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About the Role
Monks is hiring for an Account Director.
We are looking for a strategic and dynamic Account Director to lead key client relationships, drive innovative marketing and advertising campaigns, and oversee a high-performing team. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional who thrives in a fast-paced agency environment, balancing big-picture strategy with hands-on execution.
As an Account Director, you will own client success, ensuring impactful campaigns, business growth, and creative excellence across multiple projects. If you’re passionate about building brands, leading teams, and delivering award-winning work, we want you on board.
Key Responsibilities:
Client Leadership & Strategic Growth
- Be the trusted advisor for clients, shaping their marketing strategies and ensuring strong partnerships. Proactively identify opportunities to improve clients’ marketing performance.
- Lead strategic planning, brand positioning, and integrated campaign development across multiple channels.
- Identify growth opportunities within accounts and drive upselling and cross-selling of services.
Campaign & Project Oversight
- Oversee the execution of multi-channel marketing campaigns, ensuring timely delivery and high-impact results.
- Collaborate with creative, media, social, and content teams to bring ideas to life.
- Drive innovation, ensuring our work is always ahead of the curve..
Team Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of account managers and executives to deliver best-in-class client service.
- Ensure smooth collaboration between internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Foster a culture of excellence, creativity, and strategic thinking.
Performance & Business Impact
- Measure campaign effectiveness, leveraging data to optimise and refine marketing strategies. Track campaign performance and provide data-driven insights and recommendations.
- Stay on top of industry trends, competitive insights, and new marketing technologies.
- Report key insights to both clients and internal leadership, ensuring alignment on goals and ROI.
About You
The Essentials:
- At least 8 years of experience in advertising or marketing within a fast-paced, independent environment.
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit, with the ability to drive day-to-day work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Proven track record of executing large-scale strategies and managing diverse digital marketing programs to meet key objectives.
- Comfortable analyzing digital marketing metrics to optimize program performance.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong presentation abilities.
- Experience leading and developing teams, providing mentorship, and driving growth.
- Ability to write campaign briefs and give strong direction to creative teams.
- Exceptional project management skills, including the ability to organize complex workflows across teams.
- Proficiency with Google Suite and presentation tools; openness to learning new software/tools.
Not a must, but a plus:
- Proficiency in additional Southeast Asian languages (e.g., Mandarin, Bahasa, etc.) is an advantage.
- Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira, Monday.com, Salesforce, etc. is a plus.
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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.
