VP, Group Account Director

The posting, as Monks wrote it

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About the Role

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.

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.

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.
• Partner across strategy, creative, production, operat

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Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It 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 (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

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.