Safi Farooqi Email & Phone Number

• Collaborated with category leads to develop product and vendor specific procurement strategies and designed reports to track and benchmark vendor performance vis-à-vis category strategy
• Elicited business requirements from Warehouse operatives and documented them by authoring functional design documents and built business case for developing a "CP1" quality log application
• Built a fully functioning product quality log application prototype for warehouse operations to log and track any and all product quality issues
• Designed the framework, processes, tools and lead the launch of DNOWs ‘Vendor 360’ vendor performance evaluation program
• Developed & deployed BI reports & dashboards, integrating multiple data sources, such as Salesforce, SAP and Microsoft forms to drive insight generation & excellence in operational efficiency
• Designed and launched ‘Vendor Performance’ and ‘Business partner’ surveys to ascertain relationship health and identify perceived improvement areas

• Analyzed & tracked the health of the supply chain worth in-excess of $200 million
• Lead the ‘Fact Based Costing’ garment costing project, helping the organization save over $1.2 million dollars in garment costs
• Leveraged Power BI to analyze data, isolate supply chain inefficiency drivers & generated cost savings of 4%
• Provided analytical services to cross-functional teams, aided in strategy formulation & execution to decrease lead-time by 15%
• Conducted macro-economic analyses to effectively forecast garment production costs aiding optimized market allocation
• Anchored & facilitated workshops of +10 business users for various data reporting tools enabling data driven decision making

• Key account lead for 8 different platinum & strategic clients, consulting on more than 10 different CPG categories
• Managed 2 ‘Store Observation’ projects from their inception to conclusion for GSK Consumer Health Care division worth ~$70K
• Generated & presented insights pertaining to competitive landscape, macroeconomic & market trends to clients
• Lead client training sessions & presentations to showcase Nielsen’s solutions, generating new business worth $200K

• Provided business analysis services to PMI, GSK, & Heinz, analytically supporting their trade marketing activities
• Developed synergized reports & cross-kpi analyses, combining data from multiple data sources to highlight business opportunities
• Collected data by designing questionnaires & surveys & presented findings to internal stakeholders & clients
• Created marketing material to highlight Nielsen’s array of services

Roanoke, Virginia Area

• Liaised between business users & technical teams to ensure synergy with respect to business processes & applications
• Engaged clients to elicit business requirements & aligned them with functional requirements by drafting MD 50 document
• Communicated client’s business requirements by visualizing business process flows using Microsoft Visio
• Performed user acceptance testing to ascertain the effectiveness of the solutions provided with respect to Oracle Fixed Asset module