Social Account Manager

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.

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Social Account Manager

Department: Social, PR & Influence
Location: London
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract - 12 Month
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Account Director / Business Director

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, Social, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Google Pixel, Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Mondelēz International, Unilever, Martini and many more.

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, Nudge stock – now in its 12th year. James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA), a boutique creative agency he co-founded in 2020, recently acquired by WPP.

The Role:
As a Social Account Manager at our agency, you will be an essential part of our social proposition, covering the full range of social work. At Ogilvy, our social team are trained and treated as specialists and play a critical role in building strong relationships with our clients, acting as an extension of their teams guiding them through every step of the journey from briefing and strategy, timings and budgets, through to delivery and implementation.

Our client services teams harness client wisdom helping to shape social strategic and creative output. Your strategic thinking and creativity will help develop best-in‑class ongoing social plans for our diverse range of clients, integrating them into the overall strategy for owned, earned, and paid channels.

We work with some of the biggest brands in the world and pride ourselves on our high standards and award‑winning work. We are part of Ogilvy’s PR, Influence and Social Agency and we work in hybrid teams across clients which helps our specialists have a deep understanding of the owned media approach which benefits our creative strategy and client results.

In this role, you will be responsible for the day‑to‑day running of social campaigns as well as BAU activity, from client briefing, to managing internal creative teams as well as sourcing and handling external creators, all the way through to managing distribution, community management and reporting. You will work collaboratively with media, PR, influence, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders – internal and external, to deliver exceptional campaigns for our clients.

As part of any role in our team your responsibilities will include staying up to date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes.

We are looking for a self‑motivated, action‑oriented, and ambitious individual with a positive "can‑do" attitude who really understands the landscape and the power and flexibility of social campaigns and activations to achieve brand objectives. You will have a keen interest in all things social and be an avid follower of relevant news and trends. You will also have experience in building consistently productive relationships and strong stakeholder…