Associate Director, Solutions Design & Development

About WPP Media

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the worlds leading brands. With exceptional talent trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships all united by ourpioneeringagentic marketing platform WPP Open we help clients navigate change capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.

WPP Media is WPPs AI-driven media operating unit bringing together media data and partnerships to deliver creative personalisation at scale. Connected through WPP Open and powered by Open Intelligence clients see exactly where how and why their media investment is working.

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Associate Director Solutions Design & Development

About WPP Media

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people planet clients and communities. For more information visit .

WPP Media is WPPs global media a world where media is everywhere and in everything we bring the best platform people and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information visit

At WPP Media we believe in the power of our culture and our people. Its what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Medias shared core values:

• BeExtraordinarybyLeading CollectivelytoInspire transformational Creativity.
• Create anOpenenvironment byBalancing People and Client ExperiencesbyCultivating Trust.
• LeadOptimisticallybyChampioning Growthand DevelopmenttoMobilize the Enterprise.

Role Overview

Solutions Design is the team that turns strategic intent into client-ready media propositions that are sound operationally credible and genuinely differentiated.

As an Associate Director in Solutions Design you are a hands-on solution builder and an emerging strategic voice. You sit within a team whose job is to design best-in-market media propositions that connect channels data and outcomes and your role is to get into the detail of making that happen.

You will work across both brand and performance media. Whether the brief calls for reach and resonance or measurable conversion you are expected to be fluent across the spectrum grounded in your own area of expertise but always designing with the full-funnel in mind.

You will work closely with your Director and across Solutions Design Media Solutions Investment Data & Technology and Client teams. You are the person who rolls up their sleeves testing ideas building the materials stress-testing the logic and ensuring what gets designed actually holds up.

Responsibility Set

• Supporting in the design of and executing the build of media solutions across brand and performance channels that are grounded in client objectives and configured for cross-channel delivery.
• Getting hands-on with solution development drafting frameworks building test designs writing up solution logic and iterating on materials until theyre genuinely fit for purpose.
• Testing and validating new ideas prioritisation frameworks (i.e. MoSCoW DFV RICE) doing the legwork to prove or disprove a concept before it scales.
• Maintaining a sharp view of the competitive landscape across brand and performance media understanding what others are doing and where our differentiation sits.
• Owning your product documentation keeping materials accurate consistent and useful for the teams selling and activating your solutions.
• Building a detailed working understanding of how media is planned activated and measured across brand and performance channels and keeping pace with how that evolves.
• Staying connected to agency practitioners to understand how solutions land in market and where they need refinement.
• Contributing to client-facing materials pitches and thought leadership bringing clarity and commercial awareness to how we present our capabilities.
• Supporting colleague upskilling helping agency teams understand and confidently sell the solutions you have built.
• Ensuring the solutions you design are commercially sound with pricing margin and supply chain considered from the outset not retrofitted.
• Participating in cross-functional working groups and taking active ownership of moving solutions from design through testing to deployment.
• Tracking solution performance and identifying whats working what needs iteration and what should be retired.

Skills and Experience

• You are fluent in media. You have strong working knowledge across brand and performance channels. Whether your depth sits in programmatic TV social OOH audio or paid search you understand how channels connect and what good looks like end-to-end.
• You champion product excellence. You proficiently apply product and/or project management principles guiding solutions through their entire lifecycle from strategic conception and design to successful delivery and continuous optimisation.
• You build things. You are comfortable getting hands-on drafting frameworks building test designs writing up solution logic iterating on materials. You dont wait to be handed a polished brief.
• You are a solution thinker. You can synthesise across channels data and client objectives into a clear coherent design and you know how to validate whether it actually works.
• You make the complex simple. You communicate complicated media and technology concepts clearly to senior stakeholders and agency teams alike.
• You are naturally curious. You keep pace with how the market is changing and bring that knowledge into the work not just the conversation.
• You care about the work. You are assertive collaborative and invested in doing things properly for clients colleagues and the broader business.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits

Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work and were just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions grow their networks and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins sharing thought leadership and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical group retirement plans vision and dental insurance significant paid time off preferential partner discounts and employee mental health awareness days.

WPP Media 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.

We believe the best work happens when were together fostering creativity collaboration and connection. Thats why weve 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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