Ashish Sinha Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

EMEA People strategy & analytics practice leader, owning the design, capability build, commercial performance, growth & route to market strategy. As Head of EME People Analytics my responsibilities also include owning the design, strategic growth & maturity roadmap of advanced analytics, behavioural science, workforce intelligence & effectiveness, AI & people strategy advisory in EMEA. The key focus of the practice is to help clients with varied levels of maturity, strategic priorities, global footprint, across industries maximise their desired business outcome through a data driven approach to their human capital management philosophy. Under my strategic direction the practice helps clients, shape the future of their workforce using a data driven design and approach to their people strategy, powered by analytics, decision science, behavioural and data science. A key part of my responsibility is to function as a thought leader for C-suite clients helping them rationalise short, medium, and long-term people strategy, organisational effectiveness, and talent strategy through innovative & custom-designed data driven solutions. As a practice leader, along with living Korn Ferry leadership values a key responsibility is to contribute towards “One Korn Ferry Vision.” The practice delivers this vision through a strategy that connects through a common thread of data across all solution areas creating better client experience at the same time creating innovative, collaborative collective intelligence labs – helping scale and produce strategic data informed decision engine that shapes the future of workforce.

London, United Kingdom

Strategic insights & advanced analytics leader – providing thought & domain leadership to senior management and focusing radically on serving and challenging PMI’s most relevant strategic P&C priorities - traction and action-driven discussions. Identify, design, and develop: 3-4 lighthouse strategic use cases – driving business performance, behavioural change, organisational health, and effectiveness.Lead, manage and develop a team of 11, including data scientists, internal analytics consultants/ translators and SMEs in organisation and workforce intelligence.- Role model PMIs leadership behaviours acting as a people partner continuously develop and grow an engaged team investing time in their growth and development ensuring analytics capabilities grow with a healthy talent pipeline­- Certified Strategic Workforce Planning & OD practitioner: lead on global SWP Analytics working closely with Global Entrepreneurs for SWP, Talent and Workforce Planning, Talent acquisition, learning CoEs to design & build the analytics framework helping the business make build, buy, borrow, Bot decisions- Internal consultant and SME (creating a business case and attain sponsorship) to deep dive into organisational behaviours and practice applying advanced analytics methodologies to create a clearer data-driven understanding of various business and people drivers that help drive the development and alignment of people strategies, and practices to enable business strategies, priorities and/or minimize risks- Certified Product Manager – lead & own the roadmap for advanced analytics deep dive study/research. Programs manage advanced analytics projects; Organisational Network Analysis (ONA), Employee Listening, Employee wellbeing, Future of workforce, skills inference & Organisational effectiveness- Certified SAFe Agilist: Responsible to ensure all undertaken strategic projects have the right analytics rigour and robust research approach – leveraging appropriate social science models.

London, United Kingdom

Own the design and delivery of the people data strategy & insights, ensuring seamless integration with the other areas of the People function, i.e., Reward, Performance, Inclusion & Diversity, Talent and Recruitment. Analytics partner/ internal consultant to the design and shaping of KPMG’s People Strategy, providing thought leadership in workforce planning, Talent analytics & design thinking.Designed, led and scaled the people analytics internal practice from a team of 4 to 25+ analytics, systems, and business professional – building a business case to invest through a clear strategic vision and value proposition.- Owned, designed, and lead three main workstreams within people analytics – Advanced reporting & insights, Employee Listening research and advanced analytics- Create and own the strategic roadmap of HR technology, budget, and forecast HR System needs and applications. Lead the research and recommendation of new systems and software, ensure business cases warrant investment- Accountable for the creation and development of Data analytics and People Technology CoE- managing a team of 25+ Analytics and technology professionals, including Sr. Managers, Managers & Analytics. Scaled the team and capability through value creation, clear strategic vision and above-expectation delivery- Took on the additional responsibility of creating, leading and developing the HR data governance team – consisting of a Data Privacy Officer (DPO), GDPR assistant manager and business analyst

London, United Kingdom

An internal consultant was working as a strategic data and analytics partner with the market, functional and regional and senior leadership teams. Acted as an SME in design thinking, data analytics and insights. Delivery of strategic and commercial Human Capital Insights and internal consultancy to HR and Business leadersRole modelled Diageo’s leadership standards, leading a team of Sr. Analytics, Managers and external consultants located globally.- Lead programs that help develop capability in the HR Function towards Diageo’s HR strategic priority of being a digital and analytics Function- Designed and delivered an effective and professional workforce intelligence service for HR functions across markets & regions through the development and maintenance of appropriate data tools, insights, and recommended actions- Lead and develop a team of specialist analysts and Managers to design and deliver the Diageo vision of HR being performance partners, agile and efficient in-service delivery- Work as an internal consultant and change agent driving evidence-based decision-making culture within Diageo, addressing and recommending solutions to labour availability concerns, workforce globalization, labour cost pressures, and productivity improvement

