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.
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.
About the Role
The Group Account Director (GAD) / Business Director (BD) role is a crucial day to day client management role within the team. The successful candidate will have extensive experience working with multi-channel, global brands, closely with all departments to develop forward thinking, meaningful cross channel content. As the GAD / BD, you will also be a trusted partner to all stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
1. Key responsibilities:
- Develop a strong relationship with senior clients and be able to hold their own with senior stakeholders internally and externally. Partner with them to help drive their business and brand growth.
- Think beyond the day-to-day to the next 6 months and plan for longer term opportunities, and be responsible for quality of output on projects
- Bring strategic insight to discussions and ability to refocus cross-functional teams across op-cos and clients using strong persuasion and negotiation skills.
- Drive forward impactful creative, partnering with the creative teams to set the work up for selling to clients, and always pushing for better.
- Assist in the development of project briefs and is involved in the longer-term brand/marketing planning
- A strong, proactive problem-solver who is also highly effective at managing upwards.
2. Strategy
- Partners with strategists to drive the creation and exposition of great strategy, geared to deliver an end to end experience, and across all touch points
- Helps to defines client’s business/project objectives. Shape and deliver an over-arching brand strategy
- Ensures there is rigour around briefs and briefing process
- Expert in clients research methodologies and uses them to build ideas rather than stagnate them.
- Leads relations with media partners and third parties to identify right channels and activate appropriately
3. Creativity
- Leadership provides the environment for big, bold and bionic ideas to flourish
- Leads creative ambition across agency and client teams
- Leads on ideas. Is able to see potential, shape, build and interrogate them
- Knows how to challenge, influence and protect work with senior-stakeholders and through research and regulatory checks
- Creates ground for positive reception to ideas and excels in presentation of creative work
- Leads on making sure ideas are executed best for each channel
4. Client Management and External Parties
- Gain trust, authority and respect from the client at all times and strive to exceed their expectations.
- Develop an excellent understanding of the client’s business, brand and processes.
- Be aware of the bigger picture of the total account and share best practice with the team and the client.
5. Team Management
- Full responsibility for all personnel issues including identification of individuals’ training and development needs, employee welfare and any discipline matters.
- Support team members in the pursuit of delivering the highest standard of service to the client.
- Motivate and encourage the team so that together you strive to achieve client satisfaction in all you do.
6. Leadership
- Leads effective relationships with senior management, clients and stakeholders to create best possible outcome
- Owns client relationship and partners with senior stakeholders to deliver best outcome
- Leads the account to improve the quality of work & drive effective ways of working
- Navigates unknown or difficult situations to avoid conflict and create a good outcome. This includes understanding the culture, and ways of working of the various opcos to ensure everyone comes together to produce the best work, in a happy environment.
- Exceptional presentation and communication skills – acute listening, persuasion and conviction
- Leads the pastoral care of their team, is a role model to the department and respected agency wide
How We’ll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
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. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – 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.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please do not hesitate to let your recruiter know.
