Shadi Ghadban, PMP®

Data Is My Passion - Sr. Data Analyst | ERP Implementation & Digital Transformation Specialist

Doha, Qatar

About

- Well-rounded and highly driven Data Analyst with 7+ years in technical and domain expertise combining business intelligence, statistical modeling, SQL, and data visualization in PowerBI and Tableau. - Proven ability to reduce cost, optimizing for 35% in procurement and 23% in supplier costs for multinational clients via regression modeling, pareto analysis, and supply chain optimization. - Proficient in market demand and product offering analyses, leading to a 120% sales increase. - Established leader in end-to-end ERP projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, stakeholder communication, and technical execution. - Effective IT Project Coordinator experience managing multi-million dollar projects and automating complex processes for increased efficiency.

Experience

  • IT Project Manager at Qatar Aeronautical Academy
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    - Design and Deployment of Microsoft 365 requirements (Sharepoint, Dynamics, Power Automate)

  • Sr. Data Analyst at Vivid Consultancy
    Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Lead Consultant in increasing the client’s data clarity in daily business operations by developing data collection methodologies, documentation, and automation. Produce executive reports and dashboards for stakeholders using PowerBI and Tableau, python data aggregation, and SQL to extract and analyze data. - Reduced procurement cost by 35% by optimizing suppliers and purchase lifecycle using regression models and pareto analysis. - Increased sales by an average of 120% for 5 clients via market demand and product offering analyses. Reduced executive daily reporting tasks from 25 hours to 3 hours per month by automating the data extraction process. - Reduced labor hours of data cleaning by 75% through standardizing data entry processes. Increased data awareness through creation of performance metrics - KPIs for employees, QSE sheets, inventory and purchasing tracking, and detailed sales and marketing patterns. - Spearheaded 3 ERP projects successfully from planning to implementation by gathering requirements, communicating with stakeholders, and executing a technical implementation.

  • IT Systems & Data Analyst at Expense Reduction Analysts – EMEA
    Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Coordinated with international cross-functional teams, clients, and consultants to execute cost reduction projects with local businesses. Designed data management systems and reported relevant insight through comprehensive analysis and Tableau presentations. - Successfully bid for business from a large banking client on indirect cost reductions in the F&B and manufacturing sectors. - Reduced labor hours by 23% by leveraging SQL and Microsoft Dynamics365 to accurately scrub data and clean data schema. - Reduced supplier costs for 4 multinational clients by 23% through supply chain analysis (purchase cycles, logistics and transportation, warehousing, supplier negotiations). - Developed a highly skilled team of 6 to optimize departmental processes by mapping all requirements for Company stakeholders.

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Spicy #7
    Dec 2017 - Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Scoped, developed, and led F&B projects from concept to execution (budgeting, project management, renovation, menu engineering, ERP system setup). After release, developed data analysis procedures required for sales, cost reduction, and executive reporting. - Set up entire IT infrastructure (server, POS system, PowerBI) that was used for sales analysis and helped increase MoM sales by 35%. - Created an automated database system for cost control, reducing cost by 15% (especially during COVID-19’s supply chain issues). - Developed SOPs, KPIs and reporting documentations that allowed the shop to run autonomously with minimal partner involvement, reducing required training, supervision, and reporting hours from 150 hours per month to 6 hours.

  • IT Project Coordinator at CARMA
    Dec 2015 - Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    CARMA International is a multinational company with 13 offices worldwide and 1200 clients including Emirates Airlines, Nestle and Ferrari. My role includes: Coordinating directly with the project manager, team members, and the stakeholders for planning throughout the course of a multi-million dollar software project (using Agile methodology); Forming effective cross-functional collaboration with various departments while ensuring timely delivery of KPIs. Currently working as a Project Manager, reporting to the Group Product Director, on several projects that automate back-end services. - Reduced employee tasks by 50% through optimised project operations. - Cut time of daily operations from 2 hours to 10 minutes per task through new technological implementations. - Decreased expected delivery time of multiple project tasks from 2 weeks to 3 days through VBA coding. - Headed an initiative for successful migration of master data from old to new platform. - Led QA tests and analysis based on reports for authentication of accurate data transfer.