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.