Ogilvy

Our Vision:

Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today’s 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, we call this Borderless Creativity.

This is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities Advertising, Experience, PR, Consulting and Health. This allows us to not only operate but also innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent. We believe impact and magic lie at this intersection. Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.

Our mission: We inspire brands and people to impact the world

How we do it: We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities

What we do: Borderless creativity

Today, Ogilvy is recognized as the world’s leading creative agency. We are also one of the most effective networks globally.

About Memac Ogilvy:

Memac Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide WPP & Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with Consulting, Advertising- Brand & Content, PR, Experience & Health under 1 P&L and single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is the most integrated modern creative and effective partner for client growth in MENA. We inspire brands and people to impact the world. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions, with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as a thorough and passionate People agenda.

The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It has around 500 staff members.

What we're looking for:

Our Senior Account Executives run mid-size accounts, providing insights-driven strategies, strengthening client & partner agency relationships, and collaborating with cross-departmental teams while managing a junior team.

The individual should understand the power of integrated media and can think creatively to solve problems. The candidate requires a forward-thinking ability to identify communication, digital and social trends and put these into practice for our client's communication strategies and plans.

The ideal candidate brings an entrepreneurial spirit to client work and develops new, creative solutions to transform their clients’ communications practices with passion in a fast-paced environment.

To Succeed in This Role, You Need To:

• To oversee & perform basic public relations, writing, media, organizational, research and production skills.
• To handle a broad variety of tasks with a high degree of independence and sound judgment.
• To play a primary role in implementing work on client accounts and projects.
• To handle direct client contact with the potential to become a good programme presenter and adviser.
• To manage media monitoring solutions as necessary.
• Manage a team of AE’s.
• Take ownership of client relationships, creating and implementing integrated comms strategies.
• Always up-to-date with today’s media landscape.
• Motivate and manage junior team members (e.g. AE’s, community managers) with their day-to-day, and career growth, while efficiently communicating and “managing up” to the directors.
• Manages client expectations effectively.
• Plans and develops Strategy (across digital channels, content, campaigns & connections) with various stakeholders.
• Understands business KPIs, their effects and how to set and achieve them.
• Meets with clients regularly to align on overall strategy, present work done and insights/research that can help the brand achieve digital marketing success.
• Deeply understands brand insights, customer segmentation, and target needs to steer actionable comms briefs. Thus, leading to effective campaigns and presentations.
• Ensures timely and effective service delivery to clients.
• Develops presentations for clients relative to campaign status.
• Keeps team(s) appropriately informed and involved in projects.
• Provides leadership in developing and presenting new campaigns and plans for potential/existing clients.
• Identifies and pursues new business opportunities within and across company offices and practice areas.
• Delivers strong analysis, creative ideas, strategies and concepts to new comms campaigns and projects.
• Anticipates and assists in developing solutions to client problems.
• A broadly capable writer and editor, able to generate a range of materials that require minimal editing and edit the work of others.
• Acts by company policies and procedures at all times.
• Is familiar with the company’s vision and exemplifies the company’s values and ethics.
• To perform day-to-day account work confidently and competently.
• To work effectively with team members to implement assignments on budget and on deadline, balancing competing priorities.
• To be fully familiar with the group’s communications plans for accounts, understand and track clients’ businesses.
• To liaise between clients, outside suppliers and other internal and external contacts.
• To develop and sustain positive and professional relationships with client contacts.
• To identify and propose ways to advance team, group, agency and client interests.
• To develop the ability to conceptualize communication strategies and implementation tactics.
• To routinely apply to understand budget development and monitoring.
• To contribute to budget development where appropriate.
• To manage time for optimum productivity and maximum billability.
• To understand and manage billing and activity reporting processes.
• To meet billability targets established for the account executive position.
• Complete timesheets daily and submits them on time.
• To draft effective, professional documents for clients.
• To implement events for clients.
• To be competent at using internal and external research capabilities and preparing in-depth analyses.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of related, client-facing industry experience managing “the making” or delivery of great comms.
• Ideally, several different account experiences delivering communication strategies, with a focus on corporate, government & brand.
• Demonstrable knowledge of client and Agency operations and working knowledge of Ogilvy’s capabilities.
• Strong background in the strategy and development of PR programs and providing strategic/solid thinking to clients.
• Curious, a lifelong learner.
• Proven negotiation skills.
• Experience forming strong client relationships at the lower-to-mid levels.
• Demonstrated capability to get things done on budget and on time.
• Developing commercial abilities & business & financial acumen.
• An understanding of the dynamics and workings of the agency’s process as it relates to the client’s business
• Strong internal relationships (particularly with the creative team).
• A good listener is someone who reads people and those in a room well (and adapts their style and response accordingly).
• Accountability and calm, confident presence.
• You will also bring strong skills in research, analysis and trend identification.
• Excellent writing and communication skills – Bilingual / Arabic and English are favourable.
• Solid media relations, KSA and regional media, with a strong understanding of the Government sector media landscape.

Memac Ogilvy inspires brands and people to impact the world. We exist to create iconic, culture-changing, value-driven ideas for our clients. 

Borderless Creativity is our lifeblood. We operate, innovate, and create at the intersection of our talented people, across advertising disciplines such as strategic thinking and distinctive idea creation, through a social-first approach — alongside our wider Memac Ogilvy family of Advertising, Experience, Health, Consulting and PR. Never have there been more opportunities available to communicate incredible ideas, impact culture, and influence consumer behavior. Paid advertising is a consistent, regular and controllable way of getting a business and brand’s core message in front of consumers in a way that no other medium can. Creativity is our greatest differentiator as we transcend the status quo and shift culture.

How We’ll Support You

Memac 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 is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities – 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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.