Assistant Account Executive

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities— Advertising, Experience, Public Relations, Health, and Consulting work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries to bring forth world-class creative solutions for our clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Network of the Year (Campaign)
• One of the “Best Places to Work” for LGBTQ+ equality (Human Right’s Council’s Corporate Equality Index)
• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)
• Network of the Year (One Show)
• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)
• Garner Magic Quadrant Leader
• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)
• …and Ogilvy was the only agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100

For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

About the Role  

Our Assistant Account Executives are our entry level agency staff who partner daily with project managers and various account leaders to learn about the agency business (operational and delivery excellence, efficiency and speed to market) as well as the client’s business (competitive understanding, basics in client data and metrics, etc.) Assistant Account Executives should be proactive and resourceful.

What You’ll Do 

• Learn about key agency disciplines such as Media, Production, Strategy, Program and Project Management, Creative, etc.)
• Provide administrative support, including status reports, meeting scheduling, event planning and budget tracking
• Effectively utilize internal and external research capabilities, including social media platforms and other emerging communication resources. Research and identify influences for client initiatives.
• Monitor and analyze media coverage for clients and prepare reports. Develop media lists. Pitch trade and appropriate media
• Draft news releasees, pitch letters, case histories, etc.
• Basic analysis of client business results and competitive landscapes
• Begin to “manage the making “of communications assets and understand Ogilvy’s processes

What You’ll Need  

• 0-1 year of relevant experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effective collaboration skills
• Demonstrable passion for all aspects of the agency’s business
• Strong skills in research and analysis
• Willingness to take on new challenges
• Detailed oriented and reliable

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.