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About the Role

Please note, this contract starts immediately and will end in May 2027.

As a Temp Group Account Director for Events & Experiences, you will act as the executive lead for one of our most strategically important client relationships. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise client partnership, commercial growth, operational leadership and creative production excellence. You’ll oversee a high-performing account with a regional creative production ecosystem, acting as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders in NAMER, while driving innovation, margin growth and long-term value.

You’ll lead a cross-functional team that includes creative, production and operational talent, and ensure every facet of the relationship, from day-to-day delivery to long-term transformation, is world-class. You will be expected to execute a strategic growth agenda, penetrate new business units, and expand our footprint across business units, capabilities and deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Own the client relationship including the fiscal health and overall growth.
• Identify new opportunities within current client relationships, understand the full breadth of Monks’ capabilities and how to orchestrate compelling solutions for expansion and varying client needs.
• Manage and build strong senior stakeholder relationships; provide strategic guidance to deliver against the clients business objectives, build trust, credibility and rapport with key POCs.
• Become a trusted partner, understanding clients’ business challenges and be able to articulate strategies to address those needs
• Effectively consult on creative ideas and executions
• Inspire larger creative strategies that can create further business outcomes and align closely with growth objectives of the client and The Monks business.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered tools and platforms to unlock production speed, cost savings, and content personalization at scale.
• Gains and maintains knowledge of client’s business, industry and competition
• Develop robust communications plans and engagement strategies, with an emphasis on strengthening key relationships and expanding stakeholder coverage across the organisation
• Own the future-state vision and strategic narrative associated with our partnership that underpins all workstreams and initiatives for cross-functional teams to work towards
• Ensure that business outcomes are clearly defined, approved and delivered with benefits realised and value realised and articulated at each step of the way
• Drive discovery for new business opportunities and manage the end-to-end sales cycle, with an emphasis on pipeline generation, as well as cross-sell and up-sell tactics.
• Orchestrate our cross-capability operating model through an understanding of all ongoing fulfillment projects in order to continually reinforce ROI and future roadmap initiatives
• Lead key milestones and drive collaboration across capabilities for partnership-led workstreams, including QBRs, top-to-tops and broader strategy & planning
• Facilitate a uniform method for client experience across pillars, and set clear expectations with capabilities to reinforce exceptional client service standards
• Manage feedback loops with clients; including facilitating 360-degree feedback, as well as recurring pulse checks for continuous improvement of partnership quality

Subject Matter Expertise

• Pursue and apply expertise across core areas of the practice: AI, immersive web, experiential/events, live production and interactive storytelling
• Champion innovation within the team, helping shape how we bring emerging technologies and creative formats to life

About You

The essentials:

• 7+ years of experience in client services, project management or production roles
• Being able to expertly lead the digital marketing briefs from initial brief to final delivery.
• Understand social as a channel, experience with social strategy, creators and types of social creative used as a growth driving channel for brands.
• Understand marketing goals and business objectives and translate these requirements into clear, actionable briefs for creative & production teams.
• Relationships and experience with third party vendors, production partners, creators who could be suitable to collaborate with.
• A deep understanding of the digital marketing & advertising ecosystem, and are abreast of the latest in AI-driven disruption, emerging technologies and innovation.
• Proven track record of successfully managing client relationships, driving revenue growth while maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Commercial proficiency, being able to own project budgets, ensuring all projects are delivered profitably and within scope - and experience pricing/scoping detailed statements of work (SOWs)
• Ability to forecast agency resource needs and manage internal studio capacity effectively with support from producers.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to effectively communicate with a range of stakeholder types ranging from C-suite through to specialists.
• You embrace curiosity, are self-motivated and proactive by nature
• Strong negotiation skills, and have a proficiency in writing business cases
• An ability to present effectively, and craft compelling proposals using Google slides
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• A track record of effective program management, and demonstrable commercial acumen
• Strong analytical and consulting skills, rooted in the ability to draw and communicate insights from multiple data points.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Successful applicants for this position tend to have experience as an Executive Producer, and are looking to be more externally focused.
• Would be suitable for an Account Director, Senior Account Director who is not afraid to get hands on to support existing delivery structures (current/recent experience with production processes and workflows will be viewed highly).
• Strong grasp of the overall emerging digital space, including but not limited to knowledge of Monks competitive set and our offerings across data, technology, content and digital media.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and develop processes and workflows that increases revenue and value-realisation for clients.
• Ambition to perform unprecedented tasks and obtain new skills, be comfortable with uncertainty and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Strong data analysis capabilities, with an ability to unearth actionable insights using a range of platforms and tools
  
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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.

Monks is committed to ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. We are committed to treating people with disabilities in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration, and we are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner. We will do so by removing and preventing barriers to accessibility and by meeting our accessibility requirements under local accessibility laws.

What We Offer

Monks has provided an hourly rate that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The rate offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Hourly Rate$70—$90 USD

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.