Account Executive

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry. 

What You’ll Do 

• Builds expertise on a brand’s competitive landscape and product differentiators 

• Understands appropriate research techniques for strategy, creative, and media needs 
• Collaborates with Strategic Planning to develop briefs 
• Participates in /has exposure to development of client marketing strategy 
• Establishes core relationships with junior clients 
• Knows when to escalate potential problems 

• Acts as key collaborator with Consulting groups 
• Develops key creative relationships 
• Evaluates creative work and provides feedback for revisions, as needed 
• Able to adequately represent client interests to team 
• Collaborates with specialists at appropriate times to ensure consensus around scoping, project approach, etc. 

• Ability to write accurate simple scopes by engaging appropriate discipline leads and asking detailed questions of clients to gain clarity around deliverables and needs (excels in project definition) 
• Documented, rigorous scope tracking and scope creep identification. Manages finances. 
• Effectively and proactively communicates to client issues that can result in a scope change 
• Issues change orders, with oversight 
• Monitors critical project hand-offs 
• Initiates, presents, and drives to completion value-added projects (participation dependent on level of complexity) 
• Understands the implications of business strategy on project decisions 
• Responsible for weekly/monthly project status reports 
• Sets up meetings, includes the correct people, and provides accurate agendas and precise, actionable meeting notes 
  

What You’ll Need  

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred 
• 1-2 years of experience as an Account Executive at an advertising agency 
• Experience managing integrated marketing campaigns.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is a must. 
• Experience presenting information both orally and in writing 
• Solid business writing skills 
• Working knowledge of media basics 
• MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel 
  
  

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.