Responsibilities

• Own your strategic perspective, bringing your strongest thinking, insight, and communication skills to craft strategies that are relevant for our client’s day-to-day needs.
• Bring your best strategic self: share your frameworks, approaches, historic findings and life experiences to the table, willing to share and adapt with other Monks across a variety of strategic pillars and executions
• You serve up sharp thinking in well-designed decks that deliver on client/ project KPIs with care, vision, intelligence, and an understanding of the audience.
• Extract behavioral tensions and cultural whitespace using audience intelligence platforms (e.g., GWI, YouGov) to ground broad brand goals in actionable human truths.
• Analyze category dynamics and cross-channel habits via syndicated and digital intelligence tools (e.g., Nielsen, Pathmatics) to uncover strategic vulnerabilities and high-impact intersection points for our messaging.
• Synthesize raw inputs into deck-ready narratives—separating data points from the actual strategic implications that inspire creative teams and tether to trackable KPIs.
• Be culturally aware and responsive to relevant shifts and trends, always seeking out opportunities, partners, and audiences that can expand our client work

Requirements

• 5-7 years experience in Comms/Connections Strategy or adjacent strategy (digital, media, social, brand) with at least 1 year specifically in Comms/Connections
• Strong writer and communicator who writes fact-based, exciting, compelling narratives/briefs
• Self starter who’s eager to contribute
• Community-minded networker ready to collaborate with our many capabilities
• Intelligent & perceptive, seeing connections and the big picture where others don’t
• Persuasive and thoughtful ability to change minds and tell a story
• No ego- the Monks’ culture is all about collaboration
• Creative mindset that permeates your strategic thinking
• Experience partnering with cross functional teams, creative teams and agencies, stewarding the brand and consumer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance - more about our coverage here!
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)