Jobs at WPP

Manage the operational delivery and strategy for clients' paid social campaigns. Oversee junior team members, develop forecasts and campaign plans, liaise with internal teams for integrated campaigns, monitor performance metrics, deliver monthly reports, improve efficiencies through tools and tactics, and contribute to business reviews, automation, process rollouts, and new business materials.

Lead day-to-day retail search activations across retailer media networks, develop keyword strategy and bidding, manage campaigns and reporting, optimize cross-channel performance, maintain stakeholder relationships, manage a small team, and handle invoicing/reconciliation and platform troubleshooting.

The Programmatic Manager will oversee programmatic advertising campaigns, integrating strategies, analyzing performance, and communicating with clients to drive optimal results.

Lead operational management and strategic execution of commerce-focused paid social campaigns across social and retail media platforms. Oversee planning, activation, optimization, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis (ROAS, conversions, traffic). Partner with strategy, analytics, creative, and commerce teams, mentor junior staff, and support account growth, process improvements, and thought leadership.

Manage day-to-day paid search campaign execution including bidding, budgets, keyword research, reporting, ad copy drafts, trafficking/QA, and mentoring junior associates. Provide tactical recommendations, maintain billing and financial reconciliation, and stay current on search tools and platforms.

Manage programmatic media strategy and execution across client campaigns. Translate objectives into audience, inventory, and activation strategies; manage DSP campaigns, budgets, pacing, optimization, and reporting. Collaborate with agency teams and publishers on inventory deals, establish workflow processes, analyze campaign performance, and communicate results to clients and stakeholders. Train and oversee junior team members while supporting account-level planning and execution.

Manages end-to-end digital media buying across direct, programmatic, and paid social channels for CPG and beauty clients. Oversees trafficking, ad serving, tracking, taxonomy, QA, pacing, optimization, and multi-million-dollar budgets. Leads publisher negotiations and custom content, influencer, and experiential partnerships. Mentors and supervises two junior associates while maintaining high execution standards and client KPI performance.

Manages integrated video and digital media investment for assigned clients, including vendor negotiations, RFPs, tactical buying, budget tracking, campaign activation, billing, pacing, and performance analysis. Develops pricing benchmarks, partner scoring models, recommendation books, and optimization strategies. Collaborates with planning, analytics, vendors, and internal media teams while guiding junior associates, training employees, maintaining marketplace knowledge, and ensuring buy accuracy, compliance, and delivery against client KPIs.

Build and automate campaign insights and data-driven optimizations for programmatic media campaigns. Design, build, and deploy ETL, data management, and cloud data pipelines across AWS/Azure/GCP. Collaborate with data scientists and cross-functional teams to create algorithms, visualizations, automated reports, and production support. Lead UAT, architecture discussions, and implement error handling, cost/performance optimizations, and scripting to increase productivity.

Manage and produce three large monthly brand reports, aggregate and analyze cross-channel media datasets, perform rigorous data QA and cleansing, and coordinate timelines and communications with internal investment teams to deliver accurate, client-facing performance reporting and insights.

Client-facing analytics manager responsible for daily performance monitoring, pacing and margin analysis, and building production dashboards (Tableau/Power BI). Extracts and shapes large media datasets with SQL and Python, translates results into executive narratives, partners with clients and internal teams, and leads ~20% strategic innovation projects like supply path optimization, outcome-based pricing, and automation using AI and scripting.

Lead day-to-day paid social operations and strategy for client accounts, manage and mentor paid social team members, integrate social into broader media plans, coordinate partners and internal disciplines, and communicate performance and risks to senior leadership.

Manage end-to-end trafficking and quality control of creative assets across broadcast and digital campaigns. Verify specs, prepare deliverables, provide distribution instructions to broadcasters and publishers, track multiple campaigns, monitor delivery workflows, and coordinate with creative agencies and internal teams (Ad Ops, Planning, Activation) to ensure timely activation.

Support day-to-day search media activations across retail media networks. Develop keyword strategy, set up and optimize campaigns, manage budgets and bids, report performance, troubleshoot technical issues, and collaborate with client and internal teams to maximize retail media ROI.

Support stabilization and ongoing administration of Workday; audit and reconcile employee data between Workday and ADP; analyze reports and integrations; maintain SOPs and process documentation; manage supervisory organizations and bulk data transactions; generate reporting and ad hoc analyses; handle Workday tickets, escalations, testing, and post-production validation; partner with Payroll, HRIS, and stakeholders to resolve data issues and drive process improvements.

Manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding, support employees and managers on HR policies and issues, coordinate immigration cases, maintain HRIS data, drive performance management, promote HR programs, conduct exit interviews, and partner with HRBPs on employee relations and talent strategy initiatives.

Manage day-to-day paid search programs for client accounts, including strategy, bidding, budget management, performance analysis, and client reporting. Mentor junior team members, adopt bid management and tracking tools, and contribute to automation and process improvements while staying current on industry trends.

Lead and manage end-to-end pitch processes for Tier 2 & 3 (support Tier 1), coordinate cross-functional teams, mentor junior staff, develop insight-led narratives, produce high-quality client deliverables, leverage AI and WPP platforms for research and content, and optimize pitch processes to win new business.

Lead full-lifecycle recruitment for early-career hires (interns and associates), source via talent platforms, represent WPP Media at events, partner with stakeholders to align hiring needs, improve processes, and meet performance benchmarks while supporting diversity and onboarding efforts.

Connect internal talent to client demand, maintain accurate people and skills data, partner with Capacity Planning, TA, HR, and client teams to optimize workforce deployment, enable internal mobility, improve utilisation, reduce external hiring, and provide data-driven staffing recommendations while balancing people, client, and commercial priorities.