Description
Position at GroupM As the Business Partner, you will be accountable for providing the core IT services that enable our business and help agencies leverage GroupMs resources for the benefit of clients.
Your role will be responsible for planning, leading, and developing the technology function for the Philippines, ensuring it integrates with the WPP and Global GroupM Technology strategy, architecture, and compliance.
You will be the main point of contact for all technology-related projects and will be accountable for delivering an effective customer experience to the end-user.
This will include facilitating and advising senior business stakeholders in the market on how to innovate and utilize technology to enable client-specific solutions and drive business transformation, as well as coordinating resources within WPP IT and IBM to ensure delivery of those projects.
You will also be accountable to ensure that the technology services and support meet the business needs from both a quality and performance POV.
Ultimately, your goal is to enable greater efficiency and effectiveness for the Technology function throughout the markets by optimizing the companys investment in technology.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to the Technology Business Partner, APAC
3 best things about the job :
Joining the worlds largest marketing services group and working with the worlds largest technology services provider
Significant autonomy and responsibility in making the role a success
A role covering all technology facets of the business
In three months :
Have taken over all on-going technology activities and projects from the incumbent
Be the go-to person for all applications and service projects and service requests
In six months :
Have established a roadmap of work for the Philippines
Be proactively managing applications and service projects and service delivery
In 12 months :
Have improved the quality of the projects and service delivery and have cleared the backlog of applications adoption projects
We cant live without you!
Responsibilities of the role :
Set and agree on technology and process roadmaps with key stakeholder and executive sponsors
Accountable for aligning the markets technology plans into the GroupM strategic direction
Ensuring infrastructure services are delivered to the business, by partnering closely with our outsourced service provider;
IBM, our WPP group infrastructure team; WPP IT, and the GroupM Technology team.
Ensuring application services are delivered to the business, by partnering closely with the regional applications team, our outsourced vendors, and our WPP group applications team.
Responsible for driving projects and influencing key stakeholders whilst managing the partnerships between GroupM, IBM, and WPP, all whilst maintaining a service mentality.
Responsible for understanding the agency tools in the markets and assisting each of the agency business partners with surfacing the best toolset for a given situation
Responsible for managing stakeholders in the development and agreement of business requirements, including discovery work to investigate and define new product developments
Review business concepts / ideas and help business owners articulate a business case
Accountable for the quality of the relationship between IT and business teams & stakeholders
Participate in and inform the prioritization process for business investments, and assess the risk and return
Responsible for the formal initiation of projects with appropriate business sponsorship & governance
Responsible for initiating the gating process and ensuring that all projects are accounted for within the standard GroupM process (book of work)
Accountable for the success of the projects executed by the applications team and infrastructure partners.
Accountable for the overall IT service and support needed to support business requirements
What you will need : Essential
Essential
Fluent in English
Minimum of 5 years senior-related experience
Communication & influencing skills along with personal gravitas to create relationships at senior levels
Commercial awareness
IT-enabled business change experience; evaluating where change is needed and supporting that change
Project and Program management skills
Broad industry and technical awareness to identify technology opportunities and align these to the business needs
Supplier management skills
Demonstrable track record of delivering complex projects delivering business value, leading individuals and teams
Ability to build excellent business relationships, based on trust and mutual respect. Builds formal and informal professional networks.
Maintains and extends networks within, across, and external to organizational boundaries.
Strategic thinker with customer / commercial focus
Understands stakeholder challenges and the levers that impact the businesss bottom line
Ability to challenge stakeholders and partners to clarify understanding and solve problems
Builds credibility and known for being accountable and keeping promises
Ability to communicate, motivate and influence at all levels
Leading with positive intent
Ability and desire to develop others and build a strong, collaborative team
Autonomous and organized
Desired
Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline
Media background
Qualifications in Management or Leadership will be highly regarded
Strong business process mapping and improvement skills
About GroupM
GroupM is the parent company to WPPs media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Movent, Wavemaker, and Xaxis. Our primary purpose is to maximize the performance of the agencies on behalf of our clients, our shareholders, and our people by operating as a parent and collaborator in performance-enhancing activities such as trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, talent, proprietary tool development, and other business-critical capabilities.
The agencies that comprise GroupM are all global operations in their own right with leading market positions.The focus of GroupM is the intelligent application of physical and intellectual scale to benefit trading, innovation, and new communication services, to bring competitive advantage to our clients and our companies.
For more information on GroupM, our agencies, and WPP please visit About the Philippines In recent years, the Philippines has emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia.
Al-Jazeera noted the market demonstrating an unprecedented period of macroeconomic buoyancy and political stability, spurring both domestic and international business growth.
It is also one of the largest and fastest-growing digital markets in Southeast Asia, with growth expecting to increase exponentially in the next few years.
With a population of 108m and where the internet penetration is predicted to hit 50% in 2017, coupled with the Philippines vibrant economic growth and the expansion of its digital footprint makes it an exciting place for media players and talent to be.
GroupM APAC is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential