Social Account Manager

About Ogilvy   Ogilvy, part of WPP, 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 WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.  Senior Social Strategist       Department: Social Strategy Location: London, Sea Containers  Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months)  Full Time/Part time: Full Time  Reporting into: Group Head of Strategy      The Role As a Senior Social Strategist, you will sit at the absolute intersection of cutting-edge technology, entertainment, sport, and modern culture. Working across our portfolio, you will have the unique challenge of shaping the social presence for two of the world’s most dynamic brands: our flagship AI platform and Pixel. Crucially, both our AI platform and Pixel operate with a challenger brand mindset. We aren't here to follow the category playbook, copy and paste formulas, or do what’s safe. On our AI platform, you will help navigate the absolute frontier of generative AI, disrupting traditional ideas of creativity. On Pixel, you will dive into the heart of pop culture, lifestyle, and passion points—redefining how a hardware brand shows up around major sponsorships, from the drama of Love Island to the tribal energy of Arsenal, Liverpool, and the England national teams. This role is built for a sharp, agile strategist who relies on original thinking to challenge the status quo and capture the internet’s attention. The Reality: Hands-On Craft over Pure Theory This is a role for a dedicated practitioner, not a hands-off theorist. You must love rolling your sleeves up, getting your hands dirty, and getting deep into the daily mechanics of social execution. You have a granular, native understanding of modern social channels, algorithms, and formatting. You are energized by the craft of making—working closely with creators, production teams, and PR partners to ensure unconventional strategies smoothly translate into scroll-stopping content. You don't just hand off a brief; you steward the work through the messy and exciting process of real-time optimization, distribution, and community engagement. * The Challenger Mindset: We are looking for an original thinker who inherently rejects the standard industry template. You don't look at what competitors are doing just to duplicate it. Instead, you bring an innate curiosity and a desire to think differently, rewrite rules, and find completely fresh angles to position our brands ahead of the curve. * The Thrill of the Speed: This is a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment. We are looking for someone who finds speed energizing and liberating rather than overwhelming. Because culture and technology evolve daily, you must thrive on rapid iteration, live prototyping of ideas, and the autonomy to pivot at the speed of the feed. * The Polymath’s Perspective: Your finger is firmly on the pulse of the digital zeitgeist. You effortlessly navigate the worlds of global football, lifestyle, travel, and mainstream entertainment, while possessing a genuine curiosity for how generative AI can be creatively weaponized to disrupt consumer behaviors. Core Pillars of Responsibility * Disruptive Channel Architecture: Translating high-level brand visions and massive sponsorship properties into concrete, platform-native social strategies. You know exactly how to architect a modern campaign across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, using the formats in unexpected ways that break the mold of typical brand content. * Agile Creative & PR Partnership: Serving as the daily strategic anchor for creative teams and makers. You champion different ways of thinking during the collaborative process of drafting, testing, and refining ideas on the fly, ensuring our content fuels a wider, earned PR news cycle. * The Challenger Creator Ecosystem: Nurturing and expanding an elite network of creators, cultural figures, tech-pioneers, and athletes who themselves think differently. You will collaborate directly with them to show—rather than just tell—the disruptive power of our AI technology and the distinct style of Pixel. The Profile: Who You Are You are a grounded visionary with a sharp blend of rigorous strategic thinking and a deep love for execution. You are comfortable with ambiguity, energized by momentum, and completely allergic to the corporate "copy-and-paste" approach. * The Culturally Connected Practitioner: You are just as comfortable dissecting a real-time Love Island villa moment as you are mapping out an AI integration for a major match day or a travel activation. You know what makes people share and engage because it feels entirely fresh. * The Tech & AI Enthusiast: A native fascination with innovation. You don't just use digital tools; you actively experiment with AI to find entirely new creative possibilities that challenge how agency work gets done. What Success Looks Like 1. Flawless & Original Social Execution: Developing sharp, actionable briefs and frameworks that translate into high-performing, structurally sound social campaigns that stand completely apart from the category noise. 2. Agility as a Competitive Advantage: Capitalizing on live TV moments, match days, and tech trends with an unexpected, challenger perspective to carve out immediate opportunities for both our AI platform and Pixel. 3. Collaborative Energy: Elevating the day-to-day work by serving as a highly trusted, proactive partner who inspires creative teams, PR leads, and clients to think more boldly. 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. If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.

