Brand Strategist - Health

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy, part of WPP, 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.

Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit .

At Ogilvy Health we are looking for a Brand Strategist/Planner to join us on a permanent basis . If you want to be part of a team where you can thrive and grow, get in touch!

Role summary

• You’ll provide strategic support for: London hub-based international business

• New business pitches, particularly 360o/integrated discipline opportunities

• Application of brand, communications and engagement/experience planning tools across accounts (including workshop & research methodologies, etc.)
  

You’ll have

• A clear passion for healthcare and a desire to be at the forefront of healthcare communications

• Experience in brand and communications planning

• Solid healthcare or equivalent experience, preferably with time spent both client and agency side

• Experience in more than 1 service area of the healthcare arena (i.e., PR, Med Ed, Branding, Engagement/Experience, Advertising, Market Access)

• Experience in working and influencing multi-discipline/multi-geography programs & teams

Your skills

• Strong strategic thinking: critical reasoning, clarity and creativity

• Adept at mining actionable insights from a range of sources

• Persuasive and articulate in presenting ideas/views – challenging the status quo

• Strong interpersonal skills and client relationship management expertise

• Effective Leadership: client personnel (setting direction, supporting optimal collaboration)

• Knowledgeable about the evolving communications landscape and how that could be applied within the healthcare environment

• Sound creative judgment

• Strong business/financial management competency/decision making

• Workshop/meeting creation and facilitation expertise

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.

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.