TL;DR - I connect dots, leverage latest technology and grow businesses 🚀 An Electronics & Communication Engineer-turned-Coder-turned-Business Strategy and Analytics Professional with 14+ years of experience in Retail and Technology. 👩‍💻 🎓 MBA (International Business) from IIFT, specialising in Finance & Marketing. Passionate about how technology solves business challenges and drives growth - top and bottom line of an organization ✅ Have led functions like Global Analytics CoE for Pentland Brands (Speedo & others), Revenue, Planning & Commerciality – Omnichannel (Lowe's), Online (Myntra), and Offline while launching IKEA in India. Also worked as Lead for Emerging Tech (IoT & AI) at Tracxn, Business Manager for IBM Cloud (South India & Sri Lanka), and Corporate Development Analyst at JPMorgan Chase. 🌟 Key Achievements: 🏋️‍♀️ Set up & led the Analytics CoE team of Data Scientists in Bangalore, leveraging Data, Analytics, and AI to drive use cases across the value chain of Retail 🤹‍♀️ Established & scaled the Online Merchandising function with 9X growth across analyst to manager (people leaders) all virtually in less than the 2 pandemic years 📝 Led central pricing for high-revenue sales and BAU events at India’s biggest fashion retailer, Myntra 👷‍♀️ Part of 0-1 journey and then led the commerciality for IKEA India's Food business during its India market entry 🖲️ Business understanding of emerging technology like IoT, AI, etc. and how they are evolving while translating to solve business problems while leading the analysts on the same 🤝 Managed brand relations for complex IBM accounts. 💰 Recommended million-dollar process improvements for JPMorgan Chase’s Global Operations. 🎯 Lifelong learner: Phase 3 finalist of ETYL 2019 & part of GrowthX Club (Sep 2022 cohort). 📚 Avid reader, traveler 🧳, cook 👩‍🍳, business blogger, and active member of leap.club & GrowthX. Balancing my career with motherhood. 👦 Views are my own! 💫 🌐 Website: www.aakankshahajela.com 📝 Medium: @galaxian 🐦 Twitter: @galaxian