Account Executive

Business area: PR & Influence

Team: Consumer PR

Location: London

Contract type: Permanent

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Account Director or Business Director

Client: Google

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.          

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising, Growth and Innovation, Experience, PR and I, 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.     

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 Executive at Ogilvy, you are learning the core skills of managing and making that will form the basis of your future career. You will partner daily with account managers and account leaders to learn about the agency business (operational and delivery excellence, efficiency and speed to market) as well as the client’s business and competitor context. You will also have responsibility on the account retainers and projects with the support of more experienced colleagues. 

As an experienced Executive on the Consumer PR team -working across Google’s consumer and corporate communications - you will be responsible for creating media materials, developing relationships with journalists in order to secure coverage in the national, business,technology, consumer lifestyle and B2B press, as well as helping deliver campaign work including liaising with talent/influencers and planning and managing events. 

You will also share responsibility for daily media monitoring and reporting duties. You will bring a can-do attitude combined with a strong desire to learn and grow, and your passion for the work shines through. You will exhibit strong potential to develop relationships with clients and colleagues based on mutual respect and partnership.  

Key requirements:

● 1-2+ years of PR experience, ideally within the consumer or B2B tech sector

● An interest in consumer tech or corpsumer PR, with the role spanning both consumer and corporate responsibilities

● Media relations experience, ideally with a network of relevant journalists across the technology and lifestyle press

● Strong copywriting skills

● Experience with reporting processes and daily media monitoring

● The ability to work in a fast-paced environment

 

Key responsibilities:

● Building strong collaborative relationships with clients 

● Providing administrative support, including status reports, meeting scheduling, budget tracking, competitor reviews  

● Responsibility for daily media monitoring and reporting, in a client-facing role, ensuring daily reports are delivered on-time and to a consistently high standard

● Creating written client and external-facing materials eg. media pitches, briefing notes, media audits, media lists

● Developing relationships with key media contacts at the national, broadcast, business and consumer press to pitch and secure coverage and deliver on client objectives

● Helping manage a fast-paced press inbox and fielding inbound media inquiries

● Providing support for event planning and delivery as part of campaigns

● Attending client calls and maintaining constant contact with clients via email and phone to ensure all work is delivered on time, to a high standard

● Working with and learning about the agency Capabilities – CE, PR, Advertising, Social and Influence, Consulting and B2B 

● Managing projects and supporting more senior colleagues on larger projects  

● Basic analyses of client’s business results and competitive landscapes  

● Working to anticipate upcoming needs and hurdles and providing ideas to mitigate 

● Assisting with the onboarding of new team members 

● Establishing and building relationships internally with other megabusinesses as well as with colleagues in Strategy, Programme Management, Creative, etc.   

At Ogilvy UK, we want to make sure that you’re set up to grow and develop in your role and enjoy some of the best times of your working career. Our learning and development team are on hand to provide training for you, to help you excel in every aspect of your role. So, if you think you may not have experience in some aspects of this position, don’t worry, and apply away. We’re here to help you grow and nurture your skills.  

 How we help you Thrive:  

● 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

● Bupa Healthcare

● Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental leave

● We have a flexible working policy with core working hours (10am – 4pm) and have launched our 3.2 Hybrid Working model

● A 1.5:1 matching pension structure

● Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership plus Dental cover, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests. 

● Learning and development budgets plus Enhanced and ongoing wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year

● Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme 

● Life Assurance x4 salary 

● Inclusion@Ogilvy: To foster an inclusive environment we have our internal groups: Ogilvy Rewired, Roots, Equals, Proud plus Parents and Carers. See here for more information 

 Dedicated to our people, we provide additional perks to help support your work life balance 

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.