PR Account Director- Riyadh

Job Description

Our Vision:

 

Our vision is to inspire brands and people to impact the world. To create big ideas that make a significant contribution to the planet, society, and the bottom line. We believe in today’s world this is the best way for our clients to achieve sustainable growth.   

 

We achieve this by breaking down the barriers that restrict talent and ideas, we call this Borderless Creativity.        

 

Which is why our teams work fluidly across 5 capabilities Advertising, Experience, PR, Consulting and Health .   This allows us to not only operate but innovate at the intersection of capabilities and talent.  We believe impact and magic lies at this intersection.   Ogilvy scales this by seamlessly connecting and accessing the deep cultural expertise of 132 offices in 83 countries.   

 

Our mission: We inspire brands and people to impact the world

How we do it : We innovate and operate at the intersection of people and capabilities

What we do: Borderless creativity

 

Today, Ogilvy is recognized as the world’s leading creative agency. We are also one of the most effective networks globally.

 

About Memac Ogilvy:

 

Memac Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide WPP & Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with Consulting, Advertising- Brand & Content, PR, Experience & Health under 1 P&L and under single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is the most integrated modern creative and effective partner for client growth in MENA. We inspire brands and people to impact the world. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions, with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as a thorough and passionate People agenda.

The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It counts around 500 staff members.

 

What we’re looking for:

We’re on the hunt for a PR Account Director who brings value to our clients by analyzing, solving and presenting viable communication solutions to client problems. You identify and inspire new work streams and solutions that lead to client growth by collaborating with and drawing on the expertise of the Ogilvy’s vast resources and capabilities. You are valued advisors and partners to Senior Comms Leads, as well as agency leaders at similar levels. You identify and champion great work and understand the importance of flawless delivery. You are an exceptional leaders of teams who inspires others to act courageously.  

As an Account Director you lead large, more complex projects, armed with your experience and proven ability to think and do. You are able to problem solve and create highly effective and fruitful working relationships with clients and colleagues, collaborating with other Capabilities and Crafts instinctively.

You may also have a solid understanding of strategy and always ensure that you and the team are working towards strategic objectives.

If that sounds like you, all you have to do now is convince us you’d be better at the job than anyone else.

 

To Succeed in This Role, You Need To:

 

• Overseeing PR campaigns from the brief to delivery.
• Leading a team of PR professionals, monitoring their performance and ensuing they are trained to achieve their best.
• Supporting new business and developing existing accounts.
• Overseeing media strategy.
• Ensuring we achieve exceptional outcomes for our clients.
• Developing senior press relations and managing key contacts.
• Project work and PR data analysis and presenting the outcomes.
• Working as part of the senior leadership team.
• We are looking for a person who has gained extensive B2B & B2C PR experience within a relevant sector or industry.
• Ideally degree educated in English, PR, Communications, Marketing, Business or Journalism.
• A keen networker with a strong industry network and contacts with senior journalists and members of the press.
• A proven track record of successfully implemented PR campaigns for a range of clients.
• A polished presenter, adept at explaining complex information, PR terms and outcomes to senior players.
• Commercial acumen and experience in developing business and winning new clients.
• Leadership and management experience and able to develop a team of high performers and oversee performance.
• Driven, ambitious and willing to contribute to the business.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Able to communicate across departments and represent PR at a senior level within the business.

 

 

Memac Ogilvy inspires brands and people to impact the world. We exist to create iconic, culture-changing, value-driven ideas for our clients. 

Borderless Creativity is our lifeblood. We operate, innovate, and create at the intersection of our talented people, across advertising disciplines such as strategic thinking and distinctive idea creation, through a social-first approach — alongside our wider Memac Ogilvy family of Advertising, Experience, Health, Consulting and PR.  Never have there been more opportunities available to communicate incredible ideas, impact culture, and influence consumer behavior. Paid advertising is a consistent, regular and controllable way of getting a business and brand’s core message in front of consumers in a way that no other medium can. Creativity is our greatest differentiator as we transcend the status quo and shift culture.
 

How We’ll Support You
Memac 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.

 

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.