Social Business Director

About Ogilvy   Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.   About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.  Senior Social Strategist       Department: Social Strategy Location: London, Sea Containers  Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months)  Full Time/Part time: Full Time  Reporting into: Group Head of Strategy      The Role As a Senior Social Strategist, you will sit at the absolute intersection of cutting-edge technology, entertainment, sport, and modern culture. Working across our portfolio, you will have the unique challenge of shaping the social presence for two of the world’s most dynamic brands: our flagship AI platform and Pixel. Crucially, both our AI platform and Pixel operate with a challenger brand mindset. We aren't here to follow the category playbook, copy and paste formulas, or do what’s safe. On our AI platform, you will help navigate the absolute frontier of generative AI, disrupting traditional ideas of creativity. On Pixel, you will dive into the heart of pop culture, lifestyle, and passion points—redefining how a hardware brand shows up around major sponsorships, from the drama of Love Island to the tribal energy of Arsenal, Liverpool, and the England national teams. This role is built for a sharp, agile strategist who relies on original thinking to challenge the status quo and capture the internet’s attention. The Reality: Hands-On Craft over Pure Theory This is a role for a dedicated practitioner, not a hands-off theorist. You must love rolling your sleeves up, getting your hands dirty, and getting deep into the daily mechanics of social execution. You have a granular, native understanding of modern social channels, algorithms, and formatting. You are energized by the craft of making—working closely with creators, production teams, and PR partners to ensure unconventional strategies smoothly translate into scroll-stopping content. You don't just hand off a brief; you steward the work through the messy and exciting process of real-time optimization, distribution, and community engagement. * The Challenger Mindset: We are looking for an original thinker who inherently rejects the standard industry template. You don't look at what competitors are doing just to duplicate it. Instead, you bring an innate curiosity and a desire to think differently, rewrite rules, and find completely fresh angles to position our brands ahead of the curve. * The Thrill of the Speed: This is a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment. We are looking for someone who finds speed energizing and liberating rather than overwhelming. Because culture and technology evolve daily, you must thrive on rapid iteration, live prototyping of ideas, and the autonomy to pivot at the speed of the feed. * The Polymath’s Perspective: Your finger is firmly on the pulse of the digital zeitgeist. You effortlessly navigate the worlds of global football, lifestyle, travel, and mainstream entertainment, while possessing a genuine curiosity for how generative AI can be creatively weaponized to disrupt consumer behaviors. Core Pillars of Responsibility * Disruptive Channel Architecture: Translating high-level brand visions and massive sponsorship properties into concrete, platform-native social strategies. You know exactly how to architect a modern campaign across TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, using the formats in unexpected ways that break the mold of typical brand content. * Agile Creative & PR Partnership: Serving as the daily strategic anchor for creative teams and makers. You champion different ways of thinking during the collaborative process of drafting, testing, and refining ideas on the fly, ensuring our content fuels a wider, earned PR news cycle. * The Challenger Creator Ecosystem: Nurturing and expanding an elite network of creators, cultural figures, tech-pioneers, and athletes who themselves think differently. You will collaborate directly with them to show—rather than just tell—the disruptive power of our AI technology and the distinct style of Pixel. The Profile: Who You Are You are a grounded visionary with a sharp blend of rigorous strategic thinking and a deep love for execution. You are comfortable with ambiguity, energized by momentum, and completely allergic to the corporate "copy-and-paste" approach. * The Culturally Connected Practitioner: You are just as comfortable dissecting a real-time Love Island villa moment as you are mapping out an AI integration for a major match day or a travel activation. You know what makes people share and engage because it feels entirely fresh. * The Tech & AI Enthusiast: A native fascination with innovation. You don't just use digital tools; you actively experiment with AI to find entirely new creative possibilities that challenge how agency work gets done. What Success Looks Like 1. Flawless & Original Social Execution: Developing sharp, actionable briefs and frameworks that translate into high-performing, structurally sound social campaigns that stand completely apart from the category noise. 2. Agility as a Competitive Advantage: Capitalizing on live TV moments, match days, and tech trends with an unexpected, challenger perspective to carve out immediate opportunities for both our AI platform and Pixel. 3. Collaborative Energy: Elevating the day-to-day work by serving as a highly trusted, proactive partner who inspires creative teams, PR leads, and clients to think more boldly. How we help you Thrive:  *  25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day    * Bupa Healthcare   * Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave   * We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm   * A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure   * Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year    * Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme   * Life Assurance  At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.  We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.  Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve.  This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity. Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.

