Jobs at Ogilvy South Africa

The Role:

• As an Influence Campaign Executive, you will play a crucial role in developing, managing, and executing both paid and seeding influencer marketing campaigns that cover a broad spectrum of Influencer work. You will be responsible for Influencer identification, executing Influencer campaigns that integrate into the overall Influencer strategy, including seeding, paid love and paid media campaigns. You will collaborate with your Influencer Manager to deliver best-in-class paid and seeding campaigns for our global client.
• You will be responsible for identifying and nurturing client-appropriate talent opportunities and relationships with support from your Influencer Manager. Additionally, you will need to stay up-to-date and on top of European cultural and social trends and customers' views and attitudes to ensure that our Influencer campaigns are relevant and effective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, manage and execute Influencer marketing campaigns for clients within a focus on beauty, lifestyle and fashion creators.
• Be responsible for day-to-day running of influencer campaigns, from identification, outreaching, negotiating and content management to overseeing seeding lists and reporting.
• Owning creation of Influencer briefs and Traackr campaigns.
• Ensuring Traacker is constantly up to date, being responsible for obtaining crucial reporting metrics per campaign.
• Identify and nurture client-appropriate talent opportunities and nurture relationships to help deliver Influencer campaigns on behalf of the brand.
• Maintain and build successful client relationships, suggesting creators and content ideas in quick turnaround and high-pressure environment.
• Be able to present creative and sell content solutions to internal senior management, IMs, IDs.
• Manage the Influencer paid database and ensure it is kept up-to-date.
• Stay up-to-date with cultural and social trends and customers' views and attitudes.
• Support additional projects as required, such as additional Influencer campaigns and competitive trend nudges.
• Be responsible for supplying Trends Nudges to the client on a weekly basis.
• Be responsible for nurturing Account Coordinators and helping them grow.

Requirements:

• A passion for Influencer Marketing and social media.
• Demonstrated experience in building consistently productive client relationships.
• The ability to remain optimistic and calm under pressure.
• Strong experience with Influencer communication and negotiation.
• A creative outlook with the ability to achieve the full potential from projects, keeping abreast of and utilising new industry developments and technology.
• Proven experience of integrating digital and social media in campaign activity.
• Self-motivated, action-oriented and ambitious with a positive "can-do" attitude.
• A keen interest in all things social and an avid follower of relevant news and trends.

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Job description:

• As the Account Manager, you will be the secondary account relationship owner responsible for this client account, which includes relationship, financial and reputational management on the account. You will report directly into the Group Account Director and Account Director on the account.

Key responsibilities & accountabilities:

Relationship Management

• Owner of the client relationship at a client account and project level Marketing Manager, Brand Manager and Marketing Assistants
• Grow and nurture the relationship between client and agency, becoming a partner who makes a positive impact on our business and theirs
• Responsible for maintaining, building and improving good relationship with client and driving efficient ways of working
• Effectively handle all required aspects of client communications at the project level identified
• Manage client queries, expectations and requirements
• Have a good understanding the client team and clients business, products, services
• Understanding the key stakeholders, customer and new audiences client wants to engage
• Understanding key changes, challenges and opportunities within your clients business
• Driving culture of creativity and making impact within the agency and within the client teams

Project and Account Management

• Actively manage project timelines and tend to resource planning in collaboration with your direct reports
• Organise, manage and motivate the internal agency teams, keeping them updated with latest developments and opportunities within the account
• Driving inter-departmental workings, alignment and good governance
• Scoping out small out of scope projects, deliverables and activities in collaboration with your GAD, AD and Project Management lead
• Monitoring project progress, updating project timelines and scheduling of reviews and presentations
• Developing reporting including contact reports, status reports, recon reports
• Implement approaches and process (support overall company process, led by Operations Director)
• Write creative briefs and debriefs with confidence and clarity around activities, deliverables and output to client

