Senior Influence Strategist
London, United Kingdom · Posted 1 month agoDescription
Senior Influence Strategist
Department: Influence Strategy
Location: London
Contract Type: Fixed-Term 12-Months
Full Time/Part time: Full Time
Reporting into: Strategy Director
The Role
Are you deeply immersed in internet culture and passionate about crafting influencer strategies that get everyone talking? We're looking for a Senior Influence Strategist to join our Ogilvy Influence team.
In this role, you'll be the strategic powerhouse behind our award-winning campaigns, turning cultural insights into influential ideas for some of the world's biggest brands. You will be our cultural ear to the ground, guiding clients and creatives to deliver work that earns its place in conversation, blending smart paid and earned strategies. Your mission is to elevate our influence offering, ensuring our work is not just seen, but remembered.
At Ogilvy, we are guided by David Ogilvy’s core values: Do the Right Thing, Do the Best Work of Our Lives, and Do It Together. If these principles resonate with you, we’d love for you to join us in shaping what’s next.
Ogilvy’s influencer marketing practice is the largest globally; we are proud to be the most awarded influencer agency for six years running and the recipient of the Cannes Grand Prix for Social & Creator for two consecutive years.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute award-winning influencer marketing strategies rooted in cultural insight for a diverse portfolio of high-profile brands.
- Act as the strategic lead on influence, guiding senior clients to understand and integrate influence within their broader marketing and communications plans.
- Uncover compelling insights and cultural tensions to build the foundations for exceptional, earned-first creative ideas.
- Write clear, inspiring creative briefs that empower our creative teams to generate groundbreaking work.
- Lead the strategic component of new business pitches, structuring and delivering winning responses with confidence.
- Collaborate closely with strategists across the agency and our specialist influence account teams to create cohesive, impactful campaigns.
- Mentor and develop junior colleagues, helping to upskill the entire team and elevate our collective craft.
Key Skills
- Strategic & Conceptual Thinking: You can see the bigger picture, challenge assumptions, and identify the real client problem to develop strategies that deliver tangible results.
- Cultural Fluency: You are constantly inspired by the social space, with an expert ability to identify the right trend, tension, or insight for the right brand at the right time.
- Compelling Storytelling: You are a highly polished and persuasive presenter, able to structure and sell an idea to senior clients and internal teams alike.
- Collaborative Leadership: You build credible relationships at all levels, inspire teams to produce their best work, and know how to delegate effectively to drive impact.
- Deep Craft Expertise: You have a profound understanding of the influencer and social media landscape, from platform nuances to measurement, and know what it takes to create distinctive, effective work.
About You
You are an experienced and passionate strategist who lives and breathes social and influencer marketing. You have a proven track record of building effective, earned-first strategies with influencers at their core. You’re naturally curious, comfortable with ambiguity, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two briefs are the same. Most importantly, you’re a collaborative team player, excited by the opportunity to work with diverse teams and help make Ogilvy’s influence output the best it can be.
Benefits & Culture
At Ogilvy, we are a friendly, collaborative, and eclectic team united by a shared commitment to doing the best work of our lives. Beyond client work, you’ll have the chance to shape our vibrant culture, join active social teams, and contribute to our industry-leading DEI initiatives.
Here is a snapshot of the benefits we offer:
- Hybrid Working: We embrace a hybrid model that blends collaborative in-office time with the flexibility to work remotely.
- Annual Leave: 25 days holiday, a paid volunteering day, plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
- Pension: A generous matched scheme. Contribute 4% (Ogilvy pays 6%) up to a maximum contribution of 7% (Ogilvy pays 10.5%—totalling a powerful 17.5%).
- Healthcare & Wellbeing: BUPA Private Medical Insurance, plus discounted BUPA dental cover or financial contribution towards your physical and mental wellness.
- Employee Assistance: 24/7 access to remote GPs, mental health support, physio, nutrition consultations, and confidential counselling for you and your family.
- Free 1-to-1 Coaching: Professional and personal growth coaching sessions annually.
- Life Assurance & Income Protection: Financial peace of mind for you and your loved ones.
Ogilvy champions innovation and the thoughtful application of AI. We encourage you to use AI tools to enhance your application and achieve the best possible results. During interviews, we may explore how you leverage AI, showcasing your judgment and ability to integrate these technologies effectively.
Please ensure your application authentically reflects your own skills, experience, and unique contributions.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.
We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.
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.
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