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Project Manager - Retail
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Project Manager – Retail to join our team. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of project management experience within an advertising agency or a related field, ideally with specific expertise in managing retail-driven paid media campaigns for high-volume industries like automotive. This role requires a proven track record of successfully delivering complex, integrated campaigns in fast-moving, high-stakes environments. You will be accountable for ensuring timely delivery of creative projects while adapting to rapid changes in retail promotions, maintaining the highest standards of quality, and driving client satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and execution of retail-driven advertising projects, managing frequent updates to creative assets prompted by changing incentive offers, dealer promotions, and sales events.
Oversee high-volume, multi-channel asset production, ensuring accuracy and consistency across digital, social, print, and video deliverables at scale. - Develop comprehensive project plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and risk management strategies for a fully integrated scope of deliverables (TVC, OLA, social, site, etc.). Ensure these plans account for the quick turnarounds required for retail campaigns.
- Partner with creative, strategy, account, and media teams to ensure seamless execution of campaigns while managing priorities and deadlines tied to rapidly shifting retail objectives.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, particularly on projects involving frequent retail updates and dealer-specific needs. Provide regular updates, manage expectations, and maintain alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify and mitigate project risks associated with high-velocity retail marketing, such as missed deadlines or inconsistencies in messaging. Proactively address issues to ensure quality and accuracy in deliverables.
- Monitor project budgets and expenses, ensuring financial objectives are met while adapting resource allocations for retail campaign shifts.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior project managers, fostering their development and equipping them to navigate the challenges of retail-driven creative production.
- Continuously seek opportunities to optimize project workflows where high-speed production can be offset by AI, automation and templatization strategies
- Stay up to date with retail and automotive industry trends, consumer behavior, and emerging technologies to keep campaigns relevant and competitive.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business, or a related field.
- 5-7 years of project management experience in an advertising agency or related environment.
- Proven ability to manage large, complex projects with multiple stakeholders within matrixed organizations.
- Expertise in retail-driven, fast-paced creative environments, particularly in the automotive industry is preferred
- Familiar with project intake and project close cycles
- Background in fully integrated campaign management with experience across digital, social, print, and video.
- Strong understanding of advertising and marketing principles
- Proficiency in project management software and tools (e.g., Monday.com, JIRA, Smartsheets, asset review and approval tools)
- Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially under pressure.
- Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
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, 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 (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). 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 (2021-24), 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.
What We Do
Monks is the global, purely digital, data-driven, 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 (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). 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 (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
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