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About this role:
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Project Manager – Retail to join our team. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of project management experience within an advertising agency or a related field, ideally with some exposure to managing retail-driven paid media campaigns for industries like automotive. This role requires strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving, retail-focused environment. You will support the delivery of creative projects, adapt to retail promotional changes, and ensure quality and timeliness while building strong relationships with clients and internal teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage advertising projects that require frequent updates to creative assets driven by retail promotions, changing incentive offers, and dealer-specific campaigns.
Ensure accuracy and consistency across multi-channel deliverables, including digital, social, print, and video. - Create and maintain project timelines, tracking key milestones and deliverables for integrated campaigns (TVC, OLA, social, site, etc.).
- Support resource allocation and risk management strategies, ensuring quick turnarounds required for retail projects are met.
- Update status reports and Smartsheets with most recent project information
- Work closely with creative, account, strategy, and media teams to ensure smooth project execution. Communicate deadlines and priorities effectively across teams.
- Act as a point of contact for clients on assigned projects, providing regular updates and addressing day-to-day needs related to retail-driven campaigns.
- Identify potential risks to project timelines or deliverables and escalate issues promptly, providing solutions to minimize impacts.
- Assist in monitoring project budgets, ensuring expenses align with project goals and financial objectives.
- Contribute to the refinement of project workflows and explore opportunities to integrate automation, AI tools, or templatization for greater efficiency.
- Stay informed on retail and automotive trends, consumer behaviors, and emerging technologies to support innovative and competitive campaigns.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of project management experience in an advertising agency or related environment.
- Familiarity with retail-driven, fast-paced creative environments; experience in the automotive industry is preferred
- Experience managing integrated campaigns across digital, social, print, and video channels.
- Strong understanding of project intake and closeout processes.
- Proficiency in project management software and tools (e.g., Monday.com, JIRA, Smartsheets or asset review platforms).
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a proactive approach to handling challenges.
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with internal teams and clients.
- Adaptability and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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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.