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The Role
We are seeking a programmatic specialist who is passionate about hands-on digital activation. You will be the technical backbone for the implementation, optimization, and reporting of digital media campaigns across a global client portfolio. This role is crucial for ensuring flawless execution, governance, and the strategic use of platforms within the digital ecosystem (Programmatic, If you are motivated by working with a diverse technology stack and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve business goals, this is the place for you.)
Key Responsibilities
- Campaign Activation & Execution: Build, implement, and execute campaigns across key platforms (DSPs, Ad Servers, Search & Social Platforms), ensuring proper tagging, trafficking, creative assignment, and targeting.
- Optimization & Performance: Monitor in-flight campaign health (budgets, pacing, and performance) and conduct optimization analysis to make proactive strategic adjustments.
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Create necessary reporting infrastructure, manipulate data in Excel/Google Sheets, analyze trends, and deliver actionable insights that answer client questions.
- Project and Client Management: Manage day-to-day PoC relationships, attend client meetings, troubleshoot campaign issues, and ensure Quality Assurance (QA) across all activation efforts.
- Governance & Process Adherence: Maintain an understanding of Monks' Media Resale & Activation services and ensure adherence to all internal processes (admin, billing, time tracking, and execution protocols).
What We're Looking For
Essential Requirements
- Experience: 3-5 years of professional experience in digital media buying, operations, or activation within an agency or in-house team.
Technical Skills / Knowledge
- Platform Proficiency: Conceptual understanding of relevant MarTech and media platforms, alongside intermediate/executive-level ability to execute(Programmatic- Display)
- Ad Tech Tools: Experience with Ad Servers (Campaign Manager), DSPs (DV360, The Trade Desk)
- Reporting & Analytics: Familiarity with Looker Data Studio, Supermetrics, Google Analytics, and GTM.
Consultative Skills / Soft Skills
- Problem Solving: Ability to identify, structure, and prioritize problems, leveraging data to inform solutions.
- Project Management & Ownership: Strong organizational skills to stay effective in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. Ability to proactively ask questions when needed, taking initiative rather than waiting for explicit direction to begin tasks.
- Data Analysis & Insights: Proficient in manipulating data (formulas, pivot tables) and deriving clear, actionable insights.
- Communication & Facilitation: Ability to lead professional meetings with agendas/recaps and adjust message and tone based on the audience (internal/external).
- Self-Management & Adaptability: High resilience and ability to receive and implement feedback (explicit and implicit) for continuous performance improvement.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
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.
