WPP.com is the official website of WPP, the world's largest communications services group. The website offers a comprehensive overview of WPP's diverse range of services, spanning advertising, media investment management, public relations, digital marketing, and more. It showcases WPP's extensive global network of companies and highlights its strategic role in helping brands succeed in a rapidly changing marketing landscape. The website provides insights into WPP's strategic priorities, key capabilities, industry recognition, and latest news and events. It also showcases the company's commitment to creativity, data-driven decision-making, and sustainable business practices.
In the same year (1987), the company bought J. Walter Thompson (including JWT, Hill & Knowlton and MRB Group) for $ 566 million.simple.wikipedia.orgIn the following years, WPP was buying dozens of companies every year. In January 1987, the company bought Scott Stern Associates, then Scotland's largest design and advertising company.
The Board has agreed that he will step down as CFO and an Executive Director of the Board following the finalization of the 2022 Annual Report & Accounts in 2023.finance.yahoo.comBritish communication and advertising company WPP PLC (NYSE: WPP) said its Chief Financial Officer, John Rogers, has decided to step down.
Interpublic Group Inc. also put in a bid for Ogilvy, but after a brief tussle it fell to WPP for $864 million.company-histories.comLike the JWT Group, it was at the time an international network of agencies and satellite companies about equal in size to the WPP Group.
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CityBristol, Bristol
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Site age30 yrs old
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Traded asLSE,:,WPP,FTSE 100 Component
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Founded1971,1985
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FoundersMartin Sorrell,Preston Rabl,(as an advertising company)
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HeadquartersLondon,, England, UK
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Key peopleRoberto Quarta,(chairperson),Mark Read (CEO)
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Number of employees100,000 (2022)
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SubsidiariesAKQA,BCW,CMI Media Group,Essence Global,Grey,Hill+Knowlton Strategies,Mindshare,Ogilvy,Wavemaker,UWG Inc.,Wunderman Thompson,VMLY&R
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Position at GroupM Nexus...
GROUPM
ASSOCIATE, SEO
At GroupM, we believe that work is a part of life, not the other way around. To support that belief, we have recently adopted a "collaboration-led" hybrid approach to work in order to provide employees with the flexibility to do the best work of their lives no matter where they are working. This means that for roles where it makes sense, you'll spend some of your time in our incredible workspaces (when it's safe to do so) and some of your time remote. Check out this updated list of where we can hire:
• California - LA or SF
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• North Carolina - Raleigh/Durham
• Texas - Austin or Dallas/Fort Worth
• Utah - Salt Lake City
Overview:
We are seeking an Associate to join our SEO team and support the overall execution of a client's organic search campaigns. In this entry level role, you will learn about the fundamentals of SEO to help a team of copywriters and developers create an optimized content calendar, produce , data-driven content for our clients and maintain / optimize their site's health and organic performance.
Your Impact:
• Understand the client's products, competition, industry landscape, marketing goals and objectives
• Review and analyze competitor sites and understand their organic search approach
• Learn how to create a campaign strategy and deliverable plans including keyword strategies, on-page optimization, content recommendations and full-site technical audits for optimal on-site performance.
• Write copy following SEO best practices and overall client strategy
• Work closely with other internal departments to develop fully integrated search campaigns
• Attend client and agency meetings to present deliverables, campaign strategies, and tactics
• Support SEO team in data acquisition or campaign insights for quarterly or annual business reviews
• Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and discusses potential impact with team on client work
Your Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Marketing, Business Administration, or Communications; OR equivalent professional work experience
• Strong background in writing, journalism, and/or content-creation
• Interest in data analytics and numbers-driven strategy a plus
• Basic knowledge of HTML, Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools a plus
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Excellent verbal and written skills; exceptional organizational skills, multi-tasking capabilities, and attention to detail
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
About GroupM:
GroupM is the world's leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis. GroupM's portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment, and Services, all united in vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.
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GroupM and all its affiliates embrace and celebrate diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide media agency network that represents global clients. The more inclusive we are, the more great work we can create together
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The base salary for this position at the time of this posting is $45,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, please visit https://www.wpp.com/people/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.
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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.
We are building a new team to support our global People Platforms, both current and those scheduled for future deployment. This role will report to People Technology Product Manager the purpose of this role is to provide technical support across our People Platforms such as BeeLine, Totara and Payroll Platform and is key to the operational running of these applications. This role will resolve tickets and deliver new enhancements following ITIL processes such Incident, Request, Change and Release and will also be the escalation point for P1 tickets.
The position will also provide technical leadership in multiple go-live readiness activities on future releases. The role will also participate in integration builds and ongoing maintenance, access management and security, user permissions policies and governance and data. It is key that relationships are built both with IT colleagues and OpCos to ensure effective platform support and alignment to WPPs transformation vision and journey.
This is an exciting and varied role in a dynamic organisation where you will work with the wider WPPIT and Global People Teams to provide a world class level of platform support and development on a day-to-day basis. You will also work with the WPP Implementation Team and People Teams to understand, improve and deliver an efficient and effective solution.
