Senior Media Specialist

THE ROLE

As a consultative partner, the Senior Media Specialist will advise Media.Monk’s clients on industry trends and ways to harness different technology solutions to drive long-term value. Successful candidates for this opportunity will demonstrate strategic thought and client management skills that go beyond platform knowledge.

This role is a client management position which will also involve training across other areas within digital media such as programmatic, search, social and analytics. The projects will therefore be more general in nature and will provide you opportunity to diversify your knowledge and experience.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing all aspects of search, display, video, and mobile advertising campaigns including client relationship management, ad-serving, optimization, and quarterly business planning
• Understanding and explaining high-level industry trends and how this impacts clients
• Aligning Media.Monk’s goals to client goals, prioritizing opportunities to drive sustainable value for our clients over short-term gains
• Working in a space where we are redefining and creating service categories. Often, clients are unaware of their needs until you show them - you will need to understand how to build trust & create an experience they value
• Supporting sales team with pre-sales proposal responses, technical demos, and marketing efforts.
• Developing and growing relationships with various stakeholders on the client-side (from Google partners, intermediary agencies, client-side executives and daily points of contacts) in order to ascertain business needs and add long-term value
• Capacity to scale learnings from clients and products to other internal team members and across Account Management organization
• Ability to present confidently to different stakeholders, ranging from Junior to C-Suite executives
• Contributing to Media.Monks culture with a collaborative, team-oriented attitude
• Leading and effectively implementing  processes & products that scale across a rapidly growing organization

What you bring to it:

• 3-5 years of online advertising experience, whether at a publisher, agency, trading desk, technology company, or end-advertiser
• Strong data analysis abilities (e.g. familiarity with Excel v-lookups, pivot tables, and basic functions)
• Strong analytical and consulting skills, rooted in the ability to draw and communicate insights from multiple data points
• Excellent consultative approach to developing and managing business relationships
• Innovative thinker with prior evidence of successfully executing on ideas
• Ambition to perform unprecedented tasks and obtain new skills, be comfortable with uncertainty and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Ability and desire to scale knowledge and learning to other junior (and at times senior) team members

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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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