Sahishnu Bose
Kolkata
Summary
Experienced, self-motivated, and passionate professional with over 18 years of dynamic industry expertise in delivering insights to global institutions. Adept at leveraging analytics, AI/ML solutions, and business transformation strategies to drive growth, efficiency, and innovation. Proven leadership in cross-functional collaboration, automation, and strategic planning to optimize processes and enhance business outcomes.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Account Manager, Global CoE, Insights Division
Kantar
01.2020 - Current
- Responsible for leading high impact business transformation, Digital Insights team, Data Science practise, innovation, process optimization, strategic planning, research, advanced analysis, applying AI/ML solution and automation
- Provide strategic leadership to guide the company's direction, aligning business goals with market opportunities and ensuring long-term growth and success
- Leveraging demonstrated dynamic industry experience blending with technical expertise to draw insights from the consumer behaviour
- Slicing & dicing the consumer data & delivering large-scale data solutions, overseeing technical and advisory teams
- Experience with integrating customer data from multiple sources, marketing automation platforms, and to create a comprehensive view
- Build client trust through close collaboration, driving projects and managing risks
- Creating a culture of innovation, bringing new ideas
- Developing AI/ML based solution, doing Predictive Analysis, Segmentation, Trend Analysis & more for various business requirements
- Monitor and manage brand's online reputation across multiple platforms including social media, forums, and review sites. Use social listening tools to track brand mentions, identify trends, and address potential positive & negative sentiments
- Designing, developing and maintaining data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) pipelines to optimize processes, ensure data quality, and collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements, track KPI etc.
- Doing Text Analysis on unstructured data sourced from various websites to build story & meaningful insights
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify new business opportunities & translate all those scopes into analytical solution
- Writing proposal, building operational model, costing, defining agile ecosystem
- Guide and mentor team members in executing analytical tasks, fostering an environment of growth and continuous learning. Setting their goal for a year and evaluating their performance
Senior Manager Automation & Dashboards
Kantar
01.2018 - 01.2020
- End to end process transformation through agile methodologies
- Lead solution architecture, operational model & implementation
- Introduce innovative thought process in the process transformation to drive productivity & business growth
- Applying AI/ML, Text Mining to extract actionable insights & to create story board
- Skilled to handle change management & prioritize multiple projects as per the business need
- Lead the team with collaborative approach to deal multi-dimensional projects
Senior Manager Survey Scripting
Kantar
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Established and scaled a new domain with a new technology platform and team
- A big size team management with multiple projects & stakeholders management with prioritizing as per the business call
- Stakeholder Management- Collaborate with external & internal stakeholders to define necessary processes & put in place systems that would serve as enablers
- Operational excellence – governance, weekly utilization, project prioritization, team resource optimization etc.
- Managing performance of team members. Hire, coach, mentor, develop the skills and provide career development planning
- Identifying project risks and developing risk mitigation plans, managing changes in project scope and providing alternate solutions
- Build best practices in order to develop team members and ensure the Service is best in class
- Ensure high client satisfaction scores by monitoring production and quality within team
Manager Data Analysis
Kantar
01.2006 - 01.2014
- Complete end-to-end account management including business development
- Build client relationship & ensure the process is executed smoothly
- Manage & ensure the growth of accounts via the dedicated team members to manage projects from end-to-end by defining project scope, developing detailed project plans and milestones; assigning task to individuals; managing and escalating project risks
- Lead the team to execute complex data analysis activities
- Quality assurance, develop and apply best practices
- Ensure that projects are delivered on time and meet the client’s requirements
- Provide support to business through extracting, collating, performing data integrity checks, manipulating, analysing data, preparing database & analyse survey result into business perspectives
- Analyse data patterns using a clear & logical understanding to merge database
- Analyse the Trend of the market share & data
- Implement code for data cleaning/ validation program, weighting
- Regular documentation working under ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 20252:2012 environment
Education
M.Sc. - Statistics
University of Calcutta
01.2005
B.Sc. in Statistics (Hons.) - undefined
University of Calcutta
01.2003
Higher Secondary - undefined
WBCHSE
01.2000
Secondary - undefined
WBBSE
01.1998
Skills
- Thought Leadership & Strategic Vision
- Solution Oriented & Analytical Thinking
- Innovation & Creative Problem Solving
- Automation & Process Optimization
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Self-Driven with Proactive Approach
- Adaptability & Resilience
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Power BI
- MS Power App & Power Automate
- SPSS
- Advanced Excel & VBA
LANGUAGE
English
Bengali
Hindi
COURSES
- Motivating & Engaging Employees
- Managing Team
- Excel 2016 Essential Training
- SPSS Statistics Essential Training
- Credit Risk: Vintage Analysis
- A Complete Guide to Credit Risk Modelling
- Microsoft Power BI Masterclass 7 Learn DAX, R, and Gateways
- Text Mining & NLP in R
- Scalable Data Analysis in Python with Dask
PERSONAL DETAILS
DOB: 21 October 1982 | Male
Timeline
Senior Account Manager, Global CoE, Insights Division
Kantar
01.2020 - Current
Senior Manager Automation & Dashboards
Kantar
01.2018 - 01.2020
Senior Manager Survey Scripting
Kantar
01.2014 - 01.2018
Manager Data Analysis
Kantar
01.2006 - 01.2014
B.Sc. in Statistics (Hons.) - undefined
University of Calcutta
Higher Secondary - undefined
WBCHSE
Secondary - undefined
WBBSE
M.Sc. - Statistics
University of Calcutta
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