What you'll be doing:
• Capture requirements from our stakeholders and work with our vendors or internal teams to turn these into deliverables with plans and funding
• Maintain technical process documentation, error handling and L1 triage guidance to our ServiceDesk
• Deliver supplementary training sessions as required
• Provide high intensity support immediately after deployments
• Recognized as technical SME across our suite of People Platforms
• Manage enhancement requests from the business on their feasibility, priority and cost.
• Communicate effectively on all release notes and understand how these will impact WPP instance.
• Manage enhancements from concept to delivery – on time, on budget and exceeding customer expectations
• Streamline user journeys and provide consistent, highly impactful end-user experience
• Develop requirement specifications obtaining input from the user base, deliver mid-build demonstrations as required to obtain feedback and sign off
• Safeguard global design standards and principles against competing requests for change
• Provide input and support to the Global Product Owners within the People Team
Who you'll be working with:
The People Technology Platform Consultant will report to the HRIS Manager, and will have primary responsibilities to support Beeline Totara.
What you'll need:
• Global people platforms technical support experience in a complex organization
• Understanding of HR processes and systems
• Experience designing and implementing new integrations or enhancing existing
• Develop trusted relationships with key stakeholders within IT and across the wider WPP business OpCos, investing time to understand their needs, and helping to breakdown any silos or resistance to deliver desired business outcomes.
• Prepare solution and process documentation
• Creative solutioning and strong problem-solving skills including but not exhaustive to Integrations, Data Validation, and Process streamline activities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both with technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong working understanding of ITIL Processes, Incident, Request, Change and Release.
• Good understanding of Service Transition methodologies
• Ability to take ownership and lead things successfully through to a conclusion
• Prior experience with Totara LMS, Beeline and global payroll platforms preferred but not essential, internal training available
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?
If this role hasn’t captured your interest, that’s ok! Would you consider sharing your opinion?
At WPP, we’re always trying to improve our hiring process, so your feedback is appreciated. Don’t worry, all responses will not influence any future applications that you may make.
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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 build the transformation platform that will power the next evolution of WPP. WPP is on a journey to clarify and simplify the operating model between our brands and WPP, modernise and create tech-enabled colleague experiences, and create an open, integrated technology innovation platform across WPP.
Along that journey, we will ensure WPP IT is a destination for tech talent, modernise our 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.
As we continue on this journey, we have identified the need for a pivotal new role as Workday HCM Solution Architect. We are reimaging and scaling our Portfolio and programme capabilities. This role will be responsible for developing adoption strategies, business concepts and technical capabilities that maximise the value of HCM solutions supporting the people function agenda.
Producing high-level and low-level HR infrastructure architectures and designs & work with project & programme managers to turn programme objectives into real deliverables with Workday HCM efficiency & automation in mind.
What you'll be doing:
• Ability to create conceptual and logistical HCM functional solutions supporting wider People Technology Strategy to meet strategic people function objectives with integrated landscape and experience with Workday at the core.
• Responsible for creating, delivering and maintaining the Workday HCM end-to-end solution.
• Provide comprehensive architectural support to project managers and SMEs to ensure Workday HCM solutions are functionally and technically viable, scalable, and harmonised with a global solution where applicable.
• Find the right HCM solution adopting best practices considering innovation, technical feasibility, long-term sustainability, agile delivery and cost-effective operationally.
• Approve and govern Workday HCM solution considering the impact on other functional, technical, data solutions, including the impact on downstream integrations to other internal & external/3rd party applications.
• Able to explain and lead the solution discussions with options, debate on brainstorming sessions with market clients, People operations, and process owners in a non-technical language.
• Lead / Participate in the HCM product governance meetings to evaluate solution recommendations functionally and technically.
• Work with SI partners / Vendors and Product owners for Workday and other HR products in the landscape for the best end-to-end integrated solution enriching people experience.
• Define, maintain and own the Workday HCM architecture artefacts and build guardrails for functional and technical solutions guidelines in a clear and concise manner.
• Support project manager(s) in defining project tasks, timeline, level of effort and priority
Who you'll be working with:
The Workday HCM Solution Architect will report to the Workday HCM Programme Lead.
What you'll need:
• Experience in multiple Workday HCM functional modules and previously part of projects as a functional or workstream lead.
• Being previously Workday certified or part of the Workday HCM solution building for Workday customers or consulting.
• Previous experience being part of complex, multi-country Workday HCM solution deployment.
• Strong Consulting skills, demonstrable presentation and client/business-facing skills.
• Able to manage global stakeholders, manages governance, can prioritise solutions effectively.
• The ability to drive the design across HCM, leading analysts/consultants and businesses to make the hard decisions.
• Good Knowledge of understanding HR processes, benefits of the global solution and statutory localisation to find solutions to global business requirements.
• A strong can-do attitude and willingness to share knowledge with the team and learn from their peers (on-shore and Off-shore).
• Experience and proven capability of full Workday project lifecycle and Workday optimisation projects
• Ability to pick up knowledge of the business, new technology areas, and new processes/methodologies and apply these changes in the day-to-day working of the Technology organisation.
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?
If this role hasn’t captured your interest, that’s ok! Would you consider sharing your opinion?
At WPP, we’re always trying to improve our hiring process, so your feedback is appreciated. Don’t worry, all responses will not influence any future applications that you may make.
https://forms.office.com/r/JdFf70VQdP Show more details...