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3941 - Project Management Director - UK

Google via Media Futures Group - A little about us:

Media Futures Group (MFG) is a bespoke team within WPP dedicated to driving AI-enabled marketing transformation for Google, serving as a full strategic growth partner. Powered by the WPP network, we operate seamlessly across media, creative, and data to elevate industry standards and deliver at the scale and speed of Google.

Our team is made up of best-in-class experts who thrive on curiosity and innovation. We are committed to fostering a workforce that enables every individual to develop multiple areas of deep expertise with broad, future-ready skills to thrive in an AI-driven, agentic future. We are fully invested in your whole-person wellbeing and the tools needed to do the best work of your career. This is a team empowered by limitless possibilities.

About the role

As part of a larger project management practice group, you will work closely with media SMEs to help drive transformative projects focused on continuous improvement and optimization.

This critical role will act as a facilitator and collaborator across workstreams, specialists, and client stakeholders to translate desired outcomes and scope into activities and plans to deliver the required outputs. This person will also play a key role in defining impacts of projects on day-to-day campaign lifecycle and effective storytelling on value & impact of project outcomes across different audiences.

This role is currently focused on partnering with functional SMEs across the team to define and drive a portfolio of Media Standards & Best Practices projects. These projects focus on defining frameworks / playbooks, understanding process impacts, designing change management strategies / content, and defining governance / monitoring processes to ensure adoption. This group sits at the intersection of global and regional stakeholders, ensuring that we deliver global consistency while identifying regional & local nuances to strengthen adoption to all campaign work we deliver.

The PM Director may also lean into project workstreams that underpin the MFG Partnership Strategy and Plan.

They will also ensure that the challenge and requirements are understood by the team and will participate in the processes needed to incorporate project outputs. They are able to ensure all project deliverables are aligning to overarching client business objectives and roadmap. They are able to understand how this project links, impacts and has dependencies across other projects and priorities within the MFG media delivery framework.

This role must be comfortable wearing multiple hats including project manager, strategic thinker, process designer, change agent and consultative problem solver with a proven track record of driving results.

This role must be comfortable creating order from ambiguity and driving results across a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

Project & Program Management / Process Design / Change Management
Hands-on, roll-your-sleeves up, can-do leader who’s comfortable setting the vision, getting into the details, and able to connect the dots
Quintessential project and program planner who can plot the course from start to finish, anticipate and plan for risks, seamlessly shift between the strategic and tactical, and course correct as needed
Experience in project management / engagement delivery experience ideally within in a consulting or agency organization