WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 115,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.
We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.
WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 307 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 20th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.
Why we're hiring:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP ITs mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences, and deliver insight from WPPs petabytes of data and breadth of expertise.
As part of this transformation journey the global payroll team are initiating a payroll standardisation and consolidation program starting with India to harmonize payroll processes, ways of working and streamlined vendor solutions ahead of integration to Workday.
What you'll be doing:
WPP are seeking a Project Manager on an India payroll consolidation program as part of WPPs wider transformation program. The project manager will work directly with the internal program delivery team, Wider WPP internal stakeholders and external payroll vendors, ensuring deliverables are completed according to measures of quality, time, and scope. The Project Manager will be responsible for drafting the scheduling, monitoring and reporting on project progress, ensuring status updates, decision logs and RAID items are detailed and ready for Steerco reporting.
This dedicated and collaborative individual is a well-rounded project management professional, who will fit with our collaborative culture. The successful candidate will:
- Oversee the successful delivery of multiple projects, simultaneously.
- Establish goals, tasks, dependencies, target dates & timelines, activities, owners of tasks/actions, and status for projects within the team.
- Be comfortable working in both an Agile and a traditional Project Management environment, depending on the project.
- Be the right hand for the business team; anticipate their needs to further the projects success.
- Facilitate meetings and communicate updates to project stakeholders (project team, external clients, Sr. management and the executive team) as needed.
- Prepare and publish weekly project reports/status for the internal team and management to be informed of the projects health (i.e., open/at risk/completed items)
- Coach the team as needed in best practices relative to project methodology.
- Ensure the committed work is delivered to specification.
- Work with stakeholders to understand the scope of the project and ensure project requirements are communicated clearly to the Development teams.
- Champion an iterative planning process; work with the team to define the work that will be packaged into releases and delivered.
- Create and manage technical plans, ascertained by working with the project team to define the deliverables that will be developed in each release of the product.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliverables, identifying risks, issues, and dependencies among projects.
What you'll need:
- 5+ years of experience using Traditional Project methodology with project teams in transformation programs across HR and/or Payroll programs
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
- An understanding of payroll systems such as ADP, Alight, Ceridian or others.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of Workday HCM is preferred.
- Experience in managing developing data products
- Solid knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)
Who you are:
You're open : We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic : We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you:
Passionate, inspired people We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge
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