Job Title

Global Product Associate Director

Reporting To

Global Programme Director, Products

Department 

Global Product Team

Location

UK, office flexible

In normal working conditions, travel to the London will be required on a regular basis.

The Team:

MediaCom are recruiting for an exciting Global Product Associate Director role that works on the Global Systems Planning Product team developing products for use across MediaCom's broad portfolio of clients. The team manages MediaCom's Planning Operating System that hosts the vast suite of products our people in 125 offices across 100 countries use to service their clients. We are a dynamic, collaborative team responsible for all workstreams supporting and evolving the OS, this includes integrating existing products into the OS as well as developing new products. Our responsibility ranges from initial design of new products and features, through development, rollout, marketing, communications, and ongoing support of our people as they use our products.

The Role: 

The Global Product Associate Director is an integrator role for the Global Systems Planning Product team. The overall purpose is to integrate the multiple workstreams, and the focus is to continuously evolve MediaCom’s Planning Operating System to meet client and market needs.

Managing:

1. Progresses the programme by setting priorities, integrating workstreams and flexing day to day depending on status of team and product.

Working with and integrating their respective workstreams:

1. Product Tech Lead to oversee evolution and maintenance of the platform/product.
2. Planning Lead to onboard and customise the OS for client teams and markets. Identify opportunities for product evolution. Support users.
3. Marketing & Communications Lead to drive stakeholder awareness and user adoption of the platform across the network.
4. User Support & Devops Lead to identify opportunities for product evolution, product testing, product maintenance, management of support desk queries and product documentation.
5. Programme Director and senior stakeholders to keep them informed of project progress.
6. MediaCom stakeholders to achieve programme goals.
7. External vendors to manage their delivery.

You will work closely with the Global Programme Director, Global Director of Innovation, Marketing Lead, Global Planning Associate Director, User Support & Devops Lead, Project Manager, and stakeholders at all levels across the globe.

Reporting into you will be the User Support & Devops Lead and Project manager. The Project manager will dedicate 50% of their time to support you delivering your product workstreams. The Project Executive will spend the other 50% of their time supporting the Global Programme Director on other product projects.

Key Areas of Responsibility and Accountability:

• Project management of ongoing product development.
• Organise and lead meetings across the workstreams.
• Collect, evaluate, and action feedback from stakeholders.
• Proactively identify opportunities for future development to evolve and future proof the platform.
• Lead the relationship with vendors.
• Collaborate with vendor project managers to ensure project is on track.
• Brief suppliers on development work requirements.
• Training – ensure that we have appropriate training in place to keep our people across the network trained on new and existing apps.
• Marketing & internal comms – work with our global marketing team to ensure we have a marketing programme in place to support System Planning.
• Ensure the programme is on budget and delivery on time.
• Evaluate performance metrics and share outcomes with team.

Key Skillsets:

• This role requires excellent communication and collaboration skills. Success in this role comes from the ability to work collaboratively across the business functions and with our many stakeholders.
• Ability to galvanise senior stakeholders and focus them on tasks and projects.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to motivate and get things done through others.
• Proven track record in managing successful projects to a budget and timeline.
• Project management qualifications are a strong advantage.
• Efficient, a driver and doer, capable to take on a new project and running with it.
• Organisational prowess, with ability to juggle multiple projects at once while staying positive and resilient.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and coordinate.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• International experience or at least an international outlook.
• Hard-worker, willing to get things done with a “whatever it takes” mindset.
• A willingness to constantly learn new things and to push the envelope on how things are done.
• Technical understanding.
• Product/Systems/Tools experience.
• Data understanding.
• Matrix management structures.
• Growth mindset.

3 best things about the job:

• The People: Collaborating with intelligent, hard-working people in diverse roles, at all levels, across the globe servicing clients across all categories on the world’s most recognizable brands.

• The Work: Variety of the role managing multiple workstreams. Guiding others while also learning.

• The Company: The MediaCom philosophy has always been People First, Better Results. We operate a hybrid, flexible working policy and offer a host of exciting benefits including corporate gym membership, a social club and numerous health and wellbeing initiatives and offers.

We are MediaCom

We believe in People First, Better Results. 

MediaCom unleashes brands’ growth by helping them See the Bigger Picture. This means that we apply our unique ‘Systems Thinking’ philosophy and technology to all marketing levers: media, message and data. As a result, we design communication strategies that deliver short term results and help brands build for the future.  

As part of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks, and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges. 

Our success is underpinned by our long-standing ‘People First, Better Results’ belief. We know that by investing in our people’s whole-person wellbeing, careers, and capabilities, we will help grow our clients’ businesses. 

In 2021 this approach led MediaCom to be crowned Global Media Network of the Year by Adweek, Eurobest, Festival of Media Global and M&M Global, in addition to being the most awarded agency at the WARC Media Awards. 

MediaCom is one of the world’s leading media communications specialists, with billings of US$17.6 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2020), employing 8,000 people in 125 offices across 100 countries. Its global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Shell, Sony, Uber and Walgreens Boots Alliance. 

To find out more about MediaCom visit us here:  www.mediacom.com