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Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise 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.
GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM’s portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.
The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for coordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.
We're looking for the next generation of technology specialists. You'll be bright, energetic, and engaging by nature. You'll lead the business analysis activities in South Asia, working with both business and technology stakeholders on the business requirements, traceability, and process mapping of the wider WPP IT portfolio projects and programmes within the markets. You'll have a similar role in another company or be ready to step up into this role because your experience means you're ready for the challenge of leading a sub-region’s IT business analysis activities for the world's largest media buying company.
What you'll be doing:
- Work closely with key stakeholders including business partners, business sponsors, SMEs, product owners, engineering teams, support teams, and other parties involved in the successful scoping, development, testing, delivery, implementation and onboarding for the products.
- Build, own and maintain the product roadmap for your area of responsibility
- Collect, understand, organize and document the business requirements (both functional and non-functional) for products, projects and features. Translate these into written suitable project artefacts to support delivery
- Do development, code review, testing and ensure that the requirements are met
- Learn about the data and products in depth; be the ‘go to’ person - a trusted advisor with a remit of ‘helping others to help themselves’
- Lead Product to ensure roadmaps and delivery are aligned to business needs, and tied to the relevant local, regional and global strategies
- Look for opportunities to reduce/remove unnecessarily duplication and complexity within both the technology and business processes
- Participate in daily stand-up calls, retrospectives, and requirements clarifications sessions where relevant
- Produce training materials and other onboarding documentation to assist local markets with onboarding users
- Provide/Manage plans/timelines and risks/issues for the product
- Produce regular status reports
- Ensure projects deliver business value and tangible benefits
- Ensure a mindset of continual improvement
What you'll need:
- Technically you should be
- Expert in Microsoft SQL Server
- Expert in .NET Web & Windows Application using C#.NET, VB.NET
- Good with MVC Framework
- Have experience on AZURE Cloud, Power BI & Dev OPs
- Knowledge of Power Automate will be and added advantage
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- Experience working with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders from junior colleagues through to senior leadership
- Demonstrable experience of being able to operate in a fast-paced and dynamic, product-based environment
- Experience using Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) to deliver technical products and solutions through all stages of the SDLC
- Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions
- A strong work ethic; able to work under pressure, be ‘hands on’, meet deadlines and deliver results with minimal direct oversight
- Robust organizational skills; able to balance multiple priorities and manage your own workload
- Able to join the dots, identify commonalities, build consistency and simplicity in a complex landscape
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?
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
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WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.
Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wpp.com/people/wpp-privacy-policy-for-recruitment) for more information on how we process the information you provide.
