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Our Australian Content & Creative team are looking for a communicative, client-facing and skilled Senior Digital Project Manager.
As a Senior Digital PM at .Monks, you act in concert with Asia Pacific's leading brands and their agencies to plan and produce award-winning work. You’re a project’s pace - and peacemaker, and principally responsible for timely-and-terrific delivery of successful projects.
This hands-on role requires client-facing experience in digital production and a thorough understanding of what is needed to execute cutting edge delivery. If you’re the one, we’d love to have a chat.
Work Location: Sydney
Role:
- You’ll work with a very talented team of Monks to set up new, and manage existing projects by responding to briefs — producing production proposals and responding to pitches, carrying the pitch through to production and leading successful delivery of content production services.
- You will be the nexus between idea and execution, you will work with a variety of regional and local clients, who choose Monks for the creative production of their projects, platforms and digital campaigns.
- You will work hand in hand with regional delivery and operations teams, working to lead the development of excellent Production & Project Management standards across the region.
- Together with our creatives and tech chiefs, you help to lead projects towards a successful sign-off and shape them into a joint success by managing the production on our behalf.
- You will have experience in working in new and cutting edge environments, with a passion for new tools and ways of working, with the ultimate goal of improving efficiency and developing excellent standards for our clients.
- You’ll get to produce projects that engage with new and innovative uses of technology, requiring you to lead the way across uncharted paths of production.
- You will have experience engaging with and managing freelancers.
- You will report directly into the Regional Operations VP, also based in Australia.
Responsibilities:
- You will:
- Be the lead Project Manager within AUNZ, leveraging local and hub teams to execute delivery.
- Responsible for scoping and quoting projects as well as timing and planning production work.
- Play the lead role in coordinating projects from pitch to production, focusing on feasibility and profitability.
- Drive resource planning and allocation throughout the project lifecycle, assessing skill requirements and deploying resources strategically to achieve project milestones and objectives.
- Be responsible for burn reporting, budget management, risk identification & mitigation.
- Own the creation and management of production & work delivery plans
- Own reporting and governance processes for projects, coordinating & managing Content Delivery teams schedules to allow for successful project delivery.
- Review & create Statements of Work, ensuring contracts have appropriate levels of detail, particularly relating to constraints and assumptions.
- The point of contact for client and internal teams as it relates to owned projects.
- Present plans & progress reports to clients, owning requirement gathering and change management processes.
What we are looking for:
- 5 years of client-facing experience working as a producer in digital advertising or creative production.
- At least 3 years working with Australian clients.
- You are bachelor level educated with specialist Project Management or Production certifications.
- Demonstrable experience leading high revenue executions for enterprise and mid-tier organisations.
- You know the business of digital advertising and production by heart and bring a solid understanding of the present-day needs of agencies and brands.
- You will be comfortable working across Singapore, Korea, Malaysia and India timezones where required.
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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.
