Optimisation Manager Contract

Who We Are

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets.

WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience. We are looking for a Optimisation Manager contractor to join us at the start of August for a 3 month contract.

You will execute and run daily, high-velocity site optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives. Reporting directly to the Optimisation Lead , you will be the driving force behind the day-to-day execution of our Rapid Iteration Optimisation (RIO) framework. You will sit at the intersection of data, technology, and execution—translating tactical roadmaps into live, performance-enhancing site updates.

Working hand-in-hand with the Paid Media, CX, and Development teams, you will turn real-time trading insights into immediate, measurable business growth for our global clients. What You’ll Be Doing Execution of Site Optimisation RIO Roadmap Daily Campaign Management: Own the hands-on execution and QA of the weekly site optimisation roadmap, ensuring rapid deployment and zero-defect delivery of experiments and content updates. A/B Testing Personalisation: Build, launch, and monitor A/B tests, multivariate tests, and personalisation campaigns designed to immediately boost real-time trading performance and conversion rates (CRO).

Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate daily with copywriters, designers, developers, and the Paid Media team to coordinate asset production and ensure rapid execution of updates. Performance Analysis Reporting Real-Time Monitoring: Keep a finger on the pulse of live campaign performance, monitoring real-time analytics suites to identify sudden performance drops, bugs, or immediate conversion opportunities. Insights Translation: Synthesize complex data from test results into actionable recommendations.

Help the Optimisation Lead compile weekly performance reports demonstrating trading uplift and ROI. Audience Segmentation: Utilise Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and web analytics tools to build, manage, and optimize dynamic audience segments for targeted messaging. Technology Platform Operations Platform Operations: Act as the super-user and administrator for our stack of site optimization, analytics, and content management platforms.

Data Quality Tagging: Ensure tracking codes, analytics tags, and event-tracking parameters are correctly implemented on all optimized pages to safeguard data integrity. What We Want From You We are looking for an execution-focused digital specialist who is highly organized, agile, and obsessed with conversion rate optimization (CRO) and real-time performance. , Optimizely, VWO, Adobe Target, Siteimprove, or similar meta-optimisation tools).

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