Senior Associate, Delivery Management
Description
Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for 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. Mindshare is a WPP agency and a principal member of the GroupM network of Media agencies within WPP. Please visit us at www.mindshareworld.com
- 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
- Develops an in-depth understanding of the Client business
- Manages ad hoc requests and enlists people needed to action them
- Partners with finance teams on account financials, invoicing and POs
- May help drive creation and curation of QBR contents
- 2-4 years experience with proven success in Business 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
- Firm knowledge of project management, process documentation & design
- Developing knowledge of change management standards and approaches
- Comfortable working with leadership to translate strategic vision and priorities into tactics, tasks and workstreams
- Quintessential planner who can plot the course from start to finish, identify and mitigate risks, and is developing ability to shift between the strategic and tactical
- Adept collaborator who is comfortable fostering relationships and working across all levels both internal and client
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills – able to identify hidden problems and collaborates as needed to drive solutions
- Comfortable with ambiguity and breaking down complex problems into simple solutions
- Comfortable challenging the status quo and suggesting change
- Firm understanding of effective ways of working - leverages technology and automation where possible to work smarter not harder
- Skilled at written / verbal communication and storytelling skills - has a developing understanding of how to tailor message based on audience
- Knowledge of project management, collaboration and knowledge sharing tools such as Teams/SharePoint, Planner, Miro, Wrike
- Lifelong learner who is comfortable leaning into unknown subject areas and quickly gaining working knowledge and understanding
- Understands how to operate in a matrixed organization taking day-to-day direction from client-based teams and adhering to practice / craft specific standards
About Mindshare:
The base salary for this position at the time of this posting may range from $45,000 to $100,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, please visit https://www.wpp.com/careers/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.