Account Executive

Department:  Account Management

Location: London

Contract type: Permanent

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Account 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.

The Role

Social and content has never been more important for clients. Showing up authentically, with intention, across social platforms helps brands connect with their audiences. It helps them to sell and serve better.

This role provides the opportunity to work on two really exciting clients in our portfolio. You will have the opportunity to support with ongoing social media activity for our clients across the year that will involve working with our design, creative, community management and production team to deliver best in class content.

This role is perfect for someone that has a passion for managing story telling content, and the desire to build on their skills and experience in delivering social campaigns that get our audiences excited and wanting to find out more.

Most of the work is published across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Strava, although a good understanding of the main social channels would be an advantage. For the most part the content will be focused on a UK audience although we also provide Community management and publish content across other European markets.

You’ll work with an Account Director and Account Executive to not only deliver content but ensure it is performing and effective on an on-going basis; leaning into our research and data team

Key Responsibilities

• Build and Create productive client relationships with junior and mid-level clients throughout the delivery of projects, clearly communicating and managing expectations throughout
• Proactively consider how actions will affect clients; responding quickly to meet clients needs, resolves problems; avoids over-commitment
• Understand the importance of account ‘admin’- issuing contact reports
• Providing administrative support, including status reports, meeting scheduling, budget tracking, competitor reviews etc.
• Comfortably take responsibility for successful delivery of the projects assigned to you, with supervision
• Understand what decisions are within your remit, and what is not, and engage others accordingly to ensure that those who are accountable can assist and guide as needed
• Identify potential project risks and developing contingency plans
• Managing small projects and supporting more senior colleagues on larger projects
• Working to anticipate upcoming needs and hurdles and providing ideas to mitigate
• Staying on top of your projects and their finance, including recognising scope change, and knowing when to escalate
• Recognise when to escalate issues which have commercial implications, and how to manage these situations with your partners
  
  

Requirements

We are flexible on whether you have come from an agency of client background, but we think the following are really important for this role:

• Organised and efficient; you’ll need to ensure the accounts are managed with the right resource at the right time
• Whilst you may not have experience of working in an agency, you’ll make up for this by showing your passion for social media, content and a passion to get involved with innovative campaigns for our clients
• You’ll be someone that loves to get stuck into a task, and collaborate with the client and agency teams, and make stuff happen!
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A willingness to take on new challenges
• Natural & effective collaborator
• Detail-oriented; you’ll need to use your excellent communication skills to ensure the accuracy required
  
  

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
  
  

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.

Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.