Project Manager

Monks; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Monks is seeking a Project Manager to join a special task force delivering digital advertising assets. You will coordinate fast-moving digital creative projects, liaise between client leads and internal teams, and manage multiple workstreams across Creative, Copywriting, Data, Strategy and Design.

You will balance resources, ensure on-time delivery, and brief teams while keeping stakeholders informed of progress. Experience with English communication and client-facing delivery is essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent project management skills with ability to manage client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage fast-moving digital creative projects.
• Liaise between client leads and teams to meet milestones.
• Coordinate multiple projects across Creative, Copywriting, Data, Strategy and Design.
• Plan and balance resources and workload to deliver on time.
• Ensure deadlines are met and flag unattainable ones early.
• Brief team on delivery objectives and update stakeholders on progress.
• Schedule, track and prioritize assignments and ensure the right Monks are allocated.
• Evaluate finished projects to improve processes and work streams.

Skills

Project management

Client relations

Communication

Organization

Scoping

English proficiency

Job description

Monks is on the lookout for a Project Manager. You’ll join a special task force to help manage the successful delivery of digital advertising assets.

Role & Responsibilities

• You’ll be managing fast-moving digital creative projects.

• You’ll liaise between our client leads and teams to ensure Monks nails milestone after milestone.

• You’ll help to manage the process and completion of multiple projects simultaneously, managing the in - and output of our Creative, Copywriting, Data, Strategy and Design.

• Part of your job is to balance resources and workload: your planning and coordination are key for successfully delivering projects on time.

• You’ll make sure deadlines are met, and flag the ones that aren’t attainable upfront.

• Part of your day-to-day is briefing team members on delivery objectives and keeping stakeholders informed on the progress of projects.

• You’ll schedule, track and prioritize assignments and make sure the right Monks are available to provide our client with a constant flow of work.

• You’ll also evaluate the good, the bad and the ugly of finished projects to improve our processes and work streams.

Specific skills towards Client

• You’ll be responsible for working across with our key client while making sure our work exceeds the client’s expectations.

• Receive briefs and synthesize them, fully understanding the requests.

• Receiving feedback, understanding it and translating it to the internal team, questioning Clients if necessary to understand where the feedback comes from.

• Knowing Client's business situation.

• Being able to make presentations and defend the agency's ideas.

• Getting involved to fully understand Client´s strategy.

• Knowledge of artificial intelligence.

Please be attentive to the requirements and accompany your application with a custom cover letter detailing why you’re the right Monk for the job

Requirements

• We’re looking for someone who is an excellent project manager, with the ability to manage relationships with clients.

• Your 2/3 years of experience in digital advertising or production have made you fabulous at dealing with stress and phenomenal at communicating with (stressed-out) clients and coworkers.

• Flawless organizational skills. With projects under their charge from start to finish.

• Manage expectations for the client and internal teams.

• You know how to work with media plans and can manage the launch of digital ad campaigns.

• You’re a proficient communicator — able to provide clear updates on the development of projects and knowing how to describe issues and required actions.

• You have solid scoping skills, which translate into accurate timings and resource estimates.

• You’re acquainted with the (post)production of film, image and animation assets for social media.

• Upper Intermediate English - You feel comfortable enough communicating in English

Nice-to-haves

• Experience dealing with ‘data-driven strategies.’

• Experience producing or managing DOOH campaigns.

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.