Regional Product Lead - Media Finance New

WPP; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WPP is seeking a Regional Product Lead to guide the development and execution of the Media Central product roadmap. This role requires a blend of business acumen and technical knowledge to foster collaboration and ensure product alignment with market needs. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management, excellent stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple project priorities. Join a leading team at WPP that values creativity and innovation in technology.

Benefits

Passionate, inspired colleagues

Opportunities for career growth

Challenging and stimulating work environment

Qualifications

• At least 3 years’ experience in a product management role.
• Formal qualifications in Management or Leadership highly regarded.
• Experience delivering multiple projects concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Steer the direction of Media Central with the Global Product Director.
• Drive market requirement prioritisation using GroupM methodology.
• Validate solution designs from the Media Central product team.

Skills

Product Management

Business Analysis

Agile Delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology

Qualifications in Management or Leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore.

WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.

Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

The regional product lead is responsible for roadmap planning for Media Central for the region. You must possess good product management and business analysis skills to understand what users are asking for, why they are asking for it and the opportunity cost for system enhancements. All these considerations need to be weighed to arrive at a conclusion that maximizes the ROI for the effort required for development.

You will need to, at times, educate GroupM stakeholders on what constitutes an MVP and why they should go for it. Scope management will be an important component of your role.

You will also be required to validate the solution design from the vendor and communicate this to GroupM stakeholders. Finding the optimal solution that aligns with the overall product direction will be essential.

You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy with incredible attention to detail, foresight, and the drive to make vision a reality.

Media Systems are those used for the scheduling, ordering, tracking, measurement, and reporting of media transactions executed on behalf of GroupM’s clients with Media Vendors. Media Systems may also implement, or be integrated with systems providing, tactical planning, electronic trading, optimisation, or finance functionality.

Finance systems drive our essential finance functions such as billing, payment, closing and reporting.

What you'll be doing:

• Steer the direction of Media Central in your region with the Global Product Director
• Work with Media Central markets in your region to co-create a product roadmap with the Global Product Director
• Drive market requirement prioritisation using GroupM prioritisation methodology
• Ensure product priorities are set in line with business needs and the strategy
• Re-evaluate product priorities as the business environment evolves, recommending adjustments to the roadmap as new priorities emerge
• Track delivery from Media Central product team to keep stakeholders informed when features will be made available to them and assess Media Central delivery performance
• Be able to communicate with SMEs and stakeholders, Regional Solution Owners, Product Design Authority and Global Product Director for requirements, solution proposals, product direction and prioritisation
• Transform business requirements into product features with the Media Central product team
• Validate solution designs from Media Central product team to ensure fit-for-purpose
• Influence market stakeholders on acceptance of MVP
• Ensure feature requests are balanced with ROI to maximize value
• Ensure business requirements are clear, substantiated and can be communicated to different groups, including: Global Product Director, market SMEs, Product Design Authority, Media Central product team
• Escalate issues on scope definition and solution acceptance to Global Product Director, Product Design Authority and Regional Process Owner(s)

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline
• Formal qualifications in Management or Leadership will be highly regarded
• In depth knowledge of product management
• At least 3 years’ experience in a product management role
• Experience in a project management role
• Experience delivering multiple projects concurrently
• Project Management certification will be highly regarded
• Strong business analysis skills
• Experience in agile delivery
• Experience in using backlog management tools such as Azure DevOps / Jira
• Experience in working closely with vendor product teams
• Experience with Dynamics Business Central or Media industry would be a plus
• A high level of autonomy
• A natural desire to share knowledge and teach others
• The ability to influence groups of people to gain consensus
• The ability to travel internationally is desirable
• Multi-lingual skills applicable to the region desirable

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people –We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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