Technical Project Manager – Audience Global Support

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Job Title : Technical Project Manager – Audience Global Support (AGS)

Location : London, Madrid or Barcelona

Full time / Permanent / Hybrid working

Role Description

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager to be based in London, Madrid or Barcelona.

Are you a Technical Project Manager looking for an exciting new opportunity in an international fast-growing and leading media company? Do you have project management and technology support experience, with a strong sense of customer service and to implement technology solution within project timeline and to the satisfaction of clients?

Then this may be the role for you! Kantar Media is looking for a dynamic and hands-on Technical Project Manager to support the implementation of the technology solution for a new audience measurement service in a leading market. We need an experienced project owner to own and implement the Audience Global Support (AGS) infrastructure, systems and applications in the Azure cloud environment that will run the client measurement solution.

As the AGS Technical Project Manager you will own the solution, manage the implementation between the different support teams, configure, test and resolve any technical challenges to maintain the delivery within schedule.

Key Responsibilities

1. AGS EndToEnd technical owner of AGS implementation. It includes all the below plus making sure systems, applications, training and documentation are provided in line with Sweden solution requirements.
2. To confirm governance with overall project PM for workstreams in the plan and other tasks related to the project. Manage the AGS workstreams escalation process and aim to resolve. Implement the change management process ensuring teams follow it locally and centrally.
3. To own and validate the AGS delivery and what we do / do not do for all AGS teams for market and technology support required for the implementation.
4. To set up checkpoints during delivery according to plan. Own specific milestones for AGS workstreams and report to project team, stakeholders and Atria Cloud migration owner.
5. To own and implement handover for Level 1 local operations and DevOps team including the provision of training and documentation. You will need to understand what the Sweden requirements are for a comprehensive training for operations teams for panel and data processing. You will need to liaise with a cross-team of SMEs and work through the standard project documents for an effective handover of the implementation to market teams.
6. To own and implement the AGS support workflow with L1 / L2 / L3 teams for process management, escalation management, ticketing and change management. You will confirm and implement the support workflow to make sure teams roles and responsibilities are clear and transparent. E.g. the ticketing flow.
7. To test and configure systems deployed with market and central teams. Responsible to review, validate and approve each AGS delivery, to understand what needs to be configured, what parameters and their applicability for the Sweden solution (especially for user interfaces to set up, test and validate the configuration, get market teams trained to use it from day 1 (handover) and to approve it (change management).
8. Review and own Atria cloud service profile document, solution detail and other key documents required from AGS to deliver the solution.
9. Ensure successful implementation of the meters Friends & Family, self-install process, and other key processes required for the AGS delivery. To understand what the different phases of the technical delivery are and make sure these are successfully completed within timeline.
10. Link with key SMEs to confirm the configuration for the market and to validate the user interfaces.

Required

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical information in simple terms

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