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.
As a Strategy Director, you are a leader who opens the aperture of opportunity on the account. You are highly collaborative with account and creative. Through directly managing junior planners and/or mentoring other Ogilvy strategists, you reinforce your own skillset. You aren’t just delegating; you create opportunities for people around you. You have a perspective on brands & consumers, and you speak from knowledge and experience, where your insight into consumer attitudes and behaviors is the source of your authority.
What You’ll Do
- Develop brand strategies, write creative briefs, and guide development and presentation of the creative work
- Bring proactive ideas to clients to push brands into new spaces
- Design and implementation of research projects to address client business issues, gain insight into target audiences and testing ad concepts
- Manage a team of Senior Strategists, Strategists, Associate Strategists, Ogilvy Associates, and interns assigned to your accounts
- Provide professional development opportunities and on-the-job training as needed
What You’ll Need
- 7+ years of planning/brand strategy experience
- Experience working on global CPG brands
- Managerial experience
- Ability to run day-to-day account work and pitches
- Contributes thought leadership and best practices to the department
- Comfortable with high-level client exposure; must be able to lead conversations, speak their language, and interview C-Suite executives without a hitch
- Strong stage presence
- Ability to understand and work within complex businesses, with multiple marketing budgets and stakeholders across various business units within one organization
- Ability to balance clients’ long-term branding initiatives with short-term sales goals to develop campaigns that work across time horizons and meet the needs of various stakeholders
- Must hold a valid passport and be able to travel internationally
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.
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The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.
Pay Range
$100,000—$230,000 USD
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer. Ogilvy considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Applicants from the United States can learn more about their rights by viewing the federal "Know Your Rights" and Pay Transparency posters by clicking here.
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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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