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About the role
.Monks is looking for a Content Manager to develop monthly editorial content calendars for the European region as well as the local markets. As a social-first creative, you’ll need to craft ideas that demonstrate cultural relevance and resonance that stretch across social platforms.
Responsibilities:
• Ideate platform-native social content that is timely, trend-aware, and culturally relevant with each channel.
• Collaborate closely with Strategy and Design teams to shape creative concepts, particularly for special campaigns, ensuring copy, visuals, and cultural references work cohesively for the brand and market.
• Build deep knowledge of client products, audiences, and cultural context to inform relevant, social-first creative ideas.
• Spot social opportunities within wider creative ideas.
• Refine and adapt content based on feedback, performance insights, and platform evolution.
• Identify social opportunities within broader creative ideas and elevate them through a social-first lens.
• Collaborate on the development of a monthly social editorial calendar, aligned with the wider content and campaign roadmap.
• Respond to client briefs with innovative, copy-led ideas while proactively identifying opportunities to strengthen brand storytelling on social.
• Present creative concepts clearly and confidently to clients and internal teams, articulating the strategic and cultural rationale behind each idea.
• Understand performance metrics and use them to inform future creative development.
• Work alongside and support Community Managers to react and respond to social conversations appropriately.
• Collaborate effectively within a global, cross-functional team, managing workflows across time zones and remote environments.
About you
The essentials:
• 3+ years of proven work experience as a social-first creative for an agency / brand.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in developing or implementing social strategies.
• A keen eye on emerging social trends across platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and Facebook.
• Experience of crafting reactive content in response to social trends.
• A keen eye for visual details and accuracy.
• A deep understanding of consumer behaviour and adapting content plans to address the needs of the community.
• A strong team player, open to feedback and comfortable working in fast-paced workflows.
• Experience in editing and design is a bonus.
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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.
