Project Manager

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working. For more information, visit wppmedia.com.

Role Summary And Impact

Reporting to a Director or above within the Client Team, the Project Manager is responsible for project managing analytics projects across multiple projects. The role involves preparing detailed project plans, ensuring projects stay on track, managing resources across individual teams, communicating with clients and finance, tracking scope changes, and maintaining workflow excellence within the analytics team. The position requires leadership, communication skills, project‑management expertise, and dedication.

Skills And Experience

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilise the Enterprise.
• Be responsible for team resource management, alongside Directors and Account Leads, to ensure projects are delivered efficiently and on time.
• Design and be responsible for the whole project.
• Independently manage all aspects of projects running across multiple clients.
• Draw up detailed project plans and keep projects on track accordingly.
• Ensure the smooth running of multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ensure no project stages are skipped, and all teams align with the process.
• Identify pressure points and help the team overcome these.
• Identify additional areas of process improvement.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, other teams and other agencies.
• Organise meetings with internal teams and client stakeholders.
• Oversee and ensure ways of working excellence within the analytics team.
• Develop new and improved processes and roll out new ways of working such as templates for the wider teams to use.
• Organise, coordinate and create content together with senior leadership team and other team members for key client/team events.
• Take the lead in department‑wide resource management, alongside Directors and Account Leads, to ensure projects are delivered on time.
• Forge strong relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ensure all scopes are recorded, delivered to, and no scope creep is happening, unless billed for.
• Ensure all billing-related items are completed by working closely with the Senior Commercial Coordinator (ensuring everything has been recorded in various files, changes are communicated with the client, ensuring we have been paid for all our work and we have paid hubs).
• Delegate up and down, coordinating between groups and disciplines.
• Organise relevant trainings and onboard new team members.
• Line‑manage principle project coordinators with responsibility for their growth and development through regular feedback.
• Be responsible for feedback surveys (creating and sharing them to teams, ensuring teams get responses through chasing/collating feedback and help shape future developments of the framework based on it).

Life At WPP Media & Benefits

WPP Media employees can tap into global networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We offer employee resource groups, frequent in‑office events, competitive medical and dental insurance, group retirement plans, vision coverage, substantial paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media is an equal‑opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination. We foster a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

We believe the best work happens when we are together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

UK Working Rights & Privacy Notice

Please note this is a UK‑based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location.

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