WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. 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. Visit our LinkedIn page to see what we're up to! #LI-Hybrid 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 build the transformation platform that will power the next evolution of WPP. WPP is on a journey to clarify and simplify the operating model between our brands and WPP, modernise and create tech-enabled colleague experiences, and create an open, integrated technology innovation platform across WPP. Along that journey we will ensure WPP IT is a destination for tech talent and that we modernise our 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. To ensure we are transforming the way our partners deliver, we have identified the need for a critical new role – Global Engineering Centre (GEC) Lead. This role will ensure we meet our goal of supporting the innovative IT strategic roadmap, by providing critical solutions and services for projects worldwide. Based in strategic locations our vision is for multi-vertical GEC teams to be deployed on major projects across the globe, and to use design tools, innovative thinking and a human-centred approach to offer industry leading solutions. The lead will play a key part in establishing the India GEC, which will be the cynosure of our GEC's and also support with the rest of the global GEC's. It will work with the IT Leadership Team to develop a service transition roadmap and manage successful service setup and transition outcomes. It will drive the uplift in effectiveness of GEC operations, maximising value of services, increasing productivity of services provided and ensuring teams are strategically and spiritually aligned. This role will work closely with location owners for enabling the setup of the GEC and with the IT People & Comms team to ensure our GEC's are fully supported and resourced with industry and multi-vertical expertise. It will be tasked with inaugurating state of the art technology labs in each of our GEC locations and ensuring that each act as a critical hub to meet the rapid development of business initiatives, at a global and regional level. The GEC will bring in capabilities to design and develop best in class products and services for WPP, and will support mechanical, embedded and connectivity areas across product / service lines, technologies, and regions. What you'll be doing:
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