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Business Director
Consumer PR
Business area: PR & Influence
Location: London, Sea Containers
Contact type: 12 Month FTC
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Contract duration: Initial 12-Months
Reporting into: Client Partner
About Ogilvy
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 six years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.
Ogilvy UK also hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – which is now in its 12th year. James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA), a boutique creative agency he co-founded in 2020, recently acquired by WPP.
Our mission: We inspire brands and people to impact the world
How we do it: We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities
What we do: Borderless creativity
About this Role
As an Ogilvy Business Director, you will lead some of the largest brands within one of our flagship PR & Influence portfolio clients, across Global, Europe Wide and UK based projects.
You’ll understand the high-level conversation needed to collaborate with Senior Marketing and Communications Teams to ensure you are working towards aligned strategic objectives, and creating industry leading work. You will create highly effective working relationships with clients, colleagues and cross- agency teams.
You’ll get involved in new business in the UK and EMEA and spot opportunities for organic growth – both within PR and at the intersections of other Ogilvy capabilities – Behavioural Science, Advertising, Brand and Content and B2B.
You’ll be part of a PR agency-wide BD peer group - focused on realising the potential and excellence of the full team – and will have the full support of a senior team that delivers best in class award winning work.
A bit about you:
Building client relationships -
Is a trusted partner and adviser to senior clients, and well respected and valued by the senior clients. Has a thorough understanding of the client’s business objectives and aspirations and is able provide a sounding board that encourages deeper conversations around potential opportunities. Navigates issue resolution with clients and senior stakeholders
Making work we’re proud of -
Understands that their role is to lead and create the conditions for brilliant solutions to appear and thrive. Inputs meaningfully into the creative development processs and understands how different crafts around Ogilvy can play a part in a brilliant creative solution.
Will proactively identify potential creative opportunities and areas of growth for the business. And can turn this knowledge into a plan of action. Is a creative thinker in the broadest sense – applying that skill to improving the way the business is run, or how to strategically sell-in work.
Responsibility & accountability -
Responsibilities extend to a number of projects. Manages a team of people on these, defining their roles and responsibilities and holding them to account for their actions to ensure that the team delivers as required.
Is comfortable taking decisions on behalf of the agency and team, and does so understanding the ramifications. Is equally comfortable managing up and understands when this is needed.
Actively demonstrates to the client that they are accountable for the agency's performance, and the relationship.
Commercial Acumen -
Has an informed view of the commercial implications of both internal decisions and external influences, at a micro (project) and macro (account) level.
Can maturely engage with clients and internal stakeholders on commercial topics, and problem solve where needed to protect the interests of the agency and the relationship.
Collaboration -
Demonstrates a proactive and influential approach in ensuring senior stakeholders across the agency are engaged with the ambition and resource their team requires to support the ambition of work. Managing up as well as down.
Knowledgeable about how to manage key mid level stakeholders in the client organisation in order to protect and promote the agencies ambitions.
Works well with other crafts at Ogilvy, taking the time to understand the value they can bring and the role of earned within the wider agency mix.
Problem solving & decision making -
Is able to take a holistic view of the projects or activities they are working on in order to identify future opportunities and risks. Equally able to think on their feet and act decisively as required to problem solve fast. Understands where leadership support is needed.
How we help you Thrive:
If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you.
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. 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.
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