Sriram Iyer
Director Data Science and Business Intelligence
London
Summary
• 20 plus years Digital Transformation leadership experience in delivering transformational outcomes.
• Postgraduate in Business Administration, Statistics, Computer Science and Organizational Change
• Extensive experience across the spectrum of framing high level organizational strategies, translating into digital strategy and solutions, through to owning design, build and deployment of digital transformation programs.
• Global Project Management Experience across Asia, Americas, Europe & Africa.
• In-depth Business Process knowledge in Manufacturing & FMCG.
• Expert in Data Science, Data Visualization, Data Engineering, Advanced Supply Chain Planning, Azure Data Stack, Robotic Process Automation, IoT and Data Lake design and deployment.
• Trained and keen practitioner of the Appreciative Inquiry paradigm.
• Passionate on sustainability and the potential for data and digital playing a major role in helping organizations improving their green line. Would love to have the opportunity to work in this space in my next role.
Tools: PowerBI, SQL, Data Bricks, Data Robot, Python, SQL, VBA, SAP ECC BW CRM & APO, Azure Data Stack, …
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Director Data Science and Business Intelligence
Coats Plc
London
12.2017 - Current
- Coats is the world's leading industrial thread manufacturer. The company has a 250+ year history, headquartered in the UK and has 17,000 employees in over 50 countries across six continents around the world.
- Role in Brief: Responsible for framing and implementing the Coats Data Strategy globally. Have 4 teams of 5 team members each spread across the world reporting into me - Data Science, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence and DataOps. Roadmapping, Strategy and Budgeting: 40%, Hands on Technically: 30%, People Management: 30%.
- Key programs and achievements
- Setup new Data Science and Analytics practice and helped embed a data driven decision-making culture.
- Multiple Data Science and Machine Learning programs embedded across Finance, Marketing and Supply Chain, all of which have helped deliver transformational business outcomes.
- Data Science model driven Credit Risk framework incorporating Dun & Bradstreet information helped keep cash positions healthy in a challenging pandemic context.
- Machine Learning based demand forecasting engine that has helped reduce Energy and Water consumption, thereby helping meeting sustainability targets, while simultaneously improving productivity, inventory and service metrics.
- Coordinated design and implementation of a Data Lake on the Lambda architecture and resulting real time information and powerful data stories have enabled strategic decision making that has translated into market share gain in key global accounts.
- Program managed design and global rollout of an Industry 4.0 initiative that has helped realize 10%+ productivity improvements from Industry 4.0 insights.
- Championed and led a Celonis Process Mining Centre of Excellence. Highlights include 30% sales growth in strategically critical markets, powered by service level improvements delivered using Celonis insights and process automation capabilities.
Supply Chain Solutions Lead
Coats Plc
London
04.2012 - 11.2017
- Led teams that designed, delivered, and supported solutions across all supply chain domains, including Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing Execution, Quality Management, Plant Maintenance etc.
- Key responsibilities included identifying, designing, and delivering system driven Business Process Innovation and driving best practice adoption in a complex global context.
- Key accomplishments: introducing highly automated and integrated process flows that helped deliver 15% improvement in Service Levels along with 12 % reduction in Inventory over 2014-17 period.
- As part of the above, setup up a Supply Chain Centre of Excellence that managed the global transition to an automated planning environment, and helped delivered targeted customer service benefits by among other actions, the regular publishing of SCOR (Supply Chain Opportunities and Recommendations) reports.
- Program managed a smooth migration of the complex global Coats SAP landscape to Azure and HANA in 2016 (first company globally to migrate to HANA on Azure)
Planning & Strategy Process Coordinator
Coats Plc
Bengaluru
02.2011 - 03.2012
- Responsible for design and delivery of an Integrated Business Planning process (Annual, Quarterly and Monthly Planning / Budgeting cycles), involving Global Demand, Supply & Financial planning processes.
- Reduced timeline of annual planning process from 3 months to 3 weeks
Planning Systems Manager
Coats Plc
Bengaluru
09.2008 - 01.2011
- Responsible for design and delivery of an integrated supply chain planning & optimization solution for Coats globally using SAP’s APO (Advanced Planning & Optimization) solution
- Helped create a single global planning system environment that required extensive bespoke SAP engineering and stretched the then available capacity of servers because of the large global organizational footprint (Million+ SKU's at 100+ locations)
- Designed and operationalized a factory schedule optimization solution that optimized productivity and service levels through the use of Genetic Algorithms
Information Management Manager
Coats Plc
Bengaluru
11.2005 - 08.2008
- Managed all aspects of an ERP and Data Warehousing (SAP R/3 and BW) solution implementation
- Project was part of a Global template rollout, and I managed the rollout in India
- Key challenge was that of addressing requirements of a large and complex supply chain with extensive sub-contracting and complex statutory requirements in the context of a Global Template implementation.
Systems Executive
Asian Paints
Mumbai
06.2000 - 10.2005
- Involved in designing and delivering several projects across technology platforms (SAP, i2, webMethods, J2EE, etc.)
- List below describes some of the projects
- Design and implementation of interfaces for SAP – i2 integration as part of the SAP implementation
- Design and project management of i2’s Demand forecasting solution
- Design and implementation of an Internet Sales Portal on SAP CRM 3
- Managed the implementation of an electronic payment application using webMethods
- Led the team that Implemented the Sales & Distribution module of SAP R/3
- Conceptualized, designed, and implemented a Sales Force automation solution on the IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access platform (one of the earliest large-scale smartphone based SFA implementations globally)
- 400+ Salesmen used an intuitive application on smartphones for planning, executing and monitoring their interactions with a 15000+ dealer network.
Education
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management
Indore 06.1998 - 05.2000
Master of Science - Organizational Change
Ashridge Business School
Berkhamstead 04.2016 - 04.2018
M.Sc. - Statistics
Mumbai University
Mumbai, MH 01.1996 - 01.1998
PG Diploma - Software Technology
National Centre For Software Technology
Mumbai, MH 01.1996 - 01.1998
Quote
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Tony Robbins
Timeline
Director Data Science and Business Intelligence
Coats Plc
12.2017 - Current
Master of Science - Organizational Change
Ashridge Business School
04.2016 - 04.2018
Supply Chain Solutions Lead
Coats Plc
04.2012 - 11.2017
Planning & Strategy Process Coordinator
Coats Plc
02.2011 - 03.2012
Planning Systems Manager
Coats Plc
09.2008 - 01.2011
Information Management Manager
Coats Plc
11.2005 - 08.2008
Systems Executive
Asian Paints
06.2000 - 10.2005
MBA -
Indian Institute of Management
06.1998 - 05.2000
M.Sc. - Statistics
Mumbai University
01.1996 - 01.1998
PG Diploma - Software Technology
National Centre For Software Technology
01.1996 - 01.1998
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