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We are looking for a APAC Commercial Director who will play a critical role in supporting the continued growth of Ogilvy, leading the commercial management of a portfolio of regional clients. The role will be key part of the Ogilvy APAC Commercial Leadership and report to the Chief Financial Officer, Asia Pacific.

This role primarily manages strategic commercial outcomes for a portfolio of clients, is involved in pitching in a lead or support/advisory capacity and is a trusted advisor to client leaders on commercial matters. She/he will work closely with fellow commercial teams in other regions and at WPP, with Finance and Global finance, with the client team and with clients marketing procurement teams.

This individual must have a keen understanding of the business, the ability to lead commercial discussions with external stakeholders and interpret and explain financial policies/concepts to client teams.

Ideally, you will already have worked in the advertising/marketing or consultancy sectors.

What you'll do

• Act as a commercial partner to Ogilvy client leads across the designated client portfolio within the region.
• Be the key partner to client procurement of those same clients.
• Directly manage the commercial relationship with a very large number of stakeholders within the client’s procurement teams. Build relationships with clients and their financial partners.
• Implement commercial and financial targets at the client level and work together with client leaders to achieve those targets.
• Review and analyse existing pricing models and work to implement new pricing models where appropriate.
• Lead pricing negotiations.
• Support Business Development teams with commercial responses.
• Diplomatically and skilfully lead client contract negotiations for Ogilvy in partnership with legal counsel and Ogilvy client service teams.
• Ensure all markets and client teams are aware of our contractual commercial obligations.
• Support the Chief Commercial Officer in establishment of commercial operations, by leading a diverse range of initiatives, ranging from transformation, efficiencies, to systems and trainings, all related to commercial excellence and either led by global or by regional

What you'll need

The Commercial Director will be a growth minded and collaborative leader with extensive commercial experience including, but not limited to pricing, contract negotiations, evaluating financial information and making actionable recommendations to senior leadership. You’ll also be:

• A trusted advisor to many: fosters a high quality and trust-based relationship with client leaders and the wider senior team, fosters collaboration and teamwork from the network, is pragmatic, focused on solutions, is fair, gains alignment via dialogue rather than imposing solutions.
• Can do letters as well as numbers and makes financial and commercial concepts easy to approach and understand.
• A negotiation specialist who can lead large negotiations but also act as an advisor to teams and markets in devising strategies or tactics and always ensure KPIs are met.
• A procurement relationship expert who becomes the face of the account to procurement teams and develops good working relationships with them.
• A people person who enjoys being part of a global community, sharing knowledge and is on a continuous learning journey.
• Excellent analytical, abstract reasoning and organization skills
• Possess strong oral and written communication skills with a flexible interpersonal style to clearly present ideas both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven experience as a people leader.
• Proven supervisory skills, but with the ability to also be detail oriented.
• Ability to work under pressure in an environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Ability to work independently and/or part of a team to complete multiple projects on time.
• “Roll up your sleeves" team attitude

Skills/experience

Business Partnering; Business Growth; Finance; Operations; Costing; Pricing; Scoping; Commercial Acumen; Tenders & Negotiation; Procurement Engagement; Contract Management; Network management

Group Account Director (GAD) / Business Director (BD) is a leadership role among different stakeholders, including clients, the agency team across capabilities and departments, partners (internal and external stakeholders) and agency account leadership. The BD is a key driver of business stability as well as growth.

The role is critical to the success of the business. For the clients which the GAD/BD works on, the GAD/BD must be capable of delivering the agency's strategy and playing a pivotal role in helping to develop and implement best practices.

The role also requires juggling two imperatives: harnessing the agency’s capabilities to bring the best of agency and its capabilities to the table for clients; while ensuring that client growth and profitability are also strong, and that people working on the accounts are motivated and inspired. These different imperatives sometimes clash with each other, so there is a need for someone who understands what to push and pull at different instances.

The role:

1. Obsession with delivering the highest client value through product excellence and borderless creativity

• Partnering with clients in achieving short/near/long-term business goals through the agency’s work.
• Leading the agency team in being able to develop and implement brand strategies and plans for clients.
• Working with agency partners to ensure that best practices are applied for clients.
• Ensuring that the agency team is able to provide strong strategic guidance, creative excellence and day-to-day operational excellence.
• Understanding our brands’ customers, and understanding how to activate across the journey to build experiences through our different capabilities beyond traditional comms.
• Merchandising the agency’s work strongly to clients, ensuring that objectives are aligned and measures are in place to assess the effectiveness of our work.
• Helping to nurture a strong creative culture within the team and with clients that enables us to do work that gains attention and recognition.

2. Brand stewardship and creative excellence

• A strong understanding of brands – their purpose and positioning, and best practices. The ability to discern what is on and off brand, and what makes the brand distinctive.
• A strong ability to recognize and nurture creative ideas, and provide useful input and feedback. Good partnership with the strategy and creative leads in developing the work.

