Purvika Bazari

AI Researcher

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 7 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 12 years of experience in data science.
  • Expert in machine learning and predictive analytics.
  • Published white papers and contributed to patents.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science expert with a focus on Retail and Marketing Analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningData AnalysisPredictive AnalyticsText AnalyticsMarket Mix OptimizationCustomer SegmentationPricing Analytics

Other Skills

AWSAlteryxAnalytical SolutionsAzureBig Data AnalyticsBrand ManagementBusiness StrategyDeep LearningDigital MarketingExcelGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopHivePower PointRisk Scoring

About

I am currently working at Accenture – Applied Intelligence in Gurgaon, India as Data Science Senior Manager. I have over 12 years of experience working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders in Retail, CPG, Pharma, Hospitality, Telecom and Financial Service industry spanning over UK, US, Canada, Japan and Europe. Across the industries, I have led analytics driven solutions using Machine learning, Deep learning (OCR, NLP, RF, GBM, XG boost, Neural Net, LSTM) & optimization techniques and delivered strategic insights to clients around Cost management through Text Analytics, Product Returns Management, Brand Management & Campaign effectiveness, Market Mix Optimization, Multi-Channel Attribution, Sales forecasting, Customer Segmentation, Price optimization. I also have strong experience working on Google Cloud and other Big Data Platforms, managing both structured and unstructured data. I continually strive to contribute at optimum levels in all facets of my work. Over the years, I have published white papers, contributed to Accenture Patent Applications and have won several awards. Specialties: R, Python, SAS, Alteryx, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Hadoop, Hive, SQL, Excel, VBA, Tableau, Power Point, Power BI

Experience

Accenture

Data Science Senior Manager

Dec 2020Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon

Machine LearningDeep LearningPredictive AnalyticsStatistical ModelingData AnalysisGoogle Cloud Platform+1

Accenture ai

Manager - Applied Intelligence

Dec 2016Dec 2020 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Led and executed AI driven engagements around:
  • Spend Analytics Assessment: Text analytics (OCR, NLP, Topic Modeling) on PDF/scanned invoices to identify cost saving opportunities across vendors and services
  • Product Returns Management: Predictive analytics on customer transaction data to identify the likelihood of future product returns & associated reasons, identify opportunities to reduce returns
  • Store Traffic Management: Footfall Analysis to boost traffic, drive conversion rates, optimize staff.
  • Optimizing customer journey with Next Best Action: Predictive analytics to capture real time prescribing/buying behavior, media interactions and identify right marketing channel, frequency and interval of promotions to drive more prescriptions/KPI.
  • Predictive Performance Management: Predictive analytics & UAT on operational data for leading social network to determine key performance metrics & optimal handing time of consumer data
  • Brand Management & Campaign Effectiveness: Market Mix and Bayesian Belief technique to optimize client’s marketing spends, promotions, travel reviews across locations & properties
Text AnalyticsPredictive AnalyticsMarket Mix OptimizationCustomer SegmentationBrand Management

Accenture interactive

2 roles

Business Consultant - Marketing Analytics

Promoted

Sep 2013Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Awards: Accenture Inventor Award FY’16 - recognized for contributing to new Accenture Patent Applications
  • Customer Segmentation & Risk Scoring: Leveraged Telematics data to segment customers based on Risk score that gives insurers the ability to review an individual's driving style, helping them link premiums to actual driving risk. Designed Risk Scoring framework for real time scoring predictions
  • Pricing Analytics: Designed optimal pricing strategy and dynamic pricing dashboard for 25000+ products across various segments of a UK retailer and determined the benefits of the price acceptances over time.
  • Pricing & Inventory Management: Designed methods for In-season price recommendation and forecasting for 10000+ items for a Japanese retailer that maximizes client revenue or margin. Also, analyzed the effect of markdown and inventory over time and its impact on in-season sales.
Customer SegmentationPricing AnalyticsRisk Scoring

Business Analyst - Marketing Analytics

Jul 2010Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Awards: Pinnacle Award - FY'13 Q'2 for outstanding contribution and delivering results that consistently exceeded expectations.
  • Worked across range of products and categories for retailers in US to build and recommend optimal marketing strategies.
  • Built Analytical solutions to determine the effectiveness of client's marketing spends & activities across regions. Performed Market Mix optimization and designed "What - If" Scenarios to identify marketing investments that are most likely to produce long-term revenue growth.
Market Mix OptimizationAnalytical Solutions

Hsbc

Summer Intern

May 2009Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Reviewed and vetted the expenses allocated on a monthly basis by the HQ & the costs apportioned to India Area Management – PFS. Identified opportunity areas for cost saving and designed strategies to reduce cost on a monthly basis.
  • Achievement: Identified and recommended areas where total monthly cost could be reduced by 4 to 5%.

Fractal analytics

Summer Intern

May 2008Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Analyzed weekly transactions data of cardholders to distinguish patterns which indicate bust out fraud. Employed the use of unsupervised methods such as “peer grouping” to determine outliers and special cases of fraud.

Deloitte haskin & sells

Summer Intern

May 2007Jul 2007 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Developed econometric models for around 1200 companies spread across Software, ITES/BPO and Manufacturing sector to analyze the effect of size on financial performance of the firms. Verified the presence of scale of economies across the companies.
  • Achievement: Results cited in the paper “Does size Matter”, Shanto Ghosh et al (Director & Principal Economist‐ Deloitte)

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Master’s Degree — Masters in Economics - CPI - 8.3/10

Jan 2005Jan 2010

CFA Institute

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