Kankona Roy

Experience

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  Tesco HSC

  Mar 2015 - Feb 2017

  Analyst

  As an Analyst at Tesco, my roles and responsibilities included,- Quality assurance for product content on Tesco Direct for all categories. - Publishing daily and weekly reports for all products in Tesco Direct (Reports mainly involved all product specifications, cost and stock details) - Collaboration with IT to meet business requirement related to quality of products and governing them regularly.- Assisting buying admin in ensuring correct prices and promotions are loaded; Resulted in YoY reduction in negative impact in stores by 97%.- Developing macros based on requirements from Suppliers, Sellers. Show less

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  Cargill

  Feb 2017 - Jun 2018

  Market Intelligence and Data Analyst

  - As a MI&DA Specialist I am responsible of delivering advanced and forward-looking market intelligence to support regional category sourcing teams in developing and executing category strategies. This position will also help translate data and analytics information into strategic business decisions.- Engage with Regional Category leads and managers on an on-going basis to understand the strategic direction and areas of opportunity and risk for categories; ensure MI and data and analytic efforts align with needs to create the most value.- Help lead campaign workshops and organize project work and play a key role in bringing consensus to decisions.- Create and distribute market intelligence reports with key competitive analysis, supplier profiles, spend analysis and industry best practices.- Merging analytics, statistics and market intelligence to derive impactful insight for the organization. Show less

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  Target

  Jun 2018 - now

  As a Manager – Last Mile Performance Management Analytics, I will:• Support strategies and efforts to achieve delivery experience, sales and profitability objectives• Develop and manage a high performing, diverse, inclusive and engaged team of supply chain analysts• Mentoring the team to perform complex data analysis to identify root causes and implement corrective actions• Streamline and simplify complex business processes through documentation, standardization and automation• Design and implement transportation system settings and configurations to achieve delivery experience, capacity utilization and expense objectives • Use data and metrics to deeply understand the business, identify areas in need of improvement and measure the impact of actions• Perform complex data analysis to identify performance defect root causes and implement corrective actions • Inspire intellectual curiosity around process/business improvement opportunities Show less As a manager for the store insights team, I am leading a team of specialists/analysts helping them work on complex data manipulation and analysis to provide best in time strategic solutions to any issues faced by the Target store team members ensuring smooth functioning of the stores  Staying connected with and influence key stakeholders to ensure effective actions are taken for all the feedback received from Target stores team members  Driving process improvements for Target stores by utilizing critical thinking, data, analysis, issue framing, benchmarking and communications to deliver technology and solutions.  Working closely with Product teams to build solutions delivered via Store devices and technology while collaborating with other cross- functional partners across headquarters and stores.  Building team strategies that is cohesive with the enterprise needs. Show less •As a Business Partner for the Store Insights team, I act as an advocate for 2,400+ Target Stores using data analysis and compelling visualizations to create actionable insights to educate and influence key stakeholders•The Business partner role within Store Insights team requires me to lead projects thriving on innovation, focusing on continuous process improvement and identifying opportunities through data analysis & storytelling to elevate store team member experience with a focus on guest, sales, profitability and innovation•Leading a team of specialists/analysts helping them work on complex data manipulation and analysis to provide best in time strategic solutions to any issues faced by the Target store team members ensuring smooth functioning of the stores •As a project lead, staying connected with and influence key stakeholders to ensure effective actions are taken for all the feedback received from Target stores team members•Act as a thought and execution leader in driving insights and possess the ability to drive the teams towards superior creative solutioning•Lead creative project management process optimization, documentation of processes, standards and guidelines ensuring elevated Target stores experience Show less

  • Manager - Last Mile Performance Analytics

    Jul 2022 - now

  • Senior Business Partner - Stores

    Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Business Partner Store Insights

    Jun 2018 - Aug 2021