Senior Associate, Delivery Management

Mindshare is a media services company that acceleratesGood Growthfor its clients in the age of transformation. The solutions we create are both Good for consumers and drive Growth for our clients. We were the first purpose-built company created by WPP and today we are 10,000 people working in 116 offices in 86 countries, helping to drive Good Growth for our clients, our people, the industry and the world. Mindshareis a WPP agency and a principal member of the GroupM network of Media agencies within WPP. Please visit us atwww.mindshareworld.com

 

Summary

 

This role will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams driving transformation for our clients - helping to ensure the teams are delivering promised and expected results to unlock value for our clients. This critical role will act as a connector and collaborator across workstreams, specialists, and client stakeholders to translate scope into plans needed to deliver required outputs. This role requires coordination and facilitation across multiple internal stakeholders, timelines, and resources, ideally in an agile way. The ambition is to connect transformation efforts to the day-to-day, helping teams to optimize processes, deliver better quality and more efficient outputs.

 

Mindshare operates in a matrixed organization - you'll be part of the Delivery Management practice which will provide community of craft, frameworks / toolkits, performance expectations and career management while day-to-day work and priorities will be directed by the client leadership team on the accounts to which you're assigned.

 

Key Attributes:

 

As a Sr Associate in the Delivery Leadershipcraft, you will work as an integral member of client teams driving marketing and media transformation.You will play a key role in the management of, communication about and coordination across multiple concurrent workstreams.You will help implement and drive simple yet effective project and program governance processes. 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 business operator. You will partner with Finance teams to look holistically at account financials, utilization data and capacity management.You will support teams to ensure strategic alignment with client and agency priorities. You will work across multipleworkstreams and teams, identifying and solving unexpected issues, and facilitating collaboration to stay on track. A can-do, roll-up your sleeves attitude to problem solving is essential -- making sure you work with people from the client, GroupM, WPP and across the team to find solutions in a timely manner. You should be passionate about helping Mindshare to build a best-in-class delivery management culturefocused on driving change, organizational agility and continuous improvement. When needed you'llhelp coach others on project management, process design and change management fundamentals.

 

You'recomfortable wearing multiple hats including project manager, strategic thinker, process designer, change agent and consultative problem solver with a proven track record of driving results. You are are comfortable working in a matrixed environment where day-to-day direction, priority setting and in-the-moment feedback is coming from client engagement leadership team while coaching, career growth planning, best practices and standard approaches come from the global practice.

 

Objectives:

 

Delivery Leadership

 

Owns day-to-day project management driving collaboration and progress

 

Contributes to overall program management across multiple concurrent workstreams helping to actively manage timelines, cross-team dependencies and overall program risk.

 

Understands and translates overall team scope, ensuring the team understands their parts, and creates the plans to deliver expected outcomes

 

Keeps team leadership and clients updated on team status, drives mitigation of risks and actively tracks / communicates dependencies

 

Internal connector and facilitator to ensure complex solutions are orchestrated across workstreams

 

Helps leadership teams to define effective governance model to drive connection, collaboration, and communication within the team and with the client stakeholders

 

Developsan in-depth understanding of the Clientbusiness

 

Manages ad hoc requests and enlists people needed to action them

 

Delivery Operations

 

Partners with finance teams on account financials, invoicing and POs

 

May help drive creation and curation of QBR contents

 

The Ideal Candidate

 

2-4years experience with proven success inBusiness Analysis, Project Management or Management Consulting roles preferably in a global consulting firm. Working knowledge of Media Agency and Holding Company capabilities, solutions and operating models is a plus

 

Understands essentials of translating strategic vision and priorities into operational reality

 

Contributes to the building of efficient and highly effective teams with well-defined ways of working and strong collaboration

 

Fosters communication and knowledge sharing within and outside of the team

 

Able to work independently with some coaching and oversight to drive results and expected outcomes

 

Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities will shift

 

Essential criteria

 

Firm knowledge of project management, process documentation & design

 

Developing knowledge of change management standards and approaches

 

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