VP, Group Account Director
Now, about the opportunity: The Media.Monks VP Group Account Director maintains agency relationships in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This is a role for a strategic and growth-minded professional with the industry know-how and rapport to simply get things done. If you’re an experienced go-getter who just gets clients and seeks out new opportunities to create impactful work, then let’s get down to the essentials.
The Day-to-Day:
- Manage a portfolio of clients whose engagements may include brand strategy, digital content production, experiential, social media, and digital media.
- Own the client relationships and deliver fiscal health and growth.
- Understand clients’ business challenges and be able to articulate strategies to address those needs.
- Build and sustain relationships with senior clients, becoming their trusted marketing partner.
- Identify new opportunities within current client relationships, chart the path to forge new relationships and design strategies for expansion across our portfolio of services.
- Collaborate with your subject matter expert colleagues to produce great work.
- Lead an integrated team through the RFP process for new business engagements.
- Manage, train and mentor a team of directors responsible for individual pieces of business.
- Set and manage processes related to account operations including finance, resourcing, forecasting, and client business reporting
What You Bring:
- 10+ years of increasing levels of responsibility in marketing leadership positions at agencies and/or client organizations.
- Minimum of two to three years agency experience within the last ten years of employment.
- Leadership skills that mean others want to work with and for you.
- Deep understanding of marketing principles and programs with an emphasis on digital marketing across strategy, content creation and media.
- Proven track record of managing and growing multi-million dollar global accounts.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills that ensure our message is always clear and compelling to our client partners.
- Demonstrate a comfort level with data, media and analytics.
- Expertise in social media strategy and management.
- Multi-channel digital-first client campaign experience.
- AOR and Ad-hoc team management experience.
- Regional lead experience.
- Passion to stay on the pulse of culture and ability to provide a strategic POV.
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About Media.Monks:
Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.
At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.
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.