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Owais Qureshi, Business Analyst

Owais Qureshi

Business Analyst·Intertek

Saudi Arabia

Master's degree, Business Analytics

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 0 months

Business Analyst

May 2019 - Present

Intertek

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

May 2019 - Present

● Supporting several sustainability projects in Middle East and United Kingdom.
● Developed low code applications to address various sustainability issues within the organization, streamlined reporting to monitor the progress and take corrective actions.
● Planning to use gamification techniques to develop sustainable culture within the organization.
● Use of ML to address issue of outliers and incomplete reporting.
● Responsible for understanding business requirements and processes - planning, aggregating, transforming data, creating visualizations and reports to strengthen and extend business relationship with clients.
● Effectively communicating with cross-functional teams and management to provide comprehensive solution to clients, to help them make informed decisions and take corrective actions without lag.
● Presenting solution to clients, working on their feedback by liaising with business and technical teams, uncovering areas of improvement to implement changes in existing system, respecting timelines to ensure positive customer experience.
● Responsible for managing few regional and global applications.
● To digitize solution for clients so that they have access to
important information in near real time.
● Using data from different sources to generate internal reports & dashboards for revenue, KPIs, work in progress, staff utilization, movement of cargo in and out of ME region etc.
● Recommend new strategies to improve team performance.
● Predominantly using Power Platform to create solutions and acting as Power Bi Workspace Admin.
● Creating ML solutions for the organization using MS tools.
● Won one of the biggest inspection projects in the year 2021 with a chemical manufacturing company in Morocco by creating a digital solution for their inspection needs.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Management

Data Analyst

December 2018 - Present

Quant Data & Analytics

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

December 2018 - Present

Data analysis using Alteryx, Tableau & R

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Intern

April 2017 - October 2017

Gaist Solutions Limited

Birmingham, United Kingdom

April 2017 - October 2017

• Worked on a project to prove existence of spatial autocorrelation in network data and its impact on outcome of an investment appraisal.
• The aim of the project was to understand the impact of spatial autocorrelation on network data (road network) and the implications it can have on major maintenance schemes. The secondary aim was to find a modeling technique that will account for spatial autocorrelation so that the model does not suffer from erroneous parameter estimation, which may result in inaccurate investment requirements for road maintenance.
• QGIS, PostgreSQL, IBM SPSS Modeler, Geoda & R were used for data analysis.

Company industry:
Business Consultancy Services
Job role:
Research and Development

Business Development

May 2013 - September 2016

Bureau Veritas

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

May 2013 - September 2016

• Analyzed and visualized sales data using pivot tables and advanced excel functions to furnish insights on sales & marketing activities.
• Created dashboard reports to provide insights on sales, training, and project related data.
• 11% annual growth in Sales vs Budget.
• 97% retention of recertification clients.
• 20% new sales through prescribers’ and consultants channel.
• Addition of 10 new customers annually to the existing customer base on an average.
• Handled project of vendor audits of STC (biggest telecom company of Middle East Region), having more than 1200 vendors in project scope.
• Introduced 8 new products in services portfolio (ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 10001 etc.)
• Worked as a trainee auditor after completion of my lead auditor qualification.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Sales

Sales Consultant

September 2012 - March 2013

Netsoft Group, Focussoftnet

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

September 2012 - March 2013

• Product Presentations/ Demonstrations.
• Supported with technical qualification.
• Provided answers to technical questions in a requested format.
• Built demo for customers.
• Deliver proof of concepts.
• Monitored accurate and correct delivery of software sold.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Sales

Sales & Marketing Manager

December 2011 - June 2012

NCEI

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

December 2011 - June 2012

• Prepared BOQs and cost estimation from drawings.
• Prepared quotations arising from different customers & responded to them.
• Produced and checked all associated drawing /documents needed for the project.
• Increased sales volume through development of additional clients in municipal, utility, industrial & government markets.
• Managed existing OEM and utility accounts for Company switchgear.
• Conferred with management, supervisors, and design and estimation engineers when deemed appropriate.
• Attend trade shows and exhibitions as necessary to increase awareness of Company switchgear.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Sales

Assistant Manager

August 2007 - December 2011

ICICI Bank Limited

Mumbai, India

August 2007 - December 2011

• Defined bank’s regional advertising and promotional strategy and built alliances to increase product portfolio and enhance bank’s brand image.
• Created pivot tables to analyze marketing and market research data.
• Generated dashboards to give better insights to sales team on marketing campaigns.
• Developed unique marketing and promotional strategies for different customer segments based on data analysis.
• Conceptualized the reward and recognition programs, prepared communication collaterals and managed events in accordance with budgets and feasibility analysis.
• Initiated tie ups and deals with print media.
• Managed a team of marketing assistants and vendors.

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Marketing and PR

Education

Aston University

September 2017

September 2017

Master's degree, Business Analytics

United Kingdom

Data Science and Data Analytics is much talked about field in recent times because of the amount of data that is being generated currently. To get meaningful information from this data and to plan for future events is the need of the day for current business environment where business analytics play a very important role.
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Birla Institue of Management Technology

April 2007

April 2007

Master's degree, Marketing

India

L'École supérieure de commerce (ESC) de Rouen

April 2007

April 2007

Master's degree, Marketing

France

GPA (percentage): 88%

GPA (percentage): 88%

Skills

Alliance Development
Expert
Alliance Development
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Marketing Management
Expert
Marketing Management
Expert
Sales Management
Expert
Sales Management
Expert
Marketing Mix
Expert
Marketing Mix
Expert
ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor program
Intermediate
ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor program
Intermediate
R
Intermediate
R
Intermediate
SQL
Intermediate
SQL
Intermediate
Power Automate
Intermediate
Power Automate
Intermediate
Tableau
Intermediate
Tableau
Intermediate
Power Apps
Intermediate
Power Apps
Intermediate
Sustainability
Intermediate
Sustainability
Intermediate
Power BI
Expert
Power BI
Expert
Machine Learning
Intermediate
Machine Learning
Intermediate
Alliance Development
Expert
Alliance Development
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Marketing Management
Expert
Marketing Management
Expert
Sales Management
Expert
Sales Management
Expert
Marketing Mix
Expert
Marketing Mix
Expert

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
BUSINESS SUSTAINABI L ITY STRATEGY
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Oct 2019

Training
SAP ABAP
WEEXEL
May 2011
Oracle 9i
SQL Star
Jun 2005

Hobbies

  • Cricket, Football, Swimming, Trekking
    •Award for the outstanding performance and significant achievement as Marketing Manager (Punjab2 & J&K) for the period 2010-2011. •Award for best brand audit Pan India 2009-2010 done by ICICI Bank. •Represented ICICI Bank in the Chandigarh Half Marathon 2010 and got a special prize from MD of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company.