Bharat K Contact : +91-9535396909 Email: Ind.bharat.k@gmail.com Place: Bangalore

Objective To attain a challenging position in a company and enhance the profitability of business using my experience in Analytics and Retail.

Summary

In my 4 years of experience, areas of competencies includeo Historical Analysiso Demand Planning and Strategizingo Data Analysiso Allocation and Assortment Planningo Supply Chain Managemento Stores and e-commerce businesses

Experience in working ono Forecasting Modelso Regression, Clustering, Time Series modelso Data Management tools

Experience Data Specialist IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore June 2015 – Till date

Roles & Responsibilities: Working closely with the off shore team to ensure smooth transition of projects, Effective knowledge sharing

and ensuring on time and accurate project delivery Working on various Nielsen tools such as Nitro and Spectra for data collection and retrieval Use the Homescan, Retail POS and various Syndicated data to infer trends of sales, promotions, Brands,

Retailers and Markets Build spreadsheet based models for data analysis; conduct Brand analysis, Competitor analysis, Category

review and Business review Preparing Scorecard for client group which provides an overview of the brands performance over the period of

time Preparing metrics for reporting of KPIs, capacity and utilization Driving automation and creating templates for streamlining analytical projects to increase process efficiency Analyze space to sales and provide insights on space allocations to maximize sales

Sr. Business Analyst Target Corporation India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore May 2014 – May 2015

Roles & Responsibilities: Managed the Perishable and HPP Divisions that had a turnover of around $10 billion Managed a team of size 8 providing consultation, guidance, training and support Ideated and implemented a $5 Million initiative to maintain better Inventory levels and drive sales Proactively identified process loopholes and worked on formulating Best methods Maximize the sales while holding a leaner Inventory during non-seasons Developed Contingency plans to maintain turnover and right Inventory by timely communication with the

stakeholders

Achievements: As a member of strategic CFT, proactively strategized and guided Un-salable initiatives that have successfully

brought down the UPI for the year 2014-15 Effective in recovering the Instocks for items which were chronically OOS Successful in removing the bottle necks and closing the loop by revisiting the best methods for 2 processes Received the Prestigious Q1 award for 2014 for Thought Leadership at Target Corporation

Business Analyst Target Corporation India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore August 2012 – May 2014

Roles & Responsibilities: Analyzing sales history and trend to maximize sales potential Developing allocation strategies to maintain proper store inventory levels and product distribution Assortment planning and performing Historical analysis Monitoring the KPIs and analyzing business activity of products/categories Developing action plans for initiatives like sales plans, seasons, new store/item setups, company spaces and

transitions Effective decision making by Collaborating with various stakeholders like stores, DC s, partners and buyers

Achievements: Received the Senior Vice President award for year 2013 at Target Corp India Pvt. Ltd Attained Six sigma Yellow belt for saving more than 1000 man hours by automations Maintained optimum inventory levels during the key seasons for the assigned divisions

Key Projects

Dynamic Pres-Min Project (Aug 2013 – Sep 2014) Scope : To Minimizing the UNS and improvising the sales of an item with very short shelf life Responsibilities : Identifying Root cause of the issue -> Developing Forecasting models and tools -> Identifying

pilot stores -> Tracking test and control results -> Fortifying the logic according to observations Result : The new forecasting methodology not only helped in drastically reducing the Un-salables but also in

providing incremental sales at the stores projecting savings of around $10 Million

BIS- Back In Stock Project (Nov 2014 – Feb 2015) Scope : To identify and address the top items being OOS chronically resulting in high Potential sales Responsibilities : Identifying the Items and metrics -> Testing the feasibility of the metric -> Adjusting the

components and improvise the In stocks Result : The solution provided the Items to recover their instocks by over 90% and helped in achieving

incremental sales and superior experience to the guest

Strengths Technical Skills

In-depth knowledge in Retail and Merchandising Knowledge in Supply Chain management Project Management skills

Attention to detail and willingness to stretch to

get the job done Team management skills Great thirst to learn and experiment

Advanced Excel like pivots, Dynamic Charts Tableau desktop & dashboards Alteryx SPSS, Mini- Tab SQL Knowledge in R Nielsen Database, Nitro and Spectra VBA for macros

Academics MBA in Marketing from Alliance University School of Business, Bangalore – 2012 BE in Electronics and Communication from JNTU, Hyderabad – 2010 12th Standard from Board of Intermediate Education, AP -2004

(Bharat K)

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