Media Strategist

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Drive holistic marketing strategies that unify brand, creative, media and consumer experience while ensuring alignment with business goals.

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About the Role

Monks is seeking a dynamic Strategist to join our award-winning media agency. In this role, you’ll be driving holistic marketing strategies that unify brand, creative, media and consumer experience across the full funnel. The role is central to ensuring marketing initiatives are insight-led, integrated and aligned with business goals. This position requires a balance of strategic vision, cross-channel marketing expertise, strong communications and project management skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Planning:
    Develop and deliver 360 marketing strategies across multiple marketing channels. Lead end-to-end strategic planning process across campaigns, ensuring a unified approach.
  • Integrated Campaign Leadership:
    Partner closely with creative and media teams to deliver and implement best-in-class innovative strategies. 
  • Marketing Effectiveness:
    Partner with analytics, media, and business intelligence teams to ensure measurement strategies are feeding insights into ongoing optimizations and future planning
  • Consumer Journeys:
    Lead the development and implementation of a consumer journey mapping process, coaching cross-functional teams through best practices and frameworks to uncover key touchpoints, identify gaps and ensure all brand assets strategically align to the journey.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    Work closely with brands, creative, media, and 3rd party partners to ensure alignment, consistency and agility in marketing efforts. Provide the team with potential solutions on developing holistic and interconnected plans.
  • Presentation & Reporting:
    Present strategies, tactical plans, and post-campaign analysis to client stakeholders, connecting performance to business outcomes.
  • Innovation:
    Stay ahead of creative and media trends, and identify opportunities to pilot new channels and partnerships

About You

The essentials:

  • 5+ years experience in strategy, insights, or planning
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Demonstrated expertise across digital, traditional, social media, and retail media platforms, with proven ability to design campaigns that drive both awareness and sales.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills; confident in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Exceptional communication, project management, and relationship-building skills.
  • High energy, detail-oriented, and a proactive "go-getter" with a positive attitude.
  • Comfortable working autonomously and collaboratively within a team environment.
  • Passion for exploring new tools and technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Proficient in relevant planning and analytics tools (e.g., Nielsen, Comscore, Google Analytics).

At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.

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This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company’s then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range
$85,000$105,000 CAD

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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CAD $85,000 – CAD $105,000 per year
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