Job Description

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.

About the Role

You provide excellent project co-ordination and administrative support to the clients and internal team. You\'re the go-person for client and team support. A \xe2\x80\x9ccan do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude, resourcefulness and thirst for knowledge fuel your growth.

With 0-3 years related industry (consulting, digital, agency) experience, you have a good understanding of how the agency works and able to manage clients\' and internal stakeholders\' expectations effectively. You are able to establish and build relationships internally and with working level clients. You\'re driven by our mission to make our clients\' brands matter, and fundamentally believe that creativity has the power to change fortunes. You are able to work collaboratively with all internal team members to facilitate the process of getting things done.

What You\'ll Do

Your focus as an Associate/Senior Associate

• Provides excellent project co-ordination and administrative support, including agenda setting, meeting preparation, scheduling, status reports, contact reports, budget and timeline tracking.
• Plan, schedule, execute, manage and report on project progress (under supervision).
• Able to communicate effectively to the clients and internal team.
• Able to translate and write supplementary briefs (under supervision) that drive outcomes for the clients.
• Able to effectively present work that delivers business success for clients and ensures feasibility of delivery and implementation.
• Understands scoping of work, mapping of resource requirements and budgets.

The skills you learn and apply:

• Understanding of what makes great work and what it takes to make it happen.
• Ability to stream briefs into the right workflow based on past experience and a strong understanding of integrated marketing communications principles.
• Strong attention to detail and robust follow through.
• Understanding of internal workflow systems and OS.
• Ability to manage expectations of internal and external stakeholders and team members.
• Relationship-building with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate project outcomes.
• Having the EQ to facilitate multiple specialists, personalities and opinions.

What You\'ll Need

• Relentless curiosity
• Passion and pride in driving great work
• Good organiser of people, things etc.
• Attention to detail and robust follow through
• Strong project management skills
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Resilience
• Strong work ethic
• Resourceful
• Working on FMCG and QSR category

• A successful candidate has either had exposure to these categories or has done personal research to understand what makes great comms in Asia for these categories
• Regional work across Asia, hubbed in Singapore

• A successful candidate has either had exposure to multi-market work or is curious and passionate to learn consumer insights, as well as different ways of working, in diverse markets
• Passionate to learn about modern advertising, especially on digital and social platforms

• A successful candidate knows the social landscape in Asia, is an avid user of the main platforms, and has a POV on social trends

You\'re ready to move up when you are able to deliver project values of up to $150K independently and smoothly by being a trusted client advisor as well as a respected internal team member.

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.

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