Senior Project Manager

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

A Senior Project Manager with a technical background required to join our eCommerce Team on a contract basis.

A Senior Project Manager, with a technical background, who coordinates teams and releases across client environments. You encourage strong relationships with your team and have the ability to talk, at a technical level, with developers, testers and technical architects. You have an understanding of practices in development standards, including code reviews branching strategies, development principals and CI/CD.

Please note that this job is a contractual position located in London.

Please send us your CV in English.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build relationships with VML technical specialists
• Coordinate 3rd party product vendors, environments & client technical resources
• Oversee delivery of new infrastructure environments
• Working knowledge of Agile frameworks, in particular Scrum and Kanban
• Ability to inspire and lead technical teams and work with teams to achieve individual and team objectives
• Run effective sprint ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning and estimation sessions, showcases and sprint retrospectives (using WISDOM Methodology)
• Support the efficient flow of work by helping the teams remove obstacles and make improvements
• High-level understanding of the software development life cycle and release management
• Involvement in release planning and execution
• Build customer confidence by understanding their needs & delivering first class solutions
• Set and managing client expectations.
• Issues and Risks identification, mitigation and resolution
• Identify technical debt and technical enhancements that would benefit the project in the long term
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating to various audiences including key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Release and technical reporting regarding project/account technical deliverables, architecture and pipeline improvements       

What we want from you:

• Project Management experience, with ecommerce experience ideally within a retail environment.
• Technical understanding that enables log analysis and to identify potential issues
• Some previous experience of eCommerce frameworks and hosting solutions
• Understanding of cloud/on prem. Infrastructure
• Defining, managing and delivering to customer expectations within strict deadlines
• Full knowledge of the project lifecycle and experience of various project development methodologies (including Agile, Incremental and Waterfall)
• Comfortable with technical environments and legacy systems integration
• Some experience of code management tools such as git, bit bucket, svn
• Interested in the implementation of Jenkins, git or other release pipeline tools
• Ability to manage multiple 3rd parties
• Time management & organisational skills
• Negotiation skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues
• Relevant Project Management qualifications
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Packages, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

If you have this, even better:

• Experience of working with the Magento eCommerce platform
• A developer background or programming qualification is advantageous but not essential
• Knowledge of Azure and AWS DevOps Tooling
• Minimum BA/BS degree with a major in information management, marketing, communications, business or other closely-related areas is an advantage

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.

We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

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WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. 

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