3. People Management

• The ability to recruit, lead and coach a team that provides strong client management and delivery on commitments.
• The ability to be a strong ambassador for the clients the GAD/BD works on within the agency. Ensuring that the best people in the agency want to work on the clients, and that the client is high up on the radar of agency leadership.

4. Delivery

• The ability to deliver with excellence day-to-day. Strong leadership of the team on project management, delivery on commitments and timelines, and achievement of KPIs.
• The ability to discern good/great craft from bad, and work with creative and production partners to ensure strong execution.
• A good understanding of paid, earned, shared, owned media and how to orchestrate the entire campaign experience for consumers, and how to get best outcomes by collaborating well with media/channel partners.
• Good commercial acumen and being able to deliver within budgets for client, and profitably for the agency. Strong collaboration with the financial partner to maintain good management of the accounts.

Useful experience and qualities:

• 10+ years of experience and at least 2 years of experience in a similar role in our industry
• Experience working on global FMCG or CPG brands like Unilever, P&G, Danone, Nestle, Coca-Cola where there is a strong brand stewardship culture
• Track record in farming existing clients and growing our scope of work
• Strong leadership qualities, but the ability to be collaborative as well
• Detail-oriented and ability to work in an agile and flexible manner
• Strong verbal and presentation skills. Able to develop presentation decks and deliver compelling presentations.
• Experience working on pitches or on pitch mode.

About the Role

As our ASP Studio X Creative Director, you will work on a robust food and beverage account crafting disruptive ideas at the intersection of culture and technology that deliver impact. You enjoy conceptualizing thinking and have “Big Ideas” rooted in culture and trends. You will partner with the larger Studio X Creative, Strategy, Social, Influencer, PR, Digital, Production, Experiential and Shopper teams to create impactful brave and boundless creative ideas across brands for the clients.

The Creative Director will be a crucial part of the StudioX Creative team, working alongside the Creative Lead, Client Lead and Strategy Team. We’re looking for someone with extensive through the line experience.

You will be working within a region-wide borderless team model to service client needs, you will be required to execute and provide strategic direction and leadership within the group.

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for the consistency, direction and execution of all creative output, overseeing, directing and approving a high volume of campaign launches, ATL, toolkits, activations and experiential ideas that build fame for the brands.
• Maintain a close relationship with the client to ensure you understand business critical needs and maintain an open dialogue on all creative campaigns.
• Work closely with the Creative Lead, Client Leads and Strategy team to get to the right briefs that deliver remarkable and innovative ideas.
• Work closely with other members of the team to ensure high standard of creative output that delivers against key objectives.
• Creative passion to drive strategically sound creative solutions for modern audiences on modern channels.
• Go above and beyond the day-today to create culture-driving creative that’s world-class.
• Help drive creative solutions that utilize the full benefits of the addressable channels available.
• Translate creative direction and copy points from creative briefs into engaging and effective concepts and core creative ideas for an array of brands, products and briefs.
• Push the envelope for high impact creative and content that spurs action and emotion from core audiences.
• Crafts work that inspires product consumption and engagement.
• Ensure creative executions meet the highest standard of craftsmanship.
• Stay abreast of global cultural trends and industry updates, and proactively develop timely ideas for real-time content.

What You’ll Need

• Must have experience of all aspects of the comms mix including ATL, digital, social, content, and video.
• 8+ years in an agency setting with portfolio of campaign that makes our jaw drop.
• Experience of running a modern creative department of ‘digital first’ thinkers and of a similar size is essential.
• Will also be involved in TV, print, radio etc campaigns, as well as extensions of global platform ideas, and in some cases, the strategic and creative origination of cross-channel campaigns for local brands.
• Must be forward thinking and embrace creative innovation in the digital space.
• Must be an effective manager of people to ensure creative department is motivated and enthusiastic, able to empower teams to take on responsibility and be inspired about their work.
• Ability and proven track record of leading and building high performing social creative teams.
• Strategically strong. Understands the client’s business and can connect business challenges with impactful ideas that drive business results.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and management skills with a proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be persuasive and very articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues and clients alike.
• Explorative with latest AI tools
• True passion for food and beverage vertical. Experience in the drinks or FMCG space a bonus but not essential.
• Proactive and a self-starter. Passion for learning and self-improvement.
• Positive attitude and ability to work under tight deadlines.

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.

About the Role

Role & Responsibilities:

Client Management

• Actively collaborate with Account department, ready and willing to take the lead in presenting work to clients.

Strategy

• Provide helpful feedback to Strategy, and generate inspiring ideas in order to create even more high-quality works.

