Manager (Solution Delivery) - Enterprise AI Programme

**WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.** **We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.** **We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.** **Our people are the key to our success. 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.** **For more information, visit [.](https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwpp.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CErica.Durr%40wpp.com%7C9bf4566a65bc46a48ac008de749116ea%7C150b5e663d884dee83f6ed149b727a00%7C0%7C0%7C639076363668176216%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Q9juosud56XGLThSFZ1NpPZd6FXpJPxV74OeRZWoh%2B4%3D&reserved=0)** **Why we're hiring:** WPP is building a portfolio of team- and workflow-level solutions that change how our people work: automations and agents built for a whole team or a whole process. Demand is running well ahead of our capacity to deliver. One function alone generated 42 candidate use cases in a single discovery cycle, ranked and ready to build. This role owns turning that pipeline into working, adopted solutions - at pace, at volume, and at sensible cost for a global business (2000+ entities, 100k+ employees). You won't be building the solutions yourself. Our AI Centre of Excellence has engineers and delivery partners for that. You'll be the person who makes the portfolio move: shaping demand into requirements engineers can act on, business partnering with stakeholders, running the delivery, and making sure what gets built actually gets used. **What you'll be doing:** - Own a high-volume portfolio: 50+ team- and workflow-level solutions delivered end-to-end: initiation, planning, sprints, deployment, closure, with an increasing proportion built on AI and agent capabilities. - Run multiple concurrent workstreams alongside our in-house engineers and external delivery partners, holding both to scope, quality and timeline. - Translate business need into buildable requirements. Facilitate discovery with business teams, formalise requirements and acceptance criteria, and work with engineers to turn them into a clear, scoped solution definition. - Run agile delivery properly - roadmap and backlog, sprints and milestones, a live RAID log, and honest reporting on throughput. - Source and shape the pipeline from our champion network and persona workshops, and run the scored intake review that prioritises what gets built and what gets parked. - Own delivery governance and quality: solution review gates, a Dev / UAT / Production path, user-acceptance coordination, validation of solution performance, and documentation that survives handover. - Support adoption - onboarding, training, feedback loops, and embedding solutions into how teams actually work. Nothing we build should end up shelved. - Track throughput and value delivered, and keep use cases moving rather than stalling in backlog. **What you'll need:** - 8+ years as a delivery or project manager on technology programmes - IT, data, integration, automation or platform work with a track record of running several projects concurrently under one portfolio. - Technical fluency, not technical delivery. You've spent your career close enough to engineering teams to challenge an estimate, question a design decision, spot when a requirement is unbuildable as written, and explain a technical trade-off to a business sponsor. You don't need to write code; you do need to know what's being built and why. - Strong requirements skills - you can take a vague business ask and turn it into something an engineer can scope and build, with clear acceptance criteria. - Familiarity with the Microsoft ecosystem - Power Platform, Azure DevOps, and ideally Copilot Studio or the M365 Agent Toolkit. Breadth across enterprise platforms matters more to us than depth in a single tool. - Working understanding of AI and generative-AI concepts and the delivery lifecycle around them - enough to hold a real conversation with engineers, and the appetite to go considerably deeper. We will invest in getting you there. - Experience managing external delivery partners and a large number of small-to-mid builds simultaneously, with strong engagement skills across senior business stakeholders. - Agile / Kanban delivery with Jira or Azure DevOps; a working grasp of governance, security, privacy and compliance considerations in enterprise deployments. - Based in India (Chennai), working with global colleagues across UK and US time zones. **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 believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: 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 aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work. **Scale and opportunity** – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete 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. Are you up for the challenge? #LI-Hybrid **We 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.** **WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.** #### **Please read our Privacy Notice () for more information on how we process the information you provide.**