4 weeks ago

Senior Strategist

Monks

Hilversum

4 weeks ago

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Senior Strategist

Monks is seeking a Senior Strategist to drive strategic clarity and power up the relationship with an iconic global sports brand. Based in Hilversum, the role requires leading senior clients, shaping long-term strategies, and providing deep cultural and industry insights. The ideal candidate has proven client presence and a recognized understanding of the sports industry.

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands, NL

Work Model

On-site

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Soft Skills

client presencestrategic visionleadershipinfluencecuriosityinnovationcultural insights

Key Responsibilities

•Illuminate the path to growth internally, setting a clear strategic direction that aligns to client outcomes.
•Partner with Client Success to shape ambitious, insight-led briefs and effective scopes of work.
•Act as catalysts for business growth, collaborating to identify and unlock new opportunities.
•Serve as a trusted advisor to senior external client stakeholders, helping them solve consumer challenges and seize emerging opportunities.
•Strengthen Monks’ presence with the client—representing our strategic thinking in sessions, meetings, associations, and across key communication platforms.
•Act as the senior strategic advisor to the client's Digital Marketing Sports teams.
•Shape long-term strategies that align client ambition with Monks’ capabilities and commercial opportunities.
•Educate and enhance the client’s Digital Marketing understanding of insights, comms planning, and versioning online and in-person (twice a week).
•Proactively identify opportunities and expand Monks’ footprint within the account.
•Develop thought-leadership around themes relevant to our scope and projects (e.g., category and sport evolutions, youth culture, and behaviors).
•Define best practices for how strategy interacts and impacts an iconic global sports brand.
•Ensure strategy consistently provides the “why” that fuels breakthroughs with the client's consumer base.
•Champion the use of accelerated insights (AI) to elevate strategic output and impact.
•Create clear run of shows, comms planning, and versioning to create impact with consumers across EMEA.
•Serve as a key strategic voice to senior clients, aligning strategy to major business priorities.
•Represent Monks as a client-facing strategist, elevating our profile with the client.
•Lead, inspire, and educate your teammates in the latest and greatest cultural and sports insights.
•Help set a culture of curiosity, innovation, and excellence.

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Key Responsibilities

•Illuminate the path to growth internally, setting a clear strategic direction that aligns to client outcomes.

•Partner with Client Success to shape ambitious, insight-led briefs and effective scopes of work.

•Act as catalysts for business growth, collaborating to identify and unlock new opportunities.

•Serve as a trusted advisor to senior external client stakeholders, helping them solve consumer challenges and seize emerging opportunities.

•Strengthen Monks’ presence with the client—representing our strategic thinking in sessions, meetings, associations, and across key communication platforms.

•Act as the senior strategic advisor to the client's Digital Marketing Sports teams.

•Shape long-term strategies that align client ambition with Monks’ capabilities and commercial opportunities.

•Educate and enhance the client’s Digital Marketing understanding of insights, comms planning, and versioning online and in-person (twice a week).

•Proactively identify opportunities and expand Monks’ footprint within the account.

•Develop thought-leadership around themes relevant to our scope and projects (e.g., category and sport evolutions, youth culture, and behaviors).

•Define best practices for how strategy interacts and impacts an iconic global sports brand.

•Ensure strategy consistently provides the “why” that fuels breakthroughs with the client's consumer base.

•Champion the use of accelerated insights (AI) to elevate strategic output and impact.

•Create clear run of shows, comms planning, and versioning to create impact with consumers across EMEA.

•Serve as a key strategic voice to senior clients, aligning strategy to major business priorities.

•Represent Monks as a client-facing strategist, elevating our profile with the client.

•Lead, inspire, and educate your teammates in the latest and greatest cultural and sports insights.

•Help set a culture of curiosity, innovation, and excellence.