Creative Leadership

• Find award winning opportunities on even the most challenging briefs.
• Inspire work beyond traditional advertising.
• Fight for smart ideas and find ways to make the impossible tangible.
• Recognise the difference between a brilliant idea and a good one.
• Have cost management skills, and ensure that creative ideas can be executed

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

This position is responsible for the main workload of the creative team's daily work. The incumbent needs to clearly understand the standards that Ogilvy & Mather has always adhered to in terms of creativity, and strive to exceed those expectations. Regardless of the art or copywriting, ACD has been regarded as a position with comprehensive creative skills. In their daily work, they are a good helper of the CD and the main force of the operation team. He/she should have very good proposal abilities, and lead the team in completing some medium-important proposals. It is also necessary to supervise the work on behalf of customers and agents in the production and filming of third-party projects.

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:

1. Client Management

• Understand the needs of Clients and complete visual communication that meets both their brand's tonality and Ogilvy standards.

2. Strategy

• Can understand strategies, like to communicate with strategic people, contribute ideas, and promote the output of better works.

3. Creative Leadership

• Regularly organize trainings for members to learn and communicate.
• Good at workload allocation and time management.
• Passionate about good ideas and fairly judges colleagues’ opinions.
• Maintain the belief of being creative, and display the power of curiosity and creativity in daily life.
• Always look towards pursuing the "Big Idea" and prove it with his/her own actions.
• Earn respect and trust from colleagues.
• Willing to find ways to convince our Clients to accept our best ideas and sell our best works.
• Ensure that creative ideas are executed in an exceptional way.
• Responsible for creative and effectiveness recognition at local and international awards competitions and new/existing business growth.

4. Leadership & People Management

• Be able to identify talents, and make them feel appreciated and valued.
• Be inspiring, encouraging and friendly to others, always work hard to make positive progress.
• Build trust and respect with others, provide training opportunities to ensure others’ development, and develop a team with professional ethics and effective performance.
• Take responsibility and keep commitments when facing huge challenges or mistakes.
• Abide by the WPP Code of Business Conduct.

Associate Planning Director/Planning Director

You are strategic steward for the company's business: an advocate for what’s right for the Health & Wellness industry. You are a leader and mentor offering thought leadership both inside and outside the company. You contribute back to the business, by owning a key part of training the next generation of planners or publishing thought leadership.

You help to grow the healthcare business and create opportunities for the company within the industry based on our company's expertise. Senior clients seek your council.

You create career paths for your team members, giving them feedback and creating opportunities for them to thrive. Thought leadership comes naturally, as your broad and deep experience leads you to new ideas naturally.

Your focus as an Associate Planning Director/Planning Director:

• Support Brand platform and brand architecture for strategic Health consumer health, Heath tech, Nutrition, and wellness brands. You will lead regional planning development for a few corner stone clients.
• Act as a strategy leader advising client on their Coms and Marketing needs, with a holistic vision across the range of services provided by Ogilvy (Coms, advertising, PR, Digital experiences, etc.…)
• Lead business strategy work, and help your client transform their marketing models.
• Contribute to our Ogilvy Innovation positioning in participating to our tech and digital acceleration (AI in marketing, digital partnership, Marketing technology).
• Foster partnership with the rest of our organization and businesses to develop proper Health acceleration products and bring the best of our company's practices and expertise to all Healthcare clients/business partners.
• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to industry partners and a critical part of the client-facing leadership team.
• Lead regional new and existing business and knowing how and when to determine a direction for new projects.
• Running strategic workshops as well as being conversant enough on other types of strategy such as engagement, social, data to be in the discussion and spot opportunities.
• Seeking to inspire those around you to create and deliver ever better strategic work.
• Coaching and developing more junior strategists in your team and supporting the company's strategy team to evolve and grow.

Qualities for the role:

• people management & help them to succeed
• commercially astute and accountability
• strong stage presence
• brand builder and architect
• direct high-level client exposure and management
• healthcare category expert
• Approx. 10 to 15 + years’ experience

About The&Partnership

The&Partnership stands out as an agency that thrives on delivering agile solutions to meet clients' evolving marketing needs and the challenges posed by technological advancements. Our approach combines specialist expertise with seamless collaboration across creative, media, PR, and WPP agencies. As one of the world's fastest-growing independent agency networks, we have pioneered a unique partnership model that tailors a new agency to each client's specific needs. This innovative approach is fueled by dynamic creative thinking, supported by media expertise, enabling us to stay ahead of the rapidly changing consumer markets for renowned global and regional brands.

Supported by the formidable strength of WPP, Ogilvy, and GroupM, we have achieved record growth in the past two years. Despite the challenging industry landscape, we have successfully expanded into 17 new markets and doubled our size. Join us in our journey of relentless innovation and growth as we continue to redefine the boundaries of creative excellence and strategic marketing solutions.

Note: The&Partnership is a division of Ogilvy and the work you deliver will be for The&Partnership.

