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Espoo, Fi

Helsinki, Finland

Taking data utilization of 12 plants to the next level e.g. by - guiding and coaching plant management groups and other personnel in using data and analytics to support the everyday decision-making- setting up and coaching a network of 20+ data stewards to improve data quality- driving wider usage of data by utilizing Azure stack tools, Power BI & Power Platform, setting up and coaching a network of 30+ BI developers to support plants in data-driven decision-making

Helsinki, Finland

Leading Valio’s centralized data utilization competence center and a strategic initiative for company-wide data-driven decision-making. The competence center consisted of professionals from a wide spectrum of expertise including business analytics, web analytics, consumer research and insight, and data science. The main utilization areas were sales, marketing and new product development.

Helsinki, Finland

Team leader of customer insight and business intelligence team. The area of responsibility includes the customer analytics based on loyalty card data, the analytics and reporting environment (Cognos, SPSS) as well as S Group’s main customer data warehouse.

Helsinki, Finland

Team leader of customer interaction and customer insight team. The aim of the team was to support all the business areas of S Group with customer insight acquired from customer interactions like social media, customer feedback and customer panels. To get actionable insight we utilised e.g. social media monitoring, text mining, text analysis and dashboards. The previous areas of responsibility as development director include:- Leading the team of development managers and managing the developlement portfolio for customer relationship, marketing and customer interaction in S Group- Leading the team for coordinating digital services of S Group and implementing common solutions: e.g. email marketing solution, enterprise feedback management solution, common authentication solution, SEO and SEM

Helsinki, Finland

Director responsible for e-services for members of S Group as well as marketing and service channels. The responsibilities included- S Group member mailing; monthly postal direct marketing to every member household, 1.8 million mailings per month. The member mailing includes personal bonus statement, personalized assortment of marketing leaflets and Yhteishyvä magazine.- Digital communication and e-services for members. E.g. solutions for email and sms marketing and communication, digital signage, member's personalized web service Asiakasomistaja Online, digital authentication solution for S Group and enterprise feedback management solution- The common web portal of S Group, S-kanava.fi- Internal marketing team for member marketing - Marketing development including marketing process development and digital marketing development, e.g. SEO and SEM

Helsinki, Finland

Subject matter expert, team leader of digital services team and project manager of several development projects. The responsibilities of the team included - Development project for email marketing solution utilizing customer data- Maintenance and further development of e-service for members, Asiakasomistaja Online- The common web portal of S Group, S-kanava.fi- Business case, specifications and kicking-off of an implementation project for a new web service S-Matkat.fi for hospitality and travel business- Requirement specification of S Group wide program for knowledge management. Requirements and goal definition for program to better utilize the data in decision making.

Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden

Consultant and a team leader specialised in Business Intelligence, CRM and Data Warehousing fields. My tasks included management of international projects and teams, writing requirement specifications and implementing their solutions.

Espoo, Finland

Expert in analytical customer relationship management and data mining. Managing, implementing and reporting of research and commission projects as well as business development.