Senior Director, Solutions Deployment and Partner Strategy

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About WPP Media</strong></p> <p>WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence, and world-class partnerships – all united by our pioneering agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth. </p> <p>WPP Media is WPP's 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.</p> <p>For more information, visit <a href="wppmedia.com">wppmedia.com</a>.</p></div><p><strong>3455 - Senior Director, Solutions Deployment and Partner Strategy - Global</strong></p> <p><strong>Role Summary and Impact</strong></p> <p>The Senior Director of Solutions Deployment &amp; 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.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Global Investment &amp; Central Partnerships Liaison</strong>: Act as the single point of contact for Global Investment and Central Partnerships teams, consolidating and prioritising all partner requests from Media Solutions Leaders &amp; 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</li> <li><strong>Partner assessment &amp; Framework Development</strong>: 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.</li> <li><strong>Solutions Go-to-Market Partnership</strong>: 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</li> <li>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.</li> <li><strong>Strategic Partnership Orchestration</strong>: 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</li> <li><strong>Commercial Enablement, Market Expansion &amp; Opportunity Sizing</strong>: Collaborate with the

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