Ashford- Middlesex

Global workforce planning lead, program managing the design, delivery and embedment of the workforce planning tools across Global fire and security. Work in partnership and close collaboration with finance and strategy teams. Ensure people strategy is linked with business strategy through defined KPIs and performance criteria. Thought leader and domain SME for people analytics & workforce planning.- Lead the design, delivery, and optimisation of $1bn staff costs across Global F&S, ensuring the critical agenda on YoY increase in productivity, organisation design, effectiveness, and efficiency is in line with the business delivery model­- Combine HR data with broader business data to measure performance, costs, and quality. Drive more robust forecasting and planning discipline to understand better and optimise the utilisation of HR costs- Work collaboratively with the finance, Sales and Compensation & Benefit stakeholders, providing financials/ Analysis in the production of employment costs for activities – business restructuring/ engineering, acquisition/ divestiture, and revenue-driving commission programs

London, United Kingdom

• Prepare monthly forecast analysis and reporting and support the team, where necessary challenging the business, highlighting areas of both risk and opportunity• Accountable for implementation of robust Opex, Capex & Projects process, policies & efficiency controls• Tracking & understanding Star TV’s actual performance vs.forecast, plans & targets,identifying key themes, performance issues and focus areas in the process and working with various stakeholders to mange & shape forward-looking performance• Partnering with the Star TV’s Group Controller to put together insights and highlight focus areas around Star TV’s Profit & Loss delivery, Star TV’s cash delivery & around other financial & non-financial performance indicators• Work with senior finance leadership team at Star TV for setting Performance Targets for the business & then incorporating the same into the various reward matrix within 21st Century Fox• Defining KPIs (like Free Cash Flow,ROMI,ROA,ROI,DSO,OER, Capex to sales, Gross/Operating profit margins,Revenue growth rate,etc) to meet performance requirements• Engineering & cascading long term business models like Financial Growth Models & Financial Plans at the behest of Star TV & 21st Century Fox leadership team• Championed cost control measure & processes challenging cost spend, driving efficiencies & tracking cost savings ,identifying & monitoring underlying drivers of cost variances between actual expenditure vs. forecast/budget• Managed & coordinated the marketing budget process from initial budget splits through to monthly forecasting, ensuring that all territories occur in a timely fashion• Creating & updating Account Development Plans (ADP) for key contract renewals working closely with the Regional & International Sales Executives• Owned & delivered high quality financial and business analysis with recommendations to solve business problems & to influence and challenge business decisions

London, United Kingdom

• Prepared budgeting and forecasting numbers for local, regional and group reporting. • Running weekly, monthly booking reports & KPIs to see where we are tracking against plan, prior year and forecast• Prepare or support delivery of local / regional ad hoc management reports, management presentations and analysis as required by the Sr.Management team• Worked collaboratively with the programming / commercial team, making constrictive input in the form of cost analysis and return on investment while designing FPC for 4 UK based channels• Manipulating data in excel to provide meaningful analysis• Ad hoc Analysis work — such as internal cost saving initiatives; various analyses of current and YOY information

London, United Kingdom

• Maintaining awareness of market trends in the retail industry, and monitoring what local competitors are doing • Analysing sales figures and forecasting future sales volumes to maximise profits, taking complete responsibility of commercial and operational management of the store• Responsible for stock control, waste management (Food Stock Management)

Mumbai Area, India

• Initiated and delivered marketing campaigns across the Technology group and ensure that activity is thoroughly planned, measurable and delivered on-brand, on-budget and within agreed timescales to the highest creative standards• Ensured that all marketing activities are implemented in a way that is consistent and coherent with the brand strategy and values. This includes communications to internal and external audiences (i.e. consumers, partners, advertisers and suppliers). • Served as a technical interface between Marketing Dept. and R&D and Applications Dept.• Prepared marketing / project financials; forecasting, budgeting, marketing spend, return on marketing investments, presented to key stakeholders support business and new line launches

Doctor Of Business Administration (Dba), Business Analytics

Postgraduate Certificate, Research Methodology And Quantitative Methods

Msc, Global Banking And Finance

Activities and Societies: Actively participated in debates and other cultural activates at the business school. Attended conferences.

Pgdms, Finance, General

B.E., Electronics