Account Manager

• Ongoing team responsibilities
  • Setting up and ensuring all materials are ready for key presentations throughout the development and production process and circulating contact reports following the meeting.
  • Managing the weekly status meetings, leading the report updates and consolidating actions for both client and agency teams after the meeting.
  • Monitoring industry news and competitor updates – sharing key updates with both the client and agency team.
  • Updating induction presentations and supporting with onboarding new joiners.

Key Skills:

• You will have some production experience in delivering fully integrated campaigns.
• You ideally have some understanding of the structures and processes needed of global and EMEA teams – client and agency side.
• You take ownership of smaller projects and are able to work with a team to assign specific deliverables across projects (i.e. digital & print) – leading this both internally & with the client team, having responsibility for the output of your team.
• You are flexible, adaptable and able to juggle multiple projects at a time, while maintaining sharp attention to detail.
• You build and maintain strong client relationships and recognise the need to build specific relationships and 121 conversations with junior-level clients.
• You have a collaborative mindset. This person will be a people person, liaising with multiple internal and external teams and quick-thinking to problem solve throughout the course of any campaign.
• You assist and manage client requests, knowing when to escalate to a senior team member, if needed.
• You are a team player, energetic, driven and have a positive attitude.
• You have excellent listening skills and strong verbal and written communication skills.
• You should be proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Keynote and feel at ease with adopting and mastering new technology tools.

A bit about you:

This role is for you if you are internationally curious, strategically motivated with passion and ambition for the creative work. You should be a confident communicator with excellent account management and organisational skills, able to coordinate and balance multiple projects and processes as we rarely work on one brief at a time. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to help build a much-loved global brand, embracing the challenge of working on a complex international account and creating work for global markets, as well as their own. We’re looking for someone with interest in our clients and their business, a point of view on the work, and a feel for the design of presentation materials.

At Ogilvy UK, we want to make sure that you’re set up to grow and develop in your role and enjoy some of the best times of your working career. Our learning and development team are on hand to provide training for you, to help you excel in every aspect of your role. So, if you think you may not have experience in some aspects of this position, don’t worry, and apply away. We’re here to help you grow and nurture your skills.

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.