Managing Partner, Transformation Strategy - London, United Kingdom - GroupM

GroupM

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:
Managing Partner, Transformation Strategy

Reporting to:
Chief Transformation Officer

Location:
London
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Introduction_**GroupM is on a transformative journey to make advertising work better for people.

This role will be part of a larger team, providing services to mobilise the new strategic vision set by our Global leadership team to future-proof the business and provide the best service, products and technology to serve our clients changing digital needs.

You will play an integral part in delivering transformation change initiatives to our business and agencies.

In order to realise this vision of exponential 'connected growth', a new team of transformation professionals is being embedded in the business led by our Chief Transformation Officer.

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_Approach_
Adopting a 'people first approach' and 'agile' approach to business transformation, this new team of professionals will work cross-functionally across the business ensuring:

The right balance of new skills and widest variety of lived experience is injected across the business to complement our rich heritage right accross the business. Fostering a culture of continuous learning, inclusion and fairness.
Establish and document 'brilliant basics' in every core operation of the business, embracing a principle of continuous improvement to ensure our people have the time to focus on our customers strategic needs, offshoring or automating time consuming, administrative tasks
Ensure that tools and technology are integrated, rationalised and built with the business user and purpose in mind so they are easily and willingly adopted by those who will benefit most from their use
The integration of operational data right accross the organisation, solving for a single source of truth that provides the business with a source of 'continuous intelligence' that keeps us pointed in the same direction, enables agile decision making and surfaces potential opportunities to grow commercial success

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Expected Transformational Behaviours_**- Leveraging and complementing the resources, skills and shared services and partners accross the group

Partnering for success and holding those teams accountable for timely delivery of their commitments
Building on the work of others by seeking and surfacing existing solutions and bringing a team of professionals together to build on their ideas
Bringing communities of crossfunctional specialists together to create scalable solutions that relate to their day job and clients needs versus creating a new way of working that is disconnected from the commercial reality of the business
Operationalise innovation through these networks so new ideas can be incubated, nurtured and brought to reality

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Role Overview_**Reporting to the Chief Transformation Officer the Managing Partner Transformation Strategy is responsible for the formulation and delivery of future facing transformation projects for GroupM UK.

This role also includes UK delivery of globally and regionally agreed corporate strategy and is a key interface between the GroupM Exco, the wider GM business and UK agency leadership teams, working across all stakeholder groups ensure the strategy is realised.

This crucial role has key oversight of strategic and reactive projects to professionalise and improve integrated business strategy across the group.
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_Core _

_Responsibilities_

Daily leadership of your direct program teams and extended stakeholder groups from across the network on key initiatives
Designing scalable, operational frameworks to realise the Global strategic vision in the UK market
Take a consultative approach with media agencies to ensure successful integration of GroupM strategic changes whilst ensuring we are identifying and prioritising agency needs
Facilitate workshops within crossfunctional communities to ready us for integration, working with the Transformation Directors to turn output into a clear plan of deliverables as we integrate and standardise more of our services and solutions
Building and running crossfunctional communities to remove duplication, build on each other's Ideas and encourage partnering for success, enabling us to truly be the sum of our parts at a market level
UK representative on GroupM global corporate strategy projects, responsible for representing the best interests of the UK market and ensuring we leverage the work done by other markets to benefit UK clients.
Spot opportunities to 'productize' the central services that exist in GroupM currently in areas such as tech and data consultancy, onsite/inhouse models to allow the agencies to engage in the right way with a focus on their growth
Connect the business strategy team to key stakeholders across the T&I squad and the GM network to drive through future facing changes and improvements to our networkwide offer

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What you'll bring... _**- Accelerate Digital Transformation - Demonstra