Project Director
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About the Role
WPP Production seeks a Project Director to manage a team of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS developers and oversee technical delivery for clients. The role involves defining distributed development strategy, managing client expectations, and ensuring compliance with processes.
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Responsibilities
- Manage a team of HTML5, JavaScript, CSS developers and be ultimately responsible for the clients’ technical delivery
- Provide technical thought leadership and promote the vision, strategy and services of the digital department
- Define distributed development strategy and processes across onshore, offshore and remote teams
- Manage a team of developers from Graduate to Senior level, implementing and maintaining development practices
- Coordinate with leads across key delivery teams (Tech, Project Management, QA, and Resource Management)
- Ensure compliance with WPP production processes
- Act as point of escalation for project issues, resolving problems quickly and communicating effectively
- Coach and develop the team with regular performance reviews
- Manage team hiring and keep briefs clear and consistently updated
- Interview candidates and take responsibility for approval of freelancers
- Set and manage client expectations while coordinating and ensuring all parties follow agreed workflows
- Build strong, trusting relationships with all key stakeholders
Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years Project Management experience background
- Experience of leading innovation, leveraging emerging platforms and quickly facilitating new ideas and platforms to market
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Know how in working cross functionally to build relationships between business units, technology, product, media, agency, and design teams
- Experience working on international initiatives ideally with exposure to emerging markets
- Self motivated and a self starter
- Very high competence in project management software such as Microsoft Project and Omniplan
- Extensive experience in costing, quotations and project scope definition
- Excellent communication skills to different target groups within the project team, management and clients
- Ensure understanding of contractual obligations, commercial arrangements and SLAs
- Analytical and detailed in project documentation, accountability, and tracking
- Pragmatic, team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills
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About WPP Production
- We are WPP Production the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation.
- We combine world class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi channel content systems at scale.
- Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always on, AI driven marketing world.
The Role
- We are looking for a passionate leader and technical champion for the creation of rich front end experiences.
- You will manage a team of HTML5, Javascript, CSS developers and be ultimately responsible for the clients’ technical delivery.
- You have an in depth knowledge of current and emerging front end technologies and can work with server side technical leads to create and integrate complex client side applications.
- You will work with WPP Production and partner organisations to define the optimum technical approach for client projects and ceaselessly promote best practice, quality and craft in your code and the code of those you lead.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to listen, understand, advocate, and persuade are essential as you will represent your practice in client and internal senior stakeholder meetings.
- You will Provide technical thought leadership and promote the vision, strategy and services of the digital department to both educate our teams within Hogarth and to be seen as a leading figure in the industry.
- Define our distributed development strategy and processes across our onshore, offshore and remote teams, including identifying and developing key strategic technology partnerships.
- You will manage a team of highly skilled developers ranging from Graduate to Senior level, implementing and maintaining development practices, running meetings and workshops that ensure the growth, motivation and continued development of the team, and ultimately take responsibility for the quality o
- The team needs to build/modify responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. based on the visual briefs.
- You will work closely with other discipline leads (QA/PM) to ensure scoping, estimates, and requirements are estimated correctly and delivered with minimal errors.
- You must be enthusiastic about technology and constantly be looking at the next innovation. On top of possessing strong oral, interpersonal, and organizational abilities, you must be able to work in a fast paced environment. Flexibility and tolerance is a necessity.
Key Responsibilities
- Co ordinating with leads across key delivery teams (Tech, Project Management, QA, and Resource Management)
- Ensure compliance with WPP production processes
- Acting as the point of escalation for project issues raised by team leads, resolving problems quickly and communicating effectively
- Coaching and developing the team in their roles with regular performance reviews to ensure success in their personal development
- Manage the team hiring and keeping briefs clear and consistently updated
- Interviewing candidates for the team and taking responsibility for the approval of freelancers to work in a fast paced and reactive environment
- Set and manage client expectations while coordinating and ensuring all parties follow the agreed workflows
- Build strong, trusting relationships with all key stakeholders, function leads, cross functional project managers, senior managers, and third party vendors that are directly involved with the work
- Manage the approval of quarterly budgets, flagging important budget fluctuations to the client and line manager
- Draft, prepare and present timelines, documents, and presentations and reports both to the client and to the team
- Ensure that the line manager is always aware of all client issues and proposed solutions (including potential delays) to ensure swift resolution and avoid further escalation
- Ensure your account consistently delivers against all contractual obligations including SLAs and KPIs
Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years Project Management experience background
- Experience of leading innovation, leveraging emerging platforms and quickly facilitating new ideas and platforms to market
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
- Know how in working cross functionally to build relationships between business units, technology, product, media, agency, and design teams
- Experience working on international initiatives ideally with exposure to emerging markets
- Self motivated and a self starter
- Very high competence in project management software such as Microsoft Project and Omniplan
- Extensive experience in costing, quotations and project scope definition
- Excellent communication skills to different target groups within the project team, management and clients
- Ensure understanding of the contractual obligations, commercial arrangements and SLAs of the accounts and ensure specific details are understood by the wider team where relevant
- Analytical and detailed in project documentation, accountability, and tracking
- Pragmatic, team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Why work here
- At WPP Production, you’ll help shape the future of content production at a truly global scale.
- We bring together world class talent, cutting edge studios, and advanced technology to solve some of the most complex creative and production challenges in the industry.
- You’ll work in a collaborative, borderless environment where craft excellence is valued, innovation is encouraged, and AI and next generation tools are used to amplify not replace human creativity.
- With access to diverse projects, global career opportunities, and the backing of WPP’s unmatched network, this is a place where you can grow your skills, make real impact, and create work that performs for every audience, across every channel, at every moment.
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