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About the Role

Lead client partnership, strategic counsel, and integrated delivery for iconic FMCG brands, focusing on earned-first thinking, culture-led marketing, and integrated agency delivery to create impact at scale across diverse markets.

Responsibilities

Act as the senior day-to-day client lead for European and Global teams, building trusted, long-term partnerships.
Provide strategic counsel across brand, reputation, partnerships, and cultural activation.
Lead complex, multi-market stakeholder management across global, regional, and local teams.
Ensure the FMCG Brand has consistent, senior-level leadership fully embedded in the brand business.
Lead the creation of global and European communications toolkits, frameworks, and playbooks that balance global brand consistency with local market nuance.
Embed earned-first thinking into all toolkits.
Partner closely with creative and strategy leads to shape culturally relevant, insight-led ideas.
Oversee market engagement across Europe and priority global territories, acting as a central connector between the brands global teams and local markets.
Ensure clients are consistently informed on market trends, cultural shifts, competitor activity, and emerging opportunities.
Champion local market insight, ensuring work is adaptable, relevant, and executable across diverse regions.
Lead the communications strategy and delivery for global brand moments and events, ensuring alignment across markets.
Play a central role in developing and activating brand partnerships, embedding them seamlessly into toolkits and campaign narratives.
Work with market and agency leads to bring partnerships to life in locally relevant, culturally resonant ways.
Directly manage a London-based team, working alongside creative and strategy leadership.
Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture grounded in integration and shared ownership.

Requirements

Proven experience in global and/or European leadership roles, ideally within FMCG or large-scale consumer brands.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills — this role is heavily relationship-driven and requires confidence navigating complexity.
Strong understanding of how global brands operate across markets, with sensitivity to cultural and market nuance.
Demonstrated experience working in integrated agency environments across PR, advertising, social, and influence.
A passion for culture-led, earned-first marketing and its role in driving brand relevance and business impact.
Commercially astute, strategically minded and comfortable operating at senior client level.
A genuine interest in — and affinity for — the drinks brands and the wider FMCG landscape.
Extensive and proven experience in a senior leadership role (e.g., Senior Account Director or Business Director) within a top-tier agency.
Demonstrated track record of P&L ownership and delivering significant, year-on-year business growth.
Proven success in leading and winning multi-million-pound new business pitches.
Exceptional leadership skills with experience in shaping departmental culture and developing senior talent.
Strategic visionary with the ability to anticipate market trends and define a clear, forward-looking path for the business.
Outstanding commercial acumen and sophisticated negotiation skills.

Skills

Client leadership
Stakeholder management
Strategic counsel
Integrated delivery
Earned-first thinking
Culture-led marketing
Global strategy development
Market management
Market intelligence
Global events
Partnerships
Team leadership
Integration
C-Suite Partnership
Business Acumen
Integrated Solution Leadership
Enterprise Commercial Strategy
Relationship management

Location

London

Work Type

Full Time
Fixed-Term 12-Months
Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm

Experience Level

Senior leadership role
Client Partner progression

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
Bupa Healthcare
Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
A 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.
Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
Life Assurance

About the Company

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy more than 75 years ago.
It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity—innovating at the intersection of intelligence, imagination and influence, with experts across advertising, sports & entertainment, PR & social, consulting, and health collaborating seamlessly across more than 120 offices spanning 90 countries.
Ogilvy was named Network of the Year at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC for the fourth consecutive year, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.
Ogilvy is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
We unite 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.
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.
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 discrimination or 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.