Account Executive

Account Executive

Account Executive Consumer PR

Department: PR & Influence

Location: London

Contract type: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Account Director / 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. The agency specializes in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, and consulting, all fueled by Behavioral 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 and the agency also hosts the world's biggest festival of behavioral 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

As an Account Executive at Ogilvy you will be learning and responsible for the core skills of projects and client management that will form the basis of your future career. The ideal candidate will be someone with at least one year's experience who champions diverse thinking and approaches, has a passion for creativity and innovation, and is committed to delivering results for clients. You will work with your account team to learn about both agency and client businesses, and will take on smaller projects, which you will manage end to end with the support of your senior colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Media relations, selling-in to secure coverage for your brands in a broad range of publications
• Drafting press releases considering product and/or campaign details
• Managing small projects and supporting more senior colleagues on larger projects
• Building strong collaborative relationships with junior level clients
• Staying up to date on industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies, sharing insights and recommendations with clients and internal teams
• Monitoring and analyzing campaign performance including coverage reporting and measurement
• Developing and delivering presentations and reports to clients
• Providing administrative support, including status reports, meeting scheduling, budget tracking, competitor reviews
• Staying on top of your projects and their finance, including raising POs and organizing payments to suppliers
• Ensuring compliance with internal processes and procedures such as timesheets and setting up suppliers

Requirements

• Interest and/or experience working on high-profile global brands is desired
• 12 months' proven experience working on campaigns and events with press and influencers
• Strong media contacts and a solid understanding of the UK media landscape – someone that can deliver coverage and successful brand storytelling in a cluttered and noisy space
• Tapped into culture and able to help advise clients on moments, partnerships, and reactive opportunities
• Proven track record of managing smaller projects and delivering results for clients
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated experience in building consistently productive relationships with clients and internal teams
• Organized and detail-oriented, with strong project management skills
• Can-do attitude combined with a strong desire to learn and grow
• Able to think creatively and bring new ideas to the table that will help drive client success
• Experience working with influencers in an earned, paid, and owned capacity is desired
• Demonstrates ability for creative problem solving in approaching every task – whether that's identifying a way to improve the internal process or co-creating an inspiring way to sell in the work. Able to consider different angles on a brief – a non-linear thinker
• Experience in a fast-paced agency environment working on both global and local projects is 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.