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Senior Associate, Delivery Management

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jan 2025

💰 $100,000/yr($45,000/yr – $100,000/yr)

About the role

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients in the age of transformation. The solutions we create are both Good for consumers and drive Growth for our clients. We were the first purpose-built company created by WPP and today we are 10,000 people working in 116 offices in 86 countries, helping to drive Good Growth for our clients, our people, the industry and the world. Mindshare is a WPP agency and a principal member of the GroupM network of Media agencies within WPP. Please visit us at www.mindshareworld.com 

Summary This role will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams driving transformation for our clients – helping to ensure the teams are delivering promised and expected results to unlock value for our clients. This critical role will act as a connector and collaborator across workstreams, specialists, and client stakeholders to translate scope into plans needed to deliver required outputs. This role requires coordination and facilitation across multiple internal stakeholders, timelines, and resources, ideally in an agile way. The ambition is to connect transformation efforts to the day-to-day, helping teams to optimize processes, deliver better quality and more efficient outputs. Mindshare operates in a matrixed organization – you'll be part of the Delivery Management practice which will provide community of craft, frameworks / toolkits, performance expectations and career management while day-to-day work and priorities will be directed by the client leadership team on the accounts to which you’re assigned. Key Attributes: As a Sr Associate in the Delivery Leadership craft, you will work as an integral member of client teams driving marketing and media transformation. You will play a key role in the management of, communication about and coordination across multiple concurrent workstreams. You will help implement and drive simple yet effective project and program governance processes. You build strong relationships across the agency and client team to ensure visibility, clarity, collaboration and strategic alignment. You will be a strategic problem solver as well as an effective business operator. You will partner with Finance teams to look holistically at account financials, utilization data and capacity management. You will support teams to ensure strategic alignment with client and agency priorities. You will work across multiple workstreams and teams, identifying and solving unexpected issues, and facilitating collaboration to stay on track. A can-do, roll-up your sleeves attitude to problem solving is essential -- making sure you work with people from the client, GroupM, WPP and across the team to find solutions in a timely manner. You should be passionate about helping Mindshare to build a best-in-class delivery management culture focused on driving change, organizational agility and continuous improvement. When needed you’ll help coach others on project management, process design and change management fundamentals. You’re comfortable wearing multiple hats including project manager, strategic thinker, process designer, change agent and consultative pr