Ogilvy

Ogilvy

Business Director

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🌍London, United Kingdom
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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.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Business Director to join our Fan Engagement team. 

About Ogilvy Fan Engagement  

We fuel fandom to drive business impact for our clients. For Rights Holders, Leagues and Teams, we help them understand, grow, engage and monetise their fans. For Brands, we help them reach and engage fans through partnership activation that turns fans into consumers.  

We work with some of the biggest Rights Holders in Sport, including Formula 1, FIFA, The Premier League, LaLiga, NFL and the IOC. As well as global and regional Brands that activate partnerships in sports including Coca-Cola, Powerade, Samsung, Verizon, Carling, Google and IBM.  

We’re a team of passionate fan engagement and capability experts across the Ogilvy Network. And we’re looking to add top-tier talent to our growing team. 

What You’ll Do:

We’re hiring for a Business Director to take a lead role on our biggest fan engagement account and a new partnership account. Both are in motorsport.  

We’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of and experience working with Rights Holders and Brand Partnership in Sports. Beyond being a fan, we want an individual that understands the business of sport and the stage it provides brands to reach and engage audiences united by shared passions.  

You should be a strategic thinker, with a proven record of shaping and delivering fan engagement strategies and experiences. You’ll need to take an empathetic view of the motivations and needs of fans, across different sports and types of fandoms. And you should be insight-driven in your approach - comfortable working with fan data and translating insights into action for our clients.  

Your experience should be multi-channel, able to support fan engagement across the fragmented media landscape. The ideal candidate will have strength in direct-to-fan engagement, including relationship management and monetisation of fandom - as this is at the core of the Ogilvy Fan Engagement offering. This includes developing and implementing CRM strategies, particularly leveraging first-party data to enhance fan experiences and drive business results.  

You’ll need to be a natural collaborator, working with integrated internal and client teams. Experience working with large stakeholder groups and managing partnership relationships will be favourable.  

As a Business Director, you should have a proven record of partnering with client leads, being their trusted ally to deliver business results. And in doing so, grown the relationship between your agency and client. 

Beyond supporting our existing clients, you will be expected to support our continued growth in sports, contributing to lead generation, pitches, proposals and our presence in market.  

Other skills and characteristics we’re looking for: 

  • Have a healthy fascination about human behaviour and how it can be influenced  
  • Be entrepreneurial and have a growth mindset 
  • Have high standards and hold the team (and yourself) accountable 
  • Know how to foster a positive team culture and mentor team members performance and careers 
  • Obsess over the detail and always be ahead of the client to anticipate and manage change 
  • Be adept at setting up and optimising processes for efficient and effective delivery 
  • Be able to juggle multiple projects across clients and capabilities  
  • Be personable and strong communicator to influence client and team decisions   
  • Love what you do and be a good, fun person to work with 

 

Benefits 

  • 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

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.

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.

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