Client Partner - Social & Influence

Social & Influence Client Partner

 

Department: Social & Influence
Location: London
Contact type: 12-month Fixed Term
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Managing Partner, Social & Influence

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. The agency 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, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Unilever and Mondelēz International.

Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally; we are proud to be the most awarded influencer agency for six years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.

Ogilvy UK also hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – which is now in its 12th year. James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA), a boutique creative agency he co-founded in 2020, recently acquired by WPP.

 

The Role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Client Partner to lead one of Ogilvy’s Top 10 accounts.

The large tech client is one of our biggest clients, where everyone plays to their strengths delivering award-winning campaigns.

We have developed strong client relationships which spans over 7 years working with their UK & European Teams supporting on Strategy, Creative, Advertising, Channel and Product marketing and Measurement.

Our Social & Influencer remit is growing fast, and we need strong individuals with experience in building and delivering brilliant social campaigns to join our team in London.

We’re looking for a senior leader with deep expertise in influencer marketing; someone who knows how to turn creators into advocates, build trusted client relationships. This is an opportunity to shape one of Ogilvy’s most exciting and high-growth areas, supported by leadership across the UK.

The Opportunity:

As the Social & Influence Client Partner, you will oversee the influencer and social workstreams for one of the biggest technology organisations across the UK. You’ll act as the senior client lead, responsible for driving influence strategy, overseeing delivery, and managing a high-performing team to execute “best in class” creator programmes that build brand equity in culture.

A key priority for this role will be to design and implement a relationship model for creators; developing systems that strengthen long-term partnerships and reward advocacy at scale. You’ll bring experience in building such frameworks, whether ambassador programmes, advocacy models, or affiliate-based structures, ideally across high creator volumes.

This position is ideal for someone with deep expertise in social media and influencer marketing. It is a leadership role that blends strategic, commercial, and creative thinking - perfect for someone who thrives on partnership, influence, and measurable impact on social.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the Social and Influence workstreams for large Tech offering within the UK, ensuring influencer marketing is embedded as a key driver of brand and business growth.
• Translate business goals into actionable influence strategies that deliver both cultural relevance and measurable outcomes.
  
  

Influence Programme Design & Management

• Build and scale innovative creator programmes, including developing an incentivisation framework to nurture long-term creator relationships and reward performance.
• Oversee creator identification, negotiation, contracting, and relationship management, ensuring brand alignment and authenticity across all partnerships.
  
  

Team & Capability Leadership

• Manage and mentor a team of Social and Influence specialists to deliver campaigns with excellence, consistency, and cultural resonance.
• Champion process improvement and best practices for creator management, performance tracking, and reporting.
  
  

Client Partnership & Growth

• Act as the senior client lead, building trusted relationships with stakeholders across marketing, PR, and product teams.
• Confidently lead strategic conversations, advise on emerging trends, and identify new opportunities for influence to drive business impact.
  
  

Campaign Strategy & Delivery

• Oversee the planning and execution of influencer-led campaigns across lifestyle, tech, and culture verticals.
• Ensure creator activity integrates seamlessly with broader marketing efforts, including paid media, PR, and retail activations.
  
  

Creative & Cultural Excellence

• Collaborate with Strategy and Creative teams to deliver ideas that embed the clients culture through influence.
• Advocate for the craft of influence, inspiring creative thinking and pushing boundaries of what creator partnerships can achieve.
  
  

Commercial & Financial Management

• Oversee budgets, scopes, and forecasting across the account, ensuring profitability and operational excellence.
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen, identifying efficiencies and opportunities for growth.
  
  

Trend Monitoring & Thought Leadership

• Stay ahead of emerging creator economy trends, platform innovations, and cultural shifts.
• Share insights internally and externally to strengthen Ogilvy’s reputation as a leader in influence.

 

Requirements:

• Proven experience designing and delivering complex influencer campaigns and relationship programmes at scale, ideally with large consumer brands or across multiple markets
• Strong understanding of social media strategy and execution, with experience integrating influencer and social activations to drive performance and brand engagement
• Demonstrated success in building incentivisation or ambassador frameworks that nurture large creator ecosystems
• Strategic leader with a track record of connecting creators, content, and commerce to deliver measurable business results
• Confident client partner capable of leading senior relationships, steering strategic conversations, and managing multiple stakeholders
• Skilled at collaborating across advertising, media, PR, and production to deliver integrated work
• Strong commercial and operational acumen, with experience managing budgets, scopes, and revenue forecasting
• Inspiring leader who motivates teams, fosters collaboration, and upholds creative and delivery excellence
• Deep interest in culture, creators, and the evolving dynamics of the influencer economy
• Experience in consumer tech or device marketing preferred
  
  

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.