Responsibilities

• Play an instrumental role in the wider global business of this dedicated account, through collaboration and craft.
• Lead senior client relationships, serving as a trusted strategic partner and primary escalation point for key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with team members across the globe to ensure consistent client experience and knowledge sharing
• Set the vision and direction for the client partnership, aligning agency priorities, capabilities, and deliverables to broader business, brand, and marketing objectives.
• Develop a deep understanding of the client’s business, consumers, category, competitive landscape, and organizational priorities to proactively identify challenges and opportunities.
• Provide strategic counsel to senior client stakeholders, helping translate business needs into meaningful marketing, creative, and consumer opportunities.
• Lead multiple integrated programs and workstreams, ensuring consistency, connectivity, and quality.
• Partner with senior client stakeholders and agency teams to translate business and marketing objectives into clear, inspiring strategic and creative briefs.
• Champion the strategic and creative product, creating the conditions for teams to produce ambitious, culturally relevant work grounded in client objectives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the account management team, establishing clear expectations, ways of working, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive experience in advertising, marketing, integrated communications, or a related client-services environment, with significant experience leading complex, high-profile client relationships.
• Experience working with sports, apparel, footwear, lifestyle, retail, or other culturally relevant consumer brands.
• Experience operating at a Group Account Director, VP, Business Lead, or comparable senior client leadership level.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior and executive-level client stakeholders and provide credible strategic counsel.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing and the ability to connect individual programs and channels to broader brand, marketing, and business objectives.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale, complex programs across multiple disciplines, workstreams, stakeholders, and agency partners.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience managing scopes of work, staffing models, budgets, forecasting, resource planning, and account growth.
• Proven ability to identify and develop organic growth opportunities within existing client relationships.
• Experience building, leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing account teams.
• Ability to evaluate and strengthen strategic and creative briefs and provide clear, actionable direction to strategy, creative, and cross-functional teams.

Preferred

• Experience supporting large-scale global consumer brands with complex organizational structures and multiple internal and external agency partners.
• Familiarity with product launches, seasonal marketing calendars, integrated campaigns, and high-volume consumer marketing ecosystems.
• A strong understanding of consumer culture and an interest in the intersection of sport, style, entertainment, technology, and culture.
• Experience working within an integrated agency model or coordinating across multiple specialist agencies and capabilities.

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!)