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As a Paid Media Specialist you will play a crucial role in translating media briefs into practical and tangible media strategies & executions. Your responsibilities will include hands-on-keyboard activation of digital channels - inclusive of tagging, trafficking, buying, etc. - and how to use the right digital platforms - and use them well - to achieve media and business goals. You will be influencing media strategies, and offering tactical guidance for media plans. In this role, you will ensure consistency, governance, and support around platform usage and activation activities and aid in all ongoing building, buying, optimization, and reporting efforts.
Successful team members in this role will demonstrate the ability to support ongoing and one-off media efforts for clients both individually and in strong collaboration with other team members.
Your role is crucial in supporting the workflow & ensuring timely delivery effectively across various teams, such as strategy, media activation, analytics, partner representatives, client teams, account leads, and creative partners. You will foster a collaborative mindset and maintain a high attention to detail.
Key Responsibilities:
- Controlling budgets and updating media planning
- Execute campaigns and adjacent tasks in accordance with best practices and client needs
- Pacing and analyzing suggestions for insights in reports
- Conduct regular administrative tasks as assigned by Manager
- Reviewing reports for assertiveness and opportunities
- Support the translation of media briefs into practical and tangible media strategies, ensuring alignment with client objectives.
- Collaborate across teams, ensuring comprehensive media plans with realistic execution potential
- Maintain overall accountability for complete & timely plan development in line with client briefs
- Participate actively in client reporting and insight sessions to ensure the effective translation of media activities to business objectives and vice versa.
Qualifications:
- 2-3 year with experience in paid digital media
- Operational and analytical profile
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to ensure project timelines
- Proven experience in translating data & insights into holistic media campaigns relative to client briefs
- Proactive mindset, constantly anticipating questions & potential requests based on evolving client needs.
- Understanding of marketplace dynamics and the ability to evaluate offerings and capabilities across industry trends.
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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.