Responsibilities:

• To be seen as a strategic partner by your clients

This role requires you to build a close, constructive, proactive, and open dialogue with your senior clients. You must win their trust but not be afraid to challenge their thinking when required.

• To drive ground-breaking consumer insight for the brand rooted in local consumers and culture.

We need to really get under the skin of our consumers, understanding the attitudes, needs, worries, and desires that underpin their relationship with the diverse categories we work on. To do this, you will need to understand and absorb existing research data (both quantitative and qualitative) and be able to uncover fresh insights. You need to push and find new ways to get closer to consumers, whether that’s through suggesting new research opportunities or planning and running innovative consumer workshops.

• To nurture outstanding creative work hand in hand with a stellar creative and media team in SG.

You should be seen as a champion of creativity, working closely with the Creative Directors and our media partners to deliver inspiring briefings and nurturing original ideas that thrive on the principles of modern marketing.

• To create compelling narratives and presentations

You will need to create logical and compelling presentations (e.g., building on consumer insights to define new positioning territories; using historical audits and competitor learnings to help evolve our tone of voice and positioning; creating persuasive narratives to frame the presentation of creative ideas, develop comms frameworks and plans etc.).

• To help navigate creative work through complex processes.

You will need to develop thorough understanding of our clients’ ways of working and the embody the spirit of collaboration with other agency partners.

• To drive innovative creative, media and channel thinking

This role requires expertise and experience across integrated brand and comms planning. You should be looking for ways to expand remit, working with internal and external partners to explore different media approaches across all avenues of modern marketing and technology – including (but not limited to) digital, social, PR, commerce, experience along with the more hygiene channels like TV.

• To bring global/regional brand expertise

You should have global/regional brand experience and always be pushing to enhance the perceived value of products through design and aesthetics. You will bring knowledge and understanding of how other brands operate and challenge the team to always aspire to higher standards.

• To bring external cultural inspiration

You should be interested in wider cultural issues and be fully plugged into contemporary culture, always inspiring your clients and team with viewpoints from the wider world and spotting any opportunities for proactive work. This is a global/regional role, you need to able to reach outside of your own culture and background, working with local teams around the world to bring insight and inspiration.

• To drive a culture of effectiveness and fame

You should look for opportunities to write effectiveness papers, fame and drive a culture of effective measurement across the team.

• To pitch and drive new business.

You will be involved in leading/supporting strategy for new business pitches and contributing towards agency growth within SG and SEA/APAC

What You’ll Need:

• Experience: 9-11 years’ experience, preferably in CPG/Automotive/Tech industries (preferrable but not mandatory)
• Skills: Extensive strategy experience with strong integrated creative and media credentials, solid brand and comms planning experience.
• Track Record: Demonstrable creative pedigree, ideation, full-funnel brand, and comms planning experience, proven track record of new business wins and pitch success.
• Team Player: A team player with energy, optimism, and an entrepreneurial eye for creative and channel-led opportunities.
• Continuous Learner: Appreciation for new strategic disciplines and eagerness to learn and apply them in day-to-day work and new pitches.
• Collaboration: A good listener, sharp contributor, and collaborator.
• Passion: One who lives for great work and has the hunger to win.

About the Role

With 7+ years of related industry (social media/ PR agency / in-house client communications) experience, you have a solid foundation of managing clients and developing senior level client relationships. You’re driven by our mission to make our clients’ brands and businesses matter, and fundamentally believe that creativity and earning influence for our clients have the power to change fortunes. You are becoming a trusted advisor to clients, which means you have a track record of delivering consistently to a high standard while striking the right balance between protecting client and agency interests. Clients discuss business issues with you looking for your advice. You’re adept at leveraging your relationships with internal and external stakeholders to overcome any obstacles for your project. You are also an up-and-coming leader that believes in nurturing and empowering your junior team members to elevate their careers and a well-respected team member that your peers and juniors look up to.

What You’ll Do

• Make our clients’ brands matter by being best in class in PR and Social Media Marketing, as well as bringing together the best mix of Ogilvy capabilities to solve business problems and build agency reputation.
• Become a trusted advisor to the clients to build client satisfaction and intimacy which maintains key relationships and opens up new growth opportunities for the agency.
• Independently lead integrated and PR accounts, manage team members working on the account to produce consistently good results, while building a highly-engaged team.
• Be able to successfully collaborate and lead medium-sized new business proposals or pitches, and work across departments, including Strategy and Creative Leads, on larger pitches / PR-led integrated pitches
• Responsible for revenue and margin growth/protection - including joint ownership with Directors of locally agreed practice targets.
• Increased exposure to business and finance management, meets account director billability targets and ensures the team does the same for their levels.
• Understands our contractual agreements and their impact on agency procedures.

Skills You Learn and Apply:

• Understanding of what makes great work and drives what it takes to make it happen.
• You are starting to build a strong niche and desire to focus on a particular industry/ industries for related PR and social media marketing work and are demonstrating strong knowledge and expertise that are highly valued by our clients.
• Ability to bring the best practices, insights and trends in social media marketing to create best-in-class work that generates shareability, talkability, reputation and earned media
• Ability to stream briefs into the right workflow based on past experience and a strong understanding of integrated marketing communications principles.
• A solid appreciation and understanding of all Ogilvy Group capabilities (e.g. strategy, creative, CE&C, Brand Advertising and Content) to be able to be the best-in-breed integrated communications practitioners to facilitate the best work throughout the whole process and effectively builds PR & Social as the front door for our clients to experience and access the rest of Ogilvy and wider WPP network.
• A good understanding of social media marketing and modern marketing capabilities (e.g. data analytics, CX, martech etc.) and have experience in integrating it into every applicable project.
• Relationship-building with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate project outcomes.
• Ability to think ahead from both technical expertise (of project management and production) and relationships to smooth problem-solving.
• Building the foundation of a trusted client advisor, you are able to listen to client needs without agenda and give them the best advice that strikes the right balance of protecting client and agency interests.
• Start dealing with senior clients and lay the foundations for senior client relationships.
• Ensure smooth, timely delivery, as well as revenue and margin growth/protection on projects.
• Manage few direct reports to impart client service skills and groom them in their growth and promotion. You indirectly manage several supporting team members across the wider team due to cross-practice accounts you will lead on.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses of direct reports and team members, providing day-to-day counseling on job performance and career development as appropriate.
• Manages timely performance appraisals for direct reports.
• Manages staff to maximize productivity and individual, team and financial performance.
• Keep up to speed with industry trends and Ogilvy IP (e.g. Ogilvy wider group innovations, latest PR&I product suite, and know how to tap into and use Ogilvy tools, e.g. Brandwatch etc.) by being curious and well-read.

What You’ll Need

• Relentless curiosity
• Strong work ethic
• Good team player
• Articulate and persuasive
• Reliable and mature
• Strong client relationships and ability to grow your accounts (share of wallet, revenue size)
• Ability to build strong connections
• Developing a strong expertise in a particular niche or industry
• Starting to build a track record of leading business wins

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.

About the Role

As our ASP Studio X Creative Director, you will work on a robust food and beverage account crafting disruptive ideas at the intersection of culture and technology that deliver impact. You enjoy conceptualizing thinking and have “Big Ideas” rooted in culture and trends. You will partner with the larger Studio X Creative, Strategy, Social, Influencer, PR, Digital, Production, Experiential and Shopper teams to create impactful brave and boundless creative ideas across brands for the clients.

The Creative Director will be a crucial part of the StudioX Creative team, working alongside the Creative Lead, Client Lead and Strategy Team. We’re looking for someone with extensive through the line experience.

You will be working within a region-wide borderless team model to service client needs, you will be required to execute and provide strategic direction and leadership within the group.

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for the consistency, direction and execution of all creative output, overseeing, directing and approving a high volume of campaign launches, ATL, toolkits, activations and experiential ideas that build fame for the brands.
• Maintain a close relationship with the client to ensure you understand business critical needs and maintain an open dialogue on all creative campaigns.
• Work closely with the Creative Lead, Client Leads and Strategy team to get to the right briefs that deliver remarkable and innovative ideas.
• Work closely with other members of the team to ensure high standard of creative output that delivers against key objectives.
• Creative passion to drive strategically sound creative solutions for modern audiences on modern channels.
• Go above and beyond the day-today to create culture-driving creative that’s world-class.
• Help drive creative solutions that utilize the full benefits of the addressable channels available.
• Translate creative direction and copy points from creative briefs into engaging and effective concepts and core creative ideas for an array of brands, products and briefs.
• Push the envelope for high impact creative and content that spurs action and emotion from core audiences.
• Crafts work that inspires product consumption and engagement.
• Ensure creative executions meet the highest standard of craftsmanship.
• Stay abreast of global cultural trends and industry updates, and proactively develop timely ideas for real-time content.

What You’ll Need

• Must have experience of all aspects of the comms mix including ATL, digital, social, content, and video.
• 8+ years in an agency setting with portfolio of campaign that makes our jaw drop.
• Experience of running a modern creative department of ‘digital first’ thinkers and of a similar size is essential.
• Will also be involved in TV, print, radio etc campaigns, as well as extensions of global platform ideas, and in some cases, the strategic and creative origination of cross-channel campaigns for local brands.
• Must be forward thinking and embrace creative innovation in the digital space.
• Must be an effective manager of people to ensure creative department is motivated and enthusiastic, able to empower teams to take on responsibility and be inspired about their work.
• Ability and proven track record of leading and building high performing social creative teams.
• Strategically strong. Understands the client’s business and can connect business challenges with impactful ideas that drive business results.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational and management skills with a proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be persuasive and very articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues and clients alike.
• Explorative with latest AI tools
• True passion for food and beverage vertical. Experience in the drinks or FMCG space a bonus but not essential.
• Proactive and a self-starter. Passion for learning and self-improvement.
• Positive attitude and ability to work under tight deadlines.

