WPP is the creative 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 115,000 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, 307 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 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

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.

We are building a new team to support our global Workday deployment, reporting to the Workday Services Service Manager, the purpose of this role is to manage the Service Delivery of Workday in EMEA, this role key to the operational running of the Workday Services Team. This role will manage ITIL processes such Incident, Request, Change and Release for HCM, FINS and PSA in region. This role will also be the escalation point for P1 tickets and the preparation of regular service reports, that will be presented to the business, detailing service level performance.  This role will also be heavily involved in multiple go-live readiness activities on future releasees.

This is an exciting and varied role in a dynamic organisation where you will work with the wider Workday Services Team to provide a world class level of Workday support and development on a day-to-day basis. You will also work with the WPP Implementation Team and People Teams to understand, improve and deliver an efficient and effective solution.

What you'll be doing:

  • Reporting into the Workday Service Manager, manage and be the go-to point for the service delivery of Workday services for EMEA
  • Line management of Level 2 teams & resources for modules deployed in APAC regions
  • Manage the Incident, Request, Change, Release processes for EMEA and prepare ready for CAB’s etc.
  • Monitor service ticket performance against our vendors and internal SLA’s/OLA’s
  • Manage P1 incidents in region, reporting regularly to the Workday Service Manager and wider stakeholder’s
  • Help prepare go-lives and manage service readiness activities\documentation
  • Be heavily involved and lead in service Improvement activities

What you'll need:

  • Strong working understanding of ITIL Processes, Incident, Request, Change and Release
  • Good understanding of Service Transition methodologies
  • Ability to take ownership and lead things successfully through to a conclusion
  • Ability to build agreed service reports on service analytics
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, good communicator
  • Previous experience of Service Management around Workday or similar SaaS Services preferable

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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