Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Program Lead / Senior Project Manager to provide overall leadership, governance, and delivery accountability for the WildBrain CPLG Digital Transformation program. This role ensures the program achieves its intended business outcomes, value realization, and strategic alignment, operating at the intersection of business transformation, technology delivery, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

Provide overall leadership, direction, and governance for the WildBrain Digital Transformation program.
Own and manage the end-to-end program plan, ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy and WildBrain CPLG business priorities.
Establish and operate effective program governance structures, including SteerCo, decision forums, escalation paths, and reporting cadence.
Act as the single point of accountability for program outcomes, delivery confidence, and value realization.
Oversee scope, timelines, funding, and dependencies across all program workstreams.
Ensure benefits, KPIs, and value realization metrics are clearly defined, tracked, and reported.
Maintain a delivery-focused mindset, ensuring initiatives translate into tangible business outcomes.
Drive prioritization decisions where trade-offs are required across scope, cost, and time.
Act as the executive escalation point for risks, issues, and decisions impacting program delivery.
Ensure strong alignment between business leaders, technology teams, and external partners.
Provide clear, concise, and timely updates to senior stakeholders.
Serve as the key liaison to the Director, Digital Transformation, ensuring alignment with wider corporate digital programs.
Own program-level risk and issue management, ensuring proactive mitigation and escalation.
Manage program budgets, forecasts, and funding approvals in partnership with Finance.
Oversee interdependencies across internal teams, vendors, and parallel transformation initiatives.
Ensure changes are assessed for downstream impacts across systems, processes, and operating models.
Coordinate and direct internal project resources across all workstreams.
Oversee and manage external delivery partners and vendors.
Set expectations, ways of working, and delivery standards across all contributors.
Lead change management planning & execution throughout the program.
Communication planning & comms channel management.
Training planning & delivery.

Requirements

Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-workstream digital transformation programs.
Strong background in program governance, delivery management, and executive stakeholder engagement.
Demonstrated accountability for program outcomes, budgets, and value realization.
Excellent ability to manage complex interdependencies across business and technology teams.
Experience delivering transformation programs within media, licensing, or complex operational environments (desirable).
Familiarity with CRM, data, ERP, or workflow system transformations (desirable).
Experience managing multiple vendors and delivery partners (desirable).

Skills

Program governance
Delivery management
Executive stakeholder engagement
Financial control
Risk control
Hands-on delivery leadership
Stakeholder management
Budget management
Forecasting
Change management
Communication planning
Training planning

Location

London, UK

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Competitive benefits
Investment in people and their future

About the Company

WildBrain CPLG is a world-leading entertainment, sport, and brand licensing agency with 20 offices worldwide.
Since 1972, we have provided partners with dedicated licensing and marketing professionals and fully integrated retail, creative & product development, legal, and accounting services.
We believe that our partnerships are about clarity, openness, and trust, and we are widely known for our straightforward approach.
WildBrain CPLG is a trusted licensing partner for leading brands worldwide, offering 50 years of expertise building consumer products and location-based entertainment programmes across the entertainment, sport, corporate and lifestyle sectors.
With over 20 offices serving the UK, Europe, India, the Middle East, China, Asia Pacific and the US, WildBrain CPLG combines the strength of global reach with expertise in local markets to achieve the best results for partners.
Our passionate teams consistently challenge themselves to explore new and innovative ideas and opportunities in partnerships, activations, creative and business processes to celebrate and build brands.
At WildBrain CPLG, we believe that collaboration is about clarity, openness and trust, and we are widely known for our no-nonsense, straightforward approach.
WildBrain CPLG is part of WildBrain Ltd., a global leader in kids’ and family entertainment.
At WildBrain, we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences.
Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Inspector Gadget and Degrassi, we are a global leader in franchise management—bringing stories to life through content production, audience reach and consumer products.
Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV, Netflix and the BBC, producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, Teletubbies (2015), Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge.
The WildBrain Network, offering more than 1,000 channels across YouTube, FAST and AVOD, delivers premium-quality content to today’s kids and families wherever they’re watching—connecting advertisers to audiences at scale through brand-safe media solutions.
WildBrain CPLG, our global licensing and consumer products arm, represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide.
Headquartered in Toronto, WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD).

Equal Opportunity

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are in our DNA.
As a global leader in kids and family entertainment, we strive to reflect and honour the diversity of our audiences around the world.
We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain.
To us, a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees, stakeholders, and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and brings their authentic self to work.
We demonstrate our commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all employees.
We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job.
If you possess similar experience that is close to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to please still consider applying.
We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key!
WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.
Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required.