Job Description

is the creative 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 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our 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, 317 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

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 co-ordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.

This role will work as part of the Local Systems Team for North America. This position will work with the team responsible for delivering critical trading and finance data and business intelligence software used within North America. This position will also have responsibility for understanding client business and technical requirements and then delivering appropriate end-to-end solutions consisting of component-based, services-oriented applications. They will also be responsible for supporting existing applications and processes.

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Why we are 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.

The GroupM @WPPIT Technology team is seeking a PMO Analyst to track key strategic programs and projects across the region in support of the larger WPP transformation.

The successful candidate will play a key role in implementing the gating and investment approval processes, co-ordinating with the heads of IT across the regions, ensuring the team\'s overall success.

What you\'ll be doing:

• Manage and co-ordinate PMO activity
• Co-ordinate data gathering and analysis for gating and investment approval process
• Ensure programme benefits are identified, baseline and continuously tracked
• Support development and evolution of PMO processes and documentation
• Support the IT Finance Business Partner in working with IT BPs to plan IT budgets for projects
• Support the IT Finance Business Partner to create a robust project portfolio forecasting process, Balanced Scorecard and 5 Year Plan model

Skill Requirements:

• Solid understanding of theory and best practices that exist around portfolio, programme and project management
• Excellent verbal and written communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong business analysis skills; comfortable with financials
• Strong Excel and Powerpoint skills
• Good at communicating with people; able to articulate or convey complex data well

Who you are:

You\'re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You\'re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You\'re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we\'ll give you:

Passionate, inspired people - We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

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. Are you up for the challenge?

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