Financial Management

• Meeting overall profit margins, targets and growth targets assigned to the client account
• Growing projects and managing scope creep on projects
• Do WIP adjustments, invoice, create purchase orders, develop credit notes and close jobs on client account on a monthly bases
• Monthly forecasts to be tracked weekly and reported on once a month
• Support the GAD and AD in the development of Quarterly forecasting, budgeting and prelims
• Price quote scope and hours management, tracking progress on jobs
• Driving profitability on accounts, ensuring all out of scope work and scope creep is quoted for separately
• Where applicable, supply client with project or retainer (FEE) recons on monthly bases to manage costs oversee your account management team
• Personal and team timesheet management, ensuring accuracy and completion on daily basis
• Attend weekly WIP adjustment meetings with Production accounts

Reputation management

• Brief in the development of case studies and PR material for each big project, driving agency equity and credentials for the agency within each project
• Drive award winning opportunities within client portfolio and specific projects, deliver awards status to your GAD and AD
• Drive diversity and inclusion around talent, within the agency and in the client accounts

Career Growth

• Learning and applying theories/ methodology within your day to day activities
• Reading, following and research of relevant content to grow your own knowledge
• Attending formal agency provided skills training sessions, the opportunities given to you
• Driving own success and growth by completing training sessions from library of free sources
• Support the GAD in development of team objectives, career conversations
• Take part in the weekly and monthly Impact Awards nominations to drive a reward and recognition culture across departments

Role specific professional and technical skills

• Strong project management skills
• Good writing and delivery skills relating to internal and external communication
• Solid presentation skills at a Marketing Manager and Brand Manager level
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Solid time management and organizational skills
• Good interpersonal skills to drive client, agency and wider Ogilvy network relationships
• Good negotiation skills and understanding when to charge client for additional work
• Ability to interpret client feedback and debriefs
• Good understanding of local business operations and reporting pertaining to the agency
• Good understanding and experience in advertising, strategy and production process
• Fully conversant with Microsoft (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)

Level of experience

• Relevant degree in communications/ business management
• More than 3 years agency experience, 1 year in AM role
• Advertising and digital experience essential
• Traditional media experience beneficial
• ATL and BTL experience beneficial, but not essential

Job behaviours

• Pervasively creative have a passion for impactful creative work and shape the industry you want to grow in
• Adaptively connected integration with the larger Ogilvy group, with teams and within departments
• Relentlessly curious have a passion for learning, growing and thinking in ways that challenge others
• Divinely discontent think in ways that challenge others
• Eternal craftspeople make the ads you want to watch, design journeys you want to take and champion work you want your friends to see

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About the job Human Resources Administrator

• Ogilvy South Africa seeks a highly organised and detail-oriented HR Administrator to support our dynamic team. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, managing HR processes with precision and accuracy.

HR Administrator

• We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented HR Administrator to join our team. This role is responsible for managing a wide range of HR administrative tasks, including management of the freelancer process, onboarding and offboarding of employee leave administration, and general HR support. The ideal candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with excellent communication skills and a strong commitment to accuracy.

Responsibilities:

Freelancer Management:

• Manage the entire freelancer lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding.
• Generate contracts, manage onboarding documentation, and share information with payroll.
• Engaging Business Technology with regard to systems access for freelancers.
• Follow-up on freelancer invoices and timesheets.
• Ensure completion of mandatory WPP courses for long-term freelancers.

Offboarding:

• Manage the offboarding process for permanent employees & freelancers.
• Initiate system terminations and access revocations.
• Manage the return of company assets.
• Prepare certificates of service.

Leave Administration:

• Conduct final leave approvals on the automated leave system (ESS).
• Assist employees with ad hoc leave queries.

General HR Support:

• Assist with new hire orientation and first-day logistics.
• Ensure new joiners have the necessary equipment, access, and resources on their first day.
• Prepare long service anniversary and birthday/anniversary communications.
• Resolve technical issues for system users by engaging with Business Technology and WPP IT.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Tertiary Qualification in Human Resources / Industrial Psychology
• 1 2 years proven experience as an HR Administrator
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and HR systems.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.