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About the Role
We are seeking a proactive and organized Freelance Account Executive/Senior Account Executive to join our Consumer PR & Influence team at Ogilvy PR. This role is crucial for delivering media activity during the festive season, ensuring campaign momentum, and maintaining strong client and media relationships. The ideal candidate is a hands-on professional comfortable with pitching stories, managing multiple priorities, and working in a fast-paced agency environment.
Responsibilities
- Drive proactive media relations, including developing media lists, pitching stories, following up with journalists, and securing coverage.
- Support the execution of consumer PR campaigns, activations, and announcements.
- Manage day-to-day account activity, including timelines, status reports, coverage reports, and client communications.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, editors, influencers, and other relevant media contacts.
- Identify timely news hooks and opportunities to generate coverage for clients.
- Provide hands-on support to the wider team and confidently manage competing deadlines.
- Support out-of-hours media requests and PR activity across the Christmas period.
Requirements
- Experience in a PR agency environment with a strong grounding in consumer media relations.
- Excellent writing, pitching, and communication skills.
- Strong account management and organizational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple clients and deadlines.
- A proactive, can-do attitude and the confidence to work autonomously.
- Ability to hit the ground running and make an immediate impact.
- Full-time availability from November 2026 through to 26 December 2026.
- Availability to support media and client needs outside standard office hours.
- Weekend work will be required on a roster basis.
- Essential availability across the weekend of 19–20 December.
- Availability to support media or client requirements after the office closes for the Christmas break, through to Boxing Day (26 December).
Skills
- Media relations
- Campaign execution
- Account management
- Media outreach
- Writing
- Pitching
- Communication
- Organizational skills
- Autonomy
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Freelance
- Full-time availability required
Experience Level
- Account Executive
- Senior Account Executive
About the Company
- At Ogilvy, inclusivity is essential to our success. We're committed to building a workplace that embraces various perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, knowing that diverse teams drive more impactful work.
- We believe everyone thrives when they can be themselves. We provide equal opportunities and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.
Equal Opportunity
- We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Māori, people with disabilities, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, all ages, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, nationalities, and family structures.
- If you require any accessibility adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know: ogv-au-careers@ogilvy.com