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    Compass Project Release Lead - London, United Kingdom - WarnerMedia

    WarnerMedia
    WarnerMedia London, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Full time
    Description
    Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

    Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

    Who We Are...

    When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

    From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

    Your Role

    The EMEA Technology PMO Lead will be the single point of contact for Technology in the EMEA region zone for S/4 Compass project. You will manage a large program matrixed team and the System Integrator (SI) team that are responsible for S/4 program deliverables.

    Accountable for the S/4 technology team, this role will lead day to day operations, manage risks, issues, escalations, and logistics coordination for international releases. Working closely with stakeholders including business units, technology and SI to align deployment goals and deliver effective executive level reporting for the EMEA program.

    Responsible for leading deployment activities including technology build, testing and cutover for ~22 countries and delivering the integration of business and technical cutover plans.

    Your Role Accountabilities:

    Deployment:
    • Primary Technology deployment contact for EMEA region & Project team.
    • Lead the activities post integration testing to complete the go-live.
    • Facilitate the project team and local users in ensuring Business Readiness go-live regionally. Ensure execution of the business cutover plan for assigned location.
    • Act as regional command center lead during go-live activities and central point of contact for facilitating go-live issue resolution.
    • Lead overall assessment of Go-live Readiness deliverables.
    • Provides Input into deployment planning and approach including specific country considerations.
    • Coordinates regional activities for deployment including working with multiple teams for logistics, connectivity, and country readiness.
    • Overall ownership of status reporting including executive level status, issue escalation and resolution point of contact in region.
    • Develop and execute the deployment methodology for rolling out technology release for WBD activities including boundary systems and business cutover activities.
    • Lead the support activities during the deployment workstreams, UAT, Training and Go-live.
    • Together with the Business Release lead, define the business cutover plan ensuring Business Readiness go-live.
    • Provide On-Site support during stabilization of the Regional Go-live.
    • Build & execute technology deployment plans and define regional command center approach
    • Ensure local cutover activities are defined from the detailed cutover runbooks to the wider communications (internal and external)
    • Manage EMEA technology hyper care support and facilitate transition to run state operations.
    • Execute EMEA command center approach, schedule, and defined interaction model for a multi-location roll-out.
    Testing
    • Work with Testing team, support technology and UAT testing during the local time zone.
    • Provide technology support during all phases of testing to regional users.
    • Lead the definition of key local scenarios and variants used in Data Migration, UAT
    • Guide all local streams (Business and IT) in all aspects of boundary system integration.
    • Implement the local testing strategy.
    • Provide technology support for local teams for testing, documentation, and defect management.
    • Govern the process for defect management and progress reporting.
    • Support UAT for EMEA, ensuring that any medium defects have workarounds defined and that resolution dates are known.
    • Primary liaison between the business and the technology team to resolve issues and defects.
    • Coordinate Test execution within time zone working closely with the Testing Lead.
    • Manage local logistics of test execution.
    • Expedite and escalate defects as required.
    • Align system readiness for boundary systems.
    Project Management
    • Provide overall technology status for EMEA, raise and resolve issues, follow-up to completion and bring visibility the appropriate escalation to core project team.
    • Ensure timely completion of tasks, maintaining project timeline and target dates.
    • Conduct EMEA meetings in collaboration with Core PMO and functional teams.
    • Ensure execution of project change control process to understand additions to project scope while working with Core project team.
    • Identify and evaluate the risks associated with project activities and take appropriate action to mitigate the risks.
    • Drive completion of local/regional specific deliverables.
    • Ensure excellent communication between core and local test teams.
    • Lead Support functional teams as they define the local requirements, plans, and execution.
    • Define the local dependencies between business, IT, data (including data remediation).
    • Run readiness and Go/No-Go assessments.
    • Ensure the Ramp-Up plan is in place and support ramp-up reporting/status.
    Qualifications & Experiences:
    • Bachelor's in IT or equivalent years of experience required
    • Significant prior experience in a related field (media, entertainment plus)
    • Extensive direct experience with SAP implementation and deployments.
    • Experience with complex cutover plans and project plans; having brought live complex functionality from many source systems.
    • Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and good project management capabilities.
    • Must have experience in coordinating and managing tasks across teams and across systems.
    • Experience implementing international systems is highly desirable.
    • International travel will be required.
    • May require flexible schedules including on-call requirement to support live-site and international releases as needed.
    • Ability to work in a matrixed environment.
    Not Required but preferred experience:
    • MBA
    • Post-MBA experience in a related field (entertainment or entertainment)
    • Knowledge of and passion for media, entertainment, and technology industries (including key players, growth trends and drivers, new media models, industry structure, etc.)
    • Experience working in a national or global company.
    • Comfortable in working in highly iterative and somewhat unstructured environment.
    • Excellent communication skills. The role requires clear direction locally, but also will involve global/above site engagement for both straightforward communications, and influencing.
    • Knowledge of current WBD systems and business processes (across divisions), business applications architecture and current systems is preferred.
    How We Get Things Done...

    This last bit is probably the most important Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

    The Legal Bits...

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