Ian Kerr

Business Intelligence Director - Travelport

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

About

Customer centric, experienced Business Intelligence Director with a demonstrated history of leading BI teams in global businesses in the Travel Technology & IT industries.

Experience

  • Travelport (19 yrs 10 mos)
    • Business Intelligence Director - Commercial
      Jan 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

      Global responsibility for Business Intelligence for Travelport’s Commercial Department, including Sales & Account management, Support services, Supplier relationships, Training, Consultancy & 3rd party Operator markets. Key Responsibili -Define and execute the Commercial BI strategy in line with Commercial departmental priorities, strategic programs and SLT influence to deliver actionable insight to all levels of the business. - Work closely with Commercial leaders to identify where BI can improve processes and deliver insight to positively affect the bottom line. - Lead the development of complex Power BI reports and dashboards enable data-driven decision making. - Regularly present analytics and findings to peers and leadership for action and reflection - Define, analyse and report on Commercial management KPIs in line with current strategy. - Act as BI lead on various Enterprise strategic change projects. - Partner with data & BI colleagues across Finance, Product, Technology Some of the initiatives I have led are: - Composite customer score cards and predictive analysis using risk/growth modelling to predict customer performance/satisfaction. -“Deliver Insight”. Automate delivery of business insight directly to colleagues inboxes at a regular cadence. - AI. Introducing AI insight and functionality into the Power BI reporting offering (Prompt engineering) - “Cost to serve” modelling on Travelport’s Support department. - Maturing the Commercial BI governance framework. Business Intelligence SME & Lead on multiple Strategic Enterprise Programs

    • Head of Reporting & Analysis (Operations)
      Feb 2009 - Jan 2016 · 7 yrs

      Global responsibility for providing analysis, performance metrics, measurements & information relating to Travelports Operations dept to both senior management and the business as a whole.

    • Global Operations Analysis Manager
      Sep 2006 - Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Business Analyst at Oracle - Reading
    Dec 2005 - Sep 2006 · 10 mos

  • Business Intelligence Manager at Travelport
    Apr 2003 - Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Business English Teacher at Berlitz - Barcelona
    Jan 2002 - Mar 2003 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Information Analyst Contractor at Energis - Reading
    Apr 2001 - Dec 2001 · 9 mos