Associate Director, Strategy

Media.Monks; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital marketing is seeking an Associate Director of Strategy to enhance client engagement and drive growth. The role requires expertise in online marketing, strategic thinking, and the ability to lead and manage complex projects across teams. This position offers an exciting opportunity to shape impactful campaigns while working in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of marketing experience required.
• Ability to manage multiple global projects simultaneously.
• Experience in online marketing, including brand growth and retention campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Drive impactful growth and demand generation programs.
• Facilitate brainstorm sessions with clients to develop actionable plans.
• Own measurement and analysis of channels and campaigns.

Skills

Strategic problem-solving

Analytical thinking

Creative marketing

Communication skills

Education

BA / BS degree in Marketing or related field

Job description

We’re looking to add an Associate Director, Strategy to our Media.Monks team. As an associate director, you’ll drive impactful growth and demand generation programs, collaborating closely with our clients and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work in a fast paced environment.

The associate director will work with one of Media.Monk’’s flagship clients focused on Commerce Acquisition building global programs that help us achieve our client’s strategic objective.

The ideal candidate is a go-getter who jumps on new opportunities, gets nerdy about what they do, and works fast and flexibly to get the job done.

Responsibilities :

• Understand client’s objectives and establish processes for effectively managing the organization by understanding issues, trends, and perspectives that may influence our work
• Facilitate brainstorm sessions with client to develop innovative, impactful ideas for amplifying key initiative; develop best ideas into actionable plans
• Drive development of campaigns to amplify initiative including understanding various marketing channels, how and when to use them, identifying required marketing assets and driving asset development
• Own measurement and analysis of channels and campaigns with a focus on maximizing qualified business opportunities and return on investment
• Manage team-wide and executive communications between the client and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Help keep projects on track through structured tracking and reporting, constantly finding ways to improve processes and streamline efforts
• Provide insights and recommendations to ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution to help drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward
• Understand and develop testing strategies to measure campaign effectiveness and analyze findings to recommend optimizations for campaign improvement
• Lead campaign creative audits to provide strategy recommendations for updating in-market marketing assets
• If and when a project is missing milestones or is lacking momentum, bring the right resources / attention to get it back on track

Requirements :

• BA / BS degree in marketing or related field
• 8+ years of marketing experience
• Experience in all aspects of online marketing, including brand, acquisition, demand generation, nurture, growth, partnerships and retention campaigns
• Creative marketer with a passion for knowing your customer and proven track record designing programs that motivate them to take action
• Creative testing capabilities, being able to understand impact of A / B testing campaigns by analyzing results and developing a plan of action to optimize performance
• Distinctive problem-solving, strategic, and analytical capabilities. Demonstrated capacity to roll out complex, data-driven marketing campaigns
• Ability to manage several priorities and complex global projects simultaneously
• Ability to work in an ambiguous environment, with an entrepreneurial approach
• Ability to work across teams, build relationships, and influence executive managers
• Skilled communicator with strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, including both professional and casual style of communication
• Fun : Laughter is important. You work hard but like to enjoy what you do and have fun in the process

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What We Offer

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.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—$95,000 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.

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