Senior People Business Partner - London, United Kingdom - WPP

WPP

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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WPP is the transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.**
Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 109,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide.

We create transformative ideas and outcomes for our clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations - from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 317 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100. WPP are the leader in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index and 8th in the FTSE 100 rankings for Women on Boards.

Why we're hiring:

We are a WPP Corporate People team with not just the skills and experience to deliver to our internal clients, but also the passion to constantly innovate programmes that support the adoption of new ways of working around the world.

We use the power of creativity to build better futures for people, planet, clients & communities. Because we put purpose at the heart of our business, and people at the heart of our purpose.

This is an opportunity to join our WPP People team to support IT, our largest corporate function.

With a reporting line to the Global People Director for IT, you will play a pivotal role in support of the delivery of the global technology strategy across our WPP enterprise.

This role is both operational and strategic with span to deliver across the IT function globally from business partnering to learning & development, performance & talent management, DE&I, health & wellbeing and volunteering in support of our overarching global WPP People strategy.

WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive with technology at the heart.

WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, build a new dynamic global infrastructure foundation to deliver global platforms to better manage our operational performance, clients, knowledge, insight and creative/media/production workflows, and also continue to protect WPP.

What you'll be doing:

This role will work on the most innovative, complex transformation, transaction, and technology changes, to develop the skills, ways of working, culture mindsets and behaviours we need to land change brilliantly across WPP.

Deliver on impactful people priorities that use technologyled, forwardthinking approaches, in solving organisation design problems unlocking the potential of tools for data analysis, organisation design and workforce planning to deliver faster and better outcomes
Working in collaboration with your IT People colleagues, champion, drive and deliver DE&I activities across IT in support of our WPP DE&I strategy to foster an inclusive work environment for all employees
Support and promote global industryleading wellbeing initiatives across IT, with a focus on giving back to communities through volunteering, and driving health awareness initiatives, to allow our people to prosper in their working environment
Support the evolution of the IT approach to talent development delivering innovative people interventions, which support the build out of core technical strategic capabilities
Drive groundswell support for completion of the WPPwide employee engagement survey. Ensuring action plans are developed, implemented and measured for success

What you'll need:

Exceptional communicator with the ability to engage, inspire, influence and secure buyin from leaders across the WPP and operating companies, in addition to external customers and global partners at senior career levels.
A connected people partner who role models through their own behaviour and actions, changing mindsets and cultures by inspiring, coaching, holding themself and others to account and setting the right cultural tone.
The ability to operate effectively in a matrix, demonstrate agility in a fastmoving organisation, and cultivate strong relationships globally.
Experience of Organisational Change Management
Change vision, business engagement, culture optimisation/behaviour change, business readiness and business adoption.

Who you are:

You're open_:
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We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views

We are accepting:
of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic_:

_** We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities.

We approach all that we do with conviction:
to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary:
we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the