Global Head of Team Effectiveness

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. About WPP WPP is the creative transformation company. Through One WPP and the Elevate28 transformation agenda, we are building a simpler, more integrated, agile and AI-powered enterprise. WPP’s Performance & Culture Center of Excellence brings together the capabilities that help our people, teams and organisation perform, grow and thrive. Within it, Enterprise Effectiveness aligns WPP’s organisation, workforce and teams around its strategic priorities and enables the change required to deliver them. About the Role The Global Head of Team Effectiveness will shape how WPP’s most critical leadership, client and transformation teams work together to deliver growth, creativity and enterprise change. This is an opportunity to build team effectiveness as a global enterprise capability and influence the teams on which WPP’s future performance depends. Treating the team as the primary agent of change, you will partner with senior business, client and People & Culture leaders to diagnose the conditions limiting collective performance, design focused interventions and strengthen how teams align, decide, collaborate and deliver. The remit goes beyond traditional team building. You will create and scale the conditions for teams to adapt at pace, learn continuously, mobilise diverse capabilities and sustain performance as priorities change. Why This Role Matters One WPP will not be delivered through structures and processes alone. It will become real through the teams that lead the enterprise, serve our clients and deliver transformation across organisational boundaries. In this role, you will help those teams align around shared outcomes, combine WPP’s capabilities and turn enterprise ambition into stronger collective performance. The work has direct relevance to growth, creativity, client impact and the future of work at WPP. What You’ll Do Strengthen team alignment and collective performance Translate enterprise and business strategy into shared outcomes, clear priorities and collective commitments for priority leadership, client and transformation teams. Clarify team purpose, mandates, roles, interdependencies and shared accountabilities. Improve decision effectiveness through clear decision rights, constructive challenge, timely escalation and disciplined follow-through. Strengthen cross-boundary collaboration, leadership cohesion and the operating rhythms required to sustain performance. Build a future-ready team effectiveness capability Define and lead WPP’s enterprise approach to team effectiveness as a core enabler of One WPP and Elevate28. Identify the mission-critical teams where stronger collective performance will have the greatest impact on growth, creativity, integration and transformation. Create a simple, evidence-led approach with tailored support for leadership, client and transformation teams. Build teams that can anticipate change, learn in the flow of work, integrate diverse expert