Senior Account Director

Job Description

At Media.Monks, we are recruiting a production-savvy go-getter who will manage business accounts at the intersection of creativity and technology.

Role & Responsibilities

• As a Senior Account Director at the biggest creative production company on the planet, you are the go-to person for our clients, who seek Media.Monks for the strategy, creative and production of their digital briefs.
• You’ll work side by side with the clients to engage new production projects from the start, proposing transformational solutions, assessing the feasibility and driving change for your brands.
• The work is centered around creating innovative digital work across the customer decision journey, working on both product launches and brand campaigns.
• Find new business opportunities, nurture new business leads and run pitches
• Responsible for all client communications, and compliance on client deliverables.
• You are responsible for growing key clients, working across various brands within it, managing various business accounts, making sure the work being produced exceeds the client’s expectations.
• Build and develop a deep understanding of the client's sector, the strategic issues, new initiatives and the client's competitive position; share this understanding with colleagues as appropriate and act as the source of marketing knowledge for the sector.
• Provide ad hoc support to the client, as requested, to solve a broad strategic marketing problem.
• Provide all ad hoc support to our clients, to solve any strategic issues.
• Delivering against monthly and annual targets, you help to grow business accounts into a long-term success for all parties.

Requirements

• This senior role requires someone with 12+ years experience managing business accounts in digital advertising or production.
• 8+ years in a lead role, you have a proven track record managing high-value and volumes of interdisciplinary work.
• You have extensive experience writing proposals and can propose solutions from either a basic technical or a creative/commercial perspective.
• With the backing of our senior producers and tech directors, you need to be confident in managing the business of digital production projects in a fast-paced environment.
• You love to geek out when it comes to new technologies because while managing relationships is your foremost responsibility, you’ve got to grasp technology in a way that allows you to help scope and propose target-driving quotes and timings.
• With your strategic mind and presentation skills, you can sell people on Media.Monks by showcasing our cases, capabilities, and culture to (potential) partners at every turn.
• You make it your business to keep clients happy.
• If all of this doesn’t excite you enough already, you also have the honor of compiling monthly reports on sales, expenses and forecasts. $-)

Benefits

Lead Our Accounts to New Heights

At Media.Monks, you’ll join a young, successful and crazy-ambitious company, creative people would kill to work for. You’ll get to do great work with even better coworkers. You can go all-in with our one-of-a-kind company culture, and all-out at parties. If you meet and exceed this profile, send us your best application so far.

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About Media.Monks

Media.Monks is the purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 7,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Joining Media.Monks means becoming part of a highly ambitious collective of some of the most gifted, focused, joyful talent from all over the world, with the goal to change the industry for good.

Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, and continual inclusion in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players (2020-24). In addition, we’ve received the honor of being Adweek’s first AI Agency of the year (2023), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023. Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.

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. 

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