Influence Director B2B

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive4+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead end-to-end B2B influencer campaigns and team delivery, shaping influencer strategies, optimizing scope and profitability, and aligning with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, quick-turnaround content for corporate clients.

  • Oversee end-to-end influencer campaigns, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality meet agency standards.
  • Develop tailored B2B influencer plans with objectives, targets, calendars, and budgets in coordination with media, PR, and brand teams.
  • Coach and structure the team for efficient delivery, client relationship management, and proactive business development.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Act as a key leader within the team, overseeing incoming project requests and live campaign work to ensure excellence in delivery.
  • Work closely with the Business Director to effectively manage resource and capacity within the team, ensuring projects have the appropriate team attached and are running efficiently.
  • Mentor, delegate to, and elevate junior team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
  • Bring a true commercial mindset, with a keen eye on scoping out projects, tracking profitability, and understanding the costs attached to running our products and campaign types.
  • Actively contribute to and develop tailored Influencer strategies for our B2B and corporate clients: recommend objectives, targets, action plans, influencer selection, content calendars, and budgets.
  • Support additional agency growth projects as required, including leading/supporting new business pitches, market reviews, and competitive trend analysis.
  • Maintain, build, and nurture successful client relationships, successfully selling in creative ideas and content streams in quick-turnaround and high-pressure situations.
  • Present creative ideas and sell content solutions confidently to internal stakeholders, as well as new and existing clients.
  • Align and collaborate seamlessly with media, PR, social, brand activation, digital, and all other internal and external stakeholders to deliver integrated, best-in-class campaigns.
  • Oversee the end-to-end execution of complex, multi-layered influencer campaigns, ensuring timelines, budgets, and deliverables are met to the highest agency standard.
  • Liaise with production teams and talent managers to oversee content creation, from social-first assets to large-scale production shoots.

Requirements

  • Experience: A minimum of four (4) years of experience in influencer marketing, social media, or a highly related marketing field (experience in both B2B and B2C is applicable, but a passion for B2B is essential).
  • B2B Mindset: A strong understanding of the developing opportunity of influencer marketing for corporate and B2B brands, recognizing how it differs from B2C, and how to navigate the unique challenges corporate brands face.
  • Creative & Innovative: An innovative, creative approach to utilizing influence, with a true belief in the power of thought-leadership and B2B influence.
  • Resilience & Attitude: Self-motivated, action-oriented, and ambitious with a positive "can-do" attitude. The ability to remain optimistic, calm, and strategic under pressure.
  • Collaborative Spirit: A true team player with the ability to work collaboratively, delegate effectively, and champion the success of others.
  • Production Savvy: Solid knowledge of the content production process (including licensing, usage rights, and shoot logistics) with a proven track record of managing end-to-end campaigns from concept to post-campaign reporting.
  • Integrated Campaign Knowledge: Proven experience of integrating digital and social media into wider marketing and PR campaign activities.
  • Platform Expertise: A deep understanding of the social media landscape, with a strong, specialized knowledge of the LinkedIn platform and its algorithm, ad formats, and organic best practices.

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
  • Bupa Healthcare
  • Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
  • We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm
  • A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure
  • Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests and development budgets and Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
  • Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life Assurance
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Ogilvy UK inspires brands and people to impact the world. Our iconic, culture-changing, value driving ideas have delivered sustained growth for clients since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK has businesses specialising in Advertising Brand & Content, PR Social & Influence, Consulting & Behavioural Science, Ogilvy One and Health. Not to mention our boutique agency New Commercial Arts. Each deliver world-class award-winning creative solutions for clients including Coca-Cola, Mondelez, Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, F1, The Mayor of London and Samsung. We build on our legacy through our Borderless Creativity mantra - operating, innovating and creating at the intersection of our capabilities and talent. It is at this inflection point where the impact and magic lies. We call this borderless creativity. Ogilvy UK also has six incredible employee networks dedicated to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Roots, Rewired, Proud, Equals, MPower and Parents & Carers.

Founded in 1948
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502 employees (152 in marketing)
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348K
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$12
Traffic Source Mix
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46.1%
Direct
40.7%
Referral
8.2%
Social
4.1%
Paid
0.8%

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Marketing Team Size
84 (17% of company)

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