Gopalakrishnan B_upd_2015

Gopalakrishnan B_upd_2015

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  Gopalakrishnan B SaiRam Mobile: +91-9611822337, Email: [email protected] Looking for career opportunities in Business Reporting, Analytics, Marketing, Strategy Planning and Operations with an organization of repute. CAREER ABSTRACT  Over 9 years of expertise in Business Report development, Data Analysis, Marketing Analytics, Pre-Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Customer Engagements and Process Improvements.  I currently working with Tesco HSC as Lead – Ireland Marketing reports and Insights team.  Primary Knowledge recipient for the role travelled to Ireland and ensured a very seamless transition.  Successfully Implemented Promotion optimization project for Ireland in coordination with onshore insight team.  Expertise in evaluating Price position, trends and gaps against competitors.  Developed pre-checker tool for commercial buying operation teams to set up prices in the system ensuring which are adherence to our Price and Promotion policies.  Expertise in evaluating sales, trends, promotional performance, product performance, customer buying behaviour and trade performance.  Proficient in developing dashboards to help answer business questions.  Analysing and understanding key Reference data issues and provide long term strategic solutions to prevent re-occurrence.  Head the Analyst Forum in the Marketing and Commercial teams to help Analysts from across different areas to share best practices and help enhance key reporting and insight skills.  Worked in various domains such as sales, Insurance, Mortgage and Retail PROFESSTIONAL SKILL SET Competitor analysis Drill Down/ Trend Analysis Process Improvements Key Account Management Training & Development Team Motivation & Management Reporting IT SKILLS SQL MS Office Teradata fast load and B Tech Utilities Data warehouse Concepts EMPLOYMENT SCAN Feb`11-till date Tesco HSC as Lead – Product Pricing, promotions and Trade Responsibilities  Develop better reports that aid root causing and improve controls and compliance that enables us to be a Trusted, Legal and Competitive Retailer  Conducting research and performing competitive pricing analysis. (Competitor Basket Analysis).  Providing insights on competitor price index movements and its impacts  Review pricing index reports and offer suggestions to maintain targets index levels as per Price and Promotions Policies.  Tracking promotion contribution, customer giveaway for various categories in any given promotions events.  Reporting company sales performance year on year and week on week for different Promotion mechanics.  Track trade performance against budgets at category, department & store level to help the business take corrective actions and stay competitive in the market.  Research, review and analyse the impact of merchandising and in-store promotional efforts on product sales and gross margins and make recommendations to Board.  Report Price and cost inflation trend by Wow, YoY and Period.  Mentoring team members and helping them in making their processes more efficient.  Involvement in: • Automation anywhere project across Marketing and commercial teams. • Coordinating with Tesco IT Team in Retail price optimiser tool development Oct`2008- Feb`11 IGATE Global solutions as Senior Associate / MIS Reporting Responsibilities  Creating and maintain reports in MS Excel and CFM that allows the company to get information on the daily business activities.
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   Preparing ofMonthly Performance status reports / Dash boards to senior management  Understand requirements, design formats, deploy formats, follow up with business development team and validating the data  Ad - Hoc Data collection, and perform trend analysis on the work queues.  Responsible for preparing billing report (Transaction process / Full time employee billing), vendor Performance report, Daily summary reports for onshore reporting.  Designing templates for data upload into lending portal system  Collating data and preparing the Monthly Operations summary review for internal management review presentation.  Played a major role in the remote transition of projects and have prepared the Standard Operating Procedure, Offshore Training Calendar, Process Maps and Process Flow document.  Conducting internal process audits & process reviews for ensuring strict adherence to the process parameters/systems as per defined guidelines. Mar`2007- Oct`08 AXA Business Services as Analyst / Insurance Claims Responsibilities  Generating Policy documents and Client letters using Customer Knowledge Base.  Analysing the Customer polices and the type of benefits under the claim.  Preparing overall pipeline, Quality and performance of team on weekly basis.  Updating and retreiving of Customer data from IBM Mainframe.  Works metrics reconcilation for the team  Late interest calculation and issuing of payments  Preparing Tax Deduction Certificates  Anwering to the queries raised by uk Customer Dec`2005- Mart`07 Oracle India Pvt Ltd as Business Operations analyst / Pre sales Responsibilities  Analysing the Customer profile, through Oracle CRM applications, Hoovers, One Source.  Analysing the Opportunities through oracle marketing campaigns.  Responsable for maintaining the Data Quality of all data used by Global sales  Ensuring the data quality to be Zero defect in 3 different levels. ACADEMIC PROFILE 2005 Bachelor of Commerce (E-Commerce) from PSG College of arts and science affiliated to Bharathiyar University. PERSONAL VITAE Date of birth: 28thJuly 1984 Present Address: #176, Kundanahalli Colony, ITPL Main Road, Bangalore-37 Languages known: English, Tamil, Kannada I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge Place: Bangalore Date: GopalaKrishnan B