VP, Group Media Director

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Monks is a new kind of agency, built from the ground up by award winning creatives, top data scientists and cutting-edge media people willing to defect from the old agency model to create smarter work. Challenging convention, it took some of the best talent from strategy, creative, media, design and the DTC world and put together a new way of working to bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimizations and commerce. A spirit of curiosity, relentless creativity and data informed decision making define our culture and people. Monks services regional clients like Estee Lauder Companies, Molson Coors, Shipt, Kraken, and Helen of Troy from its offices in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles.

In everything you do, you will be data driven at heart, leveraging core statistical principles to help us separate the signal from the noise, and ensure your strategic decisions are backed with analytical rigor.

While remote, the working hours for this role will be EST. 

About the Role

• Client Leadership: 
• Serve as the Monks lead point of contact with Senior Brand and Media client stakeholders.  
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the client's business, including strategic priorities, historical performance, competitive threats and opportunities. 
• Oversee client’s business, driving innovation results while maintaining continuity
• Ensure senior Monks leadership is proactively engaged in client needs and accurate updates on the health of the relationship regularly provided. 
• Track and oversee client scorecards to ensure the team is set up to hit performance goals.
  
  
• Team Leadership: 
• Oversee the total output of the media teams to ensure delivery of executional and performance excellence at all times. 
• Lead the total client media teams in development of go-to-market strategies and media plans informed by rich consumer/industry insights with a laser focus on connecting strategies to outcomes. 
• Set client teams up for success by establishing clear vision/goals, identifying opportunities for training, facilitating introductions to cross functional Monks teams, and regularly offering constructive feedback on performance.
• Lead and manage a team of 8 with 2 Sr. Directors as direct reports, ensuring the team is delivering in service of agency and client goals. 
• Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure teams deliver consistency, flexibility and efficiency in all their internal and external outputs.
  
  
• Relationship Management 
• Build relationships with top media platform partners and oversee and oversee client JBP activation. 
• Ensure Monks team is engaging with key media partners and providing timely and thoughtful client recommendations grounded in strategy and data. 
• Manage effective cross agency partnerships relationships (Creative & Media)
  
  

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years industry experience focused on client service and digital media. 
• Eager to forge long-term client partnership fueled by curiosity, data-driven strategies & brand performance outcomes. 
• A master of traditional, digital, and social-specific media planning, buying and measurement. 
• Experienced in leading and managing growing teams in a high-pressure environment. 
• Exceptional attention to detail across communications and deliverables. 
• Not afraid to defect from the status quo in order to make our clients and company more successful.
• BA or equivalent with emphasis on marketing, advertising, or business.
• The working hours for this role will be EST. 

CHARACTER QUALIFICATIONS

• You are seeking to make a large impact at a rapidly growing agency.
• You are a self starter with very high standards for your work.
• You possess excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.
• You have the desire to grow as a leader and mentor to colleagues.

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.  

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What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

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.

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.