Senior Technical Project Manager

Who We AreVML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning human-first work for clients including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. In 2026, VML was named Campaign’s Global Network of the Year and ranked #2 Creative Network of the Year at Cannes Lions.

VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore. VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.

For more information, please visit and follow along on  Linked In #WeAreVML.Senior Project Manager experienced managing technical teams and releases across complex client environments required to join our Team!

The opportunity

You'll encourage strong relationships with your team and have the ability to talk, at a technical level, with developers and senior technical team members (e.g., technical architects, solution architects etc). You will follow best practices in development standards and coding reviews through having a good understanding of branching strategies, development standards and coding reviews through having a good understanding of branching strategies, development principals and CI/CD.

What you’ll be doing

Release and technical reporting regarding project/account technical deliverables, architecture and release pipeline

Management of project plans and detailed reporting to ensure efficient tracking of the project RAID log management and escalation for the project

Identify technical risks and issues & provide mitigation options to achieve resolution

Knowledgeably communicate with stakeholders (internal/external) including chairing technical meetings as required

Manage and co-ordinate Internal technical specialists

Lead and inspire the team to achieve individual and team objectives

Ensure the technical team(s) complete what is expected of them successfully and suggest improvements to processes as required.

Define, plan, organise and manage the build of new infrastructure environments

Co-ordinate high quality technical solutions, on time, via effective time management

Help implement and benchmark the introduction of AI into SDLC.Effectively run complex projects using Agile or Waterfall methodologies.

Oversee releases across pre-production and production environments, demonstrating an understanding of dependencies between client systems.

Implement technical governance according to the client’s needs

Build customer confidence by understanding their needs & delivering first class solutions

Set and manage client expectations, addressing issues in a respectful and timely manner and ensuring the organisation maintains a positive image and provides a high-quality service

Manage 3rd party product vendors, environments, and client technical resources

What we want from you Extensive experience in software development Project Management, supply chain and logistics experience ideally within a retail environment.

Understanding of Ecommerce experience is nice to have but this role mainly works on the logistics and supply chain system delivery

Ability to read log files, draw conclusions and direct further technical investigation

Working with Cloud Technology for Back End and React/Node for Front End Understanding of cloud/on premise infrastructureA basic understanding of Terraform - at a level you can engage with technical teams

Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and Legacy AWS applications

Defining, managing and delivering to customer expectations within strict deadlines

Full knowledge of the project lifecycle and experience of various project development methodologies (including Agile, Incremental and Waterfall)
Comfortable with complex technical environments and legacy systems integration

Experience of code management tools…