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Amit Purohit

Amit Purohit

Riyadh,Riyadh Region

Summary

An accomplished Executive, BI Management Professional with robust experience in driving Technology concepts & policies to ensure increased competitiveness with full P&L and ROI accountability. Acquired in-depth understanding of best business practices of Retail and Wholesale domain. Possesses sound expertise in end-to-end program/ project management with strategic planning for realization of business benefits using technology. Proven ability in communicating solution strategy and product offerings with the clients, key decision makers and stakeholders by providing strategic inputs and IT vision for implementing new technologies. Holds distinction of developing and designing Business IT alignment policy & Change Management within organization imposed due to Technology projects. Accomplished more than 10+ sizable Projects with DevOps/Agile and Waterfall methods under PMO Governance, which defines each Project Score based on Importance (ROI based) and Expected time of delivery.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Information Technology

Apparel Group
Riyadh, KSA
01.2023 - Current
  • Sourced new and emerging technologies to optimize information services.
  • Advised on Information and communications technology policy and process improvements.
  • Negotiated cost-efficient prices with vendors for new systems and services.
  • Led information and communications strategy development.

Business Intelligence Manager

Apparel Group- UAE
Dubai, UAE
01.2011 - 01.2023
  • Translated Business Project requirements into Business Intelligence solutions and designs through Microstrategy.
  • Developed and implemented Data Warehouses (MS-SQL)/Amazon Redshift and integration solutions to achieve common DataMart and data lake for , Apparel Group.
  • Performance-tuned and troubleshooted reporting and BI tools, systems and software.
  • Built reports based on stakeholder requirements to implement meaningful and necessary business changes.
  • Identified room for process improvements and automations to increase operational accuracy and efficiency.
  • Analyzed complex datasets, offering clear examples and insights when leveraging data to propose changes.
  • Improved data access for stakeholders by designing and building data models.
  • Investigated user requirements, using results to design functional specifications.

IT Assistant Manager

Apparel Group-UAE
Dubai, UAE
06.2004 - 12.2010
  • Collaborated with project engineers to roll out, manage, or patch software.
  • Spearheaded new IT training and development programmes to boost employee retention.
  • Identified skill gaps and restructured IT team, increasing department capabilities.
  • Aligned IT strategy with business needs, prioritizing value for money, security and contractual requirements.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Finance

Gujarat University
Ahmedabad/India
07.1999 - 07.2003

High School Diploma - Diploma in IT

GLSIIT
Ahmedbad
04.2001

High School Diploma - Accounts

High School
Ahmedabad
06.1999

Skills

  • Business Intelligence Roadmap Design
  • Database Management
  • Business Intelligence Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Change management
  • SQL
  • SSIS
  • AWS Redshift
  • Matallion(ETL Development Tool)
  • Oracle Retail And Finance
  • Microstrategy
  • PowerBI

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent

Accomplishments

  • Developed ,Deployed and Managed more than 50+ Dashboards across the group.
  • Managing 2000+ BI Users who are using these Dashboards on daily basis for their business insights.
  • Achieved 7.3% growth in sales by introducing AI based Consolidation Software for inventory availability in stores.
  • Complete bird view of business on a single click, using Microstrategy Mobile Dashboards on Mobile Phones and IPad.
  • Automation for Sales Reporting on Whatsapp to Area and Operation Managers.
  • Reduced 40% of Man hours by using AI Based Technology for Inventory Consolidation.
  • Supervised team of 8 staff members.
  • Key Member in Oracle Retail and Fusion Finance Implementation across group.

Timeline

Head of Information Technology

Apparel Group
01.2023 - Current

Business Intelligence Manager

Apparel Group- UAE
01.2011 - 01.2023

IT Assistant Manager

Apparel Group-UAE
06.2004 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Commerce - Finance

Gujarat University
07.1999 - 07.2003

High School Diploma - Diploma in IT

GLSIIT

High School Diploma - Accounts

High School
Amit Purohit