Sazzad Hossian, Head of Research, Pricing, & Business Analysis

Sazzad Hossian

Head of Research, Pricing, & Business Analysis

Afghan Wireless Communication Company

Location
Afghanistan
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Experience
18 years, 8 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 8 months

Head of Research, Pricing, & Business Analysis at Afghan Wireless Communication Company
  • Afghanistan
  • My current job since January 2012

- Provide inputs into tariffs by studying time bands’ utilization, capacity utilization data for different customer profiles.
- Implement Balanced Scorecard and reflect the performance of the division
- Develop mid-term strategic plans for functional portfolios e.g. Mobile Contents, Handset and Devices, Business Segment etc.
- Manage and lead key strategic projects launched on a need basis to tackle dynamic market challenges such as the entry of new market operators.
- Prepare regular reporting on market performance indicators of AWCC as well as the industry for top management
- Develop and evolve the Consumer Segmentation model of AWCC & educate relevant functions on the model; measure segmentation effectiveness.
- Define the Research Roadmap of all primary and secondary survey and drive its implementation and to enable the users and decision-makers to take informed decisions by making relevant customer information and insights readily available to users
- Price elasticity research and forecasting
- Participate in various cross-functional projects and business case analysis e.g. additional spectrum allocation, WiMAX, 3G etc.
- Demand estimation of innovative products
- Marketing effectiveness and analytic
- Subscriber segmentation
- Lead optimizing prices and product profitability
- Competitor and competitive system analysis
- Develop strategic approaches to be profitable in low income segment
- Investigative reports on product/segment trend, impact of market offerings, identification of potential window for future market.
- Understand customer & market behavior through customer satisfaction and brand performance and provide recommendation and action plans.
- Develop 3 year’s strategic direction for the commercial division and communicate accordingly to higher management.
- Regular customer analysis and follow up reports (ToM, Likeability, Awareness, Satisfaction, Network quality) with recommendation

Senior Manager, Pricing and Business Analysis at Afghan Wireless Communication Company
  • Afghanistan
  • July 2010 to December 2011

- Analyze the revenue streams, minutes and calling patterns, customer segments and usage trends.
- Provide inputs into tariffs by analyzing time bands’ utilization, capacity utilization data for different customer profiles.
- Assess impacts of interventions in retention and of usage up selling initiatives.
- Steer the building of a relevant decentralized dashboard of MIS for each member of the Marketing Team and for other key members of the Marketing/Technical/Sales/Customer Care Department.
- Finalize the product and services pricing
- Develop impact and preliminary analysis, and participate actively in their implementation
- Participate in development projects in the area of business and systems use

Manager, Business Analysis at Afghan Wireless Communication Company
  • Afghanistan
  • May 2009 to July 2010

- Track business needs during development phases
- Observe the standards and procedures established and continuous evaluation.
- Develop testing strategies and verification scenarios
- Propose new or improved processes
- Define business processes
- Validate new processes with the business process owners
- Analyze, organize and supervise the segment wise ARPU based on monthly usage
- Analyze change and update requests
- Identify integration points of external systems
- Identify the strategic orientations and project scope
- Identify the needs of stakeholders and the impact on the company
- Analyze user requirements
- Identify and translate business constraints, in collaboration with the technical team

Specialist, Operational Process Development & Analysis at Grameenphone Ltd.
  • Bangladesh
  • December 2007 to May 2009

- Worked as a project member of all upcoming products, services & campaigns
- Attend/arrange cross functional meeting \[offer/campaign/project launching\], process preparation & documentation
- Requirement analysis & follow-up
- Pre-notification to heads & Resource Management regarding upcoming offer/campaign
- Proper circulation of information through all required means
- Review, simplify, map & document CS Processes (as-is /to be)
- Implement processes as a live document, nitty-gritty guidance and support for best dialogue practice & superior customer experience.
- Monitor, optimize, streamline & drive Process Improvement
- Reports regarding top complain/query (based on CIMS), CSPT & ERS to CS Management & Networks division
- Analyze and generate report on Service & System Interruption
- Root cause analysis of subscribers’ Temporarily Blocked status in MINSAT
- Daily Electronic Recharge System (ERS) gap analysis
- Identification of HLR parameter discrepancy after SIM change

Officer, Research & Analysis at Grameenphone Ltd.
  • Bangladesh
  • August 2005 to December 2007

- Conduct on demand analysis on five focus area (Customer perception, Revenue assurance, Fraud management, Business intelligence & Market intelligence)
- Establish focus wise analysis on regions, brands, and functions
- Dedicated analysis focus on data service (traffic, volume, growth, benchmark)
- Pre-launch risk assessment and Post evaluation of commercial campaigns
- Conduct analysis on unusual/ suspected activities
- Analyze survey findings, conducted to collect end user perception
- Technology Research

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • at West Bengal University Of Technology
  • July 2005

Specialties & Skills

Business Operations Management
Business Process Design
Business Process
Business Change Management
Business Process Improvement
MS Excel
MS Access

Languages

English
Expert
Bengali
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Train the Trainer (Training)
Training Institute:
British Council
Date Attended:
February 2009