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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: Media.Monks is hiring a brilliant and hyper-organized steward of client relations and internal project excellence for one of the world's highest–profile brands.
Role & Responsibilities
- As an Senior Account Director at a creative and technology powerhouse, you are the first point of contact for our clients, who seek Monks to lead content, creative, strategy, and production.
- You’ll work side by side with your clients to engage new projects from the start, proposing transformational solutions, assess the feasibility and driving change for your brands
- The work is centered around creating innovative digital work across the customer decision journey, working on both product launches and brand campaigns.
- You are responsible for growing key clients, working across various brands and business accounts, making sure the work being produced exceeds the client’s expectations
- Delivering against monthly and annual targets, you help to grow business accounts into a long-term success for all parties.
Requirements
- This senior role requires someone with 8 years experience managing business accounts in digital advertising. With 4+ years in a lead role - with a proven track record managing high-value and volumes of interdisciplinary work.
- You can work in English & Japanese at the highest professional level.
- You have extensive experience writing proposals and can propose solutions from either a basic technical or a commercial perspective.
- You need to be confident in managing the business of digital projects in a fast-paced environment.
- You love to geek out when it comes to new technologies because while managing relationships is your foremost responsibility, you’ve got to grasp technology in a way that allows you to help scope and propose target-driving quotes and timings.
- With your strategic mind and presentation skills, you can sell people by showcasing our cases, capabilities, and culture to (potential) partners at every turn.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity – you’re the type of person who is willing to jump in to solve any problem or carve out a new process.
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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.
