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About the role
Monks Milan is looking for a Senior Copywriter to contribute to an amazing team of Creative Monks working for some of the best-in-class clients out there. If you’re keen to work as part of a global team to produce integrated creative work for world-class brands, this job represents the sweet spot.
Responsibilities:
- As a Copy you’ll wield words, wisdom and wit as you cover everything from social content, web copy and newsletters to print, display advertising and commercial.
- Working as part of a global group of Monks on both local and international assignments, you’ll operate across teams and time zones on projects big and small.
- Quickly switching between different products and brands, you’ll handle large-scale requests along with single lines of copy.
- You’ll use data-driven insights to help personalize content across the entire customer journey—from awareness campaigns to commercial copy.
- You’ll contribute to improving our workflows, best practices, and client relationships across brands.
About you
The essentials:
- 5+ years of experience in the field of copywriting in advertising or creative agencies.
- Writing skills which are both clear and compelling—you’re used to developing concepts with clever tag lines and other creative copy.
- Storytelling skills allow you to write video ads that leave an impression in as little as 6 seconds, also in English.
- Attention to detail close to annoying: typos, inconsistencies and questionable punctuation marks have little chance of getting past your cursor.
- Talent to produce quality content out of thin air as well as based on briefs or input written by others.
- Combination of creativity with critical thinking; your analytical approach means you ask the right questions and make sense of complex content and marketing strategies.
- Capability of presenting works to clients, also in English—always able to rationalize your choices and considerations to win people over with your words.
- Openness to constructive feedback loop, you can give and handle critique without making it or taking it personally.
- A great sense of personal responsibility and eagerly go the extra mile if that’s what it takes to make good great.
- Team spirit, self-motivation and the ability to think outside the box.
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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.