About Ogilvy   Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.   About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. Influence Business Director Large Tech Organisation   Department: PR & Influence Location: London Contract type: Fixed-Term (12 months) Full Time/Part time: Full Time Reporting into: Managing Partner / Client Partner  About Ogilvy: Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. The agency specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, Madri, Unilever and Mondelēz International.  Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally; we are proud to be the most awarded influencer agency for six years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.   Ogilvy UK also hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock – which is now in its 12th year. James Murphy is the CEO of Ogilvy Group UK, which includes Ogilvy UK and New Commercial Arts (NCA), a boutique creative agency he co-founded in 2020, recently acquired by WPP.    The Role: As an Influence Business Director, you will lead the strategic direction and integrated delivery of our full suite of influence activity for one of the world's most iconic and dynamic technology brands within the UK market. This role demands a forward-thinking, data-driven leader who can navigate the complexities of tech marketing and leverage the power of influence to drive brand reputation, product launches, and cultural relevance at scale across the UK. You will sit at the intersection of influence-first thinking, culture-led marketing, and integrated agency delivery. Your mission will be to ensure that influencer campaigns, events, social content, and advertising work seamlessly together to create maximum impact across diverse UK audiences for our tech client. This pivotal role places you at the heart of our operations within a dedicated, integrated agency model, exclusively focused on delivering ground-breaking solutions for this client. Your remit will span from the initial spark of ideation - identifying emerging influencer trends, creator opportunities, and innovative event activations through the meticulous development of cutting-edge, data-backed strategies tailored to UK market nuances and brand objectives. You will lead the charge on defining compelling creative narratives and content frameworks for creators, ensuring brand consistency and breakthrough engagement. Subsequently, you will oversee flawless execution, transforming strategy into impactful activations across various platforms and key product launch moments within the UK. This role demands a holistic leader capable of driving innovation, leveraging data for strategic advantage, navigating complex client relationships, and delivering measurable results within a dynamic UK agency environment. Key Responsibilities: * Client Leadership & Stakeholder Management: * Act as the senior day-to-day client lead for the UK teams of our leading tech client, building trusted, long-term partnerships at senior levels. * Provide strategic counsel across brand building, product launches, reputation management, cultural activation, and the evolving influence landscape in the UK. * Lead complex stakeholder management across the client's UK teams and key internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clear communication. * Ensure the tech client benefits from consistent, senior-level leadership fully embedded in their UK business objectives and challenges. * UK Influence Strategy Development: * Lead the creation of UK influence strategy toolkits, frameworks, and playbooks that balance brand consistency with platform specifics. * Embed influence-first thinking, ensuring creator-led content, partnerships, and social activations are foundational not additive to campaign planning. * Partner closely with creative, media, and strategy leads to shape culturally relevant, insight-led ideas powered by influencer insights and data for the UK market. * Drive the strategic integration of paid, earned, and owned influence channels to maximise reach and impact within the UK. * UK Market Intelligence & Performance: * Oversee market engagement across the UK. * Act as a central connector between the tech client's UK teams and local activation partners/stakeholders. * Ensure clients are consistently informed on emerging influencer trends, platform shifts, competitor influence activity, and data-driven insights into UK audience behaviour. * Utilise advanced analytics and reporting to demonstrate campaign effectiveness, optimise performance, and articulate ROI for influence investments in the UK. * UK Events & Integrated Campaigns: * Lead the influence strategy and delivery for key UK brand moments, product launches, and events, ensuring alignment and maximum creator engagement. * Play a central role in developing and activating high-impact influencer partnerships, embedding them seamlessly into integrated campaign narratives for the UK. * Work with market and agency leads to bring these partnerships and events to life in locally relevant, culturally resonant, and impactful ways across the UK. * Team Leadership & Integration: * Directly manage a London-based team of influence specialists, fostering their growth and development. * Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture grounded in integration, shared ownership, and a passion for influence. * Lead integration across influence, advertising, social, and content teams – ensuring truly joined-up delivery and a holistic client approach within Ogilvy. What Makes This Role Different: * 100% dedicated tech client focus, allowing for deep brand immersion, long-term strategic thinking, and the opportunity to shape the future of influence for a global leader within the UK. * Deeply partnership-led, with influencer collaborations and strategic event activations embedded into the core brand strategy. * Strong emphasis on influence-first, data-driven, culture-first marketing, influencing how integrated campaigns are built from the ground up. * Sits within a fully integrated agency model, requiring constant collaboration across disciplines to deliver holistic influence solutions.   Key Leadership Competencies: * Proven experience in UK-specific leadership roles within influence marketing, digital marketing, or related fields, ideally within the technology sector or for large-scale consumer brands. * Exceptional stakeholder management skills – this role is heavily relationship-driven and requires confidence navigating complex, multi-layered client organisations. * Strong understanding of how major brands operate across the UK market * Demonstrated experience working in integrated agency environments across influence, advertising, social, content, and data & analytics. * A passion for culture-led, data-driven, influence-first marketing and its role in driving brand relevance and business impact. * Strategically minded and commercially astute, comfortable operating at a senior client level and driving significant business growth. * A genuine interest in – and affinity for – the technology sector, its innovations, and the rapidly evolving influence landscape. * Highly organised and process-driven, capable of designing and managing complex LONG-TERM influencer programs efficiently and effectively. * Proven ability to leverage data and analytics to inform influence strategies, measure campaign impact, identify trends, and optimise performance for continuous improvement. * Extensive and established network within the Influencer industry, including leading creators, talent agencies, platforms, and industry thought leaders, specific to the UK market. * Communication & Collaboration: Defines and communicates the overarching vision for the Influence practice. Develops communication strategies that align the department with agency leadership and fosters a culture of open dialogue and mentorship for senior leaders. * Organisation & Resource Management: Architects the department's operational structure to support profitability and growth. Oversees P&L, leads resource forecasting, and ensures the practice is structured to handle complex, large-scale business needs. * Responsibility & Accountability: Holds accountability for the teams commercial and creative performance. Empowers directors to lead their teams while maintaining transparent, high-level communication with executive leadership on business progress and challenges. * Problem Solving & Decision Making: Acts as the final point of authority on the most critical business issues. Makes high-stakes decisions that protect the agency's commercial interests and mentors directors in strategic problem-solving. * Growth & Development: Champions and funds a departmental learning culture. Defines the long-term talent strategy, creates career pathways for all levels, and builds a best-in-class team through senior hiring and mentorship.   Personal Qualities: * Extensive and proven experience in a senior leadership role (e.g., Senior Account Director or Business Director) within a top-tier agency. * Strategic yet pragmatic * Culturally curious and globally minded * Confident, collaborative and calm under pressure * Energised by complexity, scale and partnership-driven work * Demonstrated track record of P&L ownership and delivering significant, year-on-year business growth. * Proven success in leading and winning multi-million-pound new business pitches. * Exceptional leadership skills with experience in shaping departmental culture and developing senior talent. * Strategic visionary with the ability to anticipate market trends and define a clear, forward-looking path for the business. * Outstanding commercial acumen and sophisticated negotiation skills.   How we help you Thrive: * 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day * Bupa Healthcare * Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave * Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm * A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure * Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests. * Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme * Life Assurance Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.  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.