Senior Account Manager

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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. Ogilvy Health is one of the largest global networks in healthcare communications and provides strategic, integrated communication solutions for our clients, including many of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical industry. We are made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.
About the Role

Are you looking to work in a creative and innovative agency where you will evolve, develop and be challenged? We're looking for an experienced Senior Account Manager to join us on a Rare Disease account working with both a Global and EU team. In this role you can expect to look forward to some interesting and varied projects including, consensus programming, a disease awareness campaign, train the trainer programmes (for both internal & external education), patient case profiles and creative HCP/patient materials and resources. The product for this therapy is FDA approved with the EU launch anticipated for Q4 2024 so there is a huge amount of environment shaping and preparation for the therapy to have an established position within the patient pathway and treatment algorithm.

There are several ongoing initiatives within Ogilvy Health outside of client work that you can choose to get involved in including our culture and social team and our various fantastic DEI groups, created to champion diversity in the industry, our agency and our work. You'll discover that we are a very friendly, non-hierarchical, eclectic team, bound together by a desire to do the best work of our lives.

*Please note this role is being hired on a 12 month fixed term contract basis initially. Although we cannot always guarantee it, there is the strong potential of the contract becoming permanent during this time*

We have offices in London, Oxford and Manchester so we're happy to look at a location that suits you best.Everyone works 3 days from the office each week and the rest of the week from wherever they work best. There are 2 agency anchor days where we like to bring everyone together to collaborate, socialise and share our best work. These are Tues & Weds for London and Weds & Thurs for Manchester and Oxford.

What You'll Do

As well as the above the following responsibilities will fall under your day to day remit

• Assisting in the overall financial management of the account;
• Lead and deliver multiple medium and large sized projects;
• Maintain an understanding/overview of all projects across the account;
• Review materials to ensure alignment with client brief/objectives and account/product strategy and be able to confidently discuss these knowledgeably with clients;
• Regularly review the overall account programme and client objectives with the Account Director and proactively advise client on new issues/external environment that may have an impact; provide expertise, leadership and experience to the internal team;
• Actively manage and develop team members; line management; grow business (organic and new business proposals).

What You'll Need

Our Senior Account Managers need to be able to establish priorities and anticipate problems in order to meet deadlines, find solutions and assess resourcing needs for the account. We are looking for people who with excellent attention to detail and first-class project management skills.

• A track record of success in project management and delivery across a variety of medical education projects, as well as financial management
• Excellent time management skills; dependable, conscientious, keen and reliable; able to juggle and prioritise, meet challenging deadlines, find solutions and work under pressure; ready to accept responsibility and extra work
• Good understanding of pharma regulations
• Desire to grow and develop our business as well as personally within the role; challenge the status quo and be part of developing new creative approaches and solutions to both our client's problems and our internal priorities

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.
Benefits

• 25 days holiday + your birthday off and a paid volunteering day - after 2 years service you can purchase up to an additional 5 days per year
• Enhanced parental leave
• A generous pension scheme - you pay in 4% we pay 6%, following probation contributions are matched up to 10.5% (17.5% in total)
• Choose from either Private Medical Cover (Bupa) OR Dental cover OR a monthly leisure allowance of £45 to spend on your health & wellbeing
• A fantastic Employee Assistance Programme provided by Telus which offers brilliant support, expert advice and specialist counselling
• Help at Hand - quick free access to a remote GP, mental health support, physio or a medical 2nd opinion
• Free 1-2-1 Coaching - online coaching for your professional or personal growth provided by Thrive Partners
• A comprehensive L&D programme

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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.