About Ogilvy   Ogilvy, part of WPP, 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 WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. Social Account Director     Department: Social Location: London Contact type: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) Full Time/Part time: Full Time Reporting into: Client 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. The agency 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 Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Unilever and Mondelēz International.  Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally; we are proud to be the most awarded influencer agency for six years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.   Ogilvy UK also hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – which is 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.      About this role: Social and content has never been more important for clients. Showing up authentically, with intention, across social platforms helps brands connect with their audiences. It helps them to sell and serve better. This role provides the opportunity to work on a really exciting client that have a portfolio of soft drinks brands. You will have the opportunity to manage key campaigns across the year that will involve working with our strategy, creative and production team to deliver best in class campaigns and content. This role is perfect for someone that has a wide knowledge of social – they will have experience managing content and campaigns that build brand advocacy as well having an understanding of how to create hard working assets that drive to purchase. The ideal candidate will know how to effectively lead an account, steering processes and ways of working internally, with agency partners and with our clients. The ideal candidate will have their finger on the pulse across all things social – from what’s trending that could be a good opportunity for a brand to leverage, through to a thorough understanding of how data, strategy, community management feed into the success of a brands social media presence. Whilst the candidate will have a passion for delivering best in class social campaigns, they will also be required to lead in other areas of the marketing mix, and the idea candidate will have some integrated experience.   A bit about you: We are flexible on whether you have come from an agency of client background, but we think the following are really important for this role: * Organised and autonomous; you’ll be responsible for motivating the team to do great work, whilst anticipating any areas that may hinder the success of the campaign * Whilst you will work with a Account Manager to support with budgets and timings, you will also be well averse in taking this on and have an excellent understanding of processes and what it takes to deliver social campaigns on budget and on time * Financially savvy; you’ll need to work with the rest of the agency team to deliver proposals that are within the client’s budgets and ensure successful delivery * You will be an excellent communicator; providing clear succinct guidance to the internal teams as well as being able to present the work to clients * You’ll be someone that loves to get stuck into a task, and collaborate with the client and agency teams, and make stuff happen! * Experience within the retail sector is not essential but would be helpful     More about your role at Ogilvy: As a Social Account Director you lead large, more complex projects, armed with your experience and proven ability to think and do. You are able to problem solve and create highly effective and fruitful working relationships with clients and colleagues, collaborating with other Capabilities and Crafts instinctively.  You may also have a solid understanding of strategy and always ensure that you and the team are working towards strategic objectives.  * Has a relationship with mid-level clients that  is one of trusted partner, based on proven track record of delivery. * Is able to confidently lead conversations and problem solve in the moment as required, and act as a point of escalation for junior clients. * Has strong skills in paid and organic social and has worked across a wide variety of clients and projects from small response driven workstreams to larger more complex social experiences across multi platforms and touch points * Understands how to work and lead project delivery in a Social first environment, as well as as part of an integrated team. * Is confident managing multi-level stakeholders in complex matrix organisations as well managing resources and teams, across all levels, with diverse skills and personalities. * Understands the strategic, and business context the client is operating in and uses this knowledge to develop solutions and approach tasks in a way that is effective for the client                               * Collaborates confidently with other capabilities and crafts in service of finding the best Social creative solution to the clients business problem.  Is seen as a champion for the craft with all those they come in to contact with.  * Demonstrates their ability for creative problem solving in how they approach every task – whether that’s identifying a way to improve the internal process, ideating for an innovative social solution, or co-creating an inspiring way to sell in the work. Able to consider different angles on a brief – a non linear thinker. * Takes responsibility for larger projects. And acts accountable for both the work, and the process. * Understands that they are accountable for the actions of the account team reporting into them on projects; guiding them and intervening and managing up as required.  * Will manage client expectations when having to charge more for additional work in a manner which does not expose the agency to financial risk * Is well informed about the commercials of all projects they are responsible for, managing those below them to meet agreed targets  * Able to maintain strong partnership with internal stakeholders across all crafts in and support cross functional agendas for the benefit of the company and the client. * Has strong relationship with their days to day clients and wider client stakeholders, and uses these relationships to help protect the work, strengthen the relationships and activate new opportunities. * Acts as an escalation point for the team in resolving issues. Supports the team in confidently navigating through problems How we help you Thrive: * 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day * Bupa Healthcare * Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave * 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. * 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. If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.