Associate Director, Media Strategy & Planning [Future Role]

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Shape and execute online marketing strategies while leading complex media programs that drive high ROI for a global client portfolio, focusing on large-scale paid media campaigns.

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About the Role

  • This is a future opportunity, and we’re proactively connecting with candidates for upcoming openings.

Monks got our start in 2001, and since then we've grown a lot. With offices all around the globe and around 6,000+ employees, we deliver A-level work that's won hundreds of Cannes Lions and FWAs. We are leading the way in building integrated teams to bring a full suite of best in class offerings to world renowned companies. We’re talking big. We accomplish amazing work through our people, by remaining agile  and executing exemplary work in real-time for our global clients. 

Our work is bundled by teams, not by organizational layers. But it's not all work. Everyone at Monks knows how to have a good time, and everyone contributes to the positive energy of our culture. If you’re intrigued, read on as we may have the dream job for you.

About the opportunity:

In the Associate Director, Media Strategy & Planning position, you will help to shape and execute the online marketing strategies, develop and optimize highly-effective paid campaigns across media channels, with the goal to increase customer base and engagement levels. This is a role where you will partner with client managers and innovation leaders from one of our major technology clients.  Our ideal candidate is an outstanding senior digital marketing leader with experience across all facets of digital marketing, a fast and flexible go-getter who jumps on new opportunities, with a natural aptitude for collaboration. Humility and collaboration are also a big part of their DNA. Sound like you? Then let’s get acquainted!

At this time, all positions are exclusively work from home. Once the company decides to resume normal office operations, your time will be spent in our office, though frequency is subject to change based on business needs and general health and safety considerations.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Strategically lead complex media programs for a diverse, global client portfolio, consistently delivering insightful recommendations and action plans that drive high ROI
  • Manage resources across a global portfolio of paid media programs
  • Develop comprehensive media strategies and tactically execute online customer acquisition campaigns that align directly with client goals
  • Lead and execute large-scale paid media campaigns across Google Ads, social media channels, and programmatic platforms
  • Provide ongoing management and optimization of these campaigns with a heavy emphasis on tracking, automation, script creation and reporting
  • Analyze, review and present Quarterly Business Reviews to stakeholders and recommend areas of growth for the account.
  • Mentor your team to develop and tactically execute online customer acquisition strategies and campaigns for our client’s products
  • Responsible for team-wide performance key performance metrics on large scale paid campaigns
  • Lead strategy and recommendations for customer experience testing and optimizations throughout the customer journey (ad creative, ad placement, landing page experience, conversion forms, post-conversion relationship, A/B and multivariate testing, etc).
  • Work closely with multiple clients to drive success in meeting their goals and partner with the cross-channel leads for integrated campaign program development.
  • Oversee client financials and account profitability
  • Mentor, manage, and grow direct reports

What we need of you:

  • 8+ years of digital marketing experience with deep expertise in Google Ads and Social Media campaign management
  • History of end-to-end management of digital media campaigns
  • Exceptional presentation skills, comfortable speaking about and presenting data to clients
  • Proactive, disciplined, organized, self-starter and highly motivated, comfortable managing uncertainty and working independently
  • Excellent leadership, management and organization skills
  • Exceptional ability to communicate cross-functionally within a highly energetic team
  • Demonstrate ability to think strategically about complex issues, leading to thoughtful recommendations, action plans, and campaigns that drive high ROI

Plus:

  • Bachelor’s degree required with strong performance in undergraduate coursework and demonstrated analytical success
  • Subject matter expert on programmatic media and strong knowledge of ad tech platforms (DMP, SSPs, Ad Servers)

 

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

 

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us. 

S4Capital focuses on building a digital advertising and marketing services business that disrupts traditional models by integrating content, data, and technology to deliver seamless, always-on solutions for a diverse range of clients, including global ...

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