Director, Media Solutions (Account Management & Media Planning)

Monks Associates Inc; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Director of Media Solutions to lead key client relationships and drive performance through data-driven strategies. This role emphasizes building strong partnerships, managing account growth, and leading a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment. You will leverage your expertise in digital media to craft compelling strategies that resonate with top-tier brands. If you are passionate about client service and eager to make an impact in the digital landscape, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in client service and digital media.
• Mastery of media planning, buying, and measurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead contact for Senior Brand and Media client stakeholders.
• Develop go-to-market strategies and media plans.
• Track client scorecard to ensure performance goals.

Skills

Client Relationship Management

Account Management

Data Analysis

Digital Media Planning

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Advertising, or Business

Job description

Director, Media Solutions (Account Management & Media Planning) • London Europe

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About the Role

The Director, Media Solutions will be tasked with leading some of Monks’s most important and valuable media client relationships with top tier brands. This requires expertise in five core areas:

• World class ability to build client & platform relationships
• Exceptional track record of managing and growing accounts
• Ability to tell data driven stories and extract key insights for senior level clients
• Deep understanding of capabilities across the digital landscape with a focus on Social, Search, Display/OLV, Site-Direct
• Experience managing and stewarding career growth for direct reports

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Monks lead point of contact with Senior Brand and Media client stakeholders for Asana global corporate enterprise marketing.
• Lead Solutions team in development of go-to-market strategies and media plans informed by rich consumer/industry insights with a laser focus on performance.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the client's business, including strategic priorities, historical performance, competitive threats and opportunities.
• Partner with Investment and Analytics teams to maintain executional and performance excellence.
• Track and oversee client scorecard to ensure team is set up to hit performance goals.
• Develop process improvements and best practices to ensure consistency, flexibility, and efficiency.
• Identify innovative, breakthrough ideas and approaches to uplevel team offering.
• Set team up for success by establishing clear vision/goals, identifying opportunities for training, facilitating introductions to cross functional teams, and regularly offering constructive feedback.

About You

The essentials:

• 10+ years industry experience focused on client service and digital media.
• Eager to forge long-term client partnership fueled by data-driven strategies & performance outcomes.
• Mastery of traditional, digital, and social-specific media planning, buying and measurement.
• Experience 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.
• Experience working on beauty/fashion/luxury accounts.

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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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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