Regional Solution Owner

WPP is the creative 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 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore.

WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.

Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data.

The regional solution owner is responsible for assisting in gathering requirements, working with the vendor to transform them into system requirements and solutions. Working with market SMEs, you will understand what the market is asking for, gather additional information on who needs the functionality, why it is needed and how often the function will be used. Using the information you gather and your understanding of Business Central, you will then work with the regional product lead and the vendor product team to propose and validate solutions.

You will essentially come up with 'what' the business needs and suggest solutions.

You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy with incredible attention to detail, foresight, and the drive to make vision a reality.

Media Systems are those used for the scheduling, ordering, tracking, measurement, and reporting of media transactions executed on behalf of GroupM's clients with Media Vendors. Media Systems may also implement, or be integrated with systems providing, tactical planning, electronic trading, optimisation, or finance functionality.

Finance systems drive our essential finance functions such as billing, payment, closing and reporting.

What you'll be doing:

• Reports into the Regional Product Lead who reports into the Global Product Director
• Works with vendor product team and Regional Product Lead to review solution proposals to ensure they fulfil the requirements
• Determines based on available functionality how solutions may be found from system configuration, process adaptations and extensions of existing functions
• Works with Market SMEs to gather full and detailed set of requirements with supporting documentation
• Works with Market SMEs to understand what function is required and with the vendor product team to transform them into system requirements
• Partners with Regional Product Lead and Regional Process Owner(s) to drive requirements standardisation, simplification and adherence to support the established business processes
• Analyses data and documents to draw business-relevant conclusions
• Provides domain experience to market SMEs and vendor product team
• Works with Regional Product Lead and Regional Process Owner(s) for requirement prioritisation
• Explains product features and constraints to stakeholders
• Validate test cases to ensure feature functionality is fully tested

What you'll need:

• Essential Skills & Experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
  • At least 3 years' experience either in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and/or the Media industry
  • At least 5 years' experience as a business analyst
  • Experience with SCRUM/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive level
  • Experience working with vendor product teams for backlog grooming and solution design
  • Experience using backlog management tools such as Azure DevOps
  • Experienced in writing clear business requirements and documentation
  • Able to break down high-level features into smaller user stories
  • Experience with data visualization techniques and tools
  • Experience with data discovery, analysis and modeling
  • Basic knowledge in BPMN process documentation
  • Ability to work independently
  • Fluent in English
• Desirable Skills & Experience
  • Experience in product ownership / management role
  • Ability to use T-SQL to query databases
  • Ability to travel regionally
  • Multi-lingual skills relevant for the region

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to 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 amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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.

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