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Monks is seeking an experienced Performance Lead to spearhead our performance department.
In this role, you will set and drive the strategic direction for the team, collaborate with sales to secure new clients, and report directly to the Media Department Head.
Join our dynamic team of media professionals dedicated to challenging industry norms and delivering on our digital promise. Be a key player in redefining performance marketing and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive performance media strategy that aligns with overall business goals.
- Present quarterly business reviews and findings to senior leadership, providing recommendations to scale impact.
- Drive Monks’ new business development strategy for Managed Media and associated services through events, PR, and social media (eg. LinkedIn), and content (both Monks’ website and external)
- Show expert grasp of relevant commercials with respect to both strategic and technical elements of all relevant products and services.
- Recruit, train, and manage a high-performing media team; foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Mentor and develop junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
- Build and lead a high-performing media team, instilling a culture of strategic thinking, accountability, and innovation.
- Establish processes for campaign execution, optimization, and reporting to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- Influence major brand by implementing, influencing and help creating our proprietary tech stack and methodologies
- Through continual process improvement and supervision of outputs, ensure errors and platform credits are kept at a minimum.
- Be responsible and/or consulted (depending on client agreements) for managed media billing processes, issues, and partnership agreements across all managed media platforms.
- Define KPIs and success metrics (e.g., MQL to SQL conversion, pipeline contribution, ROI) for integrated campaigns and field programs.
- Use analytics and insights to iterate on strategies, optimize campaign performance, and forecast future marketing investments.
- Oversee media budgets, ensuring optimal allocation of resources across channels with a focus on ROI.
- Build and maintain key media relationships to support the managed media practice as well as key channels such as search, programmatic and social
- Work closely with marketing, sales, and product teams to align media initiatives with broader business objectives.
- Collaborate with C-suite and departmental leaders to ensure media initiatives support broader business strategies and objectives.
What you bring to it:
- 8+ years of digital marketing experience, ideally from agencies or brand side
- Strong understanding and experience in performance media platforms such as Social and Search
- Strong grasp of the overall digital consultancy space, including but not limited to knowledge of Media.Monks competitive set and their offerings across data and digital media.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders ranging from C-suite through to platform SMEs.
- Strong analytical and consulting skills, rooted in the ability to draw and communicate insights from multiple data points.
- Strong data analysis capabilities, with an ability to unearth actionable insights using a range of platforms and tools
- 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 facilitate learning amongst team members
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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.
