Vedant Kumar
Pune
Summary
- Data & Analytics professional with 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise BI platforms, multi-country implementations, and large-scale data warehousing programs, emphasizing the healthcare sector and particularly addressing the needs of the Commercial, Medical and Marketing Pharma industry.
- Strong experience in client management, team development, and end-to-end delivery across multi-country implementations APAC, Japan, EMEA, and US markets, and ensuring projects meet financial and operational goals, resulting in sustained business growth.
- Expertise in multiple BI tools and AWS services, transforming complex data into actionable insights to drive strategic decisions and performance improvements
- Facilitated multiple training & Bootcamp sessions for new joiners, covering Pharma basics, ETL and SQL hands on sessions for more than 120+ freshers, ensuring successful onboarding and skill development.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Technology Solutions Consultant
ZS Associates
07.2022 - Current
- Lead and Managed as offshore delivery lead for multiple global pharmaceutical engagements across US, Japan, APAC, and EMEA.
- Lead enterprise-scale analytics programs supporting 5000+ users, ensuring strategic alignment, optimized governance, and measurable business performance improvements
- Managed end-to-end engagement delivery including scope definition, finances, forecasting, resource allocation, risk management, and leadership summary for programs around $1.8M annually.
- Identified cost levers and automation that reduced manual workload by 30%, while improving operational turnaround and ops cost in multiple operations projects
- Guided and mentored teams of up to 18 members across data analytics, and MDM workstreams to enhance capability and performance.
- Improved Data Quality by reinforcing the importance QC and mentored the team on structured testing approaches, query writing and industry best practices
- Developing and managing Statements of Work (SoWs) for new projects, ensuring clear scope, deliverables, and timelines that align with business objectives and client expectations.
- Provided strategic recommendations on data architecture, MDM governance, and analytics modernization initiatives.
- Supported business development through account planning, contributed to shaping proposals, and defining solution approaches.
Associate Consultant
ZS Associates
07.2020 - 06.2022
- Led a four-member team and worked closely with client stakeholders to define requirements, shape solution design, and deliver production-ready outputs.
- Delivered Japan’s first commercial analytics ecosystem independently, without Consultant or Manager support, achieving 100% on-time delivery and currently serve as the SME for all Japan datasets
- The success of the Japan rollout drove strategic confidence and resulted in securing the multi-country EMEA expansion for the client
- Designed and owned the master data architecture for Customer, Brand, Geography Alignment, and User Security across 37+ APAC markets, creating a scalable model that continues to run seamlessly, delivering significant cost efficiencies and being reused across multiple implementations.
- Led the end-to-end delivery of the Third-Party Sales module for all APAC markets, managing complex, country-specific data variations and ensuring accurate integration across regions.
- Improved data quality and platform reliability by introducing structured DQM and QC automation frameworks.
- Strengthened client relationships by driving transparency, gaining confidence, issue resolution, and roadmap alignment.
- Mentored analysts and led knowledge-sharing sessions improving onboarding efficiency by 50%.
- Contributed to business development through solutioning, estimations, and PoCs for organic initiatives with the existing client.
Associate
ZS Associates
01.2018 - 06.2020
- Built scalable ETL pipelines using ZS internal ETL tool; coached junior developers in pipeline development, testing, and best practices.
- Created STTM, Performed Data Profiling, built transformation mappings for the Reporting Tables used by MSTR reporting tool. Scheduled jobs on Azkaban scheduler
- Implemented DQM checks on data pipelines to reduce operational issues by 30%.
Software Engineer
SLK Software Services
11.2015 - 12.2017
- Developed informatica workflows to provide inputs to different types of source system. Developed PL/SQL stored procedures and reports using SSRS for FED submission
- Awarded ‘Team of the Quarter’
Education
BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Karnataka07.2015
Skills
- Data analysis
- Data modeling expertise
- Data Quality Manager
- Designing ETL data workflows
- Multi-Country Architecture Design
- Experience with AWS cloud solutions
- Analytical reporting design
- Data Analytics
- Customer MDM
- Customer Engagement
- Project Management
- Client Management
Timeline
Business Technology Solutions Consultant
ZS Associates
07.2022 - Current
Associate Consultant
ZS Associates
07.2020 - 06.2022
Associate
ZS Associates
01.2018 - 06.2020
Software Engineer
SLK Software Services
11.2015 - 12.2017
BE - Electronics & Communication Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University