Social Account Manager
Job Summary
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic culture-changing value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy more than 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativityinnovating at the intersection of intelligence imagination and influence with experts across advertising sports & entertainment PR & social consulting and health collaborating seamlessly across more than 120 offices spanning 90 countries. Ogilvy was named Network of the Year at the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity andranksas the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC for the fourth consecutive year signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is part of WPP the trusted growth partner for the worlds leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions creativity production enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.For more information visit and follow us onLinkedInXInstagram and Facebook.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the worlds leading brands. We unitecutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions world-class creativity next-generation production transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counselin a single company powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Opento help our clients navigate change capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information visit.
Department:Social & Content
Location:London
Contacttype:12-Month FTC
Full Time/Part time:Full Time
Reporting into:Account Director/Business Director
About Ogilvy:
Our vision is to inspire brands and people toimpactthe world. To createbig ideasthat make a significant contribution to the planet society and the bottom line. We believe in todays world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth. We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas.
Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities: Advertising Consulting Experience PR & Influencer and Health. This allows us to not onlyoperatebut innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep culturalexpertiseof 132 offices in 83 countries.
The result is multifaceted ideas for our clients that drive impact and are born from the intersection of platform x culture x technology.
We call this Borderless Creativity.
Ogilvy was ranked the number one UK agency at D&AD and was the only UK agency to win a Glass Lions at Cannes. Ogilvy was also nominated network of the year in Cannes Lions Campaign Effie Awards EMEA London International Awards The One Show and WARC Rankings.
In 2022 Ogilvy was the most creatively awarded agency globally including the most awarded agency at the Clio Awards DMA Awards Influencer Marketing Awards London International Awards and The One Show.
Ogilvy UKs PR practice won large agency of the year at the PR Week awards. And our Consulting practice was in the Forbes 2022 list of best management consultancy firms.
The Role:
Social and contenthasnever 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 roleprovidesthe opportunity to work on a new and exciting client in our portfolio. You will have the opportunity to manage key campaigns for our clients across the year that will involve working with our strategy creative and production team to deliver best in class content.
This role is perfect for someone that has a passion for managing story telling content and the desire to build on their skills and experience in delivering social campaigns that get Gen Z audiences excited and wanting to find out more.
The work will primarily be focused on Instagram and TikTok although a good understanding of the main social channels would be an advantage. The content will be focused on a UK Gen Z and Millennial audiences.
The candidate will work with a Business Director Account Director Account Executive and a WPP network of support teams to not only deliver content but ensure it is performing effectively on an on-going basis leaning into our research and data team.
A bit about you
We are flexible on whether you have come from an agency of client background but we think the following are important for this role:
- Organised and autonomous;youllneed to ensure the accounts are managed with the right resource at the right time.
- Financially savvy;youllneed to work with the rest of the agency team to deliver proposals that are within the clients budgets and ensure successful delivery.
- Experience working on shoots is preferable along with managing presentation to client and approvals along the way.
- Youllbe someone that loves to get stuck into a task and collaborate with the client and agency teams and make stuff happen!
- Youllhave your finger on the social media pulse have a working knowledge of platforms especially Instagram and TikTok and be able to spot trends as and when they are happening.
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
Our ambition is to attract thevery bestdiverse talent to Ogilvy and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us and oncetheyrehere for them to want to stay with us grow their career and to feel they belong with us.
We are an equal opportunityemployerandwerecommitted to creating an inclusive welcoming environment for anyone who wants to work at Ogilvy.We believe that for creativity to flourish everything about how we workmusthave diversity at its core. Your race colour ancestry religion gender gender identity national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know and we will do everything we can to accommodate.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
At Ogilvy, we design the brand; we turn the brand into an experience; and we communicate the brand’s story. We make brands matter. Learn more about Ogilvy’s capabilities at Ogilvy.com.