Talent Acquisition Executive

**About Ogilvy**

**Talent Acquisition Executive**

**Team**: Talent Acquisition

**Location**: London

**Reporting into**: Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

**About Ogilvy**:
Every interaction a customer has with a brand builds a picture of that brand in their mind. Which means every single touchpoint is important. Every active engagement. Every passive experience. Every word. Every image. From the first 30 seconds to the next 30 years.

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Ogilvy UK specialises in bringing together brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science. Our world-class award-winning creative campaigns deliver solutions for clients including Molson Coors (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx and Pernod Ricard.

We call this Borderless Creativity.

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated their 75th anniversary and was the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally, and hosts the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, Nudgestock - now in its 12th year

**The Opportunity**:
As a Talent Acquisition Executive, you will work in our Talent Acquisition team, playing a key role in largest and most exciting growth area within Ogilvy UK - Social, PR & Influence.

A big part of this role will be supporting the organisation by delivering efficient and effective day-to-day support and assistance to our Talent Team across all aspects of the employee life cycle and people projects. You will be a key member of the team, helping us to champion our culture and employee experience. As such, you should have a passion for developing and implementing initiatives to improve the working environment and our employer brand.

**A bit about you**:
This role is for you if you want to gain valuable work experience, on the job training within a dynamic and ambitious marketing and advertising agency.

We’re looking for someone who is positive, passionate and enjoys working with others. You will act as a resource investigator in using your connections, online research, and industry best practice to propose solutions with a continuous improvement mindset. This a fantastic opportunity to grow your career within an organisation that priorities professional development, values new ideas and celebrates individual and team achievements.

You will learn and develop the skills across a full spectrum of Talent Acquisition, with commonality of communication, listening, analysis and insights across the areas. We will work with you with to help aid you to adapt to challenges and changing priorities whilst being able to work in a fast-paced environment too.

At Ogilvy UK, we want to make sure that you’re set up to grow and develop in your role and enjoy some of the best times of your working career.

**Requirements**:

- Partner with Senior Talent Acquisition Team across all new hires within Social, PR & Influence
- A proactive and creative approach to hiring, employing innovative sourcing techniques to attract top talent in competitive markets.
- Ideally 1-2 years experience within recruitment
- Proactively build a pipeline of talent to ensure the business has readily accessible talent in the market
- Partner within hiring managers to advise and understand hiring needs
- Be involved in employer branding initiatives across the UK
- Act as a primary point of contact for new employees, managing complex queries appropriately within the department
- Provide information and advice regarding Ogilvy's policies and processes
- A passion or interest to work within creative and marketing

**How we help you Thrive**:

- 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day
- Bupa Healthcare (now includes Bupa health assessment and menopause support)
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental leave
- We have a flexible working policy with core working hours (10am - 4pm) and have launched a 3.2 Hybrid Working model
- A 1.5:1 matching pension structure
- Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership plus Dental cover, Unmind membership, LifeWorks tool and annual eye tests.
- Learning and development budgets plus Enhanced and ongoing wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose. This means hiring and nurturing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientation, and gender identities - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives t