Account Director

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded. It builds on that legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

Location:

London

Contract type:

12-Month FTC

Reporting into:

Managing Partner

About Ogilvy:

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients since 1948. Ogilvy UK brings together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Molson Coors (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondelez International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard. In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated its 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 an

Account Director

to join our Fan Engagement team.

About Ogilvy Fan Engagement

We fuel fandom to drive business impact for our clients. For Rights Holders, Leagues and Teams, we help them understand, grow, engage and monetise their fans. For Brands, we help them reach and engage fans through partnership activation that turns fans into consumers.

We work with some of the biggest Rights Holders in Sport, including Formula 1, FIFA, The Premier League, LaLiga, NFL and the IOC, as well as global and regional Brands that activate partnerships in sports including Coca-Cola, Powerade, Samsung, Verizon, Carling, Google and IBM.

We’re a team of passionate fan engagement and capability experts across the Ogilvy Network. We’re looking to add top-tier talent to our growing team.

Key Responsibilities:

We’re hiring for an Account Director to work across our motorsport accounts – including fan engagement and partnership activation.

We are seeking someone with a strong understanding of and experience working with Rights Holders and Brand Partnerships in Sports. Beyond being a fan, we want an individual who understands the business of sport and the platform it provides brands to reach and engage audiences united by shared passions.

You should be strategically minded, willing to invest time in understanding our client’s business and to get hands-on in solving their challenges. You will play a pivotal role in coordinating and guiding an integrated Ogilvy team to deliver clever thinking and effective creative solutions. You will be responsible for some of our most important projects in 2025 (and beyond), so we’re looking for someone with high expectations of themselves and the team. We need someone who can earn the client’s trust quickly, becoming the go-to for all things on projects.

These are fast-paced accounts. Our product is live and often unpredictable, with evolving stories and events to respond to. We’re looking for an individual who can thrive in this environment – comfortable with unpredictability, navigating and managing change, making smart decisions on the run and guiding the team and client to the best possible outcomes.

Your experience should be multi-channel, able to support fan engagement across the fragmented media landscape. The ideal candidate will have strength in direct-to-fan engagement, including relationship management and monetisation of fandom, as this is at the core of the Ogilvy Fan Engagement offering. This includes developing and implementing CRM strategies, particularly leveraging first-party data to enhance fan experiences and drive business results.

Requirements:

Experience working in a multi-discipline agency team, being the ‘go-to’ for client and internal team

Specialism in customer/fan engagement, including acquisition, in-life and retention

Be an omni-channel thinker. Experienced selling and delivering digital comms, content and experiences

Have high standards and hold the team (and yourself) accountable

Obsess over the detail and always be ahead of the client to anticipate and manage change

Be personable and a strong communicator to influence client and team decisions

Have the ability and appetite to help grow the account - supporting the business lead and create growth opportunities through strategic recommendations

Love what you do and be a good, fun person to work with

How we help you Thrive:

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave

Flexible Working Model with core hours 10am – 4pm

Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25 per month towards fitness and wellbeing programs, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool, and annual eye tests, development budgets and wellbeing incentives

Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme

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