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About the Role
Monks is hiring for an Integrated Project Director to lead and manage one of our clients, ensuring exceptional delivery of all projects (large-scale creative adaptations and creative campaign projects)while fostering strong client relationships and driving operational excellence, and oversee our team of project managers across various clients.
We are an integrated agency specialising in creative campaigns and asset adaptations at scale. We work with some of the world’s leading brands.
Responsibilities:
Project Leadership & Delivery:
- Oversee end-to-end project delivery of client campaigns, ensuring on-time and on-budget execution.
- Manage the production and adaptation of creative assets across multiple channels (digital, social, print, in-store and beyond).
- You’ll liaise between our clients and internal teams to ensure Monks nail milestone after milestone - hustling internal resources to meet external deadlines no matter what.
- Your job is to constantly balance resources and workload: your planning and coordination are key for successfully delivering projects on time.
- You’ll help to manage the process and completion of multiple projects simultaneously, managing the in- and output of our Monks.
- Ensure all deliverables align with client objectives, brand guidelines, and quality standards.
- You’ll make sure deadlines are met with lethal precision, identify potential risks and proactively flag the ones that aren’t attainable upfront and develop mitigation strategies.
- You plan, oversee and conquer, manage the input and output of a team that includes creatives, designers, developers, and QA.
- You stay updated on industry trends and new technologies to inform ways of working
- You look for ways to optimise ways of working, work with our AI Task Force to find ways to automate processes
Client Management:
- A big part of your day-to-day is briefing team members on delivery objectives and keeping stakeholders informed on the progress of projects.
- Translate client briefs into actionable project plans and deliverables.
- Lead client communications, providing regular updates on project status, timelines, and deliverables.
- Anticipate client needs and proactively offer solutions and innovations.
Operational Excellence:
- Develop and optimise workflows to ensure efficient project execution and resource allocation.
- Oversee budget creation, tracking, and reconciliation to ensure profitability and accurate forecasting and billing
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (creative, production, strategy, and media) to streamline processes and enhance delivery.
- You create documentation around best practices for the development of new workstreams.
Team Leadership:
- Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary project team, providing clear direction, support, and professional development.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture that encourages innovation and accountability.
- You oversee the work of junior teammates and help them improve their skills with constructive feedback.
Strategic Insight & Growth:
- Identify opportunities to expand the Monks’ services and deepen client engagement.
- Stay abreast of our clients’ industry trends to bring fresh ideas and innovative solutions to client projects.
- Support new business development efforts by contributing to pitches and proposals.
About You
The Essentials:
- We’re looking for someone who is first and foremost an excellent project director and fabulous with clients.
- Excellent English communication (speaking, reading, and writing).
- Your 8+ years of experience in digital advertising or production have made you fabulous at dealing with stress and phenomenal at communicating with (stressed-out) clients and coworkers.
- You know your 💩 when it comes to managing digital to print assets, for example rich media, programmatic campaigns, POS assets and dynamic ad creatives.
- You know how to work with media plans and can manage the launch of even the biggest of digital ad campaigns.
- You understand the anatomy of display ads, know your way around DoubleClick and Sizmek, and can comprehend spec sheets.
- You’re a proficient communicator - able to provide clear updates on the development of projects and knowing how to describe issues and required actions to Monks in other offices.
- You have a proven track record of managing complex, large-scale creative adaptation projects.
- You have solid scoping skills, which translate into realistic timings and resource estimates.
- You’re acquainted with the (post)production of film, image and animation assets for social media.
- You have the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Not a must, but a plus:
- Proficiency in additional Asian language is beneficial as you will be running clients and teams from APAC countries.
- Experience producing or managing DOOH campaigns.
- Creative background
- Print knowledge is a big plus
- AI tools/software savvy
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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.