Communications Executive (FTC 1 year) f/m/d

ABOUT US The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide. At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world. In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing. Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere. Build a newsworthy career at the FT. OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups. OVERVIEW We're looking for a relationship builder with a background in investor relations, conference production, content programming, executive communities, or membership organisations to lead and grow FIIN's investor network.  As the Investor Content and Community Manager, you will play a central role in building, growing, and engaging the Fixed Income Investor Network (FIIN) community across the structured finance and private credit markets. You will be responsible for developing strong relationships with investors and key market participants, helping to shape FIIN's initiatives and task forces through ongoing dialogue, market insight, and community leadership. This is a highly outward-facing role suited to someone who enjoys meeting people, building trust over time, and bringing communities together around shared interests and objectives. Your curiosity, relationship-building skills, and genuine interest in the industry will be critical as you connect investors with one another, facilitate meaningful discussions, and ensure FIIN remains closely aligned with the priorities of its membership. ABOUT FIIN The Fixed Income Investor Network (FIIN) is a non-profit trade association of over 1,000 members representing more than 475 investment management firms. FIIN's mission is to support the development and enhancement of structured finance markets through three core pillars: investor education, networking, and critical market discussions and partners with the fixed income events team bringing investors to their flagship events as part of FT live.  Through task forces, working groups, and member-led initiatives, FIIN convenes senior buy-side participants to share knowledge, advocate on key issues, and promote a well-functioning structured finance marketplace. WHAT DOES THE ROLE INVOLVE? This is a varied role committed to managing investor engagement and community development across FIIN, while working closely with FIIN's board and leadership. The role combines community building, relationship management, event development, content creation, and strategic partner engagement. COMMUNITY BUILDING & INVESTOR ENGAGEMENT * Own and manage relationships with investors across structured finance and private credit, maintaining regular direct engagement through calls, meetings, and in-person interactions. * Develop and expand the FIIN community by building relationships with investors across new firm types, geographies, and asset class focus areas not yet well represented within the membership. * Foster meaningful connections between members, helping to strengthen engagement and participation across the FIIN community. * Gather and synthesise market intelligence from investor conversations, sharing insights internally to inform FIIN's strategic priorities, task force programming, and content agenda. * Act as a trusted point of contact for members, developing a deep understanding of their investment focus, strategic priorities, and areas of interest. * Provide regular structured updates to the FT Live Events (FIE) team on key investor market trends, sentiment, and developments relevant to event programming and strategy. BUILDING AND RUNNING THE FIIN INVESTOR COMMUNITY * Work directly with the FIIN Board to develop and drive FIIN's strategic objectives. * Plan, organise, and host FIIN Board and Executive Committee meetings, ensuring effective preparation, coordination, and follow-through on key actions and decisions. * Lead the delivery of FIIN's member engagement programme, ensuring regular opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. * Plan and host investor networking events in London and other key markets. * Chair monthly FIIN asset-focused task force calls across CLOs, RMBS, Consumer ABS, ESG, Infrastructure, and CRE/CMBS. * Develop the programming of investor-led elements at relevant FIE conferences, including investor lunches, closed-door boardroom discussions, and the Fixed Income Investor Forum. * Create approximately five webinars per year offering investor insight to be shared with the FIIN membership and broader community. * Develop relevant investor and market content for distribution to the FIIN community, including thought leadership pieces, white papers, and member updates. MEMBERSHIP GROWTH AND RETENTION * Support FIIN's membership recruitment and retention efforts by identifying, engaging, and nurturing relationships with prospective member firms. * Help ensure members derive ongoing value from participation in the network, supporting long-term engagement and retention. * Maintain clear records of key relationships and interactions to support continuity, institutional knowledge, and long-term community development. * Work collaboratively with the wider FIIN team to ensure communications, programming, and initiatives reflect genuine member priorities and market needs. WHAT DO WE NEED FROM YOU? What matters most is your mentality, core skills, and what you naturally enjoy. We are looking for someone who is: * Someone who consistently fosters strong community connections.   You genuinely enjoy bringing people together, creating connections, and fostering engagement among groups with shared interests. You are energised by building networks and helping communities thrive. * A people-focused relationship builder. You enjoy meeting new people, building rapport, and maintaining long-term professional relationships. You are curious, engaged, and comfortable initiating conversations. * Comfortable engaging with senior market participants. You can engage professionally and credibly with senior investors and industry leaders in working groups, webinars, and networking settings, and are comfortable taking a visible role in those forums. * Collaborative and team-oriented. You work well within a small team, share insights openly, and understand how your market-facing role supports FIIN's broader mission. * Commercially curious and strategically minded. You are interested in how markets work and enjoy identifying themes and emerging trends that can inform community development, member engagement, and content strategy. * Organised and meticulous. You are comfortable tracking interactions, maintaining accurate records, and managing follow-ups across relationships, governance meetings, and community initiatives. * Self-motivated and proactive. You are comfortable taking ownership of relationships, finding opportunities to strengthen engagement, and helping shape the future development of the FIIN community. