Shruti S.

Vice President - Business Operations

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About me
Data & Analytics Leader | Innovation for Social Impact
Education
- City University
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  BSc (Hons)
Experience
- Mind Squared Consultancy Ltd
  Apr 2009 - Jan 2010
  Vice President - Business Operations
- IBM
  Jun 2010 - Jul 2011
  Global Delivery Project Coordinator
  ● Conducted interviews to select and allocate appropriate candidates on global delivery projects; worked closely with global delivery centres (India, America, China & Europe)● Managed the incoming & outgoing of costs associated with project codes and resources
- Capgemini
  Sept 2012 - Jan 2015
  Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant
  ● Provided financial insights to 7 London councils by developing BI dashboards with over 50 reports, using OBIEE● Managed and resolved incidents related to data warehousing, migration, and management (ETL & repository)
- Deloitte UK
  Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
  Management Consultant
  Key Achievements:Engagement Lead at a Railway Infrastructure Owner (National Locations) ● Enabled achievement of data driven decision making by establishing the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role, leading strategic initiatives, and defining a 5-year strategic operating model roadmap ● Built a sales opportunity pipeline of over £1 million, by developing strong relationships with C-suite stakeholders and displayed uses of predictive analytics on train timetabling Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy SME at Aviation and Manufacturing clients (UK, France, Malaysia)● Reduced 20% of costs by managing the BI capability and prioritising initiatives across a European division ● Led the implementation of a 2-year strategic BI roadmap costing over £2 million, and a 5-year data governance operating modelMI/BI Workstream Lead/ PM at Retail and Consumer Goods clients (National Locations)● Launched 600 remote Click & Collect points across the country and provided real-time package insight by leading and coaching on-shore & off-shore team members● Established strategic AI initiatives towards becoming a smarter “connected store” to improve customer experience and space efficiency Show less
- John Lewis Partnership
  Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
  Senior Project Manager for Cyber Security & Digital Foundation
  ● Successfully ensured pan-partnership GDPR security compliance and managed interdependencies across the CSDF programme by leading key projects with budgets over £3 million ● Reduced 50% of licensing costs and achieved a pan-partnership cost saving over £2 million by leading strategic vendor selections, contract negotiation activities and asset refresh recommendations
- Vodafone
  Jul 2020 - Aug 2024
  ● Built, managed, and coached a high performing team of 10 product managers, owners & developers, to successfully lead a portfolio of 70 finance & non-finance products ● Defined the Google Cloud Platform migration strategy and led a global “Rewards & Loyalty” transformation programme to achieve 300 million euros in commercial revenue● Led the end-to-end delivery of Vodafone’s ESG Reporting (data collection, data governance & reporting solution), ensuring compliance & accurate monitoring of sustainability initiatives against public targets, critical for C-Suite, investors, auditors & shareholders ● Assured alignment and reviewed strategic metrics, through engagement with SLT, Heads of, D&A and Corporate functions across Group & markets Show less
  - Data & Analytics CoE Lead
    Jun 2022 - Aug 2024
  - Senior Data Portfolio Manager
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
- Save the Children UK
  Aug 2024 - now
  Director of Data, Analytics & AI
Licenses & Certifications
- Financial Management for Project Managers
  IBM
- Professional Certificate in Data Science
  HarvardX - An Online Learning Initiative by Harvard University through edX
  Jan 2020
- Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals
  Coursera
  Jun 2020
- SAFe Agile PM Certification
  Scaled Agile, Inc.
  Aug 2022