Interview with Abhijit Sharma - Senior Manager: Analytics Centre of Excellence, Landmark Group (UAE)

8+ years of overall experience in retail analytics and strategy development. 3+ years of team leadership experience along with 3 years of international experience in internal consulting. Have improved retail decisions by applying various statistical, data mining & optimization techniques. Want to prove the value of analytics in all decisions of a retail organization and embed analytical algorithms in decision support and operational systems. Responsible for setting IT infrastructure for analytics team to support all retail functions. Leading analytics projects in Loyalty management and Supply chain management function. Recruiting talented analytics professional to build a world class retail analytics team. Question 1: About yourself and your role at Landmark Group Question 2: How would you describe Landmark Group’s journey in data & analytics? Question 3: You’re leading a discussion group at the Data & Analytics Leaders Forum UAE on building data & analytics teams - which is a big challenge most companies face and how to build successful teams? Question 4:What are the key strategic/business objectives behind your work? What have you been mandated to achieve? Question 5: What advice would you give to Middle Eastern companies who are at the start of their data & analytics journey?