Creative Strategist

Overview

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 , and follow us on Linked In, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

Business unit: Ogilvy PR

Team: Creative & Strategy

Location: Sydney / Melbourne

Employment type: Permanent

Be part of the largest and most awarded communications agency in Australia.

Play your part in a brilliant company culture built on teamwork, creativity, and fun.

At Ogilvy PR, we work with some of the biggest brands in the world to deliver earned-led creativity that drives real brand and business impact.

Whether it be creative development, brand strategy, public relations, influencer engagement, events and activations, social and digital strategies, we have it all, and we’re looking for curious, brave, and enthusiastic minds who share our philosophy and want to bring something unique to the table.

About the role:

You’ll work with account leads, specialists and creative teams within Ogilvy PR and across the Ogilvy Network to shape earned first strategies and growth for our clients and our prospects.

You’ll contribute strategically to briefs across every client area, drive thought leadership for Ogilvy PR’s strategic offerings internally and externally, support and pitch new business opportunities, playing an important role in the delivery of our growth and business plans for the year ahead. It’s a role for a highly motivated self-starter who thrives in collaboration and can comfortably take the lead when required.

Earned Strategists are responsible for championing and evolving our processes and tools to ensure that our people and clients receive the best thinking. You will bring the best of the outside in, sharing, testing, and implementing new ways of thinking and responding to client problems.

This important role demands a focus on how to solve clients’ business challenges most effectively through an orchestrated system that connects traditional media, social and influence with culturally relevant and earned first strategy and creative at the heart.

• Lead and collaborate on strategic development that drives impact for clients, contributing to briefs and delivering earned-led creative solutions
• Champion and evolve our strategic processes, bringing new ways of thinking to solve client challenges and helping to increase strategic capability within teams
• Play a lead role in developing and shaping our approach to new business pitches
• Support growth objectives and expand existing client relationships through compelling cultural insights and earned-led strategy
• Apply deep understanding of consumer behaviour, cultural trends, and channel dynamics to inform and inspire campaigns
• Apply technology and data to your practice and our processes, including the use of WPP Open, our AI-enabled marketing platform

About the team:

You will have a home in our Consumer PR and Influence practice with a dotted line into our Creative and Strategy team. The Consumer PR and Influence is a group of specialists and thinkers, including publicists, social strategists, creatives and influencer marketers, who are passionate about big ideas that create real impact for brands. From big-picture ideas to pixel-level detail, we build reputations, change behaviours and move hearts.

We value creativity grounded in insight, big ideas that are game-changing, flawless execution and having fun across the office every day.

We design and deliver culturally relevant and creative campaigns that can be activated across a wide range of channels, including media…