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• Champions Enterprise Technology Portfolio Global Discipline (incl tools, templates and processes) across Technology Operations and fosters an energised change culture that embraces change and collaboration, to enable the agency clusters to become more agile and responsive to future technological advancements and the priorities of WPP as a whole.
• Drafts the Technology Operations sub-portfolio strategy and delivery plan for the S&T Director, ensuring alignment with the Tech Ops Technology Strategy and the Enterprise Technology Strategy.
• Ensures that the sub-portfolio continues to reflect and balance the goals of the Tech Ops Business and Enterprise Technology priorities and Strategic Outcomes to maximise consumption, ROI and WPP outcomes.
• Owns the roadmap of technology change for Tech Ops ensuring that business impacts are understood, facilitating smooth transitions, preventing change fatigue, avoiding interference with key business activities (e.g. Pitches) and ensuring adoption / consumption of new technology.
• Analyses the portfolio progress against this roadmap and prepares regular sub-portfolio dashboard and reports for the Cluster Check-In and Portfolio Progress Committee ensuring anomalies or areas of concern are highlighted and making recommendations to decision makers, as required.
• Provides delivery assurance within the Tech Ops transformation scope, ensuring Programme and Projects are delivered in line with the confirmed guidelines and delivery standards including programme financial and benefit mgt.
• Supports with preparing and administering the Tech Ops sub-portfolio initiatives, through the gated Transformation Delivery Lifecycle.
• Co-ordinates all ‘transform’ demand into Enterprise Technology governance and assurances processes to ensure new initiatives are consistently commissioned and communicated to key stakeholders.
• Support in the early mobilisation of new initiatives and assembling the required squads within Tech Ops, partnering with the relevant Tech Ops SMT as well as the strategic portfolio office and involved programme disciplines.
• On behalf of the S&T Director, monitors transformation resources within the Cluster Delivery Squad and reports allocation and requirements regularly to the Strategy and Portfolio Office.
• Maintains the Tech Ops sub-portfolio cost and benefits forecast, updating regularly to reflect actuals and new initiatives being approved.
• Ensures Tech Ops Business cases and other Enterprise Technology artefacts are prepared consistently with Enterprise Technology financial standards, governance, assurance and benefits eligibility rules.
• Establish and maintains the Tech Ops sub-portfolio-level RAID register, ensuring entries are appropriately analysed, managed and escalated as required.
• Co-ordinates sub-portfolio planning, estimation and prioritisation exercises and reports changes to the Strategy & Portfolio Office to approve.
• Ensure dependencies into, out of and within the sub-portfolio are effectively managed and issues escalated as required.
• Identifies constraints within the sub-portfolio and works to overcome them.
• Acts as secretariat for any Tech Ops level strategy & transformation governance.
• Identifies improvements in portfolio management practices through PIRs, periodic sub-portfolio reviews and health checks and champion’s best practice.