DTO Product Director at Omguk

Role Overview The Technical Delivery Manager is accountable for end‑to‑end delivery control of the Volkswagen Group (VWG) technical re-platforming programme. This role ensures complex, multi‑stream platform change is delivered predictably, safely, and with minimal risk to live reporting, operational SLAs, and senior client confidence. Operating at the centre of architecture, engineering, vendors, and VWG stakeholders, the role translates technical strategy into executable delivery plans and maintains tight control over dependencies, risk, sequencing, and release during a high‑risk platform transition. Why This Role Matters The VWG replatforming programme is a high‑value, high‑risk transformation directly linked to client retention, delivery stability, and future commercial growth. Failure or uncontrolled change would have disproportionate commercial and reputational impact. This role exists to: • De‑risk the replatforming while protecting live reporting and business‑critical outputs • Provide a single point of delivery accountability across a complex technical ecosystem • Enable engineering and architecture teams to focus on execution by absorbing delivery overhead • Maintain transparency, control, and trust with senior VWG stakeholders throughout the transition Key Responsibilities End‑to‑End Delivery Ownership • Own delivery orchestration for the VWG replatforming across architecture, engineering, vendors, and internal DTO teams • Maintain a consolidated view of delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and capacity constraints • Translate platform strategy and architectural direction into sequenced, executable delivery plans Replatforming Control & Risk Management • Actively manage delivery risk during platform migration, including data pipelines, transformation layers, and reporting outputs • Protect live environments, SLAs, and client reporting while transition activity is underway • Own RAID management and ensure early identification, mitigation, and escalation of delivery risks Cross‑Functional Technical Coordination • Serve as the primary interface between technical architecture, engineering teams, vendors, and client‑facing stakeholders • Coordinate dependencies across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, QA, and reporting workstreams • Ensure requirements are technically feasible, clearly scoped, and aligned to target‑state architecture Planning, Governance & Ways of Working • Establish and enforce delivery governance, cadence, and control mechanisms appropriate for a high‑risk replatforming • Ensure delivery remains predictable, transparent, and well‑governed under pressure • Maintain delivery artefacts including plans, dependency maps, RAID logs, and executive‑level status views Stakeholder & Client Management • Act as a senior, client‑visible delivery lead for VWG during the replatforming programme • Provide clear, honest, and proactive communication on delivery status, risks, and trade‑offs • Build and maintain confidence with senior VWG stakeholders through disciplined delivery control What We’re Looking For • Senior Delivery Manager / Technical Programme Manager with experience in large‑scale data platform replatforming or cloud migrations • Strong understanding of modern data platforms and analytics stacks (cloud data warehouses, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, BI) • Proven ability to operate in complex, multi‑vendor, multi‑stream technical environments • Comfortable working in high‑pressure, senior‑stakeholder, client‑visible roles • Pragmatic, structured, and outcome‑focused approach to delivery and risk management Reporting Line • Reports into the DTO leadership team • Works in close partnership with Architecture, Engineering, Product, Governance, and Enablement leads About the Agency: Omnicom Media Group Europe (OMG EMEA) is the media division of Omnicom Group Inc., headquartered in London. We deliver transformational experiences for consumers, clients, and talent. Powered by the Omni marketing orchestration system, OMG connects best-in-class capabilities that enable our full-service media agencies OMD, PHD, and Hearts & Science to deliver more relevant and actionable consumer experiences, more productive and proactive client experiences, and more collaborative and rewarding talent experiences for the more than 24,000 people serving the world’s leading brands in OMG agencies around the globe. Flexible Working At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. 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