VP of Clients

Now, about the opportunity: The Media.Monks VP Clients maintains agency relationships in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This is a role for a strategic and growth-minded professional with the industry know-how and rapport to simply get things done. If you’re an experienced go-getter who just gets clients and seeks out new opportunities to create impactful work, then let’s get down to the essentials.

We’re  looking for a VP Clients to oversee KSA-wide group portfolio brands. The work is a mix of programme-based work across owned channels, social, strategy and creative content production. In this lead client-facing position, you’ll work at the intersection of business and production to output high-fidelity strategy through to premium craft.

• Own the client relationship including the fiscal health and overall growth.
• Understand clients’ business challenges and be able to articulate strategies to address those needs.
• Build and sustain relationships with senior clients, becoming their trusted marketing partner.
• Identify new opportunities within current client relationships, chart the path to forge new relationships and design strategies for expansion across our portfolio of services.
• Collaborate with your subject matter expert colleagues from our 8 capabilities to produce great work.
• Lead an integrated team through the RFP process for new business engagements.
• Manage, train and mentor a team of directors (business, strategy, creative, delivery) responsible for individual pieces of business.
• Set and manage processes related to account operations including finance, resourcing, forecasting, and client business reporting
• You will report into the EVP Clients EMEA

• 15+ years of increasing levels of responsibility in marketing leadership positions at agencies and/or client organizations.
• Minimum of five years agency experience within the last ten years of employment.
• Leadership skills that mean others want to work with and for you.
• Deep understanding of marketing principles and programs with an emphasis on digital marketing across strategy, content creation and media.
• Proven track record of managing and growing multi-million dollar global accounts.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills that ensure our message is always clear and compelling to our client partners.
• Demonstrate a comfort level with data, media and analytics.
• Expertise in social media strategy and management.
• Multi-channel digital-first client campaign experience.
• AOR and Ad-hoc team management experience.
• Regional lead experience.
• Passion to stay on the pulse of culture and ability to provide a strategic POV. 
• You speak Arabic and English
• Preferably you live in KSA or you are willing to move there.

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About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is the purely digital operating brand of S4Capital plc that connects 8,600+ digital natives across one global team. We are united by a mission to shift industries forward and pave the path towards ambitious outcomes so our clients and our people can realize their full potential for growth. Our unified model combines solutions in media, data, social, platforms, studio, experience, brand and technology services to help our clients continuously reinvent themselves throughout increasingly rapid cycles of disruption. Our efforts to shape culture, build innovative technologies and unlock the future of growth have earned recognition from numerous esteemed panels: we maintain a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-22), regular recognition at Cannes Lions, inclusion in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players (2020-23), the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-23), a record number of FWAs, and have earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023. Together, these achievements solidify our experience in digital innovation, excellence in craft, and commitment to personal growth.

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