Business Director

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. 

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Business Director to join our Fan Engagement team. 

About Ogilvy Fan Engagement  

We fuel fandom to drive business impact for our clients. For Rights Holders, Leagues and Teams, we help them understand, grow, engage and monetise their fans. For Brands, we help them reach and engage fans through partnership activation that turns fans into consumers.  

We work with some of the biggest Rights Holders in Sport, including Formula 1, FIFA, The Premier League, LaLiga, NFL and the IOC. As well as global and regional Brands that activate partnerships in sports including Coca-Cola, Powerade, Samsung, Verizon, Carling, Google and IBM.  

We’re a team of passionate fan engagement and capability experts across the Ogilvy Network. And we’re looking to add top-tier talent to our growing team. 

What You’ll Do:

We’re hiring for a Business Director to take a lead role on our biggest fan engagement account and a new partnership account. Both are in motorsport.  

We’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of and experience working with Rights Holders and Brand Partnership in Sports. Beyond being a fan, we want an individual that understands the business of sport and the stage it provides brands to reach and engage audiences united by shared passions.  

You should be a strategic thinker, with a proven record of shaping and delivering fan engagement strategies and experiences. You’ll need to take an empathetic view of the motivations and needs of fans, across different sports and types of fandoms. And you should be insight-driven in your approach - comfortable working with fan data and translating insights into action for our clients.  

Your experience should be multi-channel, able to support fan engagement across the fragmented media landscape. The ideal candidate will have strength in direct-to-fan engagement, including relationship management and monetisation of fandom - as this is at the core of the Ogilvy Fan Engagement offering. This includes developing and implementing CRM strategies, particularly leveraging first-party data to enhance fan experiences and drive business results.  

You’ll need to be a natural collaborator, working with integrated internal and client teams. Experience working with large stakeholder groups and managing partnership relationships will be favourable.  

As a Business Director, you should have a proven record of partnering with client leads, being their trusted ally to deliver business results. And in doing so, grown the relationship between your agency and client. 

Beyond supporting our existing clients, you will be expected to support our continued growth in sports, contributing to lead generation, pitches, proposals and our presence in market.  

Other skills and characteristics we’re looking for: 

• Have a healthy fascination about human behaviour and how it can be influenced  

• Be entrepreneurial and have a growth mindset 

• Have high standards and hold the team (and yourself) accountable 

• Know how to foster a positive team culture and mentor team members performance and careers 

• Obsess over the detail and always be ahead of the client to anticipate and manage change 

• Be adept at setting up and optimising processes for efficient and effective delivery 

• Be able to juggle multiple projects across clients and capabilities  

• Be personable and strong communicator to influence client and team decisions   

• Love what you do and be a good, fun person to work with 

 

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.