SVP, Delivery

The Role

As the SVP, Delivery dedicated to a large automotive client, you will lead and inspire a team of 18+ Project Managers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ultimately responsible for the smooth running of financial operations and leading the Project Management department ensuring the successful delivery of all campaign briefs.

  • Responsible for assigning and managing the project management team who are charged with executing end to end delivery of content campaigns.

  • Brief, inspire, and work alongside the team to deliver innovative and creative solutions for all campaign briefs.

  • Manage and act as a primary day-to-day senior project management contact on larger campaigns.

  • Managing and overseeing use of proprietary WPP AI tools to generate and refine content campaigns.

Operational Excellence:

  • Develop and manage innovative, outcome-based scope and fee models with agency leads

  • Implement value-driven commercial models aligned with client and agency goals.

  • Drive quarterly reconciliation and reporting in partnership with the finance lead

  • Monitor and manage project financials, ensuring healthy tracking of budget and scope.

  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive resource management model for optimal talent allocation

  • Lead resource planning and management, ensuring appropriate allocation of resources across projects and problem solving resourcing issues.

Leadership & Team Management:

  • Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Project Managers, fostering a collaborative working environment.

  • Oversee the performance and development of the Project Management team, ensuring alignment with business goals.

  • Allocate projects to the Project Managers, ensuring balanced workloads that align with each team member’s skill set and capacity.

Project Oversight:

  • Implement and manage efficient project management processes (including utilisation of AI where appropriate), ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget.

  • Oversee the end to end campaign production process.

  • Be the point of escalation for project risks and support in the identification and mitigation of risks.

  • Collaborate with internal teams (creative, strategy) to ensure cohesive execution of projects.

Continuous Improvement:

  • Champion continuous process improvement and integrating learnings from previous projects to improve ways of working.

  • Collaborate with senior agency leadership to refine project management best practices and contribute to the broader agency project management structure.

Key Skills:

  • Knowledge of how AI can be utilized in the creation and delivery of content campaigns.

  • Awareness of ethical and regulatory considerations when developing and executing campaigns using AI.

  • Deep understanding of production processes for digital and social channels.

  • Strong leadership abilities, with a proven ability to inspire and drive high performance of project management teams.

  • Exceptional project management skills.

  • High level of financial acumen, with experience in managing project budgets, scopes, and timelines for content campaigns.

  • Ability to handle complex production timelines and deliverables.

  • Strong problem-solving capabilities and the ability to navigate challenges.

The pay range for this role is $180,000-$200,000 . Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and local cost of labor. Salary is subject to change based on factors such as geographic location and cost of living in location of hire.

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