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# Creative Director  - Ogilvy  Health at Ogilvy UK

- **Company:** Ogilvy UK
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyuk/jobs/4721043005

## Job description

Ogilvy Health is seeking a Creative Director with a strong art direction background to lead creative work on key accounts within our healthcare portfolio. This individual will balance hands-on creative leadership with team development, ensuring both exceptional work and a thriving creative culture.

## Key Responsibilities

Creative Leadership

- Own and drive creative direction across key accounts, ensuring big, effective ideas that meet client and patient/HCP needs
- Bring strong conceptual thinking to every brief—pushing beyond the expected to deliver work that's both strategically sound and creatively distinctive
- Maintain hands-on involvement in art direction, from concept through execution, across digital, print, and campaign work

## Team Development

- Mentor and grow art directors, designers, and copywriters on the team
- Foster a collaborative, high-standards creative environment
- Provide constructive feedback and creative direction that elevates the work and the people making it

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner closely with Client Service to align creative solutions with business objectives and timelines
- Work hand-in-hand with Strategy to ensure ideas are rooted in insight and built to perform
- Present and defend creative concepts confidently to clients and internal stakeholders

## What We're Looking For

- 8+ years in advertising/agency creative roles, with proven experience as an Art Director progressing into creative leadership
- Healthcare/pharma experience preferred (HCP and/or DTC)
- A portfolio demonstrating strong conceptual and visual storytelling ability
- Experience managing and developing junior creative talent
- Excellent collaborator who thrives in cross-functional, client-facing environments
- Comfortable navigating regulatory/compliance considerations inherent to healthcare marketing

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.

## About Ogilvy UK

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ogilvy UK is the London-based arm of the global advertising and marketing agency Ogilvy, offering integrated creative, consulting, PR, and health communications to major brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of WPP, a publicly traded company)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 1948 (Ogilvy founded by David Ogilvy; UK office established later)
- **Founders**: David Ogilvy (founder of Ogilvy)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Brand Consulting, Healthcare Communications, Customer Experience
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – large enterprise clients across sectors (retail, finance, automotive, consumer goods, technology, healthcare, government)
- **Mission statement**: “We 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.” [ogilvy.com](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/)

## Products & Services
- **Advertising**: Full-service creative campaigns across traditional and digital media.
- **Ogilvy Consulting**: Strategic transformation using behavioral science, demand analytics, innovation, and design thinking.
- **Ogilvy Experience**: Customer engagement services including ecommerce, MarTech, and experience design.
- **Ogilvy PR**: Corporate, consumer, and influence communications blending data, technology, and earned media.
- **Ogilvy Health**: Promotional and educational communications for pharmaceutical companies, health innovators, and NGOs.
- **Ogilvy One**: CRM and customer loyalty programs focusing on lifetime value.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed for Ogilvy UK. Parent company WPP plc had a market cap of approximately £10–11 billion (2025).
- **Key Metric**: Revenue figures for Ogilvy UK are not publicly available; globally, Ogilvy is one of the world’s largest agency networks with 132 offices in 83 countries.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: WPP (parent company). Key clients include Aldi, American Express, British Airways, Coca-Cola, Ford, Unilever, Boots, Mondelez, Nestlé, and many others. [ogilvy.com](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/)
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple functions (44+ open roles as of mid-2025); continued focus on integrated “Borderless Creativity” model; robust DEI networks (Roots, Proud, ReWired, Equals, Parents and Carers) signaling investment in inclusive culture.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global scale with local depth**: Part of a 132-office, 83-country network while maintaining strong UK market expertise.
- **Borderless Creativity**: Agency model that fluidly combines advertising, consulting, experience, PR, and health to solve complex client problems.
- **WPP ecosystem**: Access to WPP’s data, technology (e.g., WPP Open), and media buying power.
- **Proprietary insights**: Behavioral science and demand analytics capabilities via Ogilvy Consulting.
- **Deep industry relationships**: Long-standing client partnerships (e.g., Coca-Cola, Unilever, Ford) built over decades.

## Strategic Focus
- **Borderless Creativity**: Breaking down internal silos to deliver integrated, platform-agnostic solutions.
- **Talent & DEI**: Scaling employee resource groups (Roots, Proud, ReWired) and embedding diversity into talent management and client work.
- **Health & Wellness**: Expanding Ogilvy Health and the Wellness Practice to capitalize on growing consumer demand for brand purpose in health.
- **Data-driven creativity**: Investing in analytics and behavioral science to prove ROI and deepen client relationships.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasis on creativity, inclusion, and social impact. The agency describes itself as a “people first” organization. [ogilvy.com](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/careers)
- **DEI Networks**: Active employee groups for LGBTQ+ (Proud), racial/ethnic diversity (Roots), neurodiversity (ReWired), gender equality (Equals), and parents/carers. [ogilvy.com](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/about)
- **Hybrid/Office**: Based in central London; hybrid working model likely (typical for WPP agencies). Specific policy not detailed in search results.
- **Learning & Development**: Chief People Officer Laura Sherwood champions tangible L&D strategies. [ogilvy.com](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/team)
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on globally recognized brands, cross-capability collaboration, strong commitment to DEI and community.

## Sources
1. [ogilvy.com - UK Homepage](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/)
2. [ogilvy.com - Careers](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/careers)
3. [ogilvy.com - About](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/about)
4. [ogilvy.com - Team](https://www.ogilvy.com/uk/team)
5. [Greenhouse - Ogilvy UK Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyuk)

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