**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.**
**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.**
The WPP Creative Agency IT team is seeking a Project Manager to shepherd key strategic programs and projects across WPP Operating Companies in support of the larger WPP transformation, and directly impacting the strategic initiatives of each group of companies.
As a Project Manager, you will work cross-functionally with a wide network of sponsors and stakeholders, across WPP Operating Companies. You will have the opportunity to drive complex initiatives from conception to implementation, ensuring a seamless experience for all parties and successful execution of programs and individual projects.
You will be part of a dedicated team whose purpose is to enable the organisation to execute its current strategy, as well as respond to emerging market trends.
Thinking big is critical to success in this role. You must be an excellent coach, with a natural aptitude for investigating, asking the right questions, of the right stakeholder and at the right time. You must be able to thrive amid ambiguity, with an eye on team productivity, as well as ensuring the team have what they need to succeed.
**What you'll be doing**:
- Work closely with key stakeholders including business sponsors, product owners, development and support teams, and other parties involved to properly document scope, project governance model, roles & responsibilities, scheduling, planned cost, communication, etc.
- Capable of owning business analysis for multiple initiatives and keeping stakeholders and development teams aligned and updated on project status.
- Help Identify, define and prioritize technical and functional requirements
- You will actively manage, report on and escalate risks and issues whilst developing mitigation plans to address
- You will work diligently to ensure dependencies are met and actions are assigned, agreed and closed on time
- Ensure program benefits are continuously identified, baselined and tracked with appropriate business ownership
- Define and collate metrics to track benefits realization
- Pro-actively investigate pain points to identify opportunities that contribute to moving the needle in direction of program objectives
- Support team developments by removing roadblocks and identifying how best to utilise resources globally to ensure successful programs
- Act as a project manager for major initiatives across the organization, integrating diversity of perspectives into design and delivery approaches
- Support development and evolution of PMO processes and documentation
- Support the Portfolio Manager in working with IT business partners and IT operations teams to plan IT budgets for projects
- Monitor project performance and measure ROI
**Who you'll be working with**:
- Solid understanding of Agile methodology and strong examples to support this in a program/change management capacity
- Proven stakeholder management skills working with all levels of an organization
- Experience in successfully managing ambitious, strategic, and operationally complex program/projects with internal and external cross-functional teams
- Experience working with software development teams (agile/scrum) products owners, end users and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and business adoption of new technology
- Passionate about being a champion for change and you continuously challenge the status quo.
- Highly organized and detail oriented, with a bias for action
- Experience leading and engaging globally dispersed teams
- Experience in quickly understanding the background, framing the problem, and going in enablement mode to drive to a solution
- Experience in formulating hypotheses, designing (user) tests, and using problem-solving techniques to evaluate solutions
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