EVP, Media Investment 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 : EVP Media Management APAC Location: Singapore Role Summary and Impact The EVP, Media Management will be the senior APAC owner for WPP Media’s investment capability, with accountability for setting the regional investment agenda, strengthening market performance and making Investment a more proactive driver of growth across the region. This role will have primary responsibility for markets across the region, ensuring sharper accountability and stronger connection between global investment direction, APAC market realities, and commercial outcomes. This role will move Investment from a primarily functional or partner-led remit to a growth engine, ensuring one clear voice for Investment in senior discussions. The EVP will lead the capability across markets to drive market-nuanced solutions, stretch-growth ambitions, trading excellence, compliance and governance. Working closely with global investment leadership, APAC market CEOs and CFOs, client leaders, commercial, finance, data, technology, partnerships and media owner teams, the role will set direction, scale what works, build bench strength and return Investment to a more strategic, opportunistic and commercially influential role in the business. Key Responsibilities • Provide Investment leadership and guidance to the senior WPP Media Leadership team, through ongoing education, clear goals, and expectation setting, including clarity around accountability for growth. • Drive market performance, client value and stretch-growth outcomes, driving a culture of growth through our organization • Lead trading excellence, value management, pricing and governance. • Work collaboratively across the organization to ensure that all WPP Media is operating within our governance rules as per the “Investment Policy”, and that risk management strategies are in place where necessary and required. • Act as the single senior Investment voice across regional, market, client and global discussions. • Connect global investment priorities with APAC market realities to ensure regional strategy is practical, market-relevant and commercially effective - maintain a deep understanding of the evolving media landscape, client needs, and competitive dynamics to inform solution development and prioritization. • Build investment capability, succession and bench strength across APAC. • Align media owner and partner opportunities to future market needs. • Partner with APAC market CEOs and CFOs to strengthen investment performance, commercial governance and market accountability. • Partner across Client Solutions, Commercial, Finance, Data, Technology and market leadership to make Investment a proactive growth driver. • Lead Transformative Change: Successfully lead large-scale organizational change initiatives related to media investment, ensuring the achievement of ambitious company goals while fostering an environment of high employee engagement and resilience. • Champion Regional Consistency: Partner seamlessly with other APAC SLT members to ensure the successful, consistent, and high-quality implementation of all strategic initiatives across the