Program Lead / Senior Project Manager - WildBrain CPLG Digital Transformation (12-18 month Fixed Term Contract)

Company Description

Location: London, UK

Hybrid work: Employees work in a hybrid model balancing collaboration in our office and remote work.

Overview

WildBrain CPLG is a world-leading entertainment, sport and brand licensing agency with 20 offices worldwide. Since 1972 we have been providing our partners with dedicated licensing and marketing professionals and fully integrated retail, creative & product development, legal and accounting services.

We are looking to add to our talented team of innovators that can help us manage some of the most profitable and enduring brands in the world! We believe that our partnerships are about clarity, openness, and trust, and we are widely known for our straightforward approach.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Program Lead / Senior Project Manager to provide overall leadership, governance and delivery accountability for the WildBrain CPLG Digital Transformation program. This is a delivery-led role responsible for ensuring the program achieves its intended business outcomes, value realization and strategic alignment.

The role sits at the intersection of business transformation, technology delivery and stakeholder management . The successful candidate will combine strong program governance, financial and risk control, and hands-on delivery leadership across multiple interdependent workstreams , coordinating internal teams and external delivery partners.

This role acts as the primary executive escalation point for the program and the key connection point to the Director, Digital Transformation , who leads parallel corporate workstreams.

Job Description

Program Leadership & Governance

• Provide overall leadership, direction and governance for the WildBrain Digital Transformation program
• Own and manage the end-to-end program plan , ensuring alignment to enterprise strategy and WildBrain CPLG business priorities
• Establish and operate effective program governance structures , including SteerCo, decision forums, escalation paths and reporting cadence
• Act as the single point of accountability for program outcomes, delivery confidence and value realization

Delivery Oversight & Value Realization

• Oversee scope, timelines, funding and dependencies across all program workstreams
• Ensure benefits, KPIs and value realization metrics are clearly defined, tracked and reported
• Maintain a delivery-focused mindset, ensuring initiatives translate into tangible business outcomes
• Drive prioritization decisions where trade-offs are required across scope, cost and time

Stakeholder & Executive Management

• Act as the executive escalation point for risks, issues and decisions impacting program delivery
• Ensure strong alignment between business leaders, technology teams and external partners
• Provide clear, concise and timely updates to senior stakeholders
• Serve as the key liaison to the Director, Digital Transformation, ensuring alignment with wider corporate digital programs

Risk, Financial & Dependency Management

• Own program-level risk and issue management, ensuring proactive mitigation and escalation
• Manage program budgets, forecasts and funding approvals in partnership with Finance
• Oversee interdependencies across internal teams, vendors and parallel transformation initiatives
• Ensure changes are assessed for downstream impacts across systems, processes and operating models

Resource & Partner Coordination

• Coordinate and direct internal project resources across all workstreams
• Oversee and manage external delivery partners and vendors
• Set expectations, ways of working and delivery standards across all contributors

Change Management

• Lead change management planning & execution throughout the program
• Communication planning & comms channel management
• Training planning & delivery

Qualifications

Essential

• Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-workstream digital transformation programs
• Strong background in program governance, delivery management and executive stakeholder engagement
• Demonstrated accountability for program outcomes, budgets and value realization
• Excellent ability to manage complex interdependencies across business and technology teams

Desirable

• Experience delivering transformation programs within media, licensing or complex operational environments
• Familiarity with CRM, data, ERP or workflow system transformations
• Experience managing multiple vendors and delivery partners

Personal Attributes

• Senior, credible and calm under pressure
• Highly structured with strong judgement and decision-making capability
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity while maintaining delivery momentum
• Results-oriented and focused on business value
• Strong communicator in person and in writing

Additional Information

What We Offer

Working at WildBrain is more than a job - it's the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary, insightful, and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive benefits, and we invest in our people and their future.

Our Commitment Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are in our DNA. As a global leader in kids and family entertainment, we strive to reflect and honour the diversity of our audiences around the world. We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain. To us, a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees, stakeholders, and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and brings their authentic self to work.

We demonstrate our commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all employees. We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we've listed here, we encourage you to please still consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key! WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required.

About WildBrain CPLG

WildBrain CPLG is a trusted licensing partner for leading brands worldwide, offering 50 years of expertise building consumer products and location-based entertainment programmes across the entertainment, sport, corporate and lifestyle sectors. With over 20 offices serving the UK, Europe, India, the Middle East, China, Asia Pacific and the US, WildBrain CPLG combines the strength of global reach with expertise in local markets to achieve the best results for partners. Our passionate teams consistently challenge themselves to explore new and innovative ideas and opportunities in partnerships, activations, creative and business processes to celebrate and build brands. At WildBrain CPLG, we believe that collaboration is about clarity, openness and trust, and we are widely known for our no-nonsense, straightforward approach. WildBrain CPLG is part of WildBrain Ltd., a global leader in kids' and family entertainment. Please contact us or visit the WildBrain CPLG website for more information:

About WildBrain

At WildBrain, we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences. Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake, Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Inspector Gadget and Degrassi, we are a global leader in franchise management-bringing stories to life through content production, audience reach and consumer products. Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV, Netflix and the BBC, producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, Teletubbies (2015), Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge. The WildBrain Network, offering more than 1,000 channels across YouTube, FAST and AVOD, delivers premium-quality content to today's kids and families wherever they're watching-connecting advertisers to audiences at scale through brand-safe media solutions. WildBrain CPLG, our global licensing and consumer products arm, represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto, WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at wildbrain.com.

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