Job Description

Description

Position at EssenceMediacom

CAPABILITY & LEARNING - GLOBAL

EssenceMediacom is GroupM\'s newest and largest agency, committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands. It has disrupted the old models across media, creative, innovation and analytics to find new opportunities for advertisers and deliver truly integrated media solutions.

Born out of two pioneering agencies, EssenceMediacom fuses Essence\'s performance, data, analytics, and creative technology DNA with MediaCom\'s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise.

As part of WPP, the world\'s largest marketing communications services group, and GroupM, WPP\'s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks, and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges.

Our \'breakthrough\' ambition is underpinned by our commitment to \'continuous learning.\' We aim to ensure our people fulfil their potential by investing in their whole-person wellbeing, careers, and capabilities, which in turn helps grow our clients\' businesses.

EssenceMediacom, with 10,500 people across 120 offices in 96 markets, is one of the world\'s leading communications specialists, with billings of more than US$21 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2021). Its global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Google, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Shell, Sony, and Uber.

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The role:

This role is accountable for the planning, development and successful delivery of the global learning and capability strategy across the agency. This role ensures that we have a firm understanding of our current and future capability and skills needs, and that our learning offer equips our people with the skills, behaviours, and development they need to do their best work.

The person will also be responsible for the leadership of a global team, ensuring that the global strategy reflects the needs of the agency and our clients, and that learning programmes are seamlessly executed and delivered with positive impact.

EssenceMediacom is a place where our people can develop their professional skills, accelerate their careers, and grow as people, and this role is pivotal in bringing that to life.

Accountabilities

Learning & Capability strategy

Development of the learning strategy, including technical skills, behavioural development, and professional development so that all our people have the skills they need to do their best work for our clients.

Learning programmes & culture

Direct and oversee the development of learning programmes, training and initiatives spanning leadership development, people management, technical skills, and behavioural development. Ensure programmes are aligned with the needs of the agency and that a range of learning and delivery methods are used to deliver with positive impact, and at scale. The role also is responsible for looking beyond training programmes at how we create opportunities for our people to learn every day.

People Experience

This role works closely with the Director, People Experience and Head of People Experience to ensure that learning and capability isn\'t viewed in isolation, and that it contributes and shapes the overall experience that we create for our people at every step of their EssenceMediacom career. Collaborating closely across the People team (including global, regional and Group teams) will be critical, and actively searching out opportunities to \'connect the dots\' is a must in this role.

Stakeholder management

Working within a highly matrixed and complex organisation, this role is responsible for creating and maintaining effective relationships with several key stakeholders, including Group colleagues, market CEOs, ExCo members, Regional Chief People Officers, and the wider People team. The role will bring together the best of all the learning available from GroupM, WPP and EssenceMediacom to create a compelling learning offer to our people.

Leadership

Leadership of a global team with a variety of skillsets across several geographies. This role will create and develop a team who have a deep understanding of the business, who can work at pace to develop and deliver learning programmes at scale, and who role model our Culture Principles and a learning mindset.

A bit about your skills:

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity for yourself and your team.
• Deep expertise in learning and development, both operational as well as development of strategy.
• Ability to get to the root cause of an issue or need and develop solutions accordingly.
• Collaborative with an ability to navigate a wide range of needs and wants.
• Budget management expertise.

A bit about your experience:

• Breadth of experience across technical skills development, leadership development, people management development and creation of an organisational learning culture. Expertise in setting up and leading a wide portfolio of learning across a complex organisation.
• Experience working in a global or multi-market role and/or highly matrixed organisation.
• Experience of working in a role which requires a balance between \'here and now\' and \'future\' thinking and delivery.

What You Can Expect From EssenceMediacom

EssenceMediacom\'s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world\'s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today\'s digital marketing landscape. It\'s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an EssenceMediacom employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or marital status.

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