Category Strategist at ByteDance, TikTok Shop | MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at LSE
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Nine years diagnosing complex commercial problems and building the internal and external partnerships needed to solve them, across e-commerce marketplaces and consumer lending in Southeast Asia. Managed annual budgets of $1M to $5M, deciding which sellers received the investment. End-to-end work: analysis and business case, ROI modelling, negotiation, pilot, then rollout and performance management against agreed targets, with several programmes codified into playbooks and scaled to other markets.
A parallel decade delivering education programmes for Indonesian government bodies at provincial and national level. Currently completing an MSc at LSE, with a dissertation on outcomes-based financing for rural education and two consulting engagements, for a circular-economy social enterprise in Cape Town and a Native American tribal development corporation in South Dakota.
Category Strategist at ByteDance, TikTok Shop (2021-06 – 2025-11)
Ran growth, governance, and seller-experience programmes for the Automotive and Electronics categories, serving hundreds of thousands of SME sellers. Managed $1M to $5M annual budgets, built the category dashboards and the ROI and pipeline models used for leadership prioritisation, and convened cross-functional work across operations, risk, legal, product, data, logistics, and customer experience. Two ByteStyle Awards.
Founder at Hehe Goodies (home bakery) (2020-11 – 2021-06)
Business Manager at Halodoc (2020-08 – 2020-11)
Business Improvement Junior Manager at JD.ID (JD.com Indonesia) (2019-01 – 2020-08)
Owned profit-generating and process-improvement projects for the Marketplace division, from budgeting and ROI modelling through launch and evaluation. Reported P&L to C-level executives.
Process Improvement Assistant Manager, Leadership Development Programme Trainee at Home Credit Indonesia (2017-01 – 2019-01)
Consumer lending business. Selected for a competitive one-year leadership development programme for high-potential candidates, progressing to Assistant Manager. Ran Agile projects across new lending products and systems while maintaining process-quality standards.
National Debate Coach, Indonesia Delegation to the World Schools Debating Championship 2024 at Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (2023-10 – 2024-07)
Lead Debate Coach, National Schools Debating Championship (NSDC) and Lomba Debat Bahasa Indonesia (LDBI) at Education Office of DKI Jakarta, Provincial Government (2016-01 – 2025-01)
Deputy Chief Adjudicator, National University Debating Championship (NUDC) at Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (2016-01 – 2018-01)
MSc in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2025-01 – 2026-01)
Bachelor in Education – Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia (2012-01 – 2016-01)