Niklas Westerholm

Experience

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  Swedish Armed Forces

  Jun 1990 - Dec 1997

  Sgt 2nd Cl.

  Team Leader of an Light Infantry Recon Unit. (4.BrigSkomp)Served twice with UN/NATO on peace keeping missions. UNPROFOR (Ba02) IFOR (Ba07)

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  Svenska Turistföreningen

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

  Skier & Front Desk

  During a few years I was involved in arranging events and professional conferences in scenic Abisko, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. This was of course just an excuse to learn Telemark and Randonee skiing techniques.

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  Cornerstone Group AB

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  IT Consultant
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  Icon medialab

  Sept 2000 - Apr 2003

  Data Warehouse Consultant

  Data Warehouse Developer & Technical Lead @ Mijada acquired by Icon

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  Visma

  Apr 2003 - Dec 2003

  Data Warehouse Consultant

  Employed by Actit AB before the merger with Visma 2008Data Warehouse Developer / Technical Lead

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  Affecto

  Jan 2004 - Nov 2009

  Data Warehouse Consultant

  BI System Reviews and information strategy recommendationsBI Business Requirements gatheringBI Tech. Lead & Coaching of your teamDesign of logical and physical information modelsTechnical implementation

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  Axfood

  Dec 2009 - Aug 2022

  Product owner with the goal of enabling and upscaling of the organization's analytical capabilities and reduce time to market from idea to finished product. In this role, I established a new, T-shaped, platform team for Advanced Analytics and collaboration model with Data Science teams in the Axfood Group to improve our data-driven culture, improve analytical self-service and reduce time to market to operationalize data-driven business solutions.Techstack Jira, AWS (Sagemaker, Airflow, API Gateway, Redshift, Data Lake, AWS Foundation Services) Show less In the role, I had an overall architectural responsibility for all central Analytics solutions in the group's value chain, from customer engagement to store operations, assortment and logistics optimization as well as profitability and financial reporting.The major abilities that I established during the period include:Target architecture & migration of forecast & recommendation solutions to cloud infrastructure (2020).Analytical capabilities for Dagab's new Logistics structure (2019-2020).Improved customer centricity in promotion and negotiation processes for Dagab, Willys & Hemköp (2017-2018).Analytical capabilities for market automation for Willys & Hemköp (2018).Analytical capabilities for logistics and retail processes for Dagab, Willys & Hemköp (2017).New capabilities for information security and GDPR compliance (2017).Analytical capabilities for online digital business for Willys & Hemköp (2015-16).New profitability analysis for Dagab B2B (2015).New forecast & recommendation solutions for increased relevance in the customer meeting, market optimization and logistics optimization for Dagab, Willys & Hemköp (2014-15).Analytical capabilities for new loyalty programs for willys and Hemköp (2012-13).Base Analytical capabilities for group-wide (Axfood) and business area-unique solutions for reporting sales and logistics flows (2010-12).Techstack: Teradata, Informatica, SPSS Modeler, Microstrategy, Prodacapo (ABC costing), SAP BW, Erwin, SVN, Jenkins. SAP ERP, Oracle Siebel CRM/Analytics Show less

  • Product Owner Analytic Platforms Axfood

    Sept 2018 - Aug 2022

  • Solution Architect Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Warehousing & Advanced Analytics

    Dec 2009 - Sept 2020
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  Rebtech AB

  Sept 2022 - now

  Senior Analytics consultant & co-owner

  I help my clients maximize the business value of existing and future investments in Data Analytics. Together, we review governance & management, working methods and organization as well as architecture to create a sustainable analytics capability that adds value, increases quality and reduce time to market