WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 317 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world's largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world's most creative brands.
Why we're hiring:
Along that journey we will ensure WPP IT is a destination for tech talent, modernise our ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data.
To support program management, as well as ensure project delivery, the role of the project manager to coordinate the PMO is necessary for organizing and managing the project plan, allocating and managing resources, monitoring and directing decision-making referring to responses to risks, problems, and interdependencies of activities, among other demands. This position is crucial for the project to move within the agreed premises and guarantee the proposed benefits approved by the company.
This role will help ensure the Transformation function is executing WPP IT's vision, while professionalising how we mobilise and deliver projects as a service, ensure value focused approach, and benefits & cost control through tools that are fit for purpose. It will also play a crucial role in helping to establish a PPM community built on continuous learning, a support network, and a compelling career progression framework. It will be responsible for embedding a high-performing culture that has WPP's values at the heart of how it operates. It will have a strong focus on supporting and leading the team, while coaching them to succeed.
What you'll be doing:
- Responsible for the mobilisation and delivery of Maconomy EMEA project, encompassing – planning, resourcing, deliverables tracking, benefits and cost tracking and realisation, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, reporting, change, governance.
- Collaborates with a diverse multi-disciplinary global team to understand business needs and outcomes and works closely with key stakeholders across the company to deliver
- Contribute with continuous improvement of processes and procedures across the team and inputs into the overall framework with a focus on best practices, tools and standards for mobilisation and delivery.
- Convenes third parties, including strategic partners and highly skilled PPM contractors, to bring external best practice and improve alignment in ways of working across the wider PPM community
- Inputs, develops, and professionally supports the wider team of Project Management practitioners, building and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and the learning journeys needed to build capability and technical expertise in the team
- Responsible for all people leadership activities for the Projects they lead, ie hiring, developing, input into performance evaluation
- Actively sponsor and champion the shift to agile methodologies, in line with broader IT Transformation ambition and agenda, supporting teams as we continually look to improve flow
- Responsible for all project management aspects of Maconomy Core rollout, including tracking of project activities against plan, reporting progress, managing risks and issues, coordinating project deliverables with local and global resources.
- Ensure that all the key resources from the WPP OpCos/Agencies (Business Leads, Data Leads, Super Users, etc) are participating and delivering the tasks that falls under their responsibility, on time and with desirable level of quality.
- Ensure that Maconomy Core Deep Dive and Training sessions, conducted by T&M-Training & Change workstream, are attended by correct people from the WPP OpCos/Agencies (Key Users and End Users).
- Ensure that all the project delivery dates are met and guide all teams (Workstreams and OpCos) to meet milestone targets.
- Establish working relationships with project vendors which are responsible for (Maconomy Core, Integration, Tests and Legacy ERP systems) respectively, whenever required to deliver planned activities on time.
- Follow established Maconomy Core programme governance
- Follow established Maconomy Core project plan
What you'll need:
- Extensive project management experience, with demonstrated capability of managing multiple projects simultaneously, including PMO management
- Proven track record of successful mobilisation and delivery of ambitious, strategic, and operationally complex projects with internal and external cross-functional teams
- Experience in delivering ERP system or media/advertising projects is a differential
- Fluent in English (written and spoken). Desirable French or German language skills
- Must have experience working on large scale, global deliveries, in geographically diverse project teams across multiple time zones
- Good communication and relationship skills to deal with people holding different objectives (users, programme manager, business leads, data leads, global teams, suppliers)
- Essential working skills using Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Teams, etc)
- Proven track record as a people leader and influencer with motivational and engagement skills including the ability to lead globally dispersed teams throughout all levels of the organisation.
- Quick to learn and adaptable to changing priorities, with the ability to reshape, reconfigure and realign solutions to meet challenging deadlines without jeopardising the successful delivery of the programme
- Ability to build and maintain relationships by engaging and working inclusively to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives
- A self-started with impeccable organisational and time management skills, focusing on value and outcomes; enthusiastic with a can-do attitude
- Strategic and critical thinker – blending technical, operational, and commercial strategic considerations into decision making, while continuously challenging the status-quo
- Story telling with data – strong skills in building the case for change, identifying the business outcomes, value proposition for the respective area
- Brilliant communicator – strong communication and stakeholder management skills; able to turn complex technical messages into effective, succinct communications; ability to manage and influence stakeholders with competing priorities
- Functional analysis skills to enable the capture and breakdown of well-formed requirements and priorities
- Experience in tracking and reporting using project management tools & dashboards
- Experience in delivery methodologies (e.g. SAFe, Scrum, waterfall)
- Experience working in an Agile team as a Scrum Product Owner or Scrum Master is beneficial
- Recognised Agile or Project management certifications are beneficial
- Desirable working skills using JIRA.
- Desirable basic understanding of finance processes.
Who you are:
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
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