Regional Implementation Manager, APAC

About WPP Media 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. 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. For more information, visit wppmedia.com . Role Summary and Impact The Regional Implementation Manager APAC is responsible for driving the hands-on, day-to-day execution of the Media Central platform rollout across APAC markets. This role ensures that each market follows a clear, repeatable implementation process and that every phase—business analysis, QA, data migration, cutover, and readiness—progresses smoothly, accurately, and on schedule. Your purpose is to make the rollout work in practice. You help markets understand what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how to do it. You coordinate activities across multiple teams, gather updates, resolve blockers, validate deliverables, and ensure no critical task is missed. You provide the operational discipline and momentum needed to get the programme off the ground quickly and consistently. You act as the operational bridge between local market teams and the global programme. This means translating guidance into clear actions, following up relentlessly, coordinating with vendor and product teams to resolve issues, and ensuring that market-specific nuances are managed without disrupting the global model. Your work is critical to building implementation scalability. Each successful deployment relies on your ability to drive consistency, reuse learnings, improve the process incrementally, and maintain a structured rhythm across dozens of markets with different levels of readiness. You ensure that regional implementations move forward with minimal rework, minimal confusion, and maximum operational clarity. Ultimately, success in this role means: markets execute reliably against the plan, deliverables are complete and accurate before moving to the next phase, issues are surfaced early and resolved quickly, stakeholders remain aligned and informed, and the programme keeps momentum across all APAC markets. This is a role for someone who brings structure, follow-through, coordination, and hands-on ownership to every stage of the implementation lifecycle—not a strategist, but a doer who ensures that the programme delivers real progress every week. Skills and Experience 1. Implementation Delivery & Day-to-Day Execution Coordinate and support market deployments of the Media Central platform across APAC. Guide markets through Business Analysis, QA, Cutover, and Data Migration steps, ensuring they understand what to deliver and when. Track daily progress across markets and escalate blockers quickly. Ensure all tasks follow the global deployment process and templates. 2. Operational Readiness & Quality Assurance Review market inputs for completeness and correctness before passing to global teams. Support QA execution by validating test outcomes and coordinating defect resolution. Verify readiness before cutover activities and confirm that all required steps are completed. 3. Technical & Platform Support Coordination Work with vendor teams to resolve technical issues, clarify requirements, and maintain alignment with the global delivery schedule. Assist with configuration and functional validation of workflows, especially involving Dynamics 365 Business Central. Provide practical input to the Product Team based on real market needs and operational observations. 4. Market Coordination & Communication Serve as the day-to-day point of contact for market implementation teams. Prepare and…