Yacoob Mohammed

Experience

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  Scruples

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2015

  Retail Salesperson

  Supported daily store operations, with a focus on delivering excellent customer service and ensuring a well-organized shopping environment. Responsibilities included:1. Customer Assistance: Engaged with customers to understand their needs, provided product information, and guided them in making informed purchasing decisions.2. Inventory Management: Assisted in organizing, stocking, and replenishing store inventory to maintain a neat, accessible, and visually appealing display.3.Sales Support: Contributed to meeting sales targets by creating a positive shopping experience, handling transactions, and promoting store promotions where applicable.4. Product Knowledge: Developed an understanding of product lines to assist customers effectively and ensure satisfaction. Show less

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  Dynamic Web Solutions

  Dec 2015 - Feb 2016

  Junior Web Developer

  Contributed to the development of a website designed to simplify home renovation and construction principles for users and connect them to an online store for purchasing materials. Key responsibilities included:1. Front-End Development Support: Assisted in designing and coding website elements to create a user-friendly experience, focusing on intuitive navigation and streamlined access to product information.2. Content Integration: Worked on integrating educational content that guided users through renovation and construction basics, ensuring a clear, informative user experience.3. E-Commerce Functionality: Supported the development of e-commerce features, enabling users to seamlessly transition from learning about renovation principles to browsing and purchasing materials online.4. Testing & Troubleshooting: Participated in testing phases to identify and resolve bugs, ensuring site functionality and performance met project requirements.5. Collaboration: Worked closely with the senior development team to align design and functionality with project goals, gaining hands-on experience with web development best practices. Show less

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  DataOrbis

  Feb 2017 - now

  Driving impactful data and AI strategies for global clients across retail, FMCG, and other industries to address complex business challenges and unlock growth. As Advisory Services Lead, I oversee projects from conceptual design through to full-scale implementation, building advanced data frameworks, optimizing operational processes, and enhancing profitability through targeted solutions.1. Advisory Strategy Development: Built a comprehensive go-to-market strategy for DataOrbis’s Advisory and Consulting division, defining service offerings, aligning with senior stakeholders, and setting the foundation for client acquisition and growth.2. Proposal Development & Success: Led the development of high-stakes proposals with a 50% win rate, securing projects valued in the six-figure range and fostering long-term client relationships.3. AI-Driven Innovation: Created AI-powered tools to automate insights, streamline field operations, and improve reporting accuracy, enhancing client productivity and delivering real-time, actionable intelligence for field and executive teams.4. High-Value Client Growth: Expanded key accounts from initial five-figure engagements into multi-phase, six-figure projects, providing insights that support sustained client growth and competitive advantage.5. Global Data Execution Project: Designed and managed a large-scale data-driven execution project for a world-leading FMCG client, developing a global plan to generate insights for field teams. This initiative enhanced operational performance and decision-making across multiple international markets, supporting a data-led approach to on-the-ground execution. Show less Leading end-to-end data integration projects across East Africa, South Africa, and beyond, establishing robust data processes that drive consistency, reliability, and scalability for retail and FMCG clients. Oversaw a team focused on data collection, validation, and integration, implementing best practices and expanding services to meet growing client needs.1. Team Management: Managed a team across multiple regions (Kenya, South Africa, and India) including hiring, capacity planning, and budgets to meet growing client demand and establish SOPs and ensure the collection & delivery of consistent, accurate data across more than 300 distributor and retailer data sources across 20+ clients. 2. Service Expansion & Revenue Growth: played a key role in developing a new service line, establishing new data feeds with major retail groups and supporting revenue growth initiatives for clients like Massmart Group (SAP, SAP 4 HANA), and independent Retail (KitKat Group) 3. Operational Efficiency: Implemented data validation checks and streamlined workflows that improved data consistency and reduced processing times, setting a foundation for standardized processes across regions.4. Strategic Projects: Played a key role in creating the first beauty industry benchmark in South Africa and established data collection processes with major retail groups in SA, Kenya, and Australia.5. Participated in the creation of the first Beauty Benchmark in South Africa, setting up accurate data feeds and auditing processes to ensure data reliability. Show less Responsible for managing and optimizing data integration and reporting solutions for a major global FMCG client, with a focus on accurate data consolidation, process improvement, and data validation. This role involved designing databases and workflows and custom algorithms to ensure integration of data with consistency, reliability, and accessibility of large-scale data across multiple sources, supporting strategic decisions with timely, high-quality insights.1. Database design and Integration for Multiple Retailers: Designed and implemented data-matching algorithms to standardize data from over 10 retailer sources, ensuring consistent alignment of products and stores for monthly and quarterly reporting.2. Enhanced Data Accuracy and Validation: Developed PowerBI validation reports, enabling automated checks for data consistency across retail locations, minimizing manual errors and improving data reliability.3. Operational Efficiency: Established SOPs for data processing and quality checks, reducing report preparation time and enabling faster access to insights essential for monthly strategic reviews.4. Client Data Management: Managed technical relationships with data providers, overseeing data receipt, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring quality standards were met in alignment with trading agreements.5. Data Driven Execution (DDE): Led initiatives to integrate retailer portal data for the DDE project, setting up SOPs to access daily sales and inventory data, optimizing field execution with real-time insights. Show less Supported high-impact data integration and reporting projects for major clients in the FMCG and retail sectors. Focused on designing efficient ETL processes and delivering timely, accurate reports to drive actionable insights for decision-makers. Played a key role in consolidating diverse data sources, ensuring data quality, and visualizing key metrics.1. Sell-In & Sell-Out Reporting: Developed core monthly reports for a pharmaceutical and food client, consolidating sell-in and sell-out data for rapid, reliable insights within a 3-day turnaround.2. Data Integration & ETL Process Design: Built and optimized ETL workflows to aggregate data from multiple distributor sources, ensuring consistency and streamlined access.3.Data Quality Assurance: Conducted data validation checks and created data quality reports to ensure accuracy across all datasets and improve reporting reliability.4. Retail Data & Insights Reporting: Delivered insights for major retail clients, supporting category and supplier-specific analysis, aiding business decision-making.5. Technology Utilization: Leveraged tools such as SSIS, SSMS, PowerBI, and Tableau to manage data flows, create visualizations, and drive efficiency in data processing. Show less

  • Advisory Services Lead

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Data Integration Manager

    Apr 2019 - Aug 2023

  • Senior Project Analyst

    Apr 2018 - Apr 2019

  • Project Analyst

    Feb 2017 - Apr 2018