Freelance Senior Project Manager

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Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 accomplished people in 110 countries. We create transformative ideas and outcomes for its 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 organizations – from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC, and the UN. Our clients include 61 of the FTSE 100, 325 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 62 of the NASDAQ 100.

WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. We are quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. Key performance indicators for WPP (2020) include Billings of £46.9bn and Revenue of £12bn.

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Why we're hiring:

WPP are seeking a Senior Project Manager to work directly with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring deliverables are completed according to measures of quality, time, and scope.  A successful candidate will preferably have a experience working with Totara Learning Management System and will have experience coordinating with other departments in order to serve the team and remove blockers, allowing the team to complete their work effectively.  The Senior Project Manager will draft the schedule and monitor and report on the progress of projects.  Although Agile (Scrum) methodology is used by WPP, the candidate should draw upon their experience as a project manager to manage plans, communicate issues, risks, status, and dependencies (within and across projects), as well as work with Product to ensure the roadmap translates into actionable goals for a sprint. 

What you'll be doing:

This dedicated and collaborative individual is a well-rounded project management professional, who will fit with our collaborative culture.  The successful candidate will:

• Oversee the successful delivery of multiple projects, simultaneously
• Establish goals, tasks, dependencies, target dates & timelines, activities, owners of tasks/actions, and status for projects within the team
• Be comfortable working in both an Agile and a traditional Project Management environment, depending on the project
• Be the right hand for the business team; anticipate their needs to further the project’s success
• Facilitate meetings and communicate updates to project stakeholders (project team, external clients, Sr. management and the executive team) as needed. 
• Prepare and publish weekly project reports/status for the internal team and management to be informed of the project’s health (i.e., open/at risk/completed items)
• Coach the team as needed in best practices relative to project methodology
• Ensure the committed work is delivered to specification
• Work with stakeholders to understand the scope of the project, and ensure project requirements are communicated clearly to the Development teams
• Champion an iterative planning process; work with the team to define the work that will be packaged into releases and delivered
• Create and manage technical plans, ascertained by working with the project team to define the deliverables that will be developed in each release of the product
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliverables, identifying risks, issues, and dependencies among projects

What you'll need:

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience using Traditional Project methodology with project teams
• 3 - 5 years of experience using Agile (Scrum) methodology with project teams
• Implementation experience with Totara or similar Learning Management System 
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, both with external and internal stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills (& attention to detail)

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing product implementation and roll out of Totara or similar Learning Management Systems
• Experience in managing developing data products
• Solid knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)
• Bachelor’s Degree in appropriate field of study

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 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 amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that 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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