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.

Ogilvy Associate Commercial Director

We are looking for an Associate Commercial Director who will play a critical role in supporting the continued growth of Ogilvy, leading the commercial management of a portfolio of clients.

This role primarily manages strategic commercial outcomes for a portfolio of clients, is involved in pitching in a lead or support/advisory capacity and is a trusted advisor to client leaders on commercial matters. She/he will work closely with fellow commercial teams in other regions and at WPP, with Finance and Global finance, with the client team and with clients marketing procurement teams.

This individual must have a keen understanding of the business, the ability to lead commercial discussions with external stakeholders and interpret and explain financial policies/concepts to client teams.

Ideally, you will already have worked in the advertising/marketing or consultancy sectors.

What you'll do

• Act as a commercial partner to Ogilvy client leads across the designated client portfolio within the region.
• Be the key partner to client procurement of those same clients.
• Directly manage the commercial relationship with stakeholders within the client’s procurement teams. Build relationships with clients and their financial partners.
• Implement commercial and financial targets at the client level and work together with client leaders to achieve those targets.
• Review and analyse existing pricing models and work to implement new pricing models where appropriate.
• Lead pricing negotiations.
• Support Business Development teams with commercial responses.
• Diplomatically and skilfully lead client contract negotiations for Ogilvy in partnership with legal counsel and Ogilvy client service teams.
• Ensure all markets and client teams are aware of our contractual commercial obligations.
• Support a range of commercial team’s initiatives, ranging from transformation, efficiencies, to systems and trainings, all related to commercial excellence and either led by global or by regional

What you'll need

The Associate Commercial Director will have commercial experience including, but not limited to pricing, contract negotiations, evaluating financial information and making actionable recommendations to leadership. You’ll also be:

• A trusted advisor to many: fosters a high quality and trust-based relationship with client leaders and the wider senior team, fosters collaboration and teamwork from the network, is pragmatic, focused on solutions, is fair, gains alignment via dialogue rather than imposing solutions.
• Can do letters as well as numbers and makes financial and commercial concepts easy to approach and understand.
• Lead negotiations but also act as an advisor to teams and markets in devising strategies or tactics and always ensure KPIs are met.
• She/he becomes the face of the account to procurement teams and develops good working relationships with them.
• A people person who enjoys being part of a global community, sharing knowledge and is on a continuous learning journey.
• Excellent analytical, abstract reasoning and organization skills
• Possess strong oral and written communication skills with a flexible interpersonal style to clearly present ideas both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven experience as a people leader.
• Proven supervisory skills, but with the ability to also be detail oriented.
• Ability to work under pressure in an environment with constantly changing priorities.
• Ability to work independently and/or part of a team to complete multiple projects on time.
• “Roll up your sleeves" team attitude

Skills/experience

§ Business Partnering; Business Growth; Finance; Operations; Costing; Pricing; Scoping; Commercial Acumen; Tenders & Negotiation; Procurement Engagement; Contract Management; Network management

The person in this position plays a decisive role in increasing creativity and improving working capacity. Guarantee work achieves and even goes beyond Ogilvy’s creative standard, and always ensure actual effectiveness in terms of the brand and Client’s business. Responsible for all creative output and managing the creative process

Client Management

• Actively collaborate with Account department, and be willing to communicate with Clients in person as needed.

Strategy

• Provide helpful feedback to Strategy, and generate inspiring ideas in order to create even more high-quality works.

Creative Leadership

• Effectively transfer the message from Creative Committee to Creativity Team to ensure that all parties reach an agreement on how to achieve positive results and drive the performance of Ogilvy Creativity.
• Coordinate and manage creative resources reasonably to improve both effectiveness and efficiency.
• Review works monthly and quarterly, and report to CCO.
• Organize the team to participate in different national and international creative competitions, and report to CCO.
• Be passionate about innovative ideas, and encourage others to generate different ideas.
• Maintain the belief in being creative, and display the power of curiosity and creativity in daily life.
• Keep being patient, persistent and hopeful in pursuing the “Big Idea”.
• Earn respect and trust of colleagues.
• Ensure that creative ideas are executed in an exceptional way.
• Create a productive and “Big Idea” creative environment.
• Responsible for creative and effectiveness recognition at local and international awards competitions and new/existing business growth.

