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About the Role
The Staffing Strategist plays a critical role within WPP Media, responsible for connecting internal talent to client demand and ensuring effective, timely, and sustainable staffing outcomes. This role balances the needs of our people, clients, and the business to optimize workforce deployment while supporting employee development and long-term organizational performance.
Responsibilities
- Connect internal talent to client demand.
- Ensure effective, timely, and sustainable staffing outcomes.
- Optimize workforce deployment.
- Support employee development and long-term organizational performance.
- Translate workforce demand into actionable staffing solutions.
- Maintain accurate people and skills data.
- Understand workforce capability.
- Proactively identify opportunities to optimize utilization, enable internal mobility, and reduce reliance on external hiring.
- Partner closely with Capacity Planning to align available talent with validated demand.
- Support a transparent, scalable, and future-ready resourcing model across WPP Media.
Requirements
- Experience in resource management, workforce planning, talent management, or HR-related roles, ideally within a complex or matrixed organisation.
- Strong understanding of people management principles, employee development, and end-to-end talent lifecycle processes.
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships across multiple stakeholder groups, including HR, Talent Acquisition, Client teams, and Resource Management.
- Strong data capability, with experience maintaining, analysing, and interpreting workforce and staffing data to inform decisions.
- Ability to balance people, client, and commercial priorities when making staffing and deployment recommendations.
- Experience working across multiple staffing channels, including internal mobility, external hiring, and contracting models.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to manage expectations and provide clear, confident guidance.
- High attention to detail, particularly in relation to data accuracy, tracking, and reporting.
- Ability to operate with autonomy, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and solutions to staffing challenges.
Skills
- Resource management
- Workforce planning
- Talent management
- HR
- People management
- Employee development
- Talent lifecycle processes
- Relationship building
- Data analysis
- Staffing data interpretation
- Communication
- Influencing
- Attention to detail
- Autonomy
Work Type
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- $45,000—$90,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive medical coverage
- Group retirement plans
- Vision and dental insurance
- Generous paid time off
- Preferential partner discounts
- Employee mental health awareness days
About the Company
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
- WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale.
- Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence, clients see exactly where, how, and why their media investment is working.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to protected characteristics.
- We believe the best work happens when we’re together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in an open and supportive environment.
- That’s why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week.
- If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.