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Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.
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Why we’re hiring
WPP is at the forefront of the marketing and advertising industry's largest transformation. Our Global CIO is leading a significant evolution of our Enterprise Technology capabilities, bringing together over 2,500 technology professionals into an integrated global team. This team will play a crucial role in enabling the ongoing transformation of our agencies and functions.
A dedicated Programme Director is needed to orchestrate the people side of this transformation, ensuring that new ways of working are adopted, benefits are realised, and change fatigue is minimised.
The Revenue Forecasting programme will improve pipeline and revenue reporting across agencies, supporting better business forecasting and growth tracking. It will reduce manual effort, standardise reporting processes, and increase adoption of CRM and revenue tracking tools by addressing data quality, process maturity, and adoption challenges.
Responsibilities
The Programme Director is accountable for the overall success of a programme, ensuring delivery of strategic outcomes and benefits realisation. This role provides leadership, governance, and direction across multiple projects and workstreams, aligning them to organisational objectives and stakeholder expectations.
- Strategic Leadership: Define and maintain the programme vision, objectives, and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business strategy.
- Governance & Assurance: Establish robust governance frameworks, manage risks, and ensure compliance with organisational standards.
- Benefits Realisation: Drive delivery of measurable business benefits, tracking progress against agreed KPIs and outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, sponsors, and delivery teams to secure commitment and resolve issues.
- Resource & Financial Management: Oversee programme budgets, resource allocation, and vendor management to optimise cost and value.
- Change & Adoption: Ensure readiness and adoption of new capabilities, minimising disruption and embedding change effectively.
What you’ll be doing
- Develop the global vision and roadmap for the programme.
- Build strong relationships with leaders to influence and drive collaboration.
- Establish and lead transformation programmes across WPP Enterprise Technology.
- Ensure deliverables are of the highest quality with clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefits.
- Be accountable for programme definition, planning, orchestration, and delivery.
- Identify, define and manage projects. Manage project plans, resource, risk, issue tracking, quality, governance, change, communications, and budget.
- Coordinate dependencies with projects, suppliers and stakeholders outside the programme.
- Ensure visibility across teams to mitigate coordination challenges.
- Work with PMOs to ensure accurate reporting and stage gates.
- Manage third‑party suppliers/partners and contracts.
- Performance‑manage project staff and provide coaching and feedback.
- Ensure programme projects use Transformation Delivery Framework and tools such as Wrike.
- Share activities and lessons learned across the PM community.
What you’ll need
Experience & Background
- Extensive experience leading large‑scale, complex technology transformation programmes in a global or multi‑entity organisation.
- Proven track record of delivering enterprise‑wide platforms, cloud migrations, infrastructure modernisation, or major application deployments.
- Strong background in portfolio, programme and project management, with familiarity in both waterfall and hybrid delivery.
- Experience working with multiple vendors, system integrators and third‑party delivery partners.
Leadership & Strategic Capability
- Ability to define and articulate a clear programme vision, roadmap, and benefits case.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence C‑suite, functional heads and leader teams.
- Experience leading matrixed teams and delivering cross‑functional delivery across geographies.
- Demonstrated ability to set the right delivery culture, behaviours and expectations.
Governance, Control & Delivery Excellence
- Deep understanding of programme governance including stage gates, reporting, RAID management and financial controls.
- Skill in risk management and developing mitigation plans.
- Ability to ensure regulatory, security and compliance alignment.
- Strong capability in budget ownership, forecasting, cost control and benefits realisation.
- Experience conducting business cases, cost‑benefit analysis and ROI assessments.
- Ability to manage vendor contracts and performance KPIs.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Exceptional communication skills, simplifying complex details into executive insights.
- Build trusted relationships with senior sponsors, delivery teams and external partners.
- Skilled in managing change impacts, driving adoption and minimising disruption.
Change, Adoption & Business Readiness
- Experience overseeing change management including communications, training and readiness.
- Ensure new processes, technologies and capabilities are embedded and sustained.
- Address change fatigue, capability gaps and resistance points.
Technical Competence
- Strong understanding of relevant enterprise technologies.
- Balance technical constraints, architectural requirements and business needs.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised, resilient and comfortable operating in ambiguous environments.
- Strong problem solver making clear decisions under pressure.
- Inclusive, people‑centred leader who motivates high performing teams.
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 open‑minded: to 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 for 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 aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
- Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to 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.
WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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