Creative Lead, UK & EMEA
About Ogilvy
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.
Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising, Consulting, Experience, PR & Influencer, and Health. This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.
The result is multifaceted ideas for our clients that drive impact and are born from the intersection
of platform x culture x technology.
We call this Borderless Creativity.
The Opportunity
The Creative Lead will be a dual role, working across Ogilvy's diverse capabilities.
Primarily, this will be leading Ogilvy UK's creative output across all Coca-Cola Company projects for world famous brands like Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. This will include working alongside other creative, strategic, and business leads around the globe, both within Ogilvy and the wider WPP network.
The Creative Lead will be responsible for elevating the creative work, spotting opportunities for ever more famous work, and constantly pushing for creative excellence. In 2024, Coca-Cola was named Brand of the Year at Cannes, so the bar is high.
Secondarily, the Creative Lead will be responsible for overseeing the creative output on certain WPP x Coca-Cola Company projects across EMEA. This role is part quality control, part troubleshooting, part creative inspiration.
This position will play a key role in:
Creatively leading multiple projects from concept to completion – we’ll rely on you setting and inspiring creative ambition, bold thinking and unexpected ideas with the creative teams and projects under your steward.
A hands-on creative – As a creative, we’ll expect you to work alongside the department on conceptual projects, to develop new creative ideas. You will focus on elevating the creative output of the department for the agency and its clients.
How we’ll measure your success:
- Successfully leading a diverse range of projects and multi-tasking within a fast-paced creative environment.
- Creating award winning creative work for the agency.
Responsibilities of the Creative Lead
- Act as the creative lead on work, delivering world-class creative work.
- Be accountable for the execution of creative work created under your stewardship.
- Maintain high levels of execution and excellence across all creative work.
- Thinking disruptively - your role is to approach things from a different angle and successfully create new solutions business challenges and creative process.
- Change orientation – your always open to new ideas and ways of working.
- Encouraging and inspiring creative ambition, bold thinking, and unexpected ideas.
- Creating the atmosphere and room for brand-defining creativity, galvanising in the face
of client relationships, and making the right structure for creative groups to operate. - Driving a culture of creative inclusion, bringing your unique self and perspective to
the agency. - Demonstrating a sharp POV on the principles of creativity, marketing, and advertising.
- Help mentor and develop more junior talent.
Your previous experience:
- Experience of leading creative groups, both nationally and internationally; overseeing
and developing top quality work. - Experience of creating campaigns across social media and other digital touchpoints.
- A strong commitment to delivering high impact work on time and on budget.
- An understanding of multi-platform thinking and techniques as well as a desire to create innovative work.
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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