-1 coaching sessions annually
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection

About the Company

• Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas for 75 years.
• It builds on its legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating across advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities.
• Ogilvy has experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries.
• Ogilvy ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC.
• Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP).
• WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
• WPP unites media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel.
• WPP is powered by its agentic marketing platform, WPP Open.

Equal Opportunity

• Ogilvy champions innovation and the thoughtful application of AI.
• We encourage you to use AI tools to enhance your application and achieve the best possible results.
• During interviews, we may explore how you leverage AI, showcasing your judgment and ability to integrate these technologies effectively.
• Please ensure your application authentically reflects your own skills, experience, and unique contributions.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.