Strategic Comms Planning Director

Monks; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401k plan

Parental leave

Work-life balance

Career growth

DEI initiatives

Job summary

Monks is seeking an Associate Strategy Director, Comms Planning, to lead growth through insights-driven brand and media strategies across our global client portfolio. You’ll partner with Media, Creative, Social, Data and more to translate client asks into clear, actionable briefs and decks.

You are a strong writer, a collaborative self-starter, and a strategic thinker who can shape narratives, guide cross-functional teams, and keep projects moving under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience in Comms/Connections Strategy or adjacent strategy (digital, media, social, brand) with at least 1 year specifically in Comms/Connections
• Strong writer and communicator who writes fact-based, exciting, compelling narratives/briefs
• Self starter who’s eager to contribute
• Community-minded networker ready to collaborate with our many capabilities
• Intelligent & perceptive, seeing connections and the big picture where others don’t
• Persuasive and thoughtful ability to change minds and tell a story
• No ego- the Monks’ culture is all about collaboration
• Creative mindset that permeates your strategic thinking
• Experience partnering with cross functional teams, creative teams and agencies, stewarding the brand and consumer

Responsibilities

• Own your strategic perspective, bringing your strongest thinking, insight, and communication skills to craft strategies that are relevant for our client’s day-to-day needs
• Bring your best strategic self: share your frameworks, approaches, historic findings and life experiences to the table, willing to share and adapt with other Monks across a variety of strategic pillars and executions
• You serve up sharp thinking in well-designed decks that deliver on client/ project KPIs with care, vision, intelligence, and an understanding of the audience
• Extract behavioral tensions and cultural whitespace using audience intelligence platforms (e.g., GWI, YouGov) to ground broad brand goals in actionable human truths
• Analyze category dynamics and cross-channel habits via syndicated and digital intelligence tools (e.g., Nielsen, Pathmatics) to uncover strategic vulnerabilities and high-impact intersection points for our messaging
• Synthesize raw inputs into deck-ready narratives—separating data points from the actual strategic implications that inspire creative teams and tether to trackable KPIs
• Be culturally aware and responsive to relevant shifts and trends, always seeking out opportunities, partners, and audiences that can expand our client work

Skills

Strong writer

Communicator

Self starter

Team player

Big picture thinking

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

GWI

YouGov

Nielsen

Pathmatics

Job description

Monks is seeking an Associate Strategy Director, Comms Planning, to lead growth through insights-driven brand and media strategies across our global client portfolio. You’ll partner with Media, Creative, Social, Data and more to translate client asks into clear, actionable briefs and decks.

You are a strong writer, a collaborative self-starter, and a strategic thinker who can shape narratives, guide cross-functional teams, and keep projects moving under tight deadlines.