Varad Narayanan
Strategy, Insights & Analytics Leader | Driving Enterprise Strategy, GTM, and AI-Powered Transformation to Redefine Commercial Excellence
- Role
- Director - Portfolio Field Insights & Analytics Business Planning & Strategy Chief of Staff at Novartis
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Varad Narayanan
Strategic leader with nearly a decade of experience driving enterprise performance at the intersection of commercial strategy, analytics, and AI-driven transformation. I translate complex data into actionable insights, shape enterprise strategy, and enable measurable business impact across global organizations.\"Bridging the Boardroom and the Data Room — turning insights into strategic, measurable impact.\"As Portfolio Field Insights & Analytics Lead, I operate in a Chief-of-Staff capacity, leading business planning, strategy execution, and cross-functional initiatives across GTM design, targeting, next-best-actions, and operational excellence. Previously, I held corporate strategy roles at TE Connectivity, delivered client-focused strategy and analytics at IBM, and led GTM strategy, size & structure design, and field optimization at Novartis, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.Passionate about bridging strategy and execution, I aim to expand leadership in enterprise strategy and AI innovation to define the next generation of commercial excellence.
Experience
Director - Portfolio Field Insights & Analytics Business Planning & Strategy Chief of Staff
Apr 2025 — Present · NJ, US
Education
KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering
Lehigh University
Master's degree, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Skills
- Catia
- Sas Base
- Sas
- Manufacturing
- Data Analytics
- Marketing
- Predictive Analytics
- Data Science
- Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Data Mining
- Numpy
- Healthcare Industry
- Teamwork
- Team Management
- Autocad
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Business Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Solidworks
- Analytics
- Lean Manufacturing
- Microsoft Office
- Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
- Cnc Programming
- Matlab
- Jupiter Notebook
- Python
- Autocad Mechanical
- Engineering
- Sas Programming
- Healthcare Consulting
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Enterprise Asset Management
- Leadership
- Ibm-Spss Modeler
- Sas E-Miner
- Lean Six Sigma
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