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.

GroupM is the leading global media investment management operation serving as the parent company to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediaCom and Wavemaker each global operations in their own right with leading market positions.

GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people.

As we continue on this journey, we are seeking an experienced Implementation Manager to join our team.  You will be responsible for the planning and delivery of new implementations and supporting existing implementations on the Media Central platform across all GroupM markets in the EMEA Region. This role reports to the  Media Systems Lead.

What you'll be doing:

  • Support market Implementation of Media Central
  • Align with market and business unit to global standard
  • Participate in technical discussions and select an implementation model
  • Lead Business Analysis, QA, Cutover and Data Migration for the market system implementation
  • Work with the vendor team to ensure that activity is on track
  • Perform post-implementation review with local project and vendor teams
  • Assist the Product Team with the platform design and improvement
  • Ensure smooth transition - collaborating with support teams, end-user groups and all stakeholders
  • Report to the Media Systems Lead on implementation progress, issues, risks and changes
  • Assist or lead Media Central superuser forums - ensure immediate needs are managed and contracting aligns with Global agreement. Promote re-use, common solutions and workflows
  • Provide the primary point of coordination between local market teams and the global team
  • Media Central Operations - contact point for maintenance, upgrades, security reviews, audits, etc
  • Undertake super-admin duties as defined by the global platform standard operating procedure
  • Support, participate and partner with project management and change teams in the market to ensure the following is delivered across markets:
    • Change and communications planning
    • Training and sharing your knowledge
    • Working with vendors and market SMEs for data migration
    • Working with vendors and market-appointed trainers
    • Working with vendors and market SMEs to accept on cutover strategy and approach
    • Working with vendors and market partners to run UAT
    • Market set-up
    • Business case tracking

What you'll need:

  • Bachelor's/master’s degree in Information Systems, Technology, Business Management, or related degree; or equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • Demonstrable experience in the implementation of workflow tools – (specific Dynamics 365 Business Central experience is beneficial but not a prerequisite)
  • Experience in digital transformation programs within large organizations will be an advantage
  • Knowledge and experience in project management methodologies such as Agile/PMI/Lean
  • Experience of working in a technical environment with APIs and Integrations, including API protocols and formats (e.g. SOAP, REST, XML and JSON)
  • Experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, business process engineering, as-is and to-be mapping, BPMN, etc
  • Strong business change background
  • Has sufficient credibility and gravitas, and ability to work with and relate to a highly demanding internal stakeholder base
  • A direct, straightforward style, able to cut to the core quickly
  • Excellent people and team management skills, able to manage upwards and influence in a complex environment (matrixed and across multiple physical locations)

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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