Transformation Lead

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Drive enterprise-wide transformation by designing repeatable systems, scalable platforms, and value-realizing playbooks that connect strategy to delivery across WPP Media’s client engagements.

  • Orchestration: turn complex changes into simple operating models, workflows, and governance that deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Platformization: move from individual projects to repeatable platforms and integrated propositions with clear SLAs and KPIs.
  • Capability & Delivery: build an M‑shaped transformation team, codify best practices, and align staffing to high‑impact engagements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead transformation across WPP Media’s Global Client Solutions and critical client engagements.
  • Set the transformation agenda—proactively defining the north star, priorities, and sequencing for how WPP Media and our clients will win next.
  • Own the orchestration and value realization of complex change, designing simple, repeatable systems (operating models, workflows, diagnostics, maturity maps, and change management).
  • Move the organization from projects to platforms and from best practice to repeatable systems; codify and socialize playbooks that connect strategy to delivery.
  • Champion an “own the orchestration, enable the system” ethos, connecting disciplines to deliver tangible business impact.
  • Rewire scopes, pricing, staffing models, and delivery structures to strengthen profitability and cash for WPP Media while clarifying value for clients.
  • Productize offerings (service catalogues, playbooks, value cases) with clear SLAs, KPIs, and outcome‑based narratives.
  • Design commercial constructs that align value and incentives (efficiency‑to‑value, milestone‑based, managed services).
  • Create integrated propositions across WPP Media and the wider WPP ecosystem; identify and land cross‑sell/upsell pathways.
  • Represent transformation in senior client forums; act as executive sponsor for flagship engagements.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in media/marketing transformation, consulting, or related disciplines, with leadership across high-stakes client engagements.
  • Proven ability to restructure scopes, pricing, staffing, and delivery to improve profitability and create reinvestment headroom.
  • Deep expertise in operating model and workflow design, diagnostics, maturity mapping, and sequenced change management.
  • Demonstrable experience embedding pragmatic AI-enabled workflows to improve efficiency and decision quality.
  • Exceptional poise and judgment in high‑pressure, fast‑turnaround environments; decisive, calm, and creative under time constraints.
  • Excellence in executive stakeholder management and storytelling; credible advisor to C‑suite, procurement, and senior client sponsors.
  • Strong commercial acumen: offer design, pricing, contracting, P&L stewardship, and outcome-based/value realization frameworks.
  • Connector across disciplines (media, content, CX, platforms, commerce); builder of M‑shaped talent and teams.

Preferred

  • Ability to integrate across WPP Media and the wider WPP ecosystem to align capabilities and drive impact.
  • Bias for action with hands-on delivery when required; comfortable moving from boardroom strategy to operational detail.

Benefits

  • Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
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WPP Media

Media is changing. So are we. We are WPP's global media collective, built for the AI era.We bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create innovative solutions that deliver unparalleled growth for brands - in every market, every day.

30K employees (6,827 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

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159.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$9.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.3%
Direct
46.3%
Referral
10.7%
Social
5.7%
Paid
2.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~30.1K
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Transformation Lead

WPP Media · London, UK · Hybrid