Manager
Description
Role & responsibilities
Preferred candidate profile
Perks and benefits
Role Purpose
The Agent Curator is responsible for governing, training, validating and continuously improving the portfolio of AI Agents deployed across the Purchase-to-Pay service.
The role acts as the operational bridge between:
- bp business stakeholders
- Wipro operations teams
- AI engineering teams
- Process design teams
- Knowledge Graph teams
The Agent Curator ensures agents:
- perform accurately
- operate safely
- remain compliant
- continuously improve
- deliver measurable business value
Unlike an AI developer, the Agent Curator does not build the underlying models.
Instead, the role owns:
"How agents behave in production and whether they are actually delivering the intended operational outcomes."
Key Responsibilities
1. Agent Performance Ownership
Own operational performance for all P2P agents including:
- Requisition validation agents
- Contract compliance agents
- Supplier support agents
- Invoice processing agents
- Payment control agents
- Exception management agents
- Reporting and analytics agents
Ensure each agent:
- operates within approved boundaries
- delivers expected business outcomes
- remains compliant with policies and controls
2. Agent Training & Continuous Learning
Identify opportunities to improve agent performance through:
- prompt refinement
- workflow optimisation
- exception analysis
- pattern identification
- human feedback loops
- knowledge expansion
Work with operational teams to capture:
- recurring exceptions
- missed opportunities
- escalation patterns
- quality concerns
and feed these improvements back into the agent design process.
3. Human-in-the-Loop Governance
Design and maintain clear rules for:
- agent decisions
- escalation thresholds
- approval workflows
- exception handling
- human intervention points
Ensure sensitive activities remain appropriately governed.
Examples include:
- payment-related decisions
- supplier master changes
- sanctions-related activities
- exception approvals
- policy breaches
4. Agent Validation & Certification
Own operational acceptance and sign-off of agents before production deployment.
Validate:
Accuracy
- Correct recommendations
- Correct actions
- Correct outputs
Risk
- Compliance adherence
- Control compliance
- Security considerations
Business Impact
- Productivity impact
- Service improvement
- User adoption
- Outcome achievement
Maintain a formal agent certification process.
5. Knowledge Graph & Data Readiness
Work closely with the Knowledge Graph team to ensure agents have access to:
- Contracts
- Price books
- Catalogues
- Supplier information
- POs
- PRs
- SESs
- GRs
- Policies
- Procedures
Identify gaps that impact agent performance and prioritise remediation.
6. Exception Management
Own the operational review of:
- Agent mistakes
- Hallucinations
- Incorrect recommendations
- Failed automations
- Escalation failures
- Compliance exceptions
Conduct root-cause analysis and coordinate corrective actions.
The focus is on:
preventing recurrence rather than simply correcting errors.
7. Business Stakeholder Engagement
Serve as the primary operational interface between:
- bp business users
- Procurement teams
- Operations teams
- AI engineering teams
Gather business feedback and translate it into:
- agent improvements
- new use cases
- updated workflows
- enhanced controls
8. Agent Adoption & Change Management
Monitor:
- agent utilisation
- adoption rates
- user feedback
- satisfaction
- business trust
Develop interventions to improve:
- user confidence
- adoption
- effectiveness
Key Deliverables
The Agent Curator will own:
- P2P Agent Inventory
- Agent Certification Register
- Agent Performance Dashboard
- Agent Improvement Backlog
- Human-in-the-Loop Governance Framework
- Agent Training & Validation Plans
- Agent Risk Register
- Agent Exception Logs
- Agent Adoption Scorecards
- Quarterly Agent Value Assessments
Critical Success Measures
Success will be measured through:
Agent Performance
- Agent accuracy
- Recommendation quality
- Successful task completion
Adoption
- User adoption
- Active utilisation
- Stakeholder satisfaction
Compliance
- Policy adherence
- Control effectiveness
- Audit readiness
Business Value
- Productivity gains
- Exception reduction
- Resolution speed improvements
- Outcome achievement
Continuous Improvement
- Reduction in agent-related incidents
- Improvement in agent accuracy
- Increased automation coverage
Required Experience
Essential
- 510 years experience in:
- Procure-to-Pay operations
- Shared Services
- Procurement operations
- Process improvement
- Automation
- Strong understanding of:
- Requisitioning
- Purchase Orders
- Invoice Processing
- Supplier Operations
- Payments
- Experience working with:
- AI copilots
- Workflow automation
- Digital transformation initiatives
Preferred
- Agentic AI operational experience
- SAP / Ariba / VIM experience
- Process Mining experience
- Knowledge Management experience
- Prompt Engineering exposure
- Generative AI governance knowledge
Behavioural Profile
The successful candidate will be:
- Curious about AI
- Process-focused
- Operationally minded
- Analytical
- Detail-oriented
- Strong communicator
- Comfortable challenging both technology teams and operations teams
Most importantly:
Able to translate business requirements into agent behaviours, and agent capabilities into business outcomes.