Amit Sinha

About Amit Sinha

Amit is a global Analytics, Data & AI leader with 24+ years of experience building intelligent decisioning capabilities, advanced analytics platforms, and AI-powered products across CPG, manufacturing, retail and digital organizations.He leads enterprise transformation at the intersection of analytics, AI and business strategy, helping organizations move beyond fragmented reporting toward governed, AI-native decision systems that improve growth, productivity and operational performance at scale. Currently, Amit serves as Senior Director – Analytics, AI & Strategy Transformation at PepsiCo, leading enterprise analytics and AI transformation across Commercial, Consumer, Supply Chain, Procurement and Marketing ecosystems. His work spans integrated analytics platforms, standardized KPIs and intelligent decisioning capabilities supporting business outcomes across 130+ markets. He also co-leads AI Labs and Innovation Center initiatives within PepsiCo GCC, advancing applied AI innovations including digital twins for warehouse and plant operations, agentic AI solutions, computer vision for retail execution, sustainability analytics and intelligent automation use cases. Across his career, Amit has led global transformation programs, launched high-impact AI products, and built scalable operating models through governance, ecosystem partnerships and product-led innovation—helping connect data, context, business logic and decisions into measurable business outcomes. His focus areas include intelligent decisioning, advanced analytics and AI, agentic AI and intelligent automation, digital twins and applied AI innovation, and AI-native products and decision systems—applying human-centered AI principles to design decision systems that are trusted, scalable and outcome-driven. He believes analytics is not just about delivering insights—it is about designing systems that improve decisions. Amit is an active contributor to the AI and analytics community through speaking and research, including work on Agentic AI-native contextual decision systems and GenAI applications in CPG. His early applied AI work was recognized by the NASSCOM AI Game Changer Award. He is particularly interested in how analytics, AI and human-centered design can come together to build the next generation of intelligent, trusted and scalable enterprise decision systems

Experience

1. Sr Director - Business Intelligence & Ai, Strategy & Transformation

   PepsiCo

   Apr 2023 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Leading enterprise Analytics, Data & AI transformation across PepsiCo’s global Foods & Beverages business, building integrated analytics platforms and AI-powered decision intelligence capabilities that help Commercial and Consumer teams make faster, smarter and more consistent decisions.Driving the evolution from fragmented reporting to connected BI Hubs and an AI-native Intelligence Console built on standardized Golden KPIs, governed data and self-service insights—shifting focus from report consumption to decision advantage.Focused on advancing AI-assisted, persona-centric decision intelligence by embedding contextual insights, automated narratives and proactive signals into business workflows to improve execution, adoption and business outcomes at scale.Leading a portfolio of global transformation initiatives spanning Go-to-Market, Retail Execution, Revenue Growth Management, Consumer Insights, Marketing, Supply Chain and AI-enabled decision products across 130+ markets.Co-leading AI Labs and Innovation Center initiatives within PepsiCo GCC, advancing applied AI innovations in digital twins, agentic AI, computer vision, sustainability analytics and intelligent automation.

Education

• National Institute of Technology Warangal

  B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

  1996 — 2000

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  Advanced Certification Program in Agentic and Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence

• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  PG level Advanced Certification in Computation Data Science, Computer Science

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  EPGM

  2016 — 2017

Skills

• Microsoft Technologies
• Weblogic
• IT Service Management
• Senior Stakeholder Management
• Operations Management
• Business Support System (Bss)
• Leadership
• Oracle
• Technology Consulting
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• E-Commerce
• Media Technologies
• Enterprise Software
• Software Project Management
• Negotiation
• Automation Tools
• Coaching
• Agile Methodologies
• Digital Strategy
• Project Management
• Devops
• IT Transformation
• Pre-Sales
• Siebel
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Solution Architecture
• Telecommunications
• Services Management
• Program Management
• Java
• Software Development