Ogilvy UK - Consumer PR - Business Director

• Client leadership & stakeholder management • Act as the senior day-to-day client lead for European and Global teams, building trusted, long-term partnerships • Provide strategic counsel across brand, reputation, partnerships and cultural activation • Lead complex, multi-market stakeholder management across global, regional and local teams • Ensure the FMCG Brand has consistent, senior-level leadership fully embedded in the brand business • Global & European strategy development • Lead the creation of global and European communications toolkits, frameworks and playbooks that balance global brand consistency with local market nuance • global and European communications toolkits • Embed earned-first thinking into all toolkits • Partner closely with creative and strategy leads to shape culturally relevant, insight-led ideas • Market management & intelligence • Oversee market engagement across Europe and priority global territories, acting as a central connector between the brands global teams and local markets • Ensure clients are consistently informed on market trends, cultural shifts, competitor activity and emerging opportunities • market trends, cultural shifts, competitor activity and emerging opportunities • Champion local market insight, ensuring work is adaptable, relevant and executable across diverse regions • Global events & partnerships • Lead the communications strategy and delivery for global brand moments and events, ensuring alignment across markets • global brand moments and events • Play a central role in developing and activating brand partnerships, embedding them seamlessly into toolkits and campaign narratives • brand partnerships • Work with market and agency leads to bring partnerships to life in locally relevant, culturally resonant ways • Team leadership & integration • Directly manage a London-based team, working alongside creative and strategy leadership • Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture grounded in integration and shared ownership • What makes this role different: • 100% dedicated to the FMCG portfolio, allowing for deep brand immersion and long-term strategic thinking • 100% dedicated to the FMCG portfolio • Operates at true global scale, balancing global brand stewardship with local market realities • global scale • Deeply partnership-led, with collaborations embedded into brand strategy • partnership-led • Strong emphasis on earned-first, culture-first marketing, influencing how integrated campaigns are built from the ground up • earned-first, culture-first marketing • Sits within a fully integrated agency model, requiring constant collaboration across discipline • fully integrated agency model • Key Leadership Competencies: • Proven experience in global and/or European leadership roles, ideally within FMCG or large-scale consumer brands • global and/or European leadership roles • Exceptional stakeholder management skills — this role is heavily relationship-driven and requires confidence navigating complexity • stakeholder management • Strong understanding of how global brands operate across markets, with sensitivity to cultural and market nuance • global brands operate across markets • Demonstrated experience working in integrated agency environments across PR, advertising, social and influence • integrated agency environments • A passion for culture-led, earned-first marketing and its role in driving brand relevance and business impact • culture-led, earned-first marketing • Commercially astute, strategically minded and comfortable operating at senior client level • A genuine interest in — and affinity for — the drinks brands and the wider FMCG landscape • 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. • Communication & Collaboration: • 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. • Organisation & Resource Management: • Responsibility & Accountability: Holds ultimate accountability for the entire department's commercial and creative performance. Empowers directors to lead their teams while maintaining transparent, high-level communication with executive leadership on business progress and challenges. • Responsibility & Accountability: • 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. • Problem Solving & Decision Making: • 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. • Growth & Development: • Ogilvy Values & Behaviours: Acts as the ultimate custodian of the agency's values within the department. Embeds these values into the practice's core processes, from recruitment and client management to performance recognition. • Ogilvy Values & Behaviours: • Skills for Your Growth to Client Partner: To support your progression, you will be expected to develop capabilities in the following areas: • Skills for Your Growth to Client Partner: • C-Suite Partnership & Business Acumen: Transition from a practice leader to a C-suite strategic advisor. Develop a deep, holistic understanding of the client's entire business model, competitive landscape, and financial drivers to become an indispensable partner to their most senior leaders. • C-Suite Partnership & Business Acumen: • Integrated Solution Leadership: Evolve from leading a single capability to orchestrating the agency's full suite of services. Master the art of integrating diverse crafts—from brand advertising and PR to consulting and data—to solve the client's most complex business problems. • Integrated Solution Leadership: • Enterprise Commercial Strategy: Shift focus from departmental P&L management to owning the entire client commercial relationship. Drive enterprise-level growth by identifying strategic opportunities across the client's organization and negotiating large-scale, multi-year partnerships. • Enterprise Commercial Strategy: • Relationship as the Core Product: Move from a role where the craft is the primary product to one where the strategic client relationship itself is the core deliverable. Your success will be measured by your ability to build unwavering trust and long-term loyalty at the highest levels. • Relationship as the Core Product: • Personal Qualities: • 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 • 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.