Yusuf Isaam Email & Phone Number

“How does it add value?” “How will it help with the outcome desired?” I love understanding business challenges – and learning how to work on them.Right now I’m part of a rather large startup – marketing our enterprise technology services and working on various special projects. Before this I spent a very educational five years in management consulting.Some experiences that have enriched me are:- Exploring Jordan for customers for apparel solutions consulting- Getting muddy to assess how a construction group should look at ERP- Boosting employee engagement by setting up awards system for Sri Lanka’s #1 telco- Planning for the next level for a rubber conglomerate - from plantations in central Sri Lanka to distribution operations in the corner of CornwallSpecialties: strategic planning, restructuring, organizational design, business process re-engineering, process development, performance management

Listed skills include Strategic Planning, Business Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Process Engineering, and 23 others.

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  Principal Analytics Delivery

  Octave - John Keells Group

  Jul 2023 - Present - Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

  Octave is JKH Data and Analytics Center of Excellence. JKH is Sri Lanka's largest listed conglomerate. Octave delivers advanced analytics driven business transformations for JKH group business - including supermarkets, consumer foods, hotels and resorts and insurance.I am a Principal - Analytics Delivery, and a JKH Group Asst Vice President.I am responsible for ensuring the business impact from advanced analytics in the consumer foods sector - national market leaders in… Show more Octave is JKH Data and Analytics Center of Excellence. JKH is Sri Lanka's largest listed conglomerate. Octave delivers advanced analytics driven business transformations for JKH group business - including supermarkets, consumer foods, hotels and resorts and insurance.I am a Principal - Analytics Delivery, and a JKH Group Asst Vice President.I am responsible for ensuring the business impact from advanced analytics in the consumer foods sector - national market leaders in beverages and ice creams. The portfolio of projects overall drive 5-20% EBIT uplift - spanning - from factory production planning to outlet-level distribution optimization, promotional spend management and field sales force effectiveness acceleration.Advanced analytics solutions are transformational - with the team needed comprising data engineers who drive data design quality and ingestion to platforms, data scientists who design and validate solutions and customer/industry engagement delivery specialists who ensure value is delivered through scoping, problem solving and project implementation with the customer. I am accountable for the value creation of ~15-20 advanced analytics specialists - data engineers, data scientists, delivery and support - aside from the customer's center of excellence team which we provide leadership to.I am accountable for:- Consumer foods sector analytics transformation program delivering business impact - working with sector leadership and accountable to JKH group leadership- Day to day operational continuity of business critical analytics solution dependencies - from data ingestion to decision support insights on dashboards- Overall management of engagements - resourcing, milestone delivery + customer financial impact monitoring- Facilitate enhancement of current solutions and drive ideation and expansion of advanced analytics for sector- Develop Octave as a COE for advanced analytics, in my role on senior leadership team Show less