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About the Role

The Project Manager is a champion of the Agency, partnering closely with all departments to help ensure holistic project health success. The PM is responsible for helping to craft the project plan, and manage the day-to-day execution of the plan. This work begins at the set up and onboarding phase of a project through retrospective, making sure the projects are delivered on time, within budget, and on brief. The PM works in lockstep with the Brand, Creative, Strategy, Creative Analytics, Production and Media counterparts to establish and communicate project milestones, proactively identify roadblocks and solve for ongoing needs. They will confidently navigate and prioritize proper resourcing, schedules, and financials to successfully deliver excellent work that satisfies both client AND Agency goals. The PM is someone who respects and implements the process but also knows how and when it is appropriate to be flexible.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project timelines and concurrent workstreams; work with teams to stay on schedule to hit internal and external milestones
• Partner with project leads to critically assess client feedback ensuring it’s executable within scope
• Manage schedules and timelines, clearly communicating expectations, objectives and next steps
• Circulate hot sheets / lead status team meetings to provide clarity of tasks and responsibilities, while also ensuring everyone has what they need to succeed
• Ongoing collaboration with Creative leads and Resource Managers on creative casting and resource allocations, making sure scoped staff to resources are appropriate 
• Identify and flag any staffing needs/conflicts/changes as they arise
• On integrated accounts, partner with Media counterparts to assess campaign needs at project onset, and continue collaboration through testing, reporting and optimizations
• Work with the Project Management Director to pull and analyze monthly burn reports, identifying areas for improvements and efficiencies, flagging justifications and concerns

About You

Character Qualifications:

• You are seeking to make a large impact in a collaborative environment 
• You are a self starter with very high standards for your work
• You possess excellent problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
• You have the desire to grow as a leader and mentor to colleagues
• You have a motivated work ethic and point of view to help innovate and push the team, department, and Agency forward
  
  

Experience Qualifications:

•   4+ years of agency or similar project management experience
•   Strong interpersonal skills to bring people together, strengthen team relationships while motivating, directing, and challenging teams to produce great work 
•   Experience managing complex projects, on fast timelines with stellar attention to detail
•   Superior organization and communication skills
•   Must be a thoughtful, critical thinker, able to understand micro and macro project organization
•   Ability to juggle multiple assignments and workstreams in a fast-paced environment
•   Comfortable working in both collaborative and independent environments  
•   Familiar with lower, mid and upper funnel creative process and deliverables including social, digital, video (with added bonus for OOH, radio, print, web dev, HTML banners)
• Experience managing social and digital video campaigns partnering with a range of creative types including but not limited to copywriters, art directors, designers, motion graphics artists, and editors
• Client-facing experience a plus
• Post-production experience a plus

At 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 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 here!)

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. 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$70,000—$80,000 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.