Temp Associate Strategy Director, Connections

About the Role

We are seeking a driven, communicative, reliable and insightful teammate to work alongside our powerhouse Portfolio strategy group, and become a trusted, invaluable partner to internal teams and client partners.

You are a strong writer / communicator, as well as a visionary capable of architecting effective growth on behalf of brands, grounded in human insights & behaviors.

You’ll collect data to inform strategies across brand development, campaigns, pitches, and projects. Your day-to-day involves collaboration with our strategy partners in Research, Social, Data, and more as projects require.

You’re a strong brief crafter and deck builder, who understands how to organize information, both written and visual. You’ll be skilled in determining the key mindsets or behaviors we need to reach, jobs to be done and tactics to employ that inspire our multidisciplinary creative teams.

You’ll also collaborate with them throughout creative development to ensure well-rounded, thoughtful bodies of work.

You’ll be familiar with brand, campaign, and social strategies and frameworks, with the ability to take on solo tasks as well as collaborative projects.

On dedicated clients, you’ll dig deep into the company’s brand, business, consumer, and cultural status, continually devising ways to capture opportunities across our agency responsibilities that lead to our clients’ success.

Organization and time management are crucial. You’ll work on more than one project and client simultaneously, balancing priorities across your time and your direct reports’.

Your communication skills are excellent, as you’ll engage with disciplines across the Monks network to accomplish tasks with cross-functional teams.

You're considered invaluable to :

Account partners for your ability to help stay a few steps ahead, anticipating client / project needs, and helping to come up with solid strategic POV that tactfully course corrects and gives clarity (even under tight deadlines).

Creative partners for translating client asks into clear, concise, actionable creative briefs (supported by insights) to inspire great work.

You’re trusted as a creative sounding board, and connect with Creative teams throughout ideation to keep ideas on track.

In presentations, you’ll set up the brilliant solution, supported by concise facts and effective, informed strategy.

Client partners who count on you to bring a unique perspective, evolve thinking, and fundamentally enhance everyone's understanding of the brand, project, audience and more.

As an Associate Connections Strategy Director, you’ll be the voice of the consumer and the channels expert for our team and our client.

Strategy cohorts who rely on you as a source of inspiration to the department and an expert in 360 planning. You’re a contributor to our fun, clever, respectful culture, both learning from and educating your strategy peers with no ego.

Growth partners who trust you to support new business opportunities with differentiated and resonant planning approaches.

Responsibilities :

• Own your strategic perspective, bringing your strongest thinking, insight, and communication skills to craft strategies that are relevant for our client’s day-to-day needs.
• Bring your best strategic self : share your frameworks, approaches, historic findings and life experiences to the table, willing to share and adapt with other Monks across a variety of strategic pillars and executions
• You serve up sharp thinking in well-designed decks that deliver on client / project KPIs with care, vision, intelligence, and an understanding of the audience.
• Communication is crucial, the right candidate will be an articulate writer, speaker, presenter
• Research and collect information using desk research, social listening, syndicated and 3P data, on your own and in synchronization with our Research team
• Build slides and deck narratives that tell a story, captivate, and use data to back up your points and strategy, using imagery and design for maximum impact in Google Slides
• Work with the Strategy Team, including Social, Media, and other strategists, supporting our culture and bench of tools, frameworks, research and POVs both assigned and unassigned (be a persuasive self starter)
• Be culturally aware and responsive to relevant shifts and trends, always seeking out opportunities, partners, and audiences that can expand our client work

About You

The essentials :

• 5-7 years experience in Connections / Comms Strategy or adjacent strategy (digital, media, social, brand) with at least 1 year specifically in Connections / Comms Strategy
• Strong writer and communicator who writes fact-based, exciting, compelling narratives / briefs
• Self starter who’s eager to contribute
• Community-minded networker ready to collaborate with our many capabilities
• Intelligent & perceptive, seeing connections and the big picture where others don’t
• Persuasive and thoughtful ability to change minds and tell a story
• No ego- the Monks’ culture is all about collaboration
• Creative mindset that permeates your strategic thinking
• Experience partnering with cross functional teams, creative teams and agencies, stewarding the brand and consumer

At Media.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 Media.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!)

Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting.

Media.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.

Salary Range$35 $50 USD

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.

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