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About the Role
Monks Paris is seeking a Senior Strategist to lead strategic thought on pitches, expected to anticipate, research, and identify client opportunities, provide future thinking, and a provocative POV whilst managing exciting and challenging day-to-day projects. Our ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in leveraging creativity and effectiveness and developing campaigns that are well-funded and substantiated in facts, trends, and culture. We also highly appreciate if you’re a geek in sports/gaming/music/street culture.
Responsibilities:
- Work with senior clients to understand their communication objectives and KPI’s in collaboration with account and project managers
- Conduct research to source relevant information, inc. market analysis, competitor analysis, media analysis, audience analysis, KPI analysis, and digest findings into relevant and actionable strategic insight (with the help of comms/insight strategists)
- Define the strategic direction of the communication campaign, translating insights and client needs into a strategic plan/ brief that meets the KPI’s and inspires creatives
- Guide the implementation of the strategy, gather feedback from other teams and clients, and adapt the strategy where needed
- Follow the execution and validate the strategy, making sure all necessary data is collected to create a strategic analysis of the project
- Leverage Monks' capabilities in terms of média, data, tools
- Manage junior strategists and establish a close partnership with the Client Lead and Creative Director on own accounts.
About You
The essentials:
- Great people skills to work with cross-functional teams (Creatives, strategists, accounts, Producers, and back office)
- You have 5-7 years in a digital transformation, production, consulting, and/or agency, and wish to join a company with high potential.
- Great presentation skills and good creative writing skills for crafting inspiring briefs.
- Organised, rigorous, and pragmatic
- Positive, great listener, dynamic, and solution-oriented thinker
- Competitive - you want to win, and you effectively solve obstacles in the way of your goals.
- You have a passion for the social, digital, and innovation markets and are adept at following trends and speaking about their impact on companies and products.
- Fluently written and spoken English is vital for communicating effectively with colleagues and clients alike.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
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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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.
