• Process and validate mobile device requests in line with corporate policies and eligibility criteria.
• Coordinate device ordering, shipping, and activation with Telco partners and suppliers.
• Ensure new devices are registered in Apple Business Manager or Android Zero Touch before deployment.
• Support SIM provisioning, number assignment and phone line activation.
• Manage mobile contracts, upgrades, replacements, and deactivations.
• Liaise with carriers (e.g. Vodafone) for escalations, billing queries and network issues.
• Identify, respond and challenge high/exceptional usage as appropriate
• Work with partners and local Tech Ops colleagues to maintain an accurate inventory of mobile devices, ownership, and lifecycle status using asset management systems.
• Track lost, stolen, or non compliant devices, ensuring appropriate actions (lock, wipe, retire) wherever possible.
• Ensure compliance with security, BYOD, data privacy, and corporate usage policies.
• Produce regular reporting on device usage, compliance, lifecycle, and cost centres.
• Facilitate support for mobile related issues (enrolment failures, app issues, policy blocks, connectivity), supporting local Tech Ops teams to resolve issues or secure support from other partners & colleagues.
• Escalate to vendors, internal engineering, or security teams where required.
• Responsible for regional mobile spend reporting, preparing management reporting updates, and working with Tech Ops management teams to drive efficiencies in spend across the region.
• Support the development and refinement of mobile device policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Contribute to harmonising regional/global mobile processes, consolidating multiple tenants, policies, or tools.
• Identify opportunities to improve provisioning workflows, automation, and user experience.
• Understand and support the enrolment of corporate apps into WPP’s Mobile Applications Management (MAM) platforms
• Support initiatives to deliver Mobile Device Management (MDM) across the organisation