Activation and Engagement Lead

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**WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. **Key performance indicators** for WPP (2020) include Billings of £46.9bn and Revenue of £12bn.**

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**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 world's leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM's portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.

The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for coordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.

We're looking for the next generation of technology leaders. You'll be bright, energetic, and engaging by nature. You'll lead the activation and engagement activities in your market, working with both business and technology stakeholders on the engagement and delivery of the wider WPP IT portfolio projects and programmes within the market. You'll have a similar role in another company or be ready to step up into this role because your experience means you're ready for the challenge of leading a market's IT activation and engagement activities for the world's largest media buying company.

**What you'll be doing**:

- You'll liaise with the Media Archetype's teams, the agencies, the WPP IT portfolio lead and the Strategic Business Partner of Southeast Asia to manage the engagement and delivery of the wider WPP IT portfolio projects and programmes within the local market.
- You'll act as a point of escalation for the local businesses supporting the IT projects delivery and re-routing any service or product challenge via the Media Archetype's Ops Assurance or Product teams
- You will maintain a lens on the value and commercial impact of both proposals and the reality of WPP IT activity and plans as it relates to the market.
- You will work with stakeholders across the market and WPP IT strategic programmes, to proactively ensure delivery and to secure the engagement required to realise the value of the Media Archetype portfolio within the market.
- You'll have outstanding people skills, be a clear communicator and know when the right approach is to be pragmatic.
- You'll be passionate about delivering for our staff and customers, taking a considered approach around when to agree tactical technology fixes.
- Where needed, you'll support the development of local products, with an eye to them scaling for greater benefit around GroupM.
- Assist the Strategic Business Partner of Southeast Asia to capture and shape business demand for new or changed products and services in the local market - ensuring their needs are considered and proposals are shaped, sized, aligned and prioritised
- Act as a point of escalation and un-blocker for local business context - supporting IT project delivery, technical decisions, etc. - but re-routing any service or support challenges via the GroupM Operations Assurance function / Service Management Lead.
- Work with local stakeholders and WPP IT strategic programmes, to proactively ensure delivery - and to secure the engagement required to realise the value of the GroupM portfolio
- Assist the Strategic Business Partner of Southeast Asia to develop and maintain a view of local stakeholder alignment; delivery challenges;