Senior Project Manager
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About the Role
As a Sr. Project Manager, you’ll lead complex and high-impact creative initiatives from digital initiatives and video production to sponsorship events and content development, ensuring every project is delivered on time, on budget, and in line with strategic goals. You’ll be at the heart of cross-functional collaboration, steering timelines, budgets, and team dynamics while upholding top-tier creative standards.
Responsibilities:
- Manage diverse projects including content development, sponsorship events, online campaigns, decks, videos, and other digital initiatives.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and teams to ensure alignment on timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
- Own project workflows, ensuring seamless exchange of information and assets.
- Process champion who’s not afraid to continually reassess and optimize the process
- Develop and maintain project timelines, calendars, and documentation.
- Ensure creative outputs align with client strategies, brand guidelines, and quality standards.
- Organize and lead briefings, kickoffs, and reviews with clear agendas and action items.
- Emphasize organization and communication to keep the team aligned and focused.
- Collaborate in creating budgets for accounts and new business opportunities.
- Monitor financial aspects and assist in vendor payments.
- Manage administrative tasks, including reviewing SoWs and contracts.
- Comfortable leading and directly addressing big cross-functional teams of varying seniority
- Establish and monitor KPIs, supervise project processes, and ensure compliance with company policies.
- Comfortable enforcing the sometimes difficult expectations required for the highest volume, fastest turn account
- Foreseeing and coordinating late-night availability based on project deadlines
- Following up with and securing senior-level approvals
- Enforcing roles and responsibilities amongst a diverse team, and holding teammates accountable for their tasks and deadlines
- Foster effective teamwork through communication and collaboration.
- Lead resource allocation and work with project managers to anticipate staffing needs and ensure the right talent is assigned to projects. Address any conflicts that arise alongside the Associate Project Manager and provide clarity to requesters regarding the resolution.
About You
The essentials:
- 4-6 years of experience in digital advertising or production.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, or related field.
- Proven track record in project management of large-scale creative projects.
- Proficiency in budget management and project monitoring.
- Strong communication and organization skills.
- Proficiency in project management tools and Microsoft Office suite.
- Experience with social campaigns, video production, and post-production.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Experience dealing with data-driven strategies.
Not a must, but a plus:
- Strong attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple projects.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
At 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.
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What We Offer
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
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.
