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Certification
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Abhijith NV

Bengaluru
Abhijith NV

Summary

Data & AI Delivery Leader with 20+ years of experience driving large-scale analytics portfolios, leading global teams, and delivering measurable business outcomes across Retail, Consumer Goods, Airlines, and Hospitality. Proven expertise in owning multi-million-dollar programs, scaling high-performance teams, and enabling enterprise-wide data & AI transformation. Strong track record of aligning delivery excellence with business impact, cost optimization, and innovation.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
4
Certifications

Work History

LTM

Sr. Director
01.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Owned and delivered analytics portfolios worth $20M+, with full P&L accountability
  • Drove 25% revenue growth in Europe market through strategic account expansion
  • Enabled AI adoption across 20+ enterprise programs, improving efficiency at scale
  • Piloted Agentic AI solutions, delivering 30% productivity improvement
  • Scaled global teams from 50 to 300+ members, driving delivery excellence
  • Improved delivery margins by 20% through governance and optimization

Cognizant

Analyst - Assoc. Director
01.2005 - 01.2021

Job overview

  • Driving $20M+ portfolio growth, scaling teams from 50 to 300+, and delivering AI-led transformation with measurable business impact.
  • Managed a $20M+ analytics portfolio for Retail & Consumer Goods, overseeing financial performance and strategic direction.
  • Lead 300+ global resources across data engineering, BI, and AI delivery
  • Drive enterprise AI adoption including ML and Agentic AI use cases
  • Delivered analytics and BI programs for 30+ global clients, driving data-driven decision-making
  • Built and scaled global analytics delivery across 30+ clients, establishing strong foundations in data platforms, BI, and enterprise transformation.
  • Managed program financials, delivery, and resource planning to ensure successful project execution
  • Led enterprise data warehouse and BI transformations
  • Deliver large-scale data lake, marketing analytics, and finance analytics programs
  • Partner with CXO stakeholders to align analytics strategy with business outcomes

Education

IIITB And Upgrad

PGDDS from Data Sciences
01-2019

VTU

Bachelor of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
01-2005

University Overview

Part of Visvesvaraya Technological University – VTU, Belgaum

Skills

  • P&L ownership
  • Business growth
  • Digital transformation
  • Program and delivery leadership
  • Stakeholder management
  • Leadership development
  • Organizational growth
  • Data governance
  • Analytics product development
  • Analytics reporting
  • Data engineering
  • Data modeling and SQL
  • Power BI and Cognos
  • Databricks and Teradata
  • Python programming

Projects

  • Finance Data Platform Modernization for a Leading UK Tobacco Company, Led a multi-million-dollar Finance Data Lake transformation for a UK-based global enterprise, enabling real-time financial insights, reducing reporting cycle time by 50%, and improving decision accuracy across finance operations.
  • Enterprise BI Platform & Data Architecture for Leading Airline, Delivered a next-gen BI and analytics platform that reduced operating costs by ~20%, improved load factor efficiency, and unlocked new revenue opportunities through bottleneck detection, competitor benchmarking, and cargo capacity optimization. Spearheaded data architecture for a strategic joint venture, building a unified data-to-decision framework that enabled faster executive decision-making, cross-entity visibility and measurable revenue synergies and increased market share by 15%.
  • GTM Execution for Enterprise BI & Observability Solutions, Led product ownership for enterprise BI & Analytics platforms (RA360, Hotels360), defining vision, architecture, and roadmap from ideation to scaled deployment. Built and scaled Observability 360, enabling advanced data observability and proactive issue detection, significantly improving data quality, platform resilience, and decision confidence. Drove product strategy, stakeholder alignment, and go-to-market execution, ensuring sustained adoption, continuous innovation, and measurable business impact.

Certification

Azure Data Fundamentals

Timeline

Sr. Director

LTM
01.2021 - Current

Analyst - Assoc. Director

Cognizant
01.2005 - 01.2021

IIITB And Upgrad

PGDDS from Data Sciences

VTU

Bachelor of Engineering from Mechanical Engineering
Abhijith NV