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We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. \n\nFor more information, visit WPP.com.\n\nWhy we're hiring:\nWe are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Global Data Steward to join our team in Chennai, India, supporting WPP Media’s global Master Data Management (MDM) initiative.\nThis role plays a critical part in maintaining the integrity of WPP Media’s Golden Master Data assets across domains such as Clients, Media, Suppliers, and other core business entities. The role works hands-on with AI-assisted mastering and mapping in our internally developed MDM platform, Matrix.\nThe role requires strong ownership, sound judgement, and an attitude focused on getting it right - not just getting it approved. The Global Data Steward is expected to actively drive data quality outcomes, challenge poor inputs or AI recommendations, and ensure that master data decisions are correct, intentional, and fit for long-term enterprise use.\nAs a Global Data Steward, you will work cross-region with markets, finance teams, and global stakeholders. A structured, proactive, and assertive (“pushy when needed”) approach is essential to ensure mappings are completed, standards are met, and nothing critical stalls.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nReview, validate, and approve AI-generated mapping recommendations using WPP Media’s internal Matrix MDM tool.\nApply strong judgement to ensure AI recommendations:\nCorrectly represent real-world business entities.\nDo not introduce duplication, fragmentation, or incorrect hierarchies.\nFollow agreed global standards, naming conventions, and data models.\nAssess and approve new master data additions to the Golden List across multiple domains (e.g. Client, Media, Supplier).\nActively drive and push local, market, and finance teams to:\nComplete required mappings.\nResolve unclear or missing information.\nCorrect poor-quality or inconsistent submissions.\nChallenge, reject, or return mappings and requests where data is incomplete, incorrect, or poorly justified.\nTake ownership of end-to-end stewardship flow, ensuring items do not stall in queues or wait indefinitely for market action.\nProvide structured feedback into Matrix to improve AI-assisted mastering and stewardship efficiency over time.\nServe as a guardian of data quality, consistency, and enterprise usability of master data.\nCollaborate closely with Local Data Stewards, Finance, Product, and Platform teams to ensure alignment on standards and expectations.\nEnforce and uphold data governance principles, approval workflows, and escalation paths.\nEscalate complex, disputed, or model-level issues to the appropriate governance forum when required.\nEnsure all stewardship decisions are clearly documented, auditable, and transparent.\nWhat you'll need:\nExperience in Master Data Management, data stewardship, data governance, or data quality roles, ideally in a global or multi-market organization.\nStrong understanding of master data concepts including golden records, canonical entities, hierarchies, and deduplication.\nExperience working with MDM tools and approval workflows (experience with internally built tools is an advantage).\nComfortable reviewing and challenging AI-assisted or rule-based mappings (no ML development required).\nHighly structured, organized, and comfortable pushing stakeholders to meet data quality and completion standards.\nStrong attention to detail combined with the ability to think long-term and cross-domain.\nConfident in saying “no”, “not yet”, or “this needs fixing” when quality is at risk.\nClear communicator, able to interact effectively with business, finance, and technical teams.\nExperience operating within formal governance and decision-authority models is a strong advantage.\nAdditional Competencies We Strongly Recommend for This Role\nData Governance & Control\nUnderstanding of stewardship layers (local vs global), decision authority, and escalation models.\nAppreciation for auditability, traceability, and consistency over speed.\nStakeholder & Execution Drive\nComfortable chasing, reminding, and escalating when markets or teams do not complete required mappings.\nAble to balance collaboration with firmness to keep the master data agenda moving.\nCross-Domain Stewardship\nAbility to apply the same quality bar across multiple master data domains, not just one.\nOperational Ownership Mindset\nSees stewardship as active ownership, not a review inbox.\nProactively prevents backlogs, rework, and downstream impact.\nWho you are:\nYou're open: we are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.\nYou're optimistic: we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.\nYou're extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.\nWhat we'll give you:\nPassionate, inspired people - we champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work\nScale and opportunity - we offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.\nChallenging and stimulating work - unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers.\nWe believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.\nWPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. 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