Manager, Operations & Implementation at WPP Media | GB | Rezi

Manager, Operations & Implementation at WPP Media

Manager, Operations & Implementation

WPP Media · GB

5 days ago

Manager, Operations & Implementation

WPP Media · GB

6 days ago
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About the Role

The Ops & Support Manager supports platform implementation and enablement, driving adoption, capability uplift, and sustained value. This role bridges product, technology, and end-users, ensuring solutions are successfully embedded and utilized. It contributes to the enablement strategy, including training, communications, and rollout planning, while owning the day-to-day operational health of platforms, including access governance, support, testing, and reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Support role-based training through live sessions, recordings, learning paths, and playbooks, ensuring content is practical and outcome-focused.
  • Maintain an enablement library with knowledge base articles, user guides, and demonstrations for onboarding and ongoing user development.
  • Continuously improve training content based on feedback, support themes, and usage insights.
  • Support enablement communications plans to explain changes, their importance, and user actions required.
  • Identify and mitigate adoption risks and resistance, acting as an advocate for new ways of working.
  • Drive measurable global adoption growth and support interventions to address user disengagement.
  • Own access governance across the platform portfolio, including provisioning, role design, and recertification for internal, affiliate, and client agency users.
  • Maintain permission models to protect organizational data, enforce segregation of duties, and ensure compliance.
  • Establish and manage the ongoing support model, providing first and second-line support via ticketing and collaboration channels.
  • Own the incident and request lifecycle from triage and resolution to escalation and root cause analysis.
  • Monitor platform availability and uptime to protect business continuity.
  • Feed recurring issues back into enablement content to reduce reliance on reactive support.
  • Support user acceptance testing and defect management across the change portfolio.
  • Reproduce defects, verify fixes, shape and prioritize sprint inputs, and confirm release readiness with product owners and developers.
  • Surface user themes, issues, and opportunities to product and platform teams.
  • Collaborate with Product Leads, TechOps, Programme Management, and business owners to align enablement with delivery.
  • Act as a contact for senior stakeholders.
  • Manage champion and super-user networks across markets and teams.
  • Support local markets in tailoring enablement approaches while maintaining global standards.
  • Build trusted relationships with suppliers, regional teams, and end-users.
  • Contribute to user forums and operational governance meetings.
  • Track enablement KPIs, including training completion, usage, adoption, and feedback.
  • Support the operational reporting layer for the portfolio, including usage, uptime, ticket volumes, resolution performance, and satisfaction.
  • Manage monthly dashboards and stakeholder updates.
  • Use quantitative and qualitative insights to refine the enablement approach.
  • Supply operational data for executive insight and the wider reporting and analytics function.
  • Support the program's governance, risk, and compliance frameworks and data governance guardrails.
  • Monitor platform activity and track mandatory compliance obligations.
  • Maintain audit evidence for access reviews and control testing.
  • Scale AI-powered workforce enablement, including configuring AI workspace agents and applying AI-assisted responses.
  • Extend automation into reporting and routine operational tasks.
  • Assess automation opportunities for genuine productivity gains and build business cases for rollout.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in an enablement, change, adoption, or transformation role, ideally within a platform, product, or technology service deployment.
  • Strong understanding of technology adoption and new ways of working.
  • Ability to translate complex concepts into simple, actionable guidance.
  • Experience delivering training, user documentation, and knowledge base content with demonstrable impact on adoption.
  • Experience leading first and second-line application support with evidenced service level and customer satisfaction performance.
  • Experience administering user access, roles, and permissions at an enterprise scale.
  • Hands-on user acceptance testing and defect coordination using Azure DevOps or similar.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across various roles.
  • Comfortable working in global, matrixed, multi-geographical organizations.
  • Experience with enterprise platforms such as CRM, productivity tools, master data management, or data platforms (desirable).
  • Background in product, operations, digital transformation, or business systems (desirable).
  • Experience working with champion networks or communities of practice (desirable).
  • Familiarity with adoption metrics and behavioral change measurement (desirable).
  • Working knowledge of Power BI or similar reporting software (desirable).
  • Experience with AI tools and processes, including AI-assisted service desk tooling and automation platforms (desirable).
  • Pragmatic and outcomes-focused, credible with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Highly organized, analytical, and data-driven with strong attention to detail.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving environments.
  • Calm under operational pressure.
  • Proactive, collaborative, and resilient with a self-starting approach.
  • Right to work in the UK.

Skills

  • Platform Implementation
  • Enablement
  • Adoption
  • Capability Uplift
  • Training Delivery
  • Knowledge Base Management
  • Change Management
  • Communications
  • Access Governance
  • First and Second Line Support
  • Incident Management
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Defect Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Reporting
  • AI-enabled Enablement
  • Automation
  • Azure DevOps

Location

  • UK

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Manager

Benefits

  • Competitive medical insurance
  • Group retirement plans
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Significant 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, helping clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.
  • WPP Media is WPP's AI-driven media operating unit, bringing together media, data, and partnerships to deliver creative personalization at scale.
  • WPP Media is committed to Be Extraordinary, Lead Optimistically, Championing Growth and Development.
  • WPP Media employees can leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks.
  • WPP Media creates an open environment built on trust and respect, fostering inclusivity through employee resource groups and frequent in-office events.

Equal Opportunity

  • WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
  • We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment.