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Sumesh Sundaran

Mumbai

Summary

Experienced data-driven market intelligence professional with over 10 years of proven success. Specializes in diverse domains including banking, healthcare, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Proficient in using primary and secondary market research tools to generate valuable insights that inform effective decision-making. Skilled in supporting the development and enhancement of products/services, geographies, programs, initiatives, user experiences, and competitive strategies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager - Research Operations

United States Pharmacopeia
01.2019 - Current
  • Lead the Research Operations team globally within the Strategic Insights department.
  • Support strategic, tactical, and operational initiatives as well as planning and implementation of new and potential products and programs.
  • Help conduct primary market research on topics related to Healthcare and the Pharmaceutical industry.
  • Conduct Quantitative research and support Qualitative research in collaboration with external vendors.
  • Manage the fieldwork activities for research studies, help monitor Customer Experience and provide research support for Voice of Employee engagements.
  • Collaborating with decision makers, senior leadership, and vendors to execute research objectives.
  • Expertise in using Qualtrics platform to implement research designs such as Concept testing, Pricing research, Brand health tracking, Attitude and usage, etc.
  • Responsible to manage and maintain the customer database of over 300K contacts that helps save ~$1 million in panel costs.

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Pureprofile Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2016 - 01.2019
  • Manage key business account clients and provide operational and technical support for their research objectives
  • Programming/Designing complex surveys, data collection/processing, data cleaning, reporting, and providing insights to clients.
  • Design surveys using tools such as ConfirmIT, Decipher, and using programming languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, and jQuery, etc.
  • Program and implement advance research methodologies such as Max-Diff, Discrete choice modelling, Segmentation, etc.
  • Distribute the survey in multiple countries and in different regional languages.
  • Process and clean data using IBM SPSS statistics which is then analyzed for quantitative results through the tool Q.
  • Provide dashboard reports to clients as per specifications.
  • Coordinate with international clients from Asia, Australia, and New Zealand and involved in the entire life cycle of the project from initiation to field end.

Survey Programmer

Ugam Solutions
09.2014 - 09.2016
  • Program and design complex surveys that are accessible to only the panelist members of the clients
  • Used technologies such as JScript.Net, ConfirmIT, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, etc in programming and designing the surveys.
  • Derived essential insights from the projects which helped in reporting important findings to the client.
  • Worked on projects for the client Nielsen; who is a global leader in Market Research Insights.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology (MSc-IT)

SIES College, Mumbai
05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology (BSc-IT)

SIES College, Mumbai
05.2011

Skills

  • Primary market research
  • Survey management
  • Quantitative data analysis
  • Data visualization
  • Insights Reporting
  • Research project management
  • Customer database management

Certification

  • Certified Research Professional, International Institute for Procurement and Market Research (IIPMR)
  • Big Data and Hadoop Certification, Edupristine Institute, Mumbai

Languages

English
Hindi
Marathi
Malayalam

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 06/15/90

Hobbies and Interests

  • Listening to music
  • Playing Guitar
  • Sketching

Project details

USP Perception Monitor Tracker

This is a yearly B2B research project that is conducted to understand the customer perception on the various products and services offered by USP. The survey is sent to all the active customers across the globe and the results are presented directly to the CEO. I am involved with the programming, data progressing and cleaning, coding, analysis, dashboarding and presentation (India) phase of the project. It is a critical research project for the company as it helps determine how the customer perceive United States Pharmacopeia as a brand and a standard setting organization.


Chemical Medicines – Attitude and Usage study

The is a study to understand customer attitude and usage regarding Reference Standards and General Chapters which are the most important and largest product and service offering from USP.  The study tries to identify value drivers and how USP measures to its competitors in the market. I lead this project from an operations standpoint and am involved throughout the project lifecycle from the point of setting up the questionnaires to creating dashboard visuals for analysis and reporting. I am also responsible for managing the sample for this project which involves identifying the target audience, collecting/mining contacts from internal data sources and creating distributions. This is a high-stake project and results are presented to all the key decision makers in the organization, who rely on the survey findings and actionable insights to devise business and market strategies for these crucial products.

Timeline

Manager - Research Operations

United States Pharmacopeia
01.2019 - Current

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Pureprofile Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2016 - 01.2019

Survey Programmer

Ugam Solutions
09.2014 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology (BSc-IT)

SIES College, Mumbai
  • Certified Research Professional, International Institute for Procurement and Market Research (IIPMR)
  • Big Data and Hadoop Certification, Edupristine Institute, Mumbai

Master of Science - Information Technology (MSc-IT)

SIES College, Mumbai
Sumesh Sundaran