Workfront Product Manager

Dentsu Aegis Network; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Dentsu is looking for a Workfront Product Owner in London to lead their solutioning team, driving global adoption and effective product management. This permanent position requires excellent leadership, analytical skills, and a deep understanding of the Workfront platform to manage stakeholder engagement and deliver user-centered solutions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Tailorable benefits package

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large scale deployments.
• Experience managing and leading teams.
• Extensive experience with Workfront platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Workfront solutioning team, ensuring effective global adoption.
• Act as the global ambassador for the Workfront platform.
• Oversee business analysis and solution architecture.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Problem-Solving

Education

Workfront Expert-level certification

Job description

Job Description:

Introduction

Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in over 145 countries and regions, it has a proven track record of nurturing and developing innovations, combining the talents of its global network of leadership brands to develop impactful and integrated growth solutions for clients. Dentsu delivers end-to-end experience transformation (EX) by integrating its services across Media, CXM and Creative, while its business transformation (BX) mindset pushes the boundaries of transformation and sustainable growth for brands, people and society.

We’re hiring for a Workfront Product Owner as part of dentsu in London.

Purpose of the Role

This is an exciting leadership opportunity for an experienced Workfront Product Leader to join our dedicated Workfront platform team. Reporting to senior technology leadership and closely partnering with business leaders, you will manage the Workfront solutioning team, playing a key role in driving global adoption, stakeholder engagement, and accountable for effective product management.

The ideal candidate is a talented, passionate, and influential Product Leader with outstanding analytical skills, deep Workfront knowledge and compelling storytelling capabilities. You thrive in collaborative environments, skilfully uniting cross-functional teams behind a shared vision. You emphasise quality, facilitate informed decision-making, and take pride in leading a team that consistently delivers user-centred solutions aligned to strategic business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and managing the solutioning team, overseeing solution and integration architecture, platform delivery, and business analysis.
• Acting as the global ambassador and lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Workfront platform, partnering with global stakeholders to drive platform adoption.
• Driving the analysis and prioritisation of business requirements globally, leading the creation of robust solutions aligned to strategic business goals.
• Providing leadership and guidance across the extended Workfront platform team, overseeing all aspects of solution and integration architecture, strategic project delivery, business analysis and supporting the ongoing success of the Workfront platform adoption.
• Working with development teams, articulating the goals, outcomes and requirements in sufficient detail that the development teams can deliver
• Ensuring meticulous standards in solution design, platform governance, and process compliance.
• Maintaining a keen awareness of Workfront platform enhancements, releases, and roadmap, proactively advising global stakeholders on their impact.
• Forging strong, collaborative partnerships with senior business leaders and the Resource & Project Management CoE to continuously refine and enhance the Workfront roadmap.

Qualifications + Skills

• Demonstrated success leading large scale deployments within complex global organisations.
• Extensive experience leading a solutions team to gather requirements, design, configure, and test the platform.
• Substantial and proven experience managing and leading teams.
• Workfront Expert-level certification with expert-level knowledge of Workfront platform capabilities.

• Substantial overall experience in solution design, with several years specifically focused on the Workfront platform and its ecosystem.
• Proven experience in creating productive cross-functional relationships across diverse global teams, including Operations, Finance, Technology, and other business functions.

What we offer

• This is a permanent role
• The team is based in our London office but operates under flexible working arrangements. The team are currently in the office every Tuesday and Thursday.
• As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Inclusion and Diversity

Our diverse and inclusive culture enables our employees to bring their best selves to work and be proud of doing so. For us, this is the foundation for great innovation which, in turn, generates better outcomes for our people, partners and communities. This is why we encourage applications from people with disabilities, and of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

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Location:

London

Brand:

Global Technology

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent