Programme Director: AI-Driven Creative Delivery Lead

Wppproduction; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

WPP Production is seeking a Programme Director to lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex, high-profile programme at the intersection of creative production, AI, and emerging technology. You will translate strategic objectives into an integrated delivery plan, coordinating multiple workstreams and ensuring governance, controls and measurable outcomes.

Working with senior leadership, technology partners and clients, you’ll align teams, manage risks, and drive decisions to maintain momentum.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex programmes involving multiple workstreams, interdependent deliverables and senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record translating strategic objectives into executable plans and delivering against challenging commitments.
• Strong programme management expertise across integrated planning, governance, critical path management, risk, dependencies and change control.
• Judgement to anticipate problems, navigate ambiguity and make effective decisions when priorities or delivery conditions change.
• Confidence to challenge constructively, influence senior stakeholders and hold teams accountable across matrixed organisations.
• Strong commercial awareness, including understanding budgets, forecasts and performance against commitments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear decisions, recommendations and executive-level reporting.
• Proactive, collaborative approach combining attention to detail with a focus on overall programme objectives.
• Experience in creative production, digital transformation, AI-enabled programmes or technology partnerships would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated programme plan, translating objectives into clear workstreams, milestones, deliverables and success measures.
• Establish governance, clear accountability and a consistent approach to programme reporting and decision-making.
• Maintain oversight of the critical path, dependencies and delivery commitments, ensuring activity across workstreams comes together to achieve the overall programme objectives.
• Provide a clear view of programme health, progress and emerging issues, giving leadership the information needed to make timely, informed decisions.
• Lead delivery across multiple workstreams, aligning teams on priorities, milestones and interdependencies.
• Anticipate risks, resolve blockers and drive action on issues before they impact delivery.
• Manage changes to scope, timelines and deliverables, assessing implications and ensuring trade-offs are understood.
• Challenge assumptions, address competing priorities and keep teams focused on outcomes that matter.
• Hold workstream leads accountable for commitments, following through on actions and intervening where delivery is at risk.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across WPP, technology partners and client organisations.
• Create alignment across teams with different priorities, ensuring clear ownership and timely decisions.
• Lead programme reviews and executive reporting, communicating progress, risks, decisions and actions clearly.
• Act as the central coordination point for programme delivery, connecting stakeholders and translating commitments into action.
• Define and track success measures demonstrating client adoption, business impact and value delivered.

Skills

Programme leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance

Risk management

Communication skills

Change control

Job description

WPP Production is seeking a Programme Director to lead the end-to-end delivery of a complex, high-profile programme at the intersection of creative production, AI, and emerging technology. You will translate strategic objectives into an integrated delivery plan, coordinating multiple workstreams and ensuring governance, controls and measurable outcomes.

Working with senior leadership, technology partners and clients, you’ll align teams, manage risks, and drive decisions to maintain momentum.