Bastian Sold

Head of Analytics Excellence

Cologne Bonn Region

About

Proven Analytics Manager with 11+ years of experience, bringing strong technical and business expertise across the full analytics application lifecycle. Passionate about people leadership, experienced in both direct team management and cross-functional influencing within global organizations.

Experience

  • Head of Analytics Excellence at Fressnapf | Maxi Zoo
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Full-time parenting at Career Break
    Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr

  • Bayer (12 yrs 4 mos)
    • Head of Analytics Enablement
      Feb 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Drove strategic development and transformation of a multinational team of 6 direct reports, aligned talent growth with organizational analytics objectives across global projects. Key Achievements - Upskilled front-end developers across all stages of the analytical pipeline with personalized coaching and providing tailored development plans, unlocking end-to-end problem solving and data-driven innovation - Empowered multiple teams to adopt agile practices and transform their collaboration from role-based responsibilities to a shared focus on outcomes

    • Lead Decision Scientist
      Oct 2020 - Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Identified business needs and assessed analytical use cases, driving them to operationalized solutions for the Procurement and Finance areas. Took end-to-end responsibility for quality and acceptance of these solutions while managing and evaluating an analytical portfolio. Key Achievements - Facilitated hackathons, fostering analytical business opportunities and evaluating for benefits as well as feasibility - Drove ideation to industrialization of group wide, full-stack analytical collaboration platform to reduce tax risks by automated internal pricing suggestions - Connected teams across multiple departments to create a fraud detection application that empowered analysts to proactively cut risk exposure

    • Decision Scientist
      Nov 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs

      Delivered analytic capabilities and industrialized solutions for Corporate Controlling to enhance performance management and drive a digital transformation. Identified and scaled analytical solutions leveraging the central BI platform through the Controlling organization. Key Achievements - Scaled and automated time series prediction for Supply Chain - Demand Planning increased automation rate within the planning process as well as reduced external costs - Developed a scenario cockpit for group wide strategic planning, transforming a months-long static powerpoint process into interactive sessions, enabling the board making same-day-decisions