SVP, Commerce & Retail Media, North America

<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 the executive lead for our commerce &amp; retail practice, you are responsible for defining our overarching commerce strategy, scaling our modern retail capabilities, and building unified solutions that connect media performance to transactions. You will be a strategic leader within our Data &amp; Media team, contributing meaningfully to our P&amp;L, serving as the primary enterprise consultant for senior client stakeholders navigating complex commerce maturity journeys.</p> <p>Your remit spans the strategic oversight of our core commerce infrastructure, partnering closely with the investment/activation team and major networks like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and other RMNs in the US and Canada. This includes maximizing multi-million dollar investments across the marketplace and engineering direct-to-consumer (DTC) transformations. Additionally, you will work closely with our data team and proprietary AI tools to integrate best-in-class commerce and retail data partnerships directly into our planning and creative intelligence AI workflows, ensuring our solutions remain best in class.</p> <p>A primary mandate of this leadership role is the expansion of our creator commerce footprint at Monks. You will architect this high-growth capability right at the convergence of our world-class social credentials, creator/influencer networks, and affiliate marketing. By unifying these capabilities, you will build scalable offerings that turn cultural momentum into immediate transactional volume, driving real-time brand results and establishing Monks as a leader in this specialty.</p> <h2><strong>Experience Sought:</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Scaled Commerce Leadership:</strong> You have run a commerce or retail media department at scale. You have a proven track record operating at an executive level, leading a large-scale agency practice or consulting business unit spanning specialized disciplines like DTC operations, Retail Media Networks, Social Commerce, and