Robin Karmakar Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Responsible for our global Way of working function including +40 Agile coaches, Change leads and Method experts who support the H&M Group transformation journey with the purpose to release the power of people and tech to accelerate our business to become truly customer centric. Part of extended leadership team for Business Tech.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Leading the Agile coach team members in the Americas, EMEA, and South Asia region for the H&M Group.Part of the amazing Way of Working team in Business Tech focused on how we best support our global transformation & growth, across all regions in the world for the group.Main focus was coaching and improving all digital services across the H&M store portfolio, establishing Business Tech global network of locations, incl. ways of working, optimizing cross-functional collaboration setups towards outcomes & improving end-2-end lead time for global roll-outs.Focus on servant leadership. Coaching, growing & enabling high-performing individuals & teams, based on agile principles & built on a culture of empowered teams, trust, continuous learning, growth mindset and distributed ownership.

Hong Kong Sar

Leading the Agile coach and Product Design teams in the Asia Pacific region for the H&M Group.Part of the leadership team establishing and growing the Asia Pacific Business Tech Hub for the H&M Group. The Business Tech Hub focus is to deliver meaningful customer impact in the region for all the H&M Group brands, with focus on digital and omni channel tech initiatives.Focus on servant leadership. Coaching, growing & enabling high-performing teams, based on agile principles & built on a culture of empowered teams, trust, continuous learning, growth mindset and distributed ownership. Established agile methodologies such as OKRs, Scrum, Sprints, Retros, Demo, etc. Teams delivered 2x YoY sales growth of own channel, 2x member base during 2020, 5x sales growth (for one group brand) on Tmall during Singles Day, 45% site search hit-rate improvements, 30% site performance improvements, launched multiple brands digital presence in multiple APAC markets and 5x improvements of time-to-market, through agile methodologies, user research, and data driven improvements.

Hong Kong

Created and executed the AI strategy for how to drive value from AI for H&M Group Sourcing & Production.Worked with business teams on strategic scaling problems, implemented AI strategy & delivered end-2-end AI solutions to the challenges in line with the long-term technology vision. Built and scaled the data platform to service multiple different other platforms and solutions using a decoupled architecture.Led & managed multiple AI / Machine learning teams for use cases integrated in the sourcing process of the group. Improved AI Use Case business coverage by 10x from 5% at launch to 55% at steady state. Improved algo lead-time by 50x to create near real-time sourcing recommendations.

Hong Kong

Worked with business teams on new analysis needs and co-created the vision and roadmap for all areas of analysis support for all H&M Group brands global sourcing & production.Created and executed BI strategy. Realized 10x improvements in usage, 10x improvements in time-to-market, reduced costs by 30%, shifted platform and solutions from legacy tech, to modern BI platform. This resulted in the platform becoming the groups most used BI tools with 1000+ users and 10000+ sessions every quarter.

Project manager, growth hacker, developer, business analyst and project lead across a multitude of industries: Developed and improved Business Intelligence solution at one of Sweden's largest real estate companies. Focused on user requirements, developed new metrics and improved agile software development processes in a distributed multi-continent scrum team.Developed Business intelligence solutions for Social marketing & Growth strategy as well as Business development at a global Swedish retailer in luxury wearables.Supported Swedish award-winning app with Growth hacking, developing KPIs, metrics and global management reports. Analyzed user data (300M+ users) on user journey, growth, market evaluation, etc., to minimize user churn rate.Used ElasticSearch and Kibana to set up a globally distributed, scalable analytics solution at triple-A award winning video game developer. Built a scalable log-analysis platform, capable of ingesting and visualizing 100,000 events / second, from 1000+ source databases, with a 30 second lead time from event to visualization.

Stockholm, Sverige

Part of the IT strategy team. Experienced in Public sector, Healthcare, Retail. Focused on process development, information management, business intelligence and business planning. Led & executed the Nordics go-to-market strategy for in-house analytics solution. Awarded "Entrepreneur of the year" in my first year at the company.

Recruiting new talent and networking with potential new talents

Schweinfurt, Germany

Working at New Business department with technology monitoring and modelling. Developed an automated search and evaluation tool for assessing the technological maturity of a given technology area, based on S-curve and patent analysis

Gothenburg, Sweden

Worked as TA in the bachelors course of Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis. Supporting students, elaborating on different topics and functioning as head of lab work in software suites such as MATLAB.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Worked with automating the data management system for the updating of product information resources. Made efforts to simplify the process of managing marketing data.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Dealing with data analysis from measurement systems, creating a automated selection tool for data cleaning. Signal analysis from measurement tools at production lines.

Vasteras, Sweden

Managing Production and Planning in the Industrial Robotics department. Working tightly with production planning and resolving production issues on a daily basis, leveraging on SAP and other information systems.

Palmela, Portugal

Responsible for the planning, design and implementation of a new quality monitoring system at the VW Autoeuropa production facility in Portugal. Communication and consultantcy in English, German and Portuguese. Typical assignments were: Design of production line, planning of quality system distribution, planning of IT and other logistic solutions for the new production line that was built. Project succeeded and was brought into production as of September 2005.

Vasteras, Sweden

Using the integrated IDE platform CAWP to do a full review, restructuring and design of the intraweb of the company.

M.Sc., Engineering Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Working as TA for B.Sc. courses in Linear Algebra and Numerical Analaysis , Focus of studies towards: Numerical.

M.Sc., Finance, Portfolio Investment

Studies focusing in Financial Economics, Portfolio Management and Environmental Economics. B.Sc. thesis: What about Reality - Financial.

M.Sc., Engineering Mathematics

Activities and Societies: UNITECH International Exchange studies as part of the international programme UNITECH International, Focus areas.

B.Sc., Engineering Physics

Activities and Societies: Mentor for four high school students within the non-profit organization Intize! , Worked as marketing.

C++ Programming

Studied two courses in C++ programming to gain deeper knowledge of the basics and the building blocks of object oriented programming.

B.Sc., Economics

Development Economics and Statistics