Leadership & People Management

• Be inspiring, encouraging and friendly to others, always work hard to make positive progress.
• Build trust and respect with others, provide training opportunities to ensure others’ development, and develop a team with professional ethics and effective performance.
• Take responsibility and keep commitments when facing huge challenges or mistakes.
• Provide different possible solutions to broaden horizons and achieve goals.
• Abide by the WPP Code of Business Conduct.
• Have cost management skills, and ensure that creative ideas can be executed.

Associate Strategy Director / Strategy Director

You are a trusted co-conspirator for great creative and business leadership on your team. You are learning to teach the next generation of strategists and developing your voice as a thought leader.

As an Associate Strategy Director / Strategy Director, you are a leader who helps frame opportunities on the account. You’re partner with account, creative and delivery. Through directly managing or mentoring junior strategists you reinforce your own skillset. You aren’t just delegating; you create opportunities for people around you. You have a perspective on brands & consumers and you speak from knowledge and experience: granting you authority.

Your focus as an Associate Strategy Director / Strategy Director:

• Leading a mid–sized client or being the second lieutenant on a large client(s).
• Establishing yourself as a trusted advisor to clients and a critical part of the client-facing leadership team from the agency.
• Fronting pitches and knowing how and when to determine a direction for new projects.
• Running different types of workshops (e.g. Big IdeaL and Fusion) as well as being conversant enough on other types of strategy such as engagement, social, data to be in the discussion and spot opportunities
• Seeking to inspire those around you to create and deliver ever better strategic work
• Coaching and developing more junior strategists in your team and supporting the broader agency strategy team to evolve and grow

The skills you learn and apply:

• Acquiring new hard skills is less vital, you just need to apply them in higher profile and higher stakes settings. “Soft” skills become increasingly important including how to give feedback, prioritize and manage work streams.
• Learning to be a leader; supporting and inspiring those around you to achieve their goals, be they different types of strategists or from other teams
• Being able to flex your own approach according to different situations and audiences
• Coaching others to shape their arguments, not over-writing them with your own
• Becoming more commercially aware, and able to spot opportunities for growth for both clients’ businesses and the agency
• Scoping, able to shape, resource and price projects profitably

The qualities that will make you successful:

• Manages people and helps them shine
• Direct high-level client exposure
• Commercially astute and accountable
• Runs accounts & pitches
• Strong stage presence
• Contributes back to the dept
• Takes accountability for work on the account
• Approx 9 -15 years’ experience

You’re ready to move up when you are considered expert who can be a resource for the team at large. You have proven results, and everyone recognizes the value you bring. You understand Ogilvy and what we do beyond your day to day. You can inspire and command a large and complicated team.

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 WPP@Unilever

WPP@Unilever is an agile model to meet Unilever’s evolving marketing needs and the challenges of technological change. With specialist expertise across creative, media and research from various WPP agencies coming together under one roof, it’s a first of a kind integrated model to drive creative innovation and enhance response to the pace of change in consumer markets for some of the most iconic global and regional Unilever brands.

Responsibilities And Requirements

• To be seen as a strategic partner by your clients

This role requires you to build a close, constructive, proactive, and open dialogue with your senior clients. You must win their trust but not be afraid to challenge their thinking when required.

• To drive ground-breaking consumer insight for the brand rooted in local consumers and culture.

We need to really get under the skin of our consumers, understanding the attitudes, needs, worries, and desires that underpin their relationship with their category's. To do this, you will need to understand and absorb existing research data (both quantitative and qualitative) and be able to uncover fresh insights. You will push to find new ways to get closer to consumers, whether that’s through suggesting new research opportunities or planning and running innovative consumer workshops.

• To nurture outstanding creative work

You should be seen as a champion of creativity, working closely with the Creative Directors to deliver inspiring briefings and working closely with creative teams to nurture original creative ideas.

• To create compelling narratives and presentations

You will need to create logical and compelling presentations (e.g., building on consumer insights to define new positioning territories; using historical audits and competitor learnings to help evolve our tone of voice and positioning; creating persuasive narratives to frame the presentation of creative ideas etc.).

• To help navigate creative work through complex processes.

You will need to develop thorough understanding of our clients’ ways of working.

• To drive innovative media and channel thinking

This role requires expertise and experience across integrated traditional advertising. You should always be looking for ways to expand remit, working with internal and external partners to explore different media approaches across TVC, digital, social, PR, commerce, experience, and technology.

• To bring global brand expertise

You should have global brand experience and always be pushing to enhance the perceived value of products through design and aesthetics. You will bring knowledge and understanding of how other brands operate and challenge the team to always aspire to higher standards.

• To bring external cultural inspiration

You should be interested in wider cultural issues and be fully plugged into contemporary culture, always inspiring your clients and team with viewpoints from the wider world and spotting any opportunities for proactive work. This is a global role, you need to able to reach outside of your own culture and background, working with local teams around the world to bring insight and inspiration.

