Senior Director, Solutions Deployment and Partner Strategy

3455 - Senior Director, Solutions Deployment and Partner Strategy - Global

Role Summary and Impact

The Senior Director of Solutions Deployment & Partner Strategy role is a critical role responsible for orchestrating the go-to-market deployment of WPP Media Solutions' advanced capabilities while serving as the single point of contact between Media Solutions and both the Global Investment and wider WPP Investment partnerships teams. This role requires deep expertise in partner strategy, ensuring all partnership requests are streamlined and strategically aligned before escalation to these wider teams. The role holder will conduct partner assessments, create operational frameworks for solution deployment, and collaborate closely with the Head of Commercial Strategy on commercialization and opportunity sizing. Working hand-in-hand with the emerging innovation team and solutions leads, this position drives go-to-market positioning and enablement while governing our wider partnership strategy requirements to ensure proprietary advantage and solution scalability in lock step with the wider WPP Media stakeholders. The role will furthermore support the product team and support custom feature requests that are being developed in partnership with key third-party platforms and media partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Global Investment & Central Partnerships Liaison: Act as the single point of contact for Global Investment and Central Partnerships teams, consolidating and prioritising all partner requests from Media Solutions Leaders & Markets before escalation, while working closely with Investment to leverage trading relationships and ensure our solutions strategy aligns with global investment strategy and partner negotiations
• Partner assessment & Framework Development: Conduct comprehensive supply assessments for solution deployment, creating operational frameworks and commercial structures that enable market readiness, while governing the curated supply marketplace and evaluating investment-led initiatives to ensure supply requirements support solution scalability.
• Solutions Go-to-Market Partnership: Partner directly with emerging innovation teams and solutions leads to support go-to-market strategies and positioning, ensuring partner capabilities are effectively integrated into solution narratives while facilitating successful deployment across markets through coordinated stakeholder engagement
• Facilitate workshops with local Media Solutions leads in market to align on high-value (existing and new) opportunities and immediate/mid/long term revenue streams/strategies.
• Strategic Partnership Orchestration: Develop and execute Media Solutions' partnership strategy, managing relationships with key strategic partners to unlock proprietary capabilities, while ensuring streamlined communication and preventing fragmentation of partnership asks across technical, commercial, and solutions teams
• Commercial Enablement, Market Expansion & Opportunity Sizing: Collaborate with the Head of Commercial Strategy on solution commercialization, supporting opportunity sizing initiatives while ensuring partnership agreements and partner frameworks enable the commercial models required for market expansion and three-year plan delivery. This role will ensure that our partnership strategy enables solution growth in new markets working with the head of Commercial Strategy to drive incremental growth through market expansion.
• Leverage and scale growth frameworks to increase momentum on client switcher opportunities leading to increased solution penetration, including win-rate improvement and % increase in solution adoption.
• Support Custom Product Development Efforts: Partner with Development and Configuration and Product Governance Teams to support custom feature requests that are being developed in collaboration with 3rd party platform partners such as DSPs and SSPs.
• Support product workstreams as part of your strategic partner management initiatives including regular Media Solutions QBRs for all key partners.
• People and Community: Build a community of practice where successful tactics and innovations from one market or region are rapidly codified and deployed to others.
• Work with Global DTS enablement team to craft/design and roll out market leading training programs, including the Growth Framework.

Life at WPP Media & Benefits 

Our passion for shaping the next era of media is powered by our commitment to Be Extraordinary, investing in our employees to inspire transformational creativity. We also Lead Optimistically, firmly believing in and Championing Growth and Development for every individual. This commitment allows WPP Media employees to leverage the extensive global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, build vital professional connections, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising.  

We Create an Open environment built on trust and respect, where everyone feels they belong and has opportunities to progress. This inclusive culture is fostered through a variety of employee resource groups and frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our comprehensive benefits package reflects this commitment, including 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 believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection in this open and supportive environment. That's why we’ve 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. Please note that while our philosophy is the same across WPP, benefits may vary by office/country. 

Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location 

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