Senior Account Executive – Integrated (Social & Advertising)

Our Vision:

Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today’s world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth.   

We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas, we call this Borderless Creativity.        

This is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities Advertising, Experience, PR, Consulting and Health.   This allows us to not only operate but also innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent.  We believe impact and magic lie at this intersection.   Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.   

 

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

 

Today, Ogilvy is recognized as the world’s leading creative agency. We are also one of the most effective networks globally.

 

About Memac Ogilvy:

Memac Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide WPP & Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with Consulting, Advertising- Brand & Content, PR, Experience & Health under 1 P&L and single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is MENA's most integrated modern creative and effective partner for client growth. We inspire brands and people to impact the world. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions, with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery and a thorough and passionate People agenda.

The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It has around 500 staff members.

 

What we're looking for:

We’re looking for a sharp, hands-on Senior Account Executive – Integrated (Social & Advertising) to drive multi-channel campaigns across a portfolio of dynamic brands. In this fast-moving role, you’ll be the go-to client contact — leading timelines, creative rollouts, and campaign launches across TV, digital, OOH, and social. You’ll work closely with creative, strategy, media, and influencer teams to translate big ideas into high-impact, channel-specific executions. If you're organized, culture-savvy, and passionate about integrated storytelling, we want to hear from you.

To Succeed in This Role, You Need To:

1. Serve as the day-to-day contact for clients across both social and advertising streams — managing campaign timelines, briefing processes, and creative execution.
2. Work fluidly across campaign and always-on content, helping shape 360° ideas that live across TV, digital, OOH, and social platforms.
3. Lead the coordination of content calendars, creative rollouts, integrated campaign launches, and real-time activations.
4. Translate marketing strategies into clear, actionable briefs for creative, strategy, media, and production teams.
5. Own the preparation of status reports, campaign timelines, and reporting documents — ensuring proactive client communications at every step.
6. Apply deep understanding of both the communications mix and platform-native content to drive impactful, channel-specific recommendations.
7. Liaise with community managers and content creators to manage ongoing content, influencer activity, and social-first campaigns.
8. Collaborate closely with creative teams to develop compelling brand campaigns and thumb-stopping social content, ensuring both streams reflect the brand’s tone and objectives.
9. Monitor and flag competitive brand activity, emerging platform behaviors, and category trends across both advertising and social.
10. Manage internal meetings and client reviews, including agenda prep, note taking, next steps, and stakeholder coordination.
11. Track and maintain job estimates, scopes, and social budgets while working with production and finance to ensure billing accuracy.
12. Help troubleshoot delays, bottlenecks, and priority shifts across both social and traditional deliverables.
13. Coordinate performance and wrap-up reporting in partnership with strategy and analytics — both for campaign launches and monthly always-on content.
14. Serve as the link between creative, strategy, influencer, media, and production partners — bringing all sides together toward seamless campaign delivery.
15. Ensure compliance and sensitivity by understanding and adhering to government protocols, regulations, and cultural sensibilities — guaranteeing all communication materials and strategies meet legal and ethical standards. 

 

Qualifications:

• 2–4 years of experience in client servicing or integrated account management at a creative or digital agency.
• Strong knowledge of advertising and social media platforms (TV, OOH, Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.).
• Sharp organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Familiarity with content calendars, integrated timelines, influencer campaigns, and paid media planning.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and contribute to both big-picture ideas and day-to-day execution.
• Experience with tools like Meta Business Suite, Sprinklr, Emplifi, and standard project management platforms.
• Financial fluency when it comes to estimates, scopes, WIPs, and billing oversight.
• Passion for creativity, culture, and making meaningful work that lives across channels.

Personal Attributes:

• High level of political and cultural sensitivity.
• Strategic thinker with exemplary problem-solving capabilities.
• Adaptive, with the ability to manage multiple projects within tight deadlines.
• Strong ethical grounding and ability to maintain confidentiality.

Memac Ogilvy inspires brands and people to impact the world. We exist to create iconic, culture-changing, value-driven ideas for our clients. 

Borderless Creativity is our lifeblood. We operate, innovate, and create at the intersection of our talented people, across advertising disciplines such as strategic thinking and distinctive idea creation, through a social-first approach — alongside our wider Memac Ogilvy family of Advertising, Experience, Health, Consulting and PR.  Never have there been more opportunities available to communicate incredible ideas, impact culture, and influence consumer behavior. Paid advertising is a consistent, regular and controllable way of getting a business and brand’s core message in front of consumers in a way that no other medium can. Creativity is our greatest differentiator as we transcend the status quo and shift culture.
 

How We’ll Support You

Memac Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

 

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.