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Ankur Mishra

Princeton

Summary

Business leader with 11+ years of experience driving impact for organizations and executives through cross-functional collaboration, effective communication of results, maximizing internal capabilities, and value realization across analytics and technology verticals. I translate objectives and strategies into actionable insights through IT-enabled transformations, analytics design, KPI and metric development, C-Suite visualization, and compelling storytelling. A versatile collaborator focused on improving client engagement by solving complex problems with diverse teams ensuring solutions align with business needs and strategic vision of leadership teams.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Manager

ZS Associates
01.2022 - Current
  • Driving the development of long-term visions, strategic initiatives, and program management through innovation, strategic planning, design, and successful execution
  • Designing and implementing analytics solutions with compelling communication to drive analytics-enabled planning for stakeholders at all levels
  • Collaborating with leadership teams to create strategic roadmaps aligning plans, focus, and investments on key business initiatives
  • Demonstrated ability to influence commercial decisions across a wide variety of business contexts
  • Identifying and evaluating new platforms, capabilities, and datasets within the client ecosystem to drive value realization post-procurement
  • Developing, training, and overseeing large teams (25+) on concurrent projects while managing project scope, risks, and communication to ensure successful project delivery and team growth.

Business Consultant & Solutions Project Lead

ZS Associates
01.2019 - 12.2021
  • Spearheaded launch planning of multiple product assets through orchestrating cross-functional collaboration and designing key performance indicators (KPIs) based on Strategic and Tactical Objectives
  • Initiated and led data sourcing strategy workstream to design client data acquisition strategy based on value framework developed in collaboration with client teams
  • Championed team through multi-billion-dollar strategic acquisitions responsible for developing C-Suite reports post-deal close
  • Developed and Orchestrated system integration of third-party analytics tool in 2 months from requirement gathering to implementation
  • Guided team on detailed business analysis outlining gaps, and complexities of legacy business processes, and redesigned processes to enable 20% more use cases and generate up to 30% efficiency for ongoing operations
  • Drove team's execution of quality management throughout project sub-teams, improving process effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, resource, and process efficiency.

Solutions Project Lead

ZS Associates
05.2017 - 12.2018
  • Led entire analytics portfolio for all areas of analytics, including forecasting, reporting, advanced analytics
  • Spearheaded design and development of marketing mix modeling capability to understand the impact and promotional response of marketing channels to guide investments based ROI, and MROI
  • Modernized reporting ecosystem for client commercial organization, improving efficiency by 50-60%
  • Orchestrated redesigning of the commercial forecasting process, leading to a reduction in time spent on the back-and-forth with leadership and saving resources.

Associate Consultant

ZS Associates
07.2015 - 05.2017
  • Designed new patient and projection-based forecasting models for specific regions and brands
  • Led a 7-member team to provide actionable insights across Reporting, Forecasting, and Advanced Analytics work streams
  • Communicated findings and recommendations to senior leadership for strategic decision-making
  • Ensured alignment of forecasting models with business goals and objectives
  • Improved report quality standards by implementing quality frameworks, resulting in 99.6% accuracy on ~185 reports/month.

Associate

ZS Associates
06.2013 - 06.2015
  • Developed advanced analytics models to derive actionable insights and drive decision-making processes
  • Led team in designing and implementing automation solutions to streamline processes and improve efficiency
  • Collaborated with clients to create new reports and adapt existing reporting pipeline to align with changing strategic objectives
  • Conducted workshops to brainstorm ideas and reduce dependencies in analytics-driven processes
  • Mentored and coached junior team members (5) to enhance their skills, capabilities and quality of deliverables

Education

Electronics and TeleCommunication - Bachelors of Engineering

Army Institute of Technology
Pune, India
06.2013

Skills

  • Analytics Domain : Brand Analytics, Predictive Analytics Modeling, Marketing Mix Modeling, Forecasting
  • Sales Operations : Call Planning, Sizing, Alignment, Segmentation, Field Analytics
  • Analytics Tools : Python, Excel, SQL, R (intermediate)
  • Visualization/ BI Tools : Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Tellius
  • Technology Domains & Tools : AWS, Python, Digital Transformation, Data Management and Transformation
  • Pharma Datasets : Global Datasets (MIDAS, Evaluate etc), US Datasets (IQVIA, SHS, etc), Local Country (GERs, PharmaFakt etc)

Timeline

Business Manager

ZS Associates
01.2022 - Current

Business Consultant & Solutions Project Lead

ZS Associates
01.2019 - 12.2021

Solutions Project Lead

ZS Associates
05.2017 - 12.2018

Associate Consultant

ZS Associates
07.2015 - 05.2017

Associate

ZS Associates
06.2013 - 06.2015

Electronics and TeleCommunication - Bachelors of Engineering

Army Institute of Technology

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