Saurabh Srivastava Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

New York, Us

New York, Us

Client: CPG Fortune 500 company •Provided extensive support to client business leaders (C-level execs, SVP/VP, Directors) and program leads in searching for, identifying, and actualizing RoI and RoV on analytics investments to enable buy-in from leadership and enable adoption across the organization through the employment of an effective communication strategy.•Drive adoption of Digital transformation framework around – Growth, Execution, and culture. Associated initiative across the three foundations to align stakeholders•Play a key role by enabling multi-cloud partnership with Google Cloud and Azure to develop and carry out effective setup and execution on digital transformation and data strategy•Key workstream across the program include – enterprise data strategy and migration; eCommerce data spine, digital media, regional data hubs, AI-based product development, manufacturing and line reporting, predictive maintenance, finance analytics, predictive AR (OTC), supply chain planning transformation, sales data spine and digital sales enablement •Partner cross-functionally with capability, pre-sales, training, and support teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of our customer’s needs, business, how success is defined, and certify that we are meeting exceeding expectations in delivery and the development of valued solutions.•Designing, crafting, and guiding the implementation of digital and analytics enterprise strategy roadmap, including tactics and industry-specific solution accelerators to increase our velocity of impact.•Achieved success by enabling scaled Artificial Intelligence and machine learning-based solution on cloud platforms through the SME team to deliver agile solutions with operational scale and efficiency for clients.•Develop in coordination with architect and data scientist MLOps, DevOps strategy for continuous development and deployment in IT initiatives

New York, Us

Client: Fortune 100 Confectionery and Pet Food manufacturer • Serve as leader for Route to Market Analytics Program through effective employment of extensive expertise.• Leverage expertise to consult and direct cross-functional teams in the delivery of analytics services to Fortune 100 CPG clients in the Food and Alcohol beverage industry.• Provide extensive support to the business leader in understanding and calculating RoI and RoV on analytics investment to enable buy-in from leadership and enable adoption across the organization through an effective communication strategy.• Cooperate effectively with various stakeholders across the central analytics team and functional team to enable strategic partnership and assist the definition of goals to drive business growth by leveraging data and analytics.• Direct all aspects of the delivery of large global programs worth $10Mn + by developing and providing analytics and consulting solutions through a team of 50+ CPG consultants, data scientists, and data engineers.Projects:• Drive the development of an industry standard solution to digitize and scale route to market for CPG's, enabling a 5%-15% growth for clients, including sales transformation modules for ML-based recommended system, geo-expansion tools, distributor data management, and assortment optimization built on the foundation of on-premises or cloud infrastructure.• Spearhead all elements of a global initiative on data digitization through employment of image and video analytics for smart merchandising and retailer management, as well as carrying out further enriching with syndicated data to generate insights for business teams.• Conduct near real-time social listening at scale to develop an understanding of consumer sentiment, key trends, and category movement by automating NLP based engine. Furnish in-depth strategic insights to challenging business questions to enable board level decision making.

New York, Us

Client: Large Cereal manufacturer, Top Wine and Spirits manufacturer • Interfaced closely with client teams and business users to prospect for, identify, and prioritize use case development.• Oversaw and executed all aspects of consulting projects with CPG clients and leveraged domain and technical expertise in the area of BI and Advance Analytics.• Operated in a pivotal capacity by directing the operations of project delivery teams for building analytics capabilities and delivering solutions. Liaised with creative and product teams (client side, internal and vendor) to ideate solutions and iterate on existing behavioral interventions.• Provided coaching and mentoring to project team members in project activities and CPG specific knowledge.Projects:• Functioned as Lead Consultant on data harmonization program to unify hierarchy and reporting needs for providing category 360 view of external and e-commerce data.• Partnered with a team of data scientists in the implementation and development of a recommender system for CPG client (US Market) to identify and realize revenue opportunity by suggesting the right product mix at store level.• Operated as Solution Manager for long term demand forecast projects to support business teams to calculate the impact of growth drivers and to enable sales and supply chain planning.• Pioneered a program of finance reporting transformation to migrate the entire Excel-based reporting work to a more analytical and prescriptive analysis through employment of the BI and Database platform.• Engaged with consumer insights team in the development of a solution to track new product launch. Performed the evaluation of launch vs strategy, survey and social sentiments analysis, post product launch, and business performance analysis by breaking down revenue drivers for growth.

New York, Us

Client: P&G• Carried out the translation of business problems into analytical problem statement and administered the development and implementation of analytical solutions.• Evaluated and assessed project deliverables and dispensed guidance to team members from business consulting and analytics methodology perspective.• Developed and provided weekly updates on progress and task prioritization to the client on a consistent basis.• Effectively conveyed and resolved any delivery-specific issues with client teams on daily basis to enable operations planning and tracking.• Performed the analysis and examination of white space for more business and to pitch a business proposal.Projects:• Operated as Project Lead for global reporting delivery- business 360 solution with a focus on achieving maximum success with 10000 + users across the globe• Led the development of a one-stop diagnostic self-serve analytic performance drill-down dashboard to transform data analytics into visual and drill down form to propel interaction on Tableau-based visualization dashboard, standardization, and automation of budget review decks.• Organized and facilitated an insights workshop to deep dive on drivers and allow business teams take corrective actions.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Client: AETNA• Operated as DataStage Transformation extender developer for large insurance firm over the course of my operations.• Charged with providing mentoring and leadership to a team of 14 in introducing EDI and business impact of the tasks performed, major business implication of transition in US healthcare industry, and their implication on client file system EDI transition from 4010 to 5010, as well as healthcare reform migration form ICD9-ICD10.• Functioned as AHIP Certified Healthcare Transaction Expert at offshore/onshore and business interactions for all healthcare and business-related transactions query handling.• Led the creation of task allocation for the team, project billing, and proposals for several migration projects.