Account Director, PR

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.

About The Role

Account Directors serve as team leaders, advisors and partners to the internal team and client. You have a keen ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects across the agency, partnering with both internal and external stakeholders. You have a natural curiosity and are motivated by driving excellent results. You provide leadership in the development of strategic plans that will grow client business and generate revenue and are extremely knowledgable in earned-first strategy. You supervise, train, and motivate account team members to ensure a pervasive high level of performance. This Account Director will work in a hyper-growth and scale environment across an exciting, award-winning portfolio brand in the personal care/beauty industry. This is a hybrid role in New York, NY.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and collaborate with PR, Social, Influence, Creative, and Production teams and consistently ensure the work and deliverables are earned-first
• Serve as the leading agency partner for the client portfolio and effectively negotiate & drive scopes of work
• Continuously inform and influence client decisions
• Responsible for overall client satisfaction always hunting for solutions and innovative ideas
• Help lead cross-functional teams inclusive of PR, Social, Influence, Creative, Production, Strategy to deliver impactful campaign work
• Integrate solutions and identify new business opportunities as the client’s trusted leading partner
• Build strong, collaborative, and trusted relationships with creative and strategic partners
• Provides counsel and executes media and advocacy relations activities and has working
• knowledge of media, influencers, advocates and their needs
• Develop and direct new business programs, including closely coordinating with the senior leaders and participating in the new business process from start to finish
• Maintain and grow existing accounts, establishing relationships with key client contacts and ensuring that client/agency relationships exists on multiple levels and grow over time
• Powerful communicator, able to engender trust across all levels
• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for agency performance and flawless delivery
• Act as an open resource to the team, assessing ideas and encouraging people to push further
• Monitor and communicate POV on current marketing and industry issues
• Effectively manage teams – coaching and inspiring the growth and development of junior staff providing consistent feedback, training, and growth opportunities
  
  

What You’ll Need

• 7-8+ years of PR agency and client facing experience including 2-3 years managing a team
• Ability to shift, flex, and be as agile as needed – lead clients in multitude of accounts in a quick, fast, environment
• Natural leader to drive business, client relationships, and internal team deliverables
• Strong communication and excellent interpersonal skills
• Background in media training, executive visibility, thought leadership, corporate reputation, crisis communications, and/or media relations
• Experience in beauty, makeup, personal care, skincare, wellness is strongly preferred
• Experience delivering communication strategies and creative across channels
• Commitment to ensuring creative excellent and output
• Passionate about great work, your team and our business
• A good listener – someone who reads people and a room (and adapts their style accordingly)
• Strong background in the strategy and development of PR programs and provide strategic/solid thinking to clients
• Natural and effective collaborator, insatiably curious, a lifelong learner
• Strong business abilities and financial acumen to deliver work on time and on budget
• An understanding of the dynamics and workings of the agency’s process as it relates to the client’s business
  
  

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.

Pay Range

$75,000—$180,000 USD

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.