Strategy Director

Ogilvy UK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced Strategy Director to lead strategic initiatives for high-profile international B2B accounts. This role involves collaborating with senior clients and agency teams to deliver impactful campaigns across various sectors, including technology and connectivity. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a passion for storytelling, and the ability to engage with clients at all levels. Join a vibrant and inclusive planning community in a dynamic environment where your contributions will shape the future of brand and experience strategies.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day

Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave

Flexible Working Model

Wellbeing and Health benefits

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategic leadership for international B2B accounts.
• Strong integrated strategic thinker with a focus on business consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives for high-profile B2B accounts.
• Collaborate with senior clients and agency teams to drive account growth.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Integrated strategic thinking

Client engagement

Storytelling expertise

Data literacy

Team leadership

Technology knowledge

Job description

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 Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 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:

Ogilvy UK has worked with Viasat, and prior to its acquisition Inmarsat, one of the world’s leading satellite communications businesses, for over 8 years. It’s a global relationship, managed out of London, with clients based all over the world. We work with Viasat’s corporate and brand teams, as well as its individual business units serving the aviation, maritime, government, energy and enterprise IoT sectors.

What does that mean in practice? Inflight wi-fi, safety at sea, flying taxis, business jets, fishing fleets, oil rigs, encryption, air traffic control, direct-to-device, connected farms, rockets, satellites, laser links and ground stations.

We work on brand and service positioning projects, content, PR, corporate relations, advertising, events, social, digital, partnerships with other major technology players, just about everything. We produce global campaigns, sales assets, thought leadership and help define the business’ positioning in areas like sustainability and digital inclusion.

Strategy is at the heart of our relationship. Viasat chooses to work with the agency because we understand their business and their audiences. We’re looking for an experienced Strategy Director who’s been around the block to join a team of strategists to deliver excellence on the account and be the driving force behind work that works.

You’ll have a love of technology and be constantly motivated by what’s next. You’ll be fascinated by business-level challenges and comfortable leading the conversation with very senior client stakeholders and subject matter experts across the client organisation.

You’ll act as a partner to the Client Partner, helping them to build and diversify the account relationship and grow its value.

You’ll work at Ogilvy UK and sit in the heart of a welcoming, feisty, and fun planning community in London’s Sea Containers House.

Skills We Are Looking For:

• Strategic leadership across both Brand and Experience campaigns for high profile international B2B accounts. B2B as a specialism, but a wider frame of reference.
• Very strong integrated strategic thinker – whose centre of gravity isn’t restricted to one discipline, and who feels comfortable straddling business and commercial consultancy.
• Experience working closely with senior, often C-Suite level clients.
• Experience leading a team of strategic thinkers from Brand, Experience, Communications and Data backgrounds.
• Storytelling expertise – able to develop and articulate clear brand and product narratives and messaging, translating complexity.
• Capable of engaging with clients across every aspect of the demand journey.
• Nurturing and patient, but clear and demanding. You’ll be the kind of person who wants to get the best and gives clear direction and feedback to achieve it.
• Exude charisma and dynamism, both in presenting, winning client confidence and through being a connector within the agency and network.
• Data literate and able to understand client’s business results and issues, as well as being well practiced in leading an effectiveness culture and building new models.
• Experience in the technology and/or connectivity space an advantage.

How We Help You Thrive:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
• 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.