Manager, Content Operations

WPP Media Limited; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Mental health days

Job summary

WPP Media seeks an experienced Content Operations Manager to lead end-to-end content workflows for Skin Cleansing campaigns. You will manage asset delivery, approvals, and cross-functional orchestration across Creative, Brand, and Agency teams, leveraging Wrike and AI-enabled planning.

Hybrid in-office work is required, with weekly collaboration across Manhattan and Hoboken teams. Strong production knowledge and proactive, organized communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Marketing, Digital Media, Operations, or related field.
• 6-8+ years of experience in content operations, marketing workflow management, or project coordination.
• Proven ability to manage workflows against tight timelines with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of content production processes and digital asset management.
• Familiarity with AI-driven tools and automation for workflow optimization.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead campaign workflows for OTIF Content Delivery, ensuring clear handoffs and accountability across stakeholders.
• Coordinate asset delivery processes, approvals, and handoffs to meet channel specs and deployment requirements.
• Optimize content supply chain with human-led, tech-enabled planning and AI tooling to improve efficiency and speed-to-market.

Skills

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

BA/BS in Marketing, Digital Media, Operations, or related field

Tools

Wrike

Job description

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.

WPP Unite is a specialized unit within the WPP network, designed to deliver integrated, transformative marketing solutions for some of our most strategic clients. We bring together talent and capabilities across disciplines—media, creative, strategy, commerce, and analytics to operate as one unified team.

Our focus is not only on delivering exceptional work, but on continuously evolving how we work. We build and scale modern operating models, workflows, and tools that drive efficiency, transparency, and measurable impact across the business.

Role Summary and Impact

The Creative Excellence Hub is the engine driving Unilever Personal Care brands’ content performance. As a fully embedded agency team, CEH sits within the Unilever PC Marketing & Media Capabilities team, driving the company’s Social-First Demand Generation strategy. The team collaborates closely with colleagues at Unilever and WPP, and the team model requires a flexible in-office structure between both offices, located in Manhattan and Hoboken.

CEH briefs, produces, and deploys modular social and digital assets at scale across national, retail media, and social campaigns. CEH's content strategy, production and planning daily workflows leverage an AI tooling ecosystem to unlock efficiencies at scale while driving creative excellence. The team operates as a centralized content hub to drive cross-functional collaboration with media, brand, and agency partners, in an end-to-end capacity, in lockstep from campaign brief through delivery and content optimizations.

CEH is hiring an experienced Content Operations Manager to support planning, production, and delivery of Personal Care creative assets on all Skin Cleansing campaigns. This role ensures successful delivery of content across all campaigns and platforms by aligning cross-functional stakeholders and leading campaign workflows.

Core Functional Responsibilities

• Lead campaign workflows for OTIF Content Delivery:
  • Own workflow management from campaign intake through final asset deployment, ensuring clear handoffs, approvals, and accountability across all stakeholders.
  • Build and manage project tracking boards with timelines in centralized project management tool Wrike. Monitor timelines and proactively resolve bottlenecks to maintain flawless campaign execution
  • Lead campaign communications across Creative, Brand and Agency teams, ensuring end to end orchestration of content workflows across stakeholders
  • Align production schedules with brand, retail, and media timelines for seamless integration
  • Coordinate stakeholder review and approval processes, ensuring consolidated, timely asset feedback received and actioned by CEH production team members
• Coordinate Asset Delivery Processes:
  • Manage asset trafficking, approvals, and handoffs across internal and external partners.
  • Ensure final assets meet channel specifications, naming conventions, and deployment requirements for every audience and platform.
  • Track asset readiness and approval status to proactively mitigate delivery risks.
  • Maintain asset inventories and delivery documentation across all campaign workstreams.
• Optimize Content Supply Chain Optimizations with a human-led, tech enabled mindset:
  • Leverage AI-enabled planning, workflow, and content operations tools to improve efficiency, visibility, and speed-to-market.
  • Support testing and adoption of emerging technologies that improve content planning, production, and deployment processes.
  • Support development of clear content planning, production and delivery workflows with goal of creating speed, validity, and efficiency of content deployment

Key Skills & Experience

• BA/BS in Marketing, Digital Media, Operations, or related field required.
• 6-8+ years of experience in content operations, marketing workflow management, or project coordination, including omnichannel content planning
• Proven ability to manage workflows against tight timelines with multiple stakeholders in fast-paced environments.
• Strong understanding of content production processes and digital asset management.
• Familiarity with AI-driven tools and automation for workflow optimization.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to work 3 days per week in office, alternating between WPP’s downtown Manhattan office and Unilever’s headquarters in Hoboken, NJ required.

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.

WPP Media is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with WPP Media, please send an e‑mail to WPP Media Leave Administration at [e-mail] or call [phone] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://mybenefits.w