Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About WPP Media</strong></p>
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<p>WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. </p>
<p>WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.</p>
<p>For more information, visit <a href="wppmedia.com">wppmedia.com</a>.</p></div><div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">About WPP Media</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values: </span></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 25.0px; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Be <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Extraordinary</strong> by <em style="font-style: italic;">Leading Collectively</em> to <em style="font-style: italic;">Inspire transformational Creativity.</em> </span></li>
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<li style="margin-left: 25.0px; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Create an <strong style="font-weight: bold;">Open</strong> environment by<em style="font-style: italic;"><span style="display: inline-block;"> </span>Balancing People and Client Experiences</em> by <em style="font-style: italic;">Cultivating Trust</em>. </span></li>
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<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Reporting of the role</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">This role reports to the Strategy Head</span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"><br>An orchestrator who integrates the different thinking and weaving functions together to offer a holistic business solution. </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">You should have a strong track record in delivering tangible business results for clients, strong strategic skills, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and team members. </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">The position is to lead strategy for a set of diverse clients in future forward thinking across business, media, data and technology. This will involve integrated capability in traditional & digital media, search and content marketing, measurement and attribution, creation and application of strategic frameworks and cross category business understanding. This role also involves communication with global teams, and bringing together the best of WPP Media to clients as well as internal teams. </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: 'Open Sans' , Helvetica; font-size: 14.0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0.0px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"><br>3 best things about the job:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">A great and diverse team with a lot of learning opportunities. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Diverse set of clients with great opportunities for quality thinking and opportunities beyond spots and dots. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">An opportunity to have a leadership role in a progressive, fast moving and one of its kind organisation.<br><br></span><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Responsibilities of the role:<br><br></span></strong></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Leads a team of diverse individuals to deliver to a client’s business </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Provide strategy communications and planning leadership on the client’s business across categories. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Partner with the account heads and functional heads, push needle on Marketing Excellence and Digital Excellence. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Demonstrates strong understanding of ecosystem, brand, category and consumer to derive insights. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Infuse best in class practices and frameworks, both from domestic as well as international learnings. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Communicate complex ideas/insights in a way that all understand and apply. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Integrates relevant multimedia opportunities into campaign plans. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Leading and orchestrating new business pitches</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Leverage extended WPP ecosystem to build hard working solutions for client. </span></li>
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<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Build relationships with the key decision makers at client side and within the company.</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Be an expert on the client’s business proactively engaging with senior clients and actively shaping the quality of WPP Media delivery. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Develop a deep understanding and begun to use WPP Open and the products and tools therein. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Build confidence with team members within immediate team and within peers. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Proactively delivering additional value to the client, leading the team to successfully implement strategic initiatives that will improve the WPP Media delivery and client’s business outcomes. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Established as the lead by both clients and internal teams alike</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Leading new business pitches independently</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Delivering differentiated and best in class work leading to business outcomes</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Building and mentoring teams</span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Becoming the go to person for internal and external stakeholders alike from a strategic standpoint</span></li>
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<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif; color: black;">16 to 18 years </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">ears of experience with at least 10 years in the media industry. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Demonstrate exposure and management of senior clients/ stakeholders as well as leading a team. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Integrated media and marketing knowledge, including traditional media, digital media, data, research and insights. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Creative problem solving and ability to join multiple dots across domains. <br>An attitude of curiosity and continuous learning both for self as well as infuse the same culture within the team. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Comfort with multiple kinds and sources of data, both structured and unstructured. <br>Fantastic presentation and storytelling skills. </span></li>
<li style="margin-left: 25.0px;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Proven experience managing a team, negotiating different situations, skillsets, and personalities. </span></li>
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<div style="overflow: visible;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">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 & WPP networks 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. </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<div style="overflow: visible;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">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.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> <br> <br></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">Please read our Privacy Notice (<a style="color: rgb(24,114,204); text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; font-weight: 600;" href="https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy" target="_blank">https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy)</a> for more information on how we process the information you provide.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div style="overflow: visible;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Aptos , sans-serif;">While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 16.8667px; font-family: Arial , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<p><span class="TextRun SCXW227196529 BCX8" lang="EN-CA" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW227196529 BCX8">Please read our <a href="https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy#:~:text=WPP%20Media%20Privacy%20Notice%20for%20Recruitment">Privacy Notice</a></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW227196529 BCX8" lang="EN-CA" data-contrast="auto"> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW227196529 BCX8">for more information on how we process the information you provide.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW227196529 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":276}"> </span></p></div>
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