<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Please note that we will never request payment or bank account information at any stage of the recruitment process. As we continue to grow our teams, we urge you to be cautious of fraudulent job postings or recruitment activities that misuse our company name and information. Please protect your personal information during any recruitment process. While Monks may contact potential candidates via LinkedIn, all applications must be submitted through our official website (<a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="http://monks.com/careers" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://monks.com/careers" data-sk="tooltip_parent">monks.com/careers</a>).</span></p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As a VP, Group Account Director at Monks, you’ll serve as a senior leader of the agency relationship for a global sports brand. This is a new engagement, so you will be accountable for the setup, health, growth, and success of the business, providing strategic counsel to senior client stakeholders while leading an integrated agency team to deliver ambitious, high-quality work against the client’s business, brand, and marketing objectives.</p> <p>We are looking for a collaborative and commercially minded client leader who builds trusted relationships, sees the bigger picture, and knows how to turn complex business challenges into opportunities for great work. You’ll bring strategic thinking, strong judgment, curiosity, and a passion for building high-performing teams and partnerships. You’re comfortable navigating a fast-moving global organization and can connect the dots across business, brand, sport, culture, product, digital, and consumer experience.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Play an instrumental role in the wider global business of this dedicated account, through collaboration and craft.</li> <li>Lead senior client relationships, serving as a trusted strategic partner and primary escalation point for key stakeholders.</li> <li>Collaborate with team members across the globe to ensure consistent client experience and knowledge sharing</li> <li>Set the vision and direction for the client partnership, aligning agency priorities, capabilities, and deliverables to broader business, brand, and marketing objectives.</li> <li>Develop a deep understanding of the client’s business, consumers, category, competitive landscape, and organizational priorities to proactively identify challenges and opportunities.</li> <li>Provide strategic counsel to senior client stakeholders, helping translate business needs into meaningful marketing, creative, and consumer opportunities.</li> <li>Lead multiple integrated programs and workstreams, ensuring consistency, connectivity, and quality.</li> <li>Partner with senior client stakeholders and agency teams to translate business and marketing objectives into clear, inspiring strategic and creative briefs.</li> <li>Champion the strategic and creative product, creating the conditions for teams to produce ambitious, culturally relevant work grounded in client objectives.</li> <li>Lead, mentor, and develop the account management team, establishing clear expectations, ways of working, and opportunities for professional growth.</li> <li>Partner across strategy, creative, production, operations, and other disciplines to build integrated teams around client needs.</li> <li>Maintain executive-level visibility across major initiatives, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, resourcing needs, and opportunities while empowering teams to lead day-to-day delivery.</li> <li>Own the commercial health of the business within your scope, partnering with agency leadership on scopes of work, staffing, budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.</li> <li>Identify and cultivate organic growth opportunities by anticipating evolving client needs and connecting them to capabilities across the agency.</li> <li>Establish strong account governance and ways of working that enable effective communication, decision-making, escalation, and collaboration across complex stakeholder groups.</li> <li>Represent the client’s business internally, ensuring agency leadership and cross-functional teams understand key priorities, challenges, opportunities, and organizational dynamics.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <h3><strong>The essentials:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>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.</li> <li>Experience working with sports, apparel, footwear, lifestyle, retail, or other culturally relevant consumer brands.</li> <li>Experience operating at a Group Account Director, VP, Business Lead, or comparable senior client leadership level.</li> <li>Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior and executive-level client stakeholders and provide credible strategic counsel.</li> <li>Strong understanding of integrated marketing and the ability to connect individual programs and channels to broader brand, marketing, and business objectives.</li> <li>Demonstrated success leading large-scale, complex programs across multiple disciplines, workstreams, stakeholders, and agency partners.</li> <li>Strong commercial acumen, including experience managing scopes of work, staffing models, budgets, forecasting, resource planning, and account growth.</li> <li&g