Former Ogilvy & Mather UK group delivery director Marc van den Berg has been appointed to the new role of group operations director at M&C Saatchi.

Reporting into CEO Jaimes Leggett, van den Berg’s core focus will be to streamline operations and production, to harness the group¹s many creative parts smartly, efficiently and with more rapid delivery to market.

“Marc is a very important hire for the Group. M&C Saatchi is comprised of many specialist businesses and Marc will be key to pulling all those strands together for a more seamless creative output," said Leggett.

“One that ensures we are able to take a more cohesive and agile approach to solving our clients¹ business challenges to efficiently deliver work that works on any number of levels. Marc’s credentials are second to none and we are thrilled to have him on board.”

At O&M van den Berg was responsible for delivery and production output (across print and digital), offshoring across Europe, The Middle East and delivery alignment for both the UK operations.

Prior to that he was head of delivery at OgilvyOne, the UK’s most awarded direct & digital agency.