Director of Employee Listening & Insights

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• Lead the evolution of WPP’s global employee listening strategy, developing a clear roadmap for implementation from 2027 onwards.
• Build and embed a scalable, insight-led listening ecosystem that strengthens employee voice, drives visible action and sustains trust through transformation.
• Review and optimise WPP’s employee listening technology landscape, leveraging technology, analytics and automation to deliver more timely and actionable insights.
• Lead and continuously enhance WPP’s global listening framework, including engagement surveys, pulse surveys, lifecycle surveys, exit feedback and employee advisory forums.
• Deliver monthly pulse surveys and transformation sentiment tracking across major geographies, providing leaders with timely visibility of employee sentiment and experience.
• Ensure listening activities are closely aligned to business priorities, transformation milestones and employee experience objectives.
• Lead survey governance, stakeholder engagement, vendor relationships and communications, ensuring a consistent and effective global approach.
• Monitor participation, engagement and feedback quality, identifying opportunities to strengthen employee voice and increase the impact of listening.
• Partner with the broader People Experience team to identify key employee experience pain points and prioritise areas for improvement.
• Partner closely with People Analytics, GBS and Technology teams to create a more connected, automated listening ecosystem and a single source of truth for workforce insights.

Employee Insights & Action

• Define and embed WPP’s employee insights strategy, establishing clear governance, reporting and action-planning frameworks.
• Translate employee feedback and listening data into clear, actionable insights that strengthen the connection between employee voice, leadership decisions and employee experience outcomes.
• Analyse data to identify emerging trends, organisational risks, opportunities and areas requiring intervention.
• Provide executive-ready insights and recommendations for People Leadership, EMT reviews and transformation governance forums.
• Develop and maintain dashboards that provide real-time visibility of employee sentiment, engagement and experience trends.
• Track key indicators including engagement, transformation sentiment, change readiness, retention risks and wellbeing.
• Identify leading indicators and early warning signals, enabling leaders to take proactive action.
• Partner with HR and business leaders to translate insights into measurable actions and track their impact over time.
• Build a data-driven culture where employee sentiment and experience are embedded into decision-making at all levels.
• Lead the development of WPP’s “You Said, We Did” communications, demonstrating how employee feedback is influencing decisions and driving tangible change.

• Significant experience in a senior HR, Employee Experience, People Insights or Employee Listening role, with a strong track record of delivering listening programmes at scale.
• Proven experience shaping and activating employee listening and insights strategies, translating feedback into meaningful organisational change and action.
• Strong partnership skills, with experience working across People Analytics, HR, GBS, Communications and Technology to deliver an integrated listening and insights approach.
• A highly data-driven and insight-led mindset, with the ability to turn complex employee data into clear recommendations, executive-level insights and measurable improvements to the employee experience.
• Experience working within large, complex, global and federated organisations, balancing global consistency with local and regional needs.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the credibility to engage senior leaders and drive action through compelling data and insights.
• A strong understanding of how technology, analytics and automation can enhance employee listening, provide more timely insights and strengthen organisational decision-making.

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