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. We currently operate a hybrid model which requires staff to work onsite 50% of the time. Accessibility We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help. 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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. INFLUENCE MANAGER - 6 MONTH FTC Department : PR & Influence Location : London  Contract type: 6 - Month Fixed-Term Contract Full Time/Part time: Full Time Working Pattern: Hybrid 3:2 Reporting into: Account Director / Business Director    About Ogilvy:  Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.   In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – now in its 12th year.    The Role:  As an Influence Manager at our agency, you will be an essential part of our influencer proposition, covering the full range of influencer work. At Ogilvy, our influence team are trained and treated as specialists and play a critical role in contributing to the influencer strategy and creative output, recommending objectives, targets, action plans, calendar, and budgets. Your strategic thinking and creativity will help develop best-in-class ongoing influencer programs for our diverse range of clients, integrating them into the overall strategy for owned, earned, and paid channels. We work with some of the biggest brands in the world and pride ourselves on our high standards and award-winning work. We are part of the PR, Influence and Social Agency and we work in hybrid teams across clients which helps our specialists have a deep understanding of the earned media approach which benefits our creative strategy and client results. In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day running of influencer campaigns, from identification, vetting, negotiation and implementation to overseeing and reporting. You will work collaboratively with media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders – internal and external, to deliver exceptional campaigns for our clients. As part of any role in our team your responsibilities will include managing the influencer database, ensuring it is up-to-date, and staying up to date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes. We are looking for a self-motivated, action-oriented, and ambitious individual with a positive "can-do" attitude who really understands the landscape and the power and flexibility of influencer campaigns and activations to achieve brand objectives. You will have a keen interest in all things social and be an avid follower of relevant news and trends. You will also have experience in building consistently productive relationships and strong stakeholder management skills. In addition, you should have proven experience in integrating digital and social media into campaign activity.   Key Responsibilities: * To work with the Head of Influence and an Influence Executive to develop the client portfolio to increase their market share with the influencer strategy * The role involves leading the influencer plan across brands and working with the integrated Ogilvy team to support all brand activity * Actively contribute to the Influencer strategy by recommending objectives, targets, action plans, calendars, and budgets. * Align and collaborate with media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other stakeholders, internal and external, to deliver best-in-class campaigns for our clients. * Identify and nurture client-appropriate talent opportunities and relationships to help deliver the influencer program for clients. * Manage the day-to-day running of influencer campaigns, from identification and implementation to overseeing and reporting. * Maintain and build successful client relationships, selling in ideas and content streams in quick turnaround and high-pressure situations. * Present creative and sell content solutions to internal stakeholders and new and existing clients. * Building client trust and relationships to deliver great results and continue to increase the influence portfolio of brands * Manage influencer posting across the year, ensuring regulations are met, brand sentiment is high and influencers are brand advocates delivering great work. * Develop the campaigns    General Responsibilities: * Manage the influencer database and ensure it is up to date. * Stay up to date with cultural/social trends and customers' views and attitudes. * Assist in the development and participation in promoting our influencer offering across the business. * Support additional projects as required, such as new business pitches, market reviews, and competitive trends. * A passion for influencer marketing with a minimum of two years' experience in the field. * Self-motivated, action-oriented, and ambitious with a positive "can-do" attitude. * A keen interest in all things social and an avid follower of relevant news and trends.   Requirements: * Experience in working in a regulated category such as beauty * Experience in culture driving campaigns in beauty, lifestyle (Nice to have)  * Strong understanding of influencer marketing trends and social media platforms. * Excellent communication, project management, and organisational skills. * Experience in a fast-paced agency environment * Demonstrated experience in building consistently productive relationships. * The ability to remain optimistic under pressure. * Strong experience in key stakeholder management. * A creative outlook with the ability to achieve the full potential from projects, keeping abreast of and utilising new industry developments and technology. * Proven experience of integrating digital and social media in campaign activity.   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.