Account Director

OGILVY; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global agency in London is seeking an Account Director to join their Fan Engagement team. The ideal candidate will manage fan engagement across major motorsport accounts, bringing strategic thinking and experience in multi-channel communication. This role requires impressive relationship management skills and a passion for delivering impactful creative solutions, with a flexible working model and generous perks offered.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

Bupa Healthcare

Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave

Flexible Working Model

1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure

Wellbeing and Health incentives

Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Experience working in a multi-discipline agency team.
• Strong communicator to influence client and team decisions.
• Ability to help grow the account with strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and guide an integrated Ogilvy team for effective solutions.
• Manage fast-paced accounts with evolving stories.
• Develop and implement CRM strategies to enhance fan experiences.

Skills

Customer/fan engagement

Direct-to-fan engagement

Strategic thinking

Relationship management

Communication skills

Job description

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

Department: Ogilvy One

Location: London

Contracttype: 12-Month FTC

Full Time/Part time: Full Time

Reporting into: Managing Partner

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 Molson Coors (owner of Madr beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondel–z International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard. In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their75thanniversary 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. And 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’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of and experience working with Rights Holders and Brand Partnership in Sports. Beyond being a fan, we want an individual that understands the business of sport and the stage it provides brands to reach and engage audiences united by shared passions.

You should be a strategically minded individual, who will invest time in understanding our client’s business and be willing 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 that has high expectations of themself and the team. We need someone that can earn the trust of the client quickly, so they become the go-to for all things on projects.

These are fast-paced accounts. Our product is live and often unpredictable, with constantly evolving stories and events to respond to. So, we’re looking for an individual that 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
• 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 - 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.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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