What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP, Group Strategy Director position at Monks?
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About the Role
As VP, Group Strategy Director you'll help bring out the best in our creative strategy, brand strategy, and communications planning teams. You'll uncover meaningful, surprising insights and set the tone for creating and selling ground-breaking work-while helping to define the business, creative, future vision, and growth across our accounts.
This role is a New York City (32 Old Slip #705. New York, NY 10005.), hybrid role!
Responsibilities :
- Develop insightful, innovative, cut-through strategies that lay the foundations for great work. Base your thinking on the client's brand objectives, KPIs, audiences, message, and voice, as well as on macro and locally relevant cultural trends and insights, overall industry best practices, business intelligence, and media performance data.
- Lead and provide hands-on project work, briefs, strategic POV, and recommendations to inform content development for connection moments and tactics, creative approaches and to answer clients' business challenges and requests.
- Shine with your ability to blend creative, brand, product, and comms planning, always staying on top of best practices. You're plotting how ideas will travel and be engaged with, then working with cross-functional teams to sell through and deliver them.
- Partner closely with account, creative, media, and operations leads, and any other capabilities, develop, sell, deliver, and implement best-in-class innovative work.
- Drive collaboration with global and regional teams, clients, and agency partners to facilitate efficient ways of working and delivery. Be a catalyst for fluid, clear, and collaborative communications, and work as one team.
- Approach all work considering data, culture, global and local relevance, and scaled content and performance rigor.
- Provide thought leadership on marketing vision and best practices for the marketing of today and tomorrow, powered by AI, fueled by cultural context, trend,s and conversations, and think dynamically about the evolution of creative media, performance marketing, content creation, and communication planning.
- Have a growth mindset and an eye to detect business opportunities for Monks and our clients, as well as the ability to build business cases and the recommended solutions.
- Have a contagious passion for our business and the creative industry, an infectious drive for rigor, qualitative work delivery, and a great collaborative attitude.
About You
The essentials :
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At Media.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.
What We Offer
Benefits
Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. 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
200,000-$220,000 USD
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.
Salary : $200,000 - $220,000
