VP, Group Account Director

Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing and advertising services company connecting the dots across content, data & digital media and technology services.

Inspired by the connectivity and flexibility of technology APIs, Media.Monks’ single-P&L model offers brands seamless access to a nearly 6,000-strong team of digital talent organized across 57 talent hubs in 33 countries. 

With us, you’ll find a diverse group of colleagues with different backgrounds and perspectives.

We believe everyone has something of value to offer, and that sustaining a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace begins with fostering an environment where people can be themselves, authentically, every day.

We want to build something with the potential to change the heart of our industry, and we’d love to include your unique perspective.

Now, about the opportunity: The Media.Monks VP Group Account Director maintains agency relationships in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

This is a role for a strategic and growth-minded professional with the industry know-how and rapport to simply get things done.

If you’re an experienced go-getter who just gets clients and seeks out new opportunities to create impactful work, then let’s get down to the essentials.

The Day-to-Day:

  • Manage a portfolio of clients whose engagements may include brand strategy, digital content production, experiential, social media, and digital media.
  • Own the client relationships and deliver fiscal health and growth.
  • Understand clients’ business challenges and be able to articulate strategies to address those needs.
  • Build and sustain relationships with senior clients, becoming their trusted marketing partner.
  • Identify new opportunities within current client relationships, chart the path to forge new relationships and design strategies for expansion across our portfolio of services.
  • Collaborate with your subject matter expert colleagues to produce great work.
  • Lead an integrated team through the RFP process for new business engagements.
  • Manage, train and mentor a team of directors responsible for individual pieces of business.
  • Set and manage processes related to account operations including finance, resourcing, forecasting, and client business reporting

What You Bring:

  • 10+ years of increasing levels of responsibility in marketing leadership positions at agencies and/or client organizations.
  • Minimum of two to three years agency experience within the last ten years of employment.
  • Leadership skills that mean others want to work with and for you.
  • Deep understanding of marketing principles and programs with an emphasis on digital marketing across strategy, content creation and media.
  • Proven track record of managing and growing multi-million dollar global accounts.
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills that ensure our message is always clear and compelling to our client partners.
  • Demonstrate a comfort level with data, media and analytics.
  • Expertise in social media strategy and management.
  • Multi-channel digital-first client campaign experience.
  • AOR and Ad-hoc team management experience.
  • Regional lead experience.
  • Passion to stay on the pulse of culture and ability to provide a strategic POV. 

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About Media.Monks:

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good.

Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth.

We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

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. 

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