Programme Manager, Data Management

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom WPP Full time

At WPP, our talented people, enabled by technology, are at the heart of everything we do. The WPP People team is undergoing a significant transformation to modernize ways of working, shifting to Workday HCM and driving automation to digitise the colleague experience. As part of this transformation journey the Global HCM People Team are initiating a search to find the an individual to become a leader of our team.
WPP is seeking a Global Senior Program Director for Workday HCM to lead the internal program delivery team, wider WPP internal stakeholders and external partners and vendors, ensuring deliverables are completed according to measures of quality, time, and scope. Reporting to the Global Head of People Transformation, this role will be responsible for leading program progress, ensuring executive level status updates, decision logs and RAID items are detailed and ready for Steerco, executive and program reporting and decision-making.The role requiresa collaborative, well-rounded global business and IT program management expert, with extensive experience in leading global HCM and/or related HR platform rollouts.
Lead, through a PMO matrixed framework, multi-disciplinary globally distributed teams in the IT and People function, to successfully execute complex and simultaneous projects within the Workday HCM portfolio.
Be adept at working in both an Agile and a traditional Project Management environment, depending on the program needs.
Be the right hand for the business team and anticipate their needs to further the project’s success.
Lead and facilitate meetings and communicate updates to program stakeholders (project team, external clients, senior management and the executive team) as needed.
Oversee the team on preparation and publishing of weekly, monthly and quarterly program reports/status for the internal team and management to be informed of the project’s health (i.e., open/at risk/completed items).
Own organization of program onboarding across the cross-functional team to ensure consistency across local and global program regions.
Provide consultation on deeper analysis and works with relevant teams to develop briefs for senior management project escalations.
Coach the team as needed in best practices relative to project methodology.
Ensure the committed work is delivered to specification, quality, scope and time.
Champion an iterative planning process; Partner with senior Technical Leaders to create and manage technical plans, ascertained by working with the project team to define the deliverables that will be developed in each release of the product.
Ability to manage multiple program workstreams and deliverables, identifying risks, issues, and dependencies among projects.
Proactively identifies, tracks, and mitigates project risks and issues, escalating appropriately.
Ensures team members take personal accountability for deliverables and projects, engaging in all aspects of team assignments.
Leads Post Project Reviews and ensures key learnings are shared with relevant parties and actively used to optimize future ways of working in the program.
Engages with stakeholders to maintain and optimize ongoing program roadmap post deployment phases.
Partner with workstream leads on risk mitigation plans and criteria and monitoring for technical, operational, data and business readiness.
PMO professional who can lead through ambiguity, quickly diagnose and apply the right methods to the situation, with the ability to pivot approach as our dynamic environment often requires.
Experience using both traditional and agile project methodologies in a global capacity to lead complex technology programs with balanced experience in HRIS and the HR lifecycle; this is a hybrid Technology & HR leadership role.
Expert knowledge and experience in the end-to-end deployment of HCM within large, global complex organizations.
Excellent leadership and matrix team management skills.
Experience in managing data-driven dependencies and large-scale global platform roll-outs.
Proven ability to set up and lead roll out program operational management and governance, workflow and infrastructure.
We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; 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.

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