Temp Associate Strategy/Planning Director

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This is a 6mo contract assignment. As an Associate Strategy Director, Marketing Strategy, you'll establish how we can objectively measure and find efficiencies for a major tech client. This role is focused on maintaining accurate tracking across the business including - but not limited to - the impact of AI tools, ROI analysis, and campaign experimentation. Additionally, you will act as a link between Analytics and Creative, sharing data learnings and reviewing key creative briefs. We are looking for someone who is passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work.

• Act as the primary project manager for an ongoing business metrics tracking framework.
• Coordinate with analysts to ensure quarterly data pulls and analysis are completed on schedule.
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to effectively share project progress and data learnings.
• Prepare executive-level content and support the synthesis of data for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), focusing on narrative development to craft a compelling story.
• Ensure the impact of AI tools are being appropriately tracked and measured, including strategic recommendations for process changes and optimizations.
• Lead ROI analysis and creative testing via experimentation.
• Provide Ad Hoc Creative reporting across programs including performance insights and learnings
• Ensure new briefs incorporate existing research and value proposition data to align creative strategy with expected performance.
• Identify testing opportunities to accelerate learning.
• Establish a knowledge base of historical experiments and test results to standardize performance-driven creative strategy.

The essentials:

• Project Leadership and Management: Proven ability to act as the primary project manager for complex, ongoing, data-driven frameworks, coordinating deadlines and outputs across multiple teams.
• Data Strategy and Analysis: Strong understanding of business metrics, data tracking, and the ability to lead ROI analysis and creative testing and experimentation.
• Executive Communication and Storytelling: Experience preparing executive-level content and synthesizing complex data into a compelling narrative for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs).
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Skill in effectively coordinating with diverse teams, including analysts, creative leads, and other cross-functional stakeholders, to share progress and apply data learnings.
• Creative Strategy Integration: Experience reviewing creative briefs, ensuring they incorporate existing research and value proposition data to align strategy with expected performance.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Emerging Technology/AI Fluency: Demonstrated ability to measure the impact of AI tools and provide strategic recommendations for process changes and optimizations related to new technology
  
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This role is subject to our Return to Office (RTO) policy. If you reside within a commutable distance of one of our office locations, you will be expected to work from the office a set number of days per week. The specific details, including the number of required office days, will be in accordance with the company's then-current RTO policy, which is subject to change from time to time.

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 , ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger's Programmatic Power Players list every year 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 , 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.