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