Business Director, SEA

Digital Agency Jobs; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 124,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks seeks a Business Director to lead and grow key APAC client portfolios from our Singapore office, acting as the strategic partner of record for digital campaigns, creative production, and transformational solutions.

You will build long-term relationships with major brands, propose new production projects, manage multi-brand accounts, and drive revenue against monthly and annual targets, collaborating with senior producers and tech directors in a fast-paced, AI-enabled agency.

Qualifications

• Senior role requiring 8+ years managing business accounts in digital advertising or production.
• Experience with APAC clients.
• Ability to write proposals and scope tech/creative solutions.
• Ability to manage fast-paced digital production projects.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for clients for strategy, creative, and production of digital campaigns.
• Engage new production projects with clients from the start, proposing solutions and driving change.
• Create innovative digital work across the customer decision journey for product launches and brand campaigns.
• Grow an essential FMCG business, managing multiple brands within it and ensuring work exceeds client expectations.
• Deliver against monthly and annual targets, growing accounts into long-term partnerships.

Skills

8+ years exp

APAC experience

Proposal writing

Digital production mgmt

Tech acumen

Presentation skills

Job description

Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website monks.com/careers.

Monks is a global, digital-first marketing, technology, and creative consultancy operating at the intersection of creativity, media, data, and culture. In APAC, our 700-strong team spans 14 offices across 11 countries, connected by a single, unified operating model.

As pioneers in the AI economy, we live an AI-first culture internally while helping enterprise clients shift from manual workflows to AI-native orchestration - scaling custom agent solutions, AI-driven campaigns, and next-gen AI search capabilities. By connecting brand strategy, media, data, and emerging technology around the consumer, we build intelligent platforms and content ecosystems for the world’s leading brands. We foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where authentic collaboration fuels industry-changing work.

Monks is seeking a Business Director to lead and grow business accounts across APAC from our Singapore office - acting as the strategic partner clients turn to for digital campaign strategy, creative, and production, and driving long-term account growth for major portfolios.

Role & Responsibilities

• As a Business Director at Monks, you are the first point of contact for our clients, who seek Monks for the strategy, creative and production of their digital campaigns.

• You’ll work side by side with your clients to engage new production projects from the start, proposing transformational solutions, assessing feasibility and driving change for your brands

• The work is centred around creating innovative digital work across the customer decision journey, working on both product launches and brand campaigns.

• You are responsible for growing an essential FMCG company, working across various brands within it managing multiple business accounts, and making sure the work being produced exceeds the client’s expectations.

• Delivering against monthly and annual targets, you help to grow business accounts into long-term success for all parties.

Requirements

• This senior role requires someone with at least 8 years of experience managing business accounts in digital advertising or production.

• You have experience working with clients across the APAC market

• You have extensive experience writing proposals and can propose solutions from a basic technical or a creative/commercial perspective.

• With the backing of our senior producers and tech directors, you need to be confident in managing the business of digital production 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 on Monks by showcasing our cases, capabilities and culture to (potential) partners at every turn.

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

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.