• To drive a culture of effectiveness and fame

You will look for opportunities to write effectiveness papers, fame and drive a culture of effective measurement across the team.

• To fully contribute as a member of the wider Unilever strategy team

You will contribute to the wider regional Unilever team by helping to nurture, train and develop junior strategists (this could be someone working directly with you, or the wider team). You will also be involved with pitching and contribute to building an enquiring, proactive, supportive team culture.

About You

• Approx. 9-11 years’ experience, preferably on Beauty/Skincare (but not a must)
• You have extensive senior level Strategy experience, with strong creative credentials, plus experience of leading sizeable CPG clients and a track record of new business wins.
• Should have solid experience in brand planning / creative agencies.
• Can demonstrate a track record in building inspiring brand platforms that lead to great work.
• Demonstrable creative pedigree, ideation and ATL brand planning experience
• Have a proven track record of new business wins and pitch success.
• Be a team player with energy, optimism and an entrepreneurial eye for creative opportunity.
• Appreciation of new strategic disciplines and wanting to learn more about them.
• A good listener and collaborator
• You live for great work.

About the Role

As our ASP Studio X Social Strategy lead, you will lead the social strategy team on a robust food and beverage account crafting disruptive social strategy at the intersection of culture and technology that deliver impact. You have a deep understanding of social media platforms and digital environments, a proven ability and passion for creative thinking, a laser focus on driving team outcomes, and you are expert collaborator with other strategy leads, creatives, influencer marketers, and paid media and analytics team members.

You will be working within a region-wide borderless team model to service client needs, you will be required to provide strategic direction and leadership within the group. You will be charged with working collaboratively with the larger Studio X team from different functions and capabilities – from brand, intelligence, creative, media, and production aspects of the book of business.

You will tailor your social strategy to audiences, platforms and culturally relevant moments. You will confidently pitch bold social strategy to the clients, internal teams, senior leaders, and partners, draft compelling social campaigns and content for an array of brands with different audience considerations, stay on top of trending content and audience behaviors to inform opportunistic content and strategies.

As Studio X Social Strategy lead, you will identify relevant opportunity to create award-winning effective ideas and campaigns for delivering best in social class work to deliver our offering of an end-to-end integrated approach pulling together creative, media and data expertise to deliver nimble and result-driven campaigns for our clients.

This is a position for a for a seasoned, driven, results oriented, and highly creative individual with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, manage deadlines, and produce highly effective social strategy.

If this sounds like the next challenge you are looking for, let us know.

Responsibilities:

• Holistic Social & Influence strategist capable of curating intelligence into social innovation to drive brand and business results from great end-to-end social & influence.
• Lead innovation and implementation of key strategic frameworks in social and brand strategy with the ability to develop end-to-end solutions with social at heart.
• Develop and provide a strategic direction for social and/or influence toolkit, that meet client objectives in the areas of social media strategy, social platform knowledge, cultural insights, data storytelling, and work collaboratively with S&I Stewardships in delivering it.
• Responsible for setting objectives, benchmarks and KPIs together with E2E lead & SX creative strategist.
• Be the “go-to” thought leader and expert in driving integration between social and brand strategy and engagement planning and a strong contributor in a global thought-leadership network.
• Create synergies between social and other disciplines: PR & Influencer, E2E, Data & Analytics, and Media.
• Oversee quality and development of creative (concept) briefs and briefings as well as asset briefs to meet modern marketing needs to drive concept to content across experience seamlessly connecting social to the full ecosystem.
• Be the key player in new briefs representing the agency and the social expertise.
• Build strong relationship with creative leaders and creative community.
• Stay abreast of global cultural trends and industry updates, and proactively develop timely content strategy for real-time content.
• Responsible for Quarterly Business Reviews.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience working on creative with portfolio of social forward strategic thinking rooted in culture and rich in social platform insights.
• Preferably a senior social strategist or associate strategy director with agency experience.
• Must be able to maintain composure in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Proven successful collaboration with creative leaders and complex creative teams.
• Proven thought-leader and passion for the social and influence.
• Experience of running a modern strategy department (borderless) of ‘social-first’ thinkers and of a similar size is essential.
• Must be an effective manager of people to ensure strategy department is motivated and enthusiastic, able to empower teams to take on responsibility and be inspired about their work.
• Active user of social platforms preferably with a finger on pulse of the latest trends/happenings.
• Strategically strong. Understands the client’s business and is able to connect business challenges with impactful strategy that drive business results.
• Strong analytical skills. Ability to interpret ongoing research and media reports, guide and partner with social media experts to inform communications recommendations.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organisational and management skills with a proven ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be persuasive and very articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues and clients alike.
• Interest, experience, and/or comfort level in working on a leading FMCG global brand.
• True passion for food and beverage vertical.
• Willingness to learn, explore, and reinvent.
• Proactive and a self-starter.