Associate Delivery Leadership

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Mindshare Full time

Associate Delivery Leadership
- Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates- Good Growth
- for its employees and clients in the age of transformation. Good Growth is business growth that is enduring and sustainable whilst also helping to shape society and the world for the better. Good Growth only happens with our people.

At Mindshare, we enable and empower our people to thrive, creating an environment where they can do the best work of their careers by envisioning what Good Growth means to them and their clients.

We were the first purpose built company created by WPP and today our 10,000 people operate in 116 offices in 86 countries, helping to drive Good Growth for our clients, our people, the industry and the world.

**Summary**

This role will work closely the leadership teams for global clients to track, prioritise, plan and orchestrate across client projects and workstreams. This role will track requests, create timelines, manage workplans and drive creation of committed deliverables. This critical role will act as a project coordinator and facilitator for internal and client facing activities helping to gather scope and requirements for solutions into and then translating scope into plans needed to deliver required outputs.

**Key Attributes**:
You will play a key role in the management of, communication about, and coordination across multiple concurrent workstreams.

You will help capture and consolidate solution details from clients and Mindshare capabilities to inform project scopes and timelines.

You build strong relationships across the agency and client team to ensure visibility, clarity, collaboration and strategic alignment.

You will be a strategic problem solver as well as an effective project coordinator..

You will work across workstreams and teams helping to drive priortisation and facilitate collaboration to stay on track. A can-do, roll-up your sleeves attitude to problem solving is essential and making sure you work with people from the client, GroupM, WPP and within the local markets to find solutions in a timely manner is key.

You should be passionate about helping Mindshare to build a best-in-class delivery management culture focused on emotional maturity, organisational agility and continual improvement.

You will have a proven track record in being super organized, proactive and comfortable driving accountability and results across a range of internal and external stakeholders

You are comfortable working in a matrixed organization taking direction from leaders across multiple projects.

**Objectives**:
**Delivery leadership**
- Owns day-to-day project planning and coordination for team initiatives, driving collaboration and progress across workstreams
- Has in-depth understanding of overall team scope, ensures the team understands their parts, and creates the plans to deliver expected outcomes
- Keeps clients updated on team status, drives mitigation of risks and actively tracks / communicates dependencies
- Internal connector and facilitator to ensure initiatives are properly orchestrated across workstreams
- Contibutes to overall program governance by tracking initiative details, driving prioritisation, collaboration, and communication within the team
- Develops an in-depth understanding of the Client’s business
- Manages ad hoc requests and enlists people needed to action them
- 2-4 years experience in Business Analysis, Project Management or Management Consulting within a consulting firm or holding company.
- Equal parts project coordinator, analytical thinker and problem solver.
- Drives results and expected outcomes across team iniaitives and workstreams

**Essential criteria**
- Quintessential planner who can plot the course from start to finish, identify and mitigate risks
- Uber organized and expert at managing details across multiple concurrent iniatives
- Able to see the big picture and has a thorough command of low level details
- Adept collaborator comfortable fostering relationships and working across all levels
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Comfortable with ambiguity and breaking down complex problems into simple solutions
- Excellent written / verbal communication and storytelling skills including ability to tailor message based on audience

**Other core skills**:

- Knowledge of project management, collaboration and knowledge sharing tools such as Teams/SharePoint, Planner, Miro, Wrike
- Understands how to operate in a matrixed organization taking day-to-day direction from client based teams and adhering to practice / craft specific standards

**About Mindshare**:
At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the progressive benefits we offer.



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