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Business Director

London, United Kingdom

Department: Ogilvy One 

Location: London 

Contact type: 12 Month FTC

Full Time/Part time: Full Time 

Reporting into: Managing 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. Ogilvy UK 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, Argos, , Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.  

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally, and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year. 

The Role: 

• You’ll join a digital, social and CX focused team to consolidate and grow the account. 
• This role requires a strategic, positive person, who will build strong partnerships with their client to continually improve the customer’s experience of the brand. 
• Our clients invite expertise and challenge, so you will need to have the experience, gravitas and confidence to hold your own in strategic conversations as well as the ability to inspire, spot and help push creative genius.
• You will report to the Managing Partner, and have line management responsibility of an Account Manager, and an Account Executive.
 

Key Responsibilities:   

• Partnering with the strategy lead to set the direction of growth for the client areas you’ll lead.
• Working with your Ogilvy strategic partners to find distinct, unexpected and useful insights to drive more impact with customers. 
• Partnering with creative leads to drive up the quality of the creative output – and enable us to sell the best work. 
• Create an optimal and unbreakable relationship with your senior clients, giving them the confidence to try new things and having the tough conversations when required. 

 

Experience, Skillset and Qualifications:

• You’ll have 9+ years’ experience within CX and direct response space, inc social & digital advertising.  
• You’ll be a strong relationship builder, knowing how to make friends and influence people internally and with clients. 
• You will be charismatic with an energy that’s infectious and inspires people to do their best. 
• You will be a confident, impact driven strategic thinker who is more than comfortable sharing a strategic point of view. 
• You will recognise great creative thinking and how to push an idea to be better. 
• You know how to execute with customer first thinking.
• You know how to have fun and how to build a culture that is happy to work hard in an enjoyable environment.

 If you're an experienced and creative individual with a passion for driving results and fostering diversity, we'd love to hear from you. Join our team and help us take our agency to the next level!

Benefits 

  • 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day 
  • Bupa Healthcare
  • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
  • We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
  • A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
  • Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year 
  • Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life Assurance

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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