Account Executive
Department: Ogilvy One
Location: London, Hybrid
Contract type: 12-Month FTC
Full Time/Part time: Full time
Reporting into: 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 Molson Coors (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), 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:
We’re looking for a new Account Executive to work on a large and exciting piece of business within the experience space at Ogilvy. It’s an iconic British brand, with lots of interesting and progressive projects on the horizon.
You’ll be an integral part of the team leading on day-to-day projects, supporting the team and enabling continued growth on the account. You’ll have the opportunity to work with an excellent strategy team and exceptional creatives, plus unleash the power of WPP Open to deliver excellence in customer journeys, and campaigns primarily across owned and targeted paid channels.
You are highly organised and accountable, and able to quickly build relationships and collaborate with the rest of the Ogilvy team including harnessing new approaches like AI to create extraordinary work from day 1.
Key Responsibilities:
Building brilliant client relationships fast
- Quickly earn the trust of your clients through great work delivered on-time and on-brief
- Listen carefully, understanding the client’s business and adapting the Agency approach to solidify client relationships with junior and mid-level clients
- Proactively consider how actions will affect clients; responding quickly to meet clients needs; resolve problems; avoiding over-commitment
- Understand the importance of account ‘admin’- setting us up for future success by avoiding cutting corners from day 1.
Making work we’re proud of
- Have an interest and passion for owned channels
- Provide opinions and input into briefs and the work and be keen to contribute – clearly valuing the quality of the work over a pure focus on process
- Offer strategic guidance to clients, aligning their objectives with effective campaign strategies, and providing valuable insights for successful outcomes.
- Always demonstrate strong attention to detail and a pride in our work
- Support the wider team where needed and proactively in seeking out opportunities to help
- Stay updated on industry trends, marketing developments, and creative insights, continuously learning and applying new knowledge to projects.
Delivery
- Comfortably take responsibility for successful delivery of the projects assigned to you, with support when you need it
- Identify potential project risks and develop contingency plans
- Ensure solutions are best in class for both client and agency
- Identify when and how WPP Open can enhance output and be a champion and “go-to” for its use.
Commercial Acumen
- Recognise when to escalate issues which have commercial implications, and how to manage these situations with your Senior Account Manager
- Manage the budget and timings on your projects, and work with your client(s) to manage costs and deliverables
- Have an appreciation for how to best utilize agency resources to deliver the work
Collaboration
- Be aware of the role you play within the team dynamic, and be an active, positive contributor
- Problem solving & decision making
- Resolve problems and makes decision on your own projects, consulting with stakeholders as needed.
- Be restless in researching and understanding other approaches/solutions/perspectives to briefs
- Create relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes on your projects.
- Optimise operational efficiency by refining processes and workflows, contributing to better outcomes and increased productivity within the agency.
Requirements:
Essential
- Ability to travel for meetings (clients are across the UK)
- Ability to work in London x3 days per week
Ideal
- Telco, financial services, or utilities experience
- Appreciation for AI, data or martech
- Some social or digital experience
- Marketing experience – potentially through work experience
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 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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