Liubov Ruchinskaya

Co-Founder

Basel, Basel, Switzerland20 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 22 years of international experience in insights-driven innovation.
  • Head of strategy at Diageo, leading business transformation.
  • Ph.D. in Data Science and MBA from California State University.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in insights-driven innovation within the FMCG sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyGlobal InsightsMarketing Strategy

Other Skills

Digital StrategyForecastingCompetitive IntelligenceChange ManagementCoachingTeam LeadershipExecutive DevelopmentForesightMarket ResearchStrategic ThinkingStrategic InsightsStrategyPeople DevelopmentMarket AnalyticsMarketing

About

• Today, Liubov Ruchinskaya is a seasoned innovation leader with 22 years of international experience in insights-driven innovation and commercial data management. She is a public figure in insights & innovation industry top voice with more than 18k followers in Linkedin. • Today she plays a role of a senior executive in the corporate world and holds the position of the Head of strategy, analytics and consumer planning in Diageo NE. • Prior to joining Diageo, she spent 17 years with the multinational consumer products companies - Electrolux and Colgate-Palmolive, working in various roles and living in different geographies such as Istanbul, New York, Lagos, and Switzerland. These experiences have given her a unique perspective on ethics, cultural differences, and the power of diversity. • Behind her success is a family that taught her values, resilience, and a positive mindset. She started working at the age of 19, and her first project was research project for the Lufthansa company that defined her entire career as a business advisor. After this project, she was hired by the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company, Kantar, and unlocked her international career. • She has Ph.D. in Data Science and an MBA from California State University-Hayward. • Outside of the corporate world, she is a serial entrepreneur and consultant. She plays the role of startup coach, collaborating closely with EPFL University in Lausanne. She is a co-founder, sponsor, the board chair in several unicorns, including Toysforplanet https://www.toysforplanet.com/, G.S.T.Consulting, a guest lecturer at the Basel School of Business, a council member in ESOMAR https://esomar.org/council-election-nominees/council-election-winners and the board chair at the Merlien Institute https://merlien.com/advisory-board/.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Diageo

Head of Strategy, Analytics and Consumer Planning NE

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Hamburg, Germany

  • Leading a brilliant team - Intelligence analysts, Revenue Growth Planners, Commercial leads, Consumer Shopper Planners in the newly emerged cluster - Business Transformation to unlock the business growth of the Northern European Hub.

Insights lighthouse

Founder

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Switzerland

  • ♦ Insights Lighthouse is the Global Insights Executives community, which brings together experts in research, insights, and data analytics from around the world.
  • ♦ In today's world, the best practices in research and analytics can be developed through partnerships with great people and companies. This community helps individuals who want to become experts in the field of insights to find a network that can help them solve any business problem and achieve success in their corporate organization.
  • ♦ Our goal is to emphasize the importance of insights and promote people-centricity in corporate organizations. Therefore, we assist corporate professionals in making a meaningful impact and driving business growth.

Electrolux group

Global Consumer Insights & Intelligence Director Care

Apr 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Stockholm County, Sweden

  • ♦ I was hired to be part of global business transformation. The new global organization has been formed, and my role was to establish a global insights function for Care (dishwashers and washing machines), define a global business growth strategy and unite 4 different and operating as stand alone units, and transform the way innovations are developed from being R&D focused to being people focused.
  • ♦ Led a global team with members based in Sweden, Belgium, USA, Brazil, Thailand, and Singapore.
Digital StrategyForecastingCompetitive IntelligenceBusiness StrategyChange ManagementCoaching+4

Colgate-palmolive

4 roles

Colgate Brand Head EU Division

Promoted

Aug 2018Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • ♦ Developed applied solutions covering everything from packaging to product to reinvent the category.
  • ♦ Drove innovation for the category growth by suggesting to the business decision back up with the data and finding growth opportunities / stepping into white spaces.
  • ♦ Led a group of 9 brand managers / marketing managers, research specialists to drive innovation against rapid shift in consumer needs during / post Covid19
  • ♦ led global Colgate Total business re-launch (Global assignment, report to Global Insights VP)
Marketing StrategyMarket ResearchStrategic ThinkingBusiness StrategyStrategic InsightsStrategy+6

Consumer Innovation Manager, Innovation Center, EU Division

Feb 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Global Ambassador of Agility within Insight Function Assignment.
  • ♦ Together with my colleagues on the R&D team, we led and trained a special team to accelerate product development and time to launch.
  • ♦ Championed insight-driven innovation through scope setting and diagnosis of business opportunities and threats.
  • ♦ Utilized market data to determine actionable recommendations to drive growth.
  • ♦ Improved business results through innovations in integrated marketing communication.

Research Head Turkey & CACE

Dec 2014Feb 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • ♦ Established strong research function in Turkey & CACE hub.
  • ♦ Managed regional rollout of the first integrated multichannel marketing data, reporting and analytics project.
  • ♦ Identified, created, and deployed advanced analytics to optimize marketing mix and resources.

Research Head for Personal & Home Care Africa Eurasia Division

Nov 2009Dec 2014 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • ♦ Identified research methods to address business challenges in Morocco, Saudi, Ukraine, Russia, Central Asia, Africa.
  • ♦ Collaborated with marketing team to establish the annual research and foresight agenda to support brand and category growth initiatives.
  • ♦ Participated in STA – part of a 4 person group that started the business in Nigeria.
  • ♦ Participated in the data science Global Challenge in New York.

Kantar

Senior Reserach Manager (various roles)

Dec 2005Nov 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Moscow, Russia

Education

Cal State East Bay- College of Business & Economics

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Strategic Management and Finance

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Colgate Global mentorship program

Entrepreneurship

Jan 2019Jan 2021

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

Ph.D. — Data science

Jan 2007Jan 2013

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

economist-mathematician — Mathematical methods in economics

Jan 2002Jan 2007

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