Associate Strategy Director
Job Description
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and strategic Associate Strategy Director to partner with one of Monk’s flagship clients focused on B2B Retail marketing. We are looking for someone who is a fast and flexible go-getter who jumps on new opportunities, with a natural aptitude for collaboration. Sound like you? Let’s get acquainted!
Responsibilities:
- Understand client’s objectives and assist client in developing go to market strategy for key initiatives
- Drive alignment across teams by clarifying goals, aligning resources and simplifying operations
- Facilitate brainstorm sessions with client to develop innovative, impactful ideas for amplifying key initiative; develop best ideas into actionable plans
- Drive development of campaigns to amplify initiative including understanding various marketing channels, how and when to use them, identifying required marketing assets and driving asset development
- Audit and recommend strategy for updating in-market marketing assets
- Manage on-time and on-strategy execution of marketing deliverables across all aspects of product marketing & event strategy, including narrative, messaging and creative execution
- Help keep projects on track through structured tracking and reporting, constantly finding ways to improve and evolve
- Provide recommendations, based on experience and best practices, to solve complex marketing narrative and creative challenges
- Execute programs across global markets and lead coordination efforts working with local markets and to deliver high quality and reliable experiences
- If and when a project is missing milestones or is lacking momentum, bring the right resources/attention to get it back on track
About You
The essentials:
- BA/BS degree in marketing or related field
- 8 - 10 years of marketing experience
- Experience in all aspects of product and event marketing, including narrative and messaging development, creative strategy and event planning
- Creative marketer with a passion for knowing your customer and proven track record designing programs that motivate them to take action
- Analytical capabilities, able to understand impact of campaigns by analyzing results and developing a plan of action to optimize performance
- Distinctive problem-solving, strategic, and analytical capabilities. Demonstrated capacity to roll out complex, data-driven marketing campaigns
- Ability to manage several priorities and complex global projects simultaneously
- Skilled communicator with strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, including both professional and casual style of communication
- Fun: Laughter is important. You work hard but like to enjoy what you do and have fun in the process
Not a must, but a plus:
- Experience working directly with large technology clients and a passion for tech or B2B internet products
- A passion for staying ahead of the curve on emerging Retail trends and best practices.
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What We Offer
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.
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.
