Nishant Badwal
Bengaluru
Summary
Data Science Manager with end-to-end experience across retail analytics, classical ML, optimization, credit risk, anomaly detection, and emerging GenAI applications. Skilled in building scalable ML pipelines that deliver measurable commercial and operational impact
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Science Manager
Tesco
Bengaluru
05.2025 - Current
- Led a Central Europe-wide initiative to identify which promotions were valueaccretive across 15,000 Products, and to determine optimal price points, mechanics, and display strategies. This work surfaced £6.4M in monthly margin and reinvestment opportunities.
- Developed a SARIMAX-based demand forecasting model alongside a log-log regression–based baseline and dedicated cannibalization and halo estimators, enabling accurate measurement of true incremental sales, margin, and ROI at a Product × Promotion × Week level
- Combined elasticity outputs with Bayesian Optimization to recommend optimal discount levels, promo mechanics, and display allocation, delivered through a scalable Python/Spark pipeline.
- Enabled teams to cut low-ROI promotions, redesign mechanics, and invest in high-impact events-driving uplift in promo-attributable sales & margin, improved ROI, and reduced cannibalization across key categories.
- The solution now acts as a repeatable decision-support engine in weekly commercial planning.
Lead Data Scientist
Tesco
Bengaluru
12.2023 - 05.2025
- Developed a Machine learning model for Category managers that provided them details on Promotions where they could negotiate for more funding from suppliers. Total impact delivered was £3.2 Mn per month in additional funding.
- Created Country level Business diagnostics packs for Central Europe execs highlighting key areas of concerns in the business along with recommendations to mitigate the same.
- Developed a Generative AI-driven product that dynamically generated high-quality reports and documents that were used by top business stakeholders during their annual negotiations with Tesco's suppliers.
Manager - Analytics & Data Science
Metro Cash & Carry
Bengaluru
11.2021 - 12.2023
- Managed a team of four analysts to enhance Trader business performance through analytics projects.
- Developed and productionized a credit-default prediction framework leveraging transaction behavior, repayment history, and macroeconomic features. Benchmarked multiple tree-based models (e.g., gradient boosting, random forests) and deployed the optimal model, enabling earlier risk flagging and delivering an estimated $1.1M annual reduction in expected credit losses.
- Built a price-optimization pipeline by identifying the most price-elastic SKUs using elasticity models, then scraping competitor pricing from online retailers. Matched or undercut competitor prices on high-elasticity items, improving price perception and driving sales uplift of approximately $7.8 million annually.
- Created a market mix model to analyze and optimize spending across various marketing and investment channels which resulted in a 20% reduction in investment (₹2.5 Cr monthly) while maintaining the same ROI
Senior Associate
Bain & Company
Gurugram
01.2020 - 09.2021
- Worked as Senior Associate at Bain & Company working on key analytics and Data Science projects in the CPG domain in Europe.
- Developed growth strategies using advanced analytics for major CPG clients based out of Europe.
- Global management consulting firm.
Associate
Acuvon Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Noida
03.2018 - 01.2020
- Worked as an Associate at Acuvon Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
- Optimized pricing and promotions using price elasticity and daily competitive benchmarking for a CPG client.
- Developed analytical dashboards in Tableau and Power BI for various clients across multiple domains.
- Utilized Linear and multi-integer programming to optimize logistics for a Global package delivery firm.
- Consulting firm specializing in analytics and market insights.
Education
MBA -
Management Development Institute
Gurugram03-2018
B.Tech -
Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi
Delhi06-2014
Skills
- Python programming
- Advanced SQL
- Machine learning techniques
- Generalized linear models
- Tree-based models (XGBoost, Random Forests, Light GBM etc)
- Statistical analysis
- ML system design
- AI engineering principles
- Prompt engineering strategies
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Langchain integration
- OpenAI GPT models
- Hugging Face Transformers (BERT, LLAMA, Mixtral etc)
- Small language models
Languages
- Hindi
- English, Native
- Hindi, Native
Personal Information
Title: Data Science Manager
Awards
- Outstanding performance award - Tesco
- Spotlight and Value Awards for developing innovative, high-impact data science solutions at Tesco
Contacts
+91-9582743751, nishantbadwal@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-badwal/
Timeline
Data Science Manager
Tesco
05.2025 - Current
Lead Data Scientist
Tesco
12.2023 - 05.2025
Manager - Analytics & Data Science
Metro Cash & Carry
11.2021 - 12.2023
Senior Associate
Bain & Company
01.2020 - 09.2021
Associate
Acuvon Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
03.2018 - 01.2020
MBA -
Management Development Institute
B.Tech -
Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi