Global Data Steward
HybridChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Summary
Review and validate AI-generated mapping recommendations in WPP Media's internal Matrix MDM tool, ensuring correct representation of business entities without duplication or hierarchy errors. Apply strong judgment to approve new master data additions across Client, Media, and Supplier domains while actively driving local, market, and finance teams to complete mappings and resolve inconsistencies. Challenge poor inputs, reject incomplete submissions, and take ownership of end-to-end stewardship flows to prevent backlogs. Provide structured feedback to improve AI efficiency and enforce data governance principles, escalating complex issues to governance forums as needed. Serve as a guardian of data quality and consistency for global Golden Master Data assets.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in Master Data Management, data stewardship, data governance, or data quality roles, ideally in a global or multi-market organization
- Strong understanding of master data concepts including golden records, canonical entities, hierarchies, and deduplication
- Experience working with MDM tools and approval workflows
- Comfortable reviewing and challenging AI-assisted or rule-based mappings
- Highly structured, organized, and comfortable pushing stakeholders to meet data quality and completion standards
- Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to think long-term and cross-domain
- Confident in saying 'no', 'not yet', or 'this needs fixing' when quality is at risk
- Clear communicator, able to interact effectively with business, finance, and technical teams
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with internally built tools is an advantage
- Experience operating within formal governance and decision-authority models is a strong advantage
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