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About the Role

Lead client partnership, strategic counsel, and integrated delivery for iconic FMCG brands, operating at the intersection of earned-first thinking, culture-led marketing, and integrated agency delivery to create impact at scale.

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.
Strategic yet pragmatic.
Culturally curious and globally minded.
Confident, collaborative and calm under pressure.
Energised by complexity, scale and partnership-driven work.
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
Global strategy development
Earned-first thinking
Culture-led marketing
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

Experience Level

Senior leadership role
Business Director

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
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 UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948.
The agency specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science.
Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Unilever and Mondelēz International.
Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally; we are proud to be the most awarded influencer agency for eight years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy.
For us, 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, but 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.