Business Director📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Monks is seeking a Business Director to oversee one of its largest portfolio brands. This full-time position, based in Middle Oraija Dist, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, involves managing a mix of programme-based work across owned channels, social, strategy, and creative content production. The role serves as a lead client-facing position, operating at the intersection of business and production to deliver high-fidelity strategy through to premium craft, integrating platforms, creative content, data, and experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact and strategic partner for clients, developing roadmaps for sustained brand success.
• Oversee the sales pipeline and drive revenue growth for individual brands under your purview.
• Safeguard business planning and development to achieve targets and KPIs while identifying new assignment opportunities.
• Manage the program of projects, facilitating communication between clients and Monks teams to initiate new assignments.
• Leverage digital expertise in platforms, social media, and asset production to handle diverse client briefs.
• Cultivate relationships with leading global advertisers.
• Lead multiple accounts across various sectors or geographies, ensuring excellence and profitability.
• Inspire, develop, and manage senior account leaders and brand business leads.
• Contribute to the agency’s growth strategy and participate in new business pitches.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience, with 4+ years in a lead role managing high-value, interdisciplinary work.
• GCC experience is required for this role.
• Proven track record of managing and growing multi-million dollar global/local accounts and winning new business.
• Deep understanding of digital business objectives and the ability to produce high-end content at a high pace.
• Strategic mindset that prioritizes long-term partnerships and work-stream milestones over individual projects.
• Confidence in providing expert advice on digital production and platforms at the C-level.
• Strong leadership skills that foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Expertise in multi-channel digital-first campaigns and AOR/Ad-hoc team management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data Literacy: A high comfort level with media, analytics, and data-driven insights.
• Social Specialist: Specific experience in deep social media strategy and management.
• Cultural Pulse: A passion for staying on the pulse of culture with the ability to provide a unique strategic POV.

About Monks

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. The company combines a range of global Marketing and Technology Services, utilizing *******, its AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, to transform marketing into a growth engine. Monks delivers culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions to address business challenges and sustain long-term impact for brands.

Monks has been recognized as a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25), and is featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list (2020-24). The company was named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, also receiving Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both Organizational and AI Product categories. Monks has also earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025) and runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024).

Commitment to Diversity

Monks is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment. The company values diversity in all respects, including fresh voices and unique points of view, to foster growth and produce work that better represents and resonates with the world.