Keshav Malavalli

About Keshav Malavalli

I am a Director of Strategic Initiatives & Operations at Gates Corporation, a global leader in innovative fluid power and power transmission solutions. With over 20 years of experience in the field of Analytics, Machine Learning, and Supply Chain Optimization, I excel as a business leader, analyst, and strategist, delivering substantial value and impact to the organization and its stakeholders.My mission is to drive transformative business growth and cultivate high-performing teams by leveraging my dynamic leadership, extensive industry knowledge, and key business strategies. I have successfully led the design and development of a comprehensive growth strategy, an operational dashboard, a sales forecasting process, and a global data warehouse, resulting in significant improvements in revenue, customer satisfaction, forecast accuracy, and data footprint. I have also received multiple awards and recognitions for my outstanding performance and contributions. My core specialties include forward-thinking strategy planning, high-impact business partnering, actionable data analytics, and innovative solution architecture. I am passionate about harnessing the power of data and analytics to enable data-driven decisions and insights at all levels of the organization.

Experience

1. Director - Strategic Initiatives, Operations & Sales Productivity

   Gates Corporation

   Jun 2011 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Authored and delivered a comprehensive growth strategy for a $1B business that resulted in identifying $125M in incremental growth, contributing significantly to the overall success of the company.• As the director, I oversaw the design of an Operational Dashboard, resulting in an $8M increase in topline revenue and an 800-basis point improvement in customer satisfaction.• Revamped the sales forecasting process, achieving a significant improvement of 400 basis points in forecast accuracy.• Led the design and development of the Global Data Warehouse by integrating data from 23 different ERP systems, resulting in a significant reduction in data footprint and improved efficiency.• Managed the successful implementation of pricing analytics by integrating data from three ERP systems, which resulted in increased availability of information for key decision-making and contributed to $15M in realized opportunities.• Developed and implemented a multi-year data and analytics strategy and roadmap that aligned with enterprise initiatives and transformed the organization.• Championed the establishment of a global Business Intelligence organization, leading a team of 30 professionals across the globe.• Successfully delivered strategic data initiatives by identifying vendors and implementation partners, negotiating contracts, and augmenting the team with contract resources• Successfully developed and implemented a multi-year data and analytics strategy and roadmap aligned with the enterprise\'s goals, driving transformation and achieving remarkable results

Education

• The University of Texas at Arlington

  MS, Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• National Institute Of Engineering

  BE, Mechanical Engineering

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• IT Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Data Strategies
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Project Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Business Development
• Informatica
• Amazon S3
• Etl
• Enterprise Architecture
• Integration
• Business Analysis
• Cognos
• Microsoft Office
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Experienced Business Analyst
• Leadership
• Data Warehousing
• Sql
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Big Data
• Erp
• Amazon Rds
• Tableau
• Data Integration
• Python
• Vendor Management
• Team Building
• Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Intelligence
• Business Process
• Hadoop
• Master Data Management