Job Summary

The postholder owns the licence, utilisation and Viva Insights data that underpins executive reporting, and run the Frontier Lab testing rhythm - scanning newly released AI features and products, prototyping them, and turning findings into monthly product notes and costed recommendations. The role is deliberately positioned between the technical and the business: enough depth to test a claim personally, enough stakeholder exposure to translate a business pain point into a feasible solution rather than a promise.

Responsibilities

- Own the licence and user dataset end to end - sourcing, reconciling, de-duplicating and cleaning large HR, Microsoft 365 and tenant records to support Copilot allocation and rollout waves, keeping it audit-clean.
- Build and run automated Viva Insights pipelines and reporting, replacing manual extraction and reconciliation.
- Support the AI value measurement approach from data capture through to the benefit numbers reported to sponsors.
- Maintain Cowork licence, cost and funding models, keeping assumptions documented, current and defensible to Finance, and build cost models for new capabilities so adoption decisions are commercially informed.
- Design and build automations and prototypes using Python, Power Automate, Power Query, Copilot Studio, Dataverse and Microsoft Graph.
- Work directly with teams to surface pain points, demonstrate practical solutions and unblock people testing new workflows.
- Scan new AI product and feature releases continuously, with the Microsoft estate as the priority lane, and produce the first-cut monthly product note: what changed, what it means for WPP.
- Run classification and initial triage into the Frontier Lab pipeline, escalating anything that trips a governance guardrail to the Governance Senior Associates front-door gate.
- Execute pilots and user acceptance testing to a documented protocol, capturing the evidence behind each decision, and prototype hands-on before recommending - test the claim, then state what it will and will not do.

Requirements





- Microsoft AZ-900 and DP-900 or equivalent cloud and data fundamentals.
- Demonstrated ability to take messy, multi-source data - HR, tenant, licensing - and produce a reconciled dataset senior management can decide from.
- Strong Excel and data-handling discipline; working Power BI capability or the aptitude to reach it quickly.
- Analytical curiosity that goes past the surface: asks why this method, this platform, this formula, and can justify the answer.
- Quick learner with a track record of absorbing new tooling and turning it into working output within weeks.
- Problem framing from the stakeholders perspective - able to sit with a pain point and return options rather than obstacles.
- Evidence-led communication: no capability claimed without having tested it.
- Excellent written English; self-directed operating style with reliable overlap into London hours.
- Comfortable moving between granular data work and a high-level decision conversation, and increasingly able to judge which the moment needs.

Who you are

You'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.

You're optimistic: we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You'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.

What we'll give you

- Passionate, inspired people - we champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work
- Scale and opportunity - we offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
- Challenging and stimulating work - unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers.

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📌 Project Analyst (Value & Automation) - Enterprise AI (Chennai)
🏢 WPP
📍 Chennai