SVP, Commerce & Retail Media, North America

Monks • Boston, MA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the executive lead for our commerce & 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 & Media team, contributing meaningfully to our P&L, serving as the primary enterprise consultant for senior client stakeholders navigating complex commerce maturity journeys. 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. 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.

Requirements

• 15+ years of leadership in digital commerce, retail media, performance marketing, or eCommerce consulting
• A proven track record of leading large, multidisciplinary teams across retail media, media buying, client services, and strategic consulting.
• Deep, established experience building or advising on Joint Business Plans (JBPs) and partnering directly with Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kroeger, TikTok Shop, Pacvue, Criteo and major retail media platforms.
• Technical and operational familiarity with integrating paid media strategy with owned channels (CRM, loyalty, subscriptions), analytics, business intelligence platforms, and content ecosystems.
• Familiarity scaling brands within consumer products, wellness, health, beauty, food & beverage, or CPG verticals.
• An established track record of presenting complex, high-level business strategies, proprietary methodologies, and financial narratives to C-suite and partner-level audiences.
• Experience driving organizational transformation and merging siloed commerce operations into centralized centers of excellence.

Nice To Haves

• Scaled Commerce Leadership: You have run a commerce or retail media department at scale.
• Full-Funnel Strategic Vision: You possess a deep understanding of true full-funnel, integrated commerce.
• Experimental Mindset: Collaborate with Data & Analytics team members to transform complex media and content test and learn initiatives into high-level media allocation strategies.
• Commercial Growth & Pitch Excellence: You possess a potent sales mindset with a track record of winning new business, driving client expansion, and proactively identifying high-value cross-sell opportunities across a diverse agency portfolio.
• Talent Elevation: You can actively coach and transition senior practice leaders, building a strong leadership bench while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Executive Presence: You possess the executive presence required to represent a major organization at industry events, conferences, and executive forums.

Responsibilities

• Defining our overarching commerce strategy
• Scaling our modern retail capabilities
• Building unified solutions that connect media performance to transactions
• Contributing meaningfully to our P&L
• Serving as the primary enterprise consultant for senior client stakeholders navigating complex commerce maturity journeys
• 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
• Maximizing multi-million dollar investments across the marketplace
• Engineering direct-to-consumer (DTC) transformations
• Working 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
• Expansion of our creator commerce footprint at Monks
• Architecting this high-growth capability right at the convergence of our world-class social credentials, creator/influencer networks, and affiliate marketing
• Building scalable offerings that turn cultural momentum into immediate transactional volume, driving real-time brand results and establishing Monks as a leader in this specialty
• Transforming complex media and content test and learn initiatives into high-level media allocation strategies
• Providing executive leadership with the statistical confidence required to aggressively scale high-performing commerce channels and eliminate waste
• Winning new business, driving client expansion, and proactively identifying high-value cross-sell opportunities across a diverse agency portfolio
• Actively coaching and transitioning senior practice leaders
• Building a strong leadership bench
• Fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Representing a major organization at industry events, conferences, and executive forums

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed