GauravBaidyasen

Gaurav is a certified business consultant and data scientist from Carnegie Mellon University and has an engineering degree from KIIT University with 8+ years of retail and financial analytics experience. He has worked in a variety of roles with different global MNCs such as Wipro, Fidelity Investments and Harman Connected Services. Working with the largest retailer in the world, he designed a promotion recommendation engine which was used to optimize the promotion budget and increase the incremental volumes for one of the biggest categories. He managed all aspects of product portfolio offerings: requirement gathering, primary research, strategy formulation, conceptualization & sales support to build long term sustainable business opportunity. He has worked on Segmentation Models for a US Retailer - Retail sales driver analysis for one of the popular mid-size retailers in the US- Determined the potential retail sales drivers (Regression Analysis) . Engaging with Fidelity Investments, he has built a Capacity Planning Engine which managed the headcount and optimal book of business for Client Service Managers through demand supply process across the US markets. He was responsible for designing Business Requirement Specifications that successfully delivered necessary change in a manageable and non-intrusive way. Currently, he is working as Senior General Manager and Business Head- Data Sciences in Times Group. He works with clients on initiatives involving global delivery teams and that are aimed at significant productivity and financial improvement. He helped customers to design Analytics training framework for end-to end data management, marketing mix modelling and insights generation. He engages with customers for requirement gathering, analysing current state and proposed the training framework.