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VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML's specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world's largest and most awarded health agencies. VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

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Reporting into the Delivery Director, we are looking for a Senior Project Manager who will be responsible for the delivery of multiple workstreams and managing budgets from £500K-1m. For this role particular experience managing service design and sprint teams within digital & business transformations as well as customer experience is required.

With a minimum of 6+ years' experience, you will be used to working in a supportive, but challenging, fast-paced environment and relish the prospect of taking ownership of the projects you are engaged on.

What you'll be doing:

• Facilitating end-to-end project management, from high level activity planning to final delivery
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, developers, product managers, and stakeholders, to ensure sprint objectives and goals are delivered
• Define and manage sprint schedules, deliverables, and expectations, ensuring clear communication throughout the process.
• Manage multiple concurrent sprints, ensuring alignment with broader account governance team
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the team and deep in the detail of the work, helping them problem solve & collaboratively craft solutions + deliverables
• Guide the dynamic planning process, prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
• Spot warning signs of things going wrong, and provide recommendations or identify the correct point for escalation, to alleviate delivery challenges
• Accurately scope, estimate and define effort for projects, to create proposals and Statements of Work
• Resource management: liaison with RM team on requirements across agency skill base
• Liaison with third party suppliers
• Financial management of projects. Budget management, time and cost reconciliations, burn and pro-active engagement on potential issues
• Actively build relationships with clients - understand the client's business to be able to have discussions confidently, create solutions to meet their challenges

About you:

• Be an effective communicator
• Strong understanding of design thinking, agile methodologies, and transformation
• Be a confident self-starter, well organised and self-motivated
• Have exemplary attention to detail
• Have a pragmatic approach, a willingness to listen and adapt
• Ability to think beyond the client brief
• Be a selfless team player who understands the importance of your craft
• Ability to foster strong collaboration with other disciplines

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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 an average of four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to 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.

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