WPP - Chief Learning and Development Officer
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Requirements
• You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working. • You're open: • 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 optimistic: • 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. • You're extraordinary: • What we'll give you: • Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work • Passionate, inspired people • Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry. • Scale and opportunity • Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? • Challenging and stimulating work • The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, go to https://mybenefits.wpp.com/public/welcome for more details. • £240,638—£296,000 GBP • We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. 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.
Responsibilities
• Enterprise sales capability. Design and scale a global commercial academy that lifts the • Enterprise sales capability. • consultative selling, C-suite engagement, negotiation and business-acumen muscle of several • thousand client-facing leaders across the WPP network — with measurable impact on pitch win • rates, organic growth and client tenure. • Leadership development. Own the curriculum that develops WPP's leaders from first-time people • Leadership development. • managers through to agency CEOs, anchored in our six leadership dimensions. Partner with the • CPO on succession, high-potential programmes and executive coaching architecture. • AI fluency at scale. Build the learning strategy that makes AI a core capability for every role — • AI fluency at scale. • from creative teams using generative tools to leaders making capital-allocation decisions about AI • bets. Partner with the Chief AI Officer and agency leaders to make fluency practical, not • Craft, client & sector mastery. Codify and scale the craft expertise — creative, media, production, • Craft, client & sector mastery. • data, technology — and the sector fluency (CPG, retail, financial services, tech, pharma) that • differentiates WPP in the pitch room and the boardroom. • Learning culture & infrastructure. Rebuild the global learning ecosystem: platforms, content • Learning culture & infrastructure. • strategy, coaching practice, measurement, and the governance that connects every programme to • a business outcome. Move WPP from training-as-events to learning-as-a-continuous-capability- • Team & operating model. Lead a global L&D organisation distributed across regions and agency • Team & operating model. • brands. Build a high-performing team, set the operating model, and run the function with the • commercial rigour of a P&L. • We are looking for a senior learning leader with the credibility, scale and commercial instinct to operate as • a genuine peer to the C-suite. The ideal candidate has built enterprise sales and leadership capability at • global scale — most likely inside a multinational tech, professional services, consumer or consulting • business where learning is treated as a strategic lever, not a back-office function. • Enterprise scale. leader. • Enterprise scale. • You have led a learning organisation supporting tens of thousands of employees • across multiple geographies, and you are comfortable operating as a CVP-, SVP- or CLO-level • Commercial capability-building. You have built, measured and scaled consultative selling, client • Commercial capability-building. • engagement and C-suite-readiness programmes that changed seller behaviour and moved • commercial KPIs — win rates, deal size, client retention, organic growth. • AI-native learning leader. You are not just teaching AI; you are using AI to re-engineer learning • AI-native learning leader. • itself — adaptive paths, AI coaching, simulation, measurement. Candidates who bring recent, • tangible experience shipping AI-powered learning at scale will stand out. • Executive gravitas. You earn the trust of CEOs, CROs, CFOs and agency leaders. You can influence • Executive gravitas. • a boardroom conversation about capability investment as credibly as you can design a coaching • conversation for a first-time manager. • Talent magnet & culture builder. You attract exceptional L&D talent and build teams that clients, • Talent magnet & culture builder. • employees and leaders describe as indispensable. You treat psychological safety and high • performance as two sides of the same coin.
Benefits
• Our clients are buying differently. The pitch is no longer a deck — it is a point of view, backed by data, co- • authored with AI, and brought to life by people who can sit in the C-suite and talk about the client's • business, not ours. Across WPP's 30+ agency brands, thousands of client-facing leaders need a sharper, • more consistent commercial playbook: consultative selling, executive presence, sector fluency, and the • confidence to lead transformational conversations with CMOs, CFOs and CEOs. • At the same time, AI is re-shaping every craft we sell. The CLDO will own the strategy that turns AI anxiety • into AI fluency — across creative, media, production, technology and client leadership — and will do so • in partnership with agency CEOs, the COO, the Chief Transformation Officer, and the Chief Technology • Make WPP the best place to build a career in our industry. — Cindy Rose, CEO,
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