People Project Manager

WPP Media Limited; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in London seeks a People Project Manager to drive project initiatives and enhance collaboration across various teams. The role requires strong leadership, project management skills, and the ability to navigate complexities in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be passionate about change and value delivery, with experience in various project methodologies. This position offers competitive benefits and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive medical insurance

Group retirement plans

Significant paid time off

Employee mental health awareness days

Qualifications

• A passion for change and delivering value to customers.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver people projects and initiatives across teams.
• Co-ordinate delivery plan with HR and business stakeholders.
• Identify emerging risks and promote new creative solutions.

Skills

Project management methodologies

Strong structured communication skills

Ability to influence

Fast-paced environment adaptability

Leadership skills

Tools

Agile

Prince2

Workday

Job description

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About WPP Media
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.

Role Summary and Impact

Expected Behaviours:

• Leveraging and complementing the resources, skills and shared services and partners across the group
• Partnering for success and holding those teams accountable for timely delivery of their commitments
• Building on the work of others by seeking and surfacing existing solutions and bringing a team of professionals together to build on their ideas
• Bringing communities of cross‑functional specialists together to create scalable solutions that relate to their day job and client’s needs versus creating a new way of working that is disconnected from the commercial reality of the business
• Operationalise innovation through these networks so new ideas can be incubated, nurtured and brought to reality

What you’ll do:

• Plan and deliver people projects and initiatives, including contract migration and employee transfer projects, across different teams working in close collaboration with teams across the business; inside and outside of WPP Media; WPP, Technology, internal and third parties.
• Co‑ordinate delivery plan from concept to change delivered, working with the operational and data excellence teams and business stakeholders, including HR teams, Data, WPP teams, Finance, CP Systems, and HR Business Partners to ensure alignment, timely execution and to prioritise key process issues impacting delivery. Set and govern core project and programme governance.
• Deliver project reporting covering overall status, risks, issues and mitigation plan as well as highlighting benefits once they are realised.
• Obtain agreement and subsequent communication of project scope, governance and delivery plan.
• Prepare and shape materials for senior stakeholder meetings.
• Identify and call out emerging risks and potential roadblocks to successful early implementation.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to prioritise key process issues impacting delivery and, with the support of the impacted teams, track this through to delivery.
• Promote new thinking, creative solutions and ways of working to address issues and mitigate risks.
• Bring disjointed elements together to provide clarity and frame core decisions/next steps.
• Lead continuous improvement of processes and procedures, supporting process improvement across the people team. Drive progress by using influencing techniques and chasing down actions, carefully minuting meetings and scheduling key agendas.
• Translate business requirements to technical teams and have the capability to understand technical solutions and impact of these to the desired solution.

Skills And Experience

In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP C WPP Media’s shared core values:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformative action.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences.
• Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.

In order to succeed in this role you will have:

• A passion for change and delivering value to customers.
• A blend of drive and diplomacy: the ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience of a range of project management methodologies and tools (e.g. Agile, Prince2, Hybrid); strong structured communication skills, especially listening, that work for audiences at all levels and enable you to translate messages in a straightforward and simple manner. The ability to build effective relationships and collaborate with a range of individuals at all levels in the organisation.
• Enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment with the ability to manage multiple key priorities. A ‘can do’ attitude will lead by example, and be prepared to go the extra mile when needed.
• Strong leadership skills, ability to influence and communicate with differing levels of the organisation.
• Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere.

What we would love you to have:

• Experience in working in the media business, planning/buying or HR Operations programme management in a large transforming organisation.
• Extensive change management experience in a fast‑paced and unstructured environment.
• Knowledge of intercompany transfer processes is advantageous.
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms (e.g. Workday).

Life at WPP Media

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media network to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in‑office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant 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 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.

We believe the best work happens when we’re 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.

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

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