Operations Manager

GroupM; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the advertising industry is hiring an Operations Manager to ensure operational success and efficiency for a major client account. The role involves project management, close collaboration with specialists, and implementing effective processes while being results-oriented and having a media background is a plus. Candidates will join a diverse team focused on innovation and organizational improvement within the dynamic landscape of marketing and technology.

Benefits

Competitive medical coverage

Group retirement plans

Significant paid time off

Employee mental health awareness days

Preferential partner discounts

Qualifications

• Evidence of operational experience and project management.
• Strong organizational skills and experience of building and rolling out processes.
• Good communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support the Operations Director in delivering system developments and migrations.
• Implement and govern ways of working that drive efficiency.
• Manage day-to-day workload and completion of business tasks across the Operations team.

Skills

Organizational skills

Project management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Job description

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About WPP Media

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.

About WPP Media

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.

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

About OpenDoor: A Leading WPP Media Brand

PURPOSE

The purpose of this document is to help prospective team members better understand the role and responsibilities with the position of “Operations Manager” at OpenDoor, WPP’s bespoke global operating model for Amazon.

About Wpp & Opendoor

At WPP, we’re constantly reinventing the future of creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology.

Over the last decade, we have developed a dedicated global client practice with the mission of accelerating WPP’s impact for our largest clients by bringing them the best of WPP. Each team is custom-built around a client’s specific needs and challenges, providing easy access to the right capabilities. And that’s why we’ve built OpenDoor for Amazon.

OpenDoor is a unique integration of the best of WPP and Amazon – building on their respective strengths and visions. Whether at WPP or at Amazon, every project is an OpenDoor on new possibilities. Anything and everything can be an opportunity for our people to drive impact – for them to innovate, learn, thrive, and occasionally fail too.

The unique OpenDoor partnership model is built to deliver next level Productivity, fueled by our industry-leading approach to People, Platforms, and Process. OpenDoor spans across all WPP agencies and disciplines such as media, business consultancy, communications and brand strategy, tech and commerce, public relations, and production.

OpenDoor’s values are built from Amazon’s own 16 Leadership Principles, and WPP’s core values of Open, Optimistic and Extraordinary. Together, when WPP’s Creative Transformation meets Amazon’s next-level customer centricity, our people come together to challenge and impact what’s done today and build a better future.

By joining OpenDoor, not only are you joining a cross-function team partnering with one of WPP’s top five global clients, but you are also taking a step to challenge yourself and the world around you every day, working in the most unusual way on some of Earth’s most ambitious opportunities in marketing, tech, media, business, and creativity.

Role Summary and Impact

The Operations Manager role will primarily have ownership of the operational success of the client account. This vital role will work closely with the Operations Director to ensure our work is run efficiently and effectively, by connecting our specialist teams and delivering ways of working that bring the best of our teams to Amazon.

• Works with the Operations Director to support the client’s transformation ambitions in EMEA with a particular focus on automation and simplification
• Supports the Operations Director in the delivery of system developments & migrations
• Implements & governs ways of working that drive efficiency
• Owns projects and workstreams in partnership with the Operations Director
• Manages the day-to-day workload and completion of business tasks across the Operations team (writing and circulating process, ensuring data is captured from the agency in a timely manner).
• Working alongside the Regional Operations Lead to deliver sufficient documentation and process for the agency
• Work with internal and external counterparts (Tech, Buying, Planning, Finance and Media Owners) to ensure all plans are implemented efficiently and on time
• Delivers monthly finance process with our credit controller and ironing out process as well as reporting back with improvements
  
  

Qualifications

• Evidence of operational experience and project management
• Strong organizational skills and experience of building and rolling out processes
• Must be very results-orientated and able to manage up
• Ideally a media background, with a good understanding of media agency functions
• Good communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships.
  
  

Bonus

• Pro-active, organised and good attention to detail.
• Builds good rapport with Stakeholders.
• Analytical skills and attention to detail:
• Ability to digest information from a wide variety of sources.
• Open-minded, able to develop and assess different options and solutions.
• Proactively looks for ways to make improvements, flags issues ahead of time and autonomous.
• Creates templates /processes rather than just filling them in / following them – shares these with other markets / client teams.
  
  

Skills And Experience

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:

• Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
• Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
• Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.
  
  

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

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. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.

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.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy) for more information on how we process the information you provide.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Advertising Services, Marketing Services, and Technology, Information and Internet

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