Strategist
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a <strong>Senior Strategist</strong>, you’ll drive strategic clarity and power up our relationship with <strong>an iconic global sports brand</strong>, ensuring Monks is seen as a valuable strategic partner for one of the world’s biggest brands. Based within our Strategy function, you will provide deep cultural and industry insights to elevate our strategic offering and improve the work we deliver. We are looking for someone who is passionate about seeking new opportunities to create impactful work.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3>
<h4><strong>How the Strategy Team Creates Impact</strong></h4>
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<li><strong>Illuminate</strong> the path to growth internally, setting a clear strategic direction that aligns to client outcomes.</li>
<li><strong>Partner</strong> with Client Success to shape ambitious, insight-led briefs and effective scopes of work.</li>
<li><strong>Act</strong> as catalysts for business growth, collaborating to identify and unlock new opportunities.</li>
<li><strong>Serve</strong> as a trusted advisor to senior external client stakeholders, helping them solve consumer challenges and seize emerging opportunities.</li>
<li><strong>Strengthen</strong> Monks’ presence with the client—representing our strategic thinking in sessions, meetings, associations, and across key communication platforms.</li>
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<h4><strong>Client Relationship</strong></h4>
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<li><strong>Act</strong> as the senior strategic advisor to the client's Digital Marketing Sports teams.</li>
<li><strong>Shape</strong> long-term strategies that align client ambition with Monks’ capabilities and commercial opportunities.</li>
<li><strong>Educate</strong> and enhance the client’s Digital Marketing understanding of insights, comms planning, and versioning online and in-person (twice a week).</li>
<li><strong>Proactively identify</strong> opportunities and expand Monks’ footprint within the account.</li>
<li><strong>Develop</strong> thought-leadership around themes relevant to our scope and projects (e.g., category and sport evolutions, youth culture, and behaviors).</li>
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<h4><strong>Service Delivery & Excellence</strong></h4>
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<li><strong>Define</strong> best practices for how strategy interacts and impacts an iconic global sports brand.</li>
<li><strong>Ensure</strong> strategy consistently provides the “why” that fuels breakthroughs with the client's consumer base.</li>
<li><strong>Champion</strong> the use of accelerated insights (AI) to elevate strategic output and impact.</li>
<li><strong>Create</strong> clear run of shows, comms planning, and versioning to create impact with consumers across EMEA.</li>
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<h4><strong>Strategic Partnership & Influence</strong></h4>
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<li><strong>Serve</strong> as a key strategic voice to senior clients, aligning strategy to major business priorities.</li>
<li><strong>Represent</strong> Monks as a client-facing strategist, elevating our profile with the client.</li>
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<h4><strong>Team & Development</strong></h4>
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<li><strong>Lead, inspire, and educate</strong> your teammates in the latest and greatest cultural and sports insights.</li>
<li><strong>Help set</strong> a culture of curiosity, innovation, and excellence.</li>
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<h2><strong>About You</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>The essentials:</strong></h3>
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<li><strong>Client Presence:</strong> Proven success leading senior clients, influencing stakeholders, and navigating complex business environments.</li>
<li><strong>Industry Credibility:</strong> Recognised understanding of the sports industry, both from a cultural and community perspective.</li>
<li><strong>Strategic Vision: </strong>Demonstrated ability to design mid- to long-term strategies that drive measurable business impact. </li>
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<h3><strong>Not a must, but a plus:</strong></h3>
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<li>Experience working directly within the digital marketing ecosystem of a major global retailer or athletic brand.</li>
<li>Deep, preexisting connections or insights into localized European youth culture and sports communities.</li>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p class="p1">#LI-JT1</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About Monks </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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. </span></p></div>
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