Program Manager , Media New Business

Qualifications:

We are looking for an energetic, positive, and solutions-oriented leader to help develop the program and project management for our New Business activity within our Media offering. In this role, you’ll be responsible not just for leading our largest, most complex Media New Business activities, but you’ll have the autonomy to develop the program to scale these activities across the world. From project managing individual activities to designing the program and rhythm of our New Business activities, this is a key role helping to unlock growth potential, improve resource utilization and make our New Business programs operate like a well-oiled machine.  

Required Skills:

• Business professional with extensive media agency experience in addition to roles/experience focused in commercial analysis, consulting and project management
• Strong handle on core media agency processes across planning, activation, and reporting with a passion for uncovering process efficiencies and optimizations to improve outcomes
• Proven track record building systems and processes to manage a new business program
• Ability to navigate and adapt to a rapidly changing and demanding environment 
• Demonstrate strong people skills, primarily problem solving and conflict resolution
• Excellent communications skills, with experience communicating across diverse groups with varying degrees of technical background
• Adept across key agency workflow and financial tools including financial reporting system, project management systems, resource management systems, etc.

Education & Experience:

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience in agency and consulting environments
• Experience with end-to-end agency pitch activities
• Familiarity with pitch consultants a strong plus
• Experience developing a strong team environment and fostering strong team chemistry

Responsibilities:

• Project manage our largest global media engagements
• Work with key Agency leadership to design processes and protocols that develop high quality new business outputs (strategic RFP responses, growth marketing strategies, case study development, etc.)
• Pilot workflows that allow for greater transparency and accountability across key deliverables and work streams
• Develop calendar of activities to fuel New Business and Growth activities (i.e. regular calls for case studies, key marketing initiatives, refreshing of case studies, etc.) and steward forward these projects in partnership with other stakeholders and teams
• Develop templates, processes, etc. to work smarter, not harder - automation is a key principal of our agency and we think there is huge potential to add automation to our activities here
• Orchestrate cross-team coordination and ensure individuals are held accountable for their assigned deliverables and deadlines
• Proactively and intuitively understand when there is a need to pivot and develop creative solutions to ensure team success
• Support development of key reporting deliverables to track the success of our new business activities
• Partner with Media and Growth teams to design and scale templates and ‘ways of working’ for new business activities
• Facilitate productive collaboration across global teams to uphold quality standards across all teams
• Accountable for resource utilization analysis and recommendations to recalibrate resources based on needs
• Lead trainings for new hires on agency workflow and financial process

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the most gifted, focused, joyful, talents from all over the world.

At Media.Monks, you’ll be joining a highly ambitious company on a global mission to win the decade by changing the industry for good. Partner to 8 of the 10 most innovative companies in the world, Media.Monks works with established as well as up-and-coming global, regional, DTC and B2B brands, helping them own their data and build out customer ecosystems to elicit smart, efficient, high-impact engines for growth. We deliver table stakes quickly, creating cost efficiencies from day one to push up the creative effectiveness of our work with every cycle.

We are an equal-opportunity empl