About Ogilvy
Ogilvy 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.
Ogilvy Health is one of the largest global networks in healthcare communications and provides strategic, integrated communication solutions for our clients, including many of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry. We are made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations and creative/design.
There are several ongoing initiatives within Ogilvy Health that you can choose to get involved in including our various employee resource groups and social team, created to champion greater cultural and ethnic diversity in the industry, our agency and our work.
About the Role
We're seeking a Social Media Executive to join our award-winning team and drive impactful results for our healthcare clients. This crucial role contributes to the agency's award-winning social media offering. You'll manage campaigns for existing healthcare clients across various therapy areas (oncology, mental health, respiratory, rare diseases), requiring experience in all stages, from strategy and creative development to paid promotion and evaluation. Reporting to the Senior Social Media Director, you'll collaborate with internal teams such as strategy, medical education, and creative.
What's in it for you? This role offers impactful work on award-winning campaigns, excellent career growth potential with direct mentorship, collaborative learning opportunities, increased visibility, and the chance to engage in purpose-driven initiatives. You'll also develop valuable skills in content creation, healthcare communications, and client relationship management.
We offer hybrid working, with 2 days in the office and 3 from home, or wherever you work best.
What You’ll Do
- As Social Media Executive you will develop and execute impactful social media strategies for healthcare clients.
- Manage campaigns across multiple platforms, optimising for engagement and results.
- Oversee content creation, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and client objectives.
- Implement paid social media strategies to maximise reach and impact.
- Analyse campaign performance and provide data-driven insights.
- Collaborate with internal teams to deliver seamless client service.
What You’ll Need
- Agency experience managing social media for clients.
- Expertise in social media strategy, paid campaigns, influencer marketing, social listening, and content creation.
- Strong execution skills across the major platforms (LinkedIn, Meta, X, Google, YouTube).
- You're proactive in building and monitoring ads to achieve campaign objectives.
- Highly organised with an eye for detail.
- You don't need experience in Health, however a curiosity to learn more in this space would be great.
- Experience working with multiple teams effectively.
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.
Benefits
- Time Off: 25 days holiday + your birthday off + a paid volunteering day. After two years of service, purchase up to 5 additional holiday days annually.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Supporting you and your family through life's milestones.
- Excellent Pension Scheme: We contribute 6%, you only pay in 4%. After your probation period, we'll match your contributions up to 10.5%, for a total of up to 17.5%.
- Your Choice of Wellbeing Benefits: Choose from Private Medical Cover (Bupa), Dental cover, or a £45 monthly leisure allowance to invest in your health and wellbeing.
- Comprehensive Support: Access a fantastic Employee Assistance Programme (Telus) offering expert advice, specialist counselling, and brilliant support. Plus, get quick and free access to remote GP services, mental health support, physiotherapy, or a medical second opinion through Help@Hand by Unum.
- Invest in Your Growth: Free 1-2-1 online coaching for professional or personal development provided by Thrive Partners, and a comprehensive Learning & Development programme.
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.
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please do not hesitate to let your recruiter know.
What We Do
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. We build 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. We are proud to currently rank as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying our ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities.
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