Lovish Uppal

Learner, problem solver and curious business analyst with 5 years of experience performing requirement gathering, gap analysis, data exploration, insights generation, and visualization development for a diverse Fortune 100 client base. Passionate about finding new and creative ways to solve business problems and the art of storytelling through data visualizations. Possesses excellent communication skills to effectively engage with team members and build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, peers, and business partners.

Approved

Post Graduate Work Permit.

Ponant (Montreal, QC) – MBA Co-op Consultant 07/2022 – 08/2022

Generated and presented insights and growth recommendations to the CEO of the Americas business of the luxury cruise line business that faced the challenge of growing competition in an industry deeply impacted by the pandemic

Quantiphi (Bangalore, India) - Senior Business Analyst 02/2021 - 07/2021

• Managed Go-to-Market (GTM) activities (Market research, insights, marketing collateral, and UI development) for a predictive ordering solution, OrderSmartTM, conceived to transform the manual sales-order generation process of Coca-Cola bottlers using AI and ML algorithms. The cloud agnostic at-scale solution enables suggested order generation for 1.5 Mn SKU-store combinations
• Coordinated with product development, design, and marketing teams to ensure timely completion of POC product features, marketing collateral, and sales enablement research

Mu Sigma (Bangalore, India) - Business Analyst 07/2016 - 05/2020

• Sales & Marketing Associate | Spot award winner for maintaining a healthy sales pipeline and creating in-roads to a new geography
• RWE Analytics for a Fortune 50 medical devices manufacturer | Led a team of 16 business analysts providing business insights, visualizations, and recommendations to enable 20+ research abstracts per year in Real World Evidence and Health Economics and Outcomes Research studies o Responsible for managing scrum, delivery tracking, stakeholder communication, quality assurance, and business reviews (WBR, MBR, QBR). Mentored trainee business analysts into the next set of team leaders
• Retail supply chain analytics | Executed 5+ projects aimed at improving the fresh produce supply chain of the largest retailer of the world. Impact included savings of approximately 200 Mn USD and lead time reduction of 1.5 days for the targeted fresh produce.

o Enabled project management and traceability through tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Visio. Demonstrated skills in Tableau, SQL, Excel, and Teradata to solve the following problems:

a) Lead time reduction: Developed a framework to measure and monitor the impact of a Fresh Supply Chain pilot aimed at reducing markdowns and lead time for highly perishable items. Analyzed data and reported pilot performance b) Supply Chain KPI Tableau dashboards: Set up Teradata master tables and provided visibility into the lead time health across the nodes enabling operational changes and future pilots for SCPA (Supply Chain Planning & Analytics) team c) Financial KPI dashboards: Provided visibility into the financial KPIs (Sales, Throws, MD, On Hand, Lost Sales, etc.) for VP Finance through dashboards on Tableau and Excel d) 3 Cold Chain adherence business intelligence pilots: Identified triggers and pain points in the cold supply chain through data manipulation, insights generation, reporting on Tableau dashboards and PowerPoint presentations

Recent MBA graduate from HEC Montreal