Ronak Tamra — Associate Partner

Global Commercial Excellence and hands-on Data Science leader with a track record of delivering $2B+ in revenue and $500M+ in profit uplift across Retail, Consumer, and Healthcare sectors in North America, Europe, Middle East and Australasia. Combines strategy consulting rigor with hands-on AI/ML leadership to drive pricing, promotion, forecasting, and customer value transformation for PE-backed and corporate clients. Demonstrated success in improving EBITDA through optimized pricing, promotion, and AI/ML-driven personalization, while building scalable data science teams, defining AI/ML tool stacks and capability roadmaps, and implementing solutions that deliver measurable, high-ROI AI investments. Core Competencies • Commercial Value Creation: Pricing & Promotion | Margin Expansion | Revenue Growth Acceleration • Customer Value Management: CLV Optimization | Personalization & Loyalty Design | Media ROI & MMM • DS Enablement: AI/ML Development | Experimentation Platforms | Cloud Solutions | Model Management • Operating Model Transformation: Agile Execution | Analytics Operating Model | Hybrid Vendor Strategy • Leadership: Data Science Team Development | CXO Advisory | Cross-Functional Influence & Alignment

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and Commercial Excellence leader in the Retail and Healthcare sectors.

Location: New York City, New York, United States

Experience: 18 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)
Pricing Strategy
Roi Optimization
Customer Growth Analytics

Career Highlights

Delivered $2B+ in revenue growth.
Built scalable data science teams.
Expert in AI/ML-driven commercial transformation.

Work Experience

AlixPartners

Senior Director (Associate Partner), Commercial Effectiveness (4 yrs 5 mos)

Bed Bath & Beyond

Head of Marketing & Customer Analytics (Transformation Office) (1 yr)

CVS Health

Executive Director- Head of Data Science and Customer Growth Analytics, Loyalty and Personalization (2 yrs)

Lead Director - Experimentation Data Science and Analytics, Pharmacy Personalization (1 yr)

Lead Director - Strategic Analytics and Data Science, Front Store Personalization and Loyalty (4 yrs)

OperaSolutions

Vice-President/Director - Retail/CPG Practice (3 yrs)

Engagement Manager - Retail/CPG Practice (1 yr)

Senior Associate - Retail/CPG Practice (2 yrs)

Associate (1 yr)

Inductis India Pvt Ltd

Consultant (2 yrs 5 mos)

Indian School of Business

Summer Internship (Research Associate) (1 mo)

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Summer Internship (Research Assistant) (2 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Ronak Tamra

Associate Partner

New York City, New York, United States18 yrs 10 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Delivered $2B+ in revenue growth.
Built scalable data science teams.
Expert in AI/ML-driven commercial transformation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and Commercial Excellence leader in the Retail and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Pricing StrategyRoi OptimizationCustomer Growth Analytics

Other Skills

Go-to-Market StrategyCXO level engagementCross-functional Team LeadershipBusiness Growth StrategiesPersonalizationBusiness StrategyMachine LearningCustomer LoyaltyOmni-Channel MarketingMarketing EffectivenessSASPredictive AnalyticsStatistical ModelingBusiness AnalyticsManagement Consulting

About

Experience

18 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Alixpartners

Senior Director (Associate Partner), Commercial Effectiveness

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Lead AI/ML enabled engagements in marketing, pricing, promotion, and commercial transformation across Retail and Consumer Products. Combine consulting rigor with pragmatic execution to deliver margin expansion, revenue acceleration, and building capabilities and roadmaps for corporate and PE portfolio clients.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)ROI OptimizationGo-to-Market StrategyCXO level engagementPricing StrategyCross-functional Team Leadership+7

Bed bath & beyond

Head of Marketing & Customer Analytics (Transformation Office)

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · New Jersey, United States

Led the marketing and customer analytics portfolio supporting a $250M media investment that drove $1B+ in annual revenue and engaged 20M+ active customers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)ROI OptimizationCXO level engagementCross-functional Team LeadershipBusiness Growth StrategiesMachine Learning+1

Cvs health

3 roles

Executive Director- Head of Data Science and Customer Growth Analytics, Loyalty and Personalization

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

Built and deployed the best in class Personalization Engine that used state of the art Machine learning to personalize touch points (channel, offer, content, digital, e-commerce etc.) for 75M+ active customer base to provide business and leadership a transparent suite to optimize profitability. Partnered with Data Engineers and IT to deliver an AI/ML backed Personalization Engine allowing an Omni-Channel optimization and Experimentation helping in fast refinement and scaling.
Brought in the customer-centric recipe mindset by setting up Customer Insights Library to support overall Organization to help design Omni-channel recipes based on the customer needs and motivations

Artificial Intelligence (AI)ROI OptimizationCXO level engagementCross-functional Team LeadershipBusiness Growth StrategiesMachine Learning+2

Lead Director - Experimentation Data Science and Analytics, Pharmacy Personalization

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

Created the Experimentation capability that allowed business teams to run multiple and diverse tests covering all levers with the ability to curate strategies for different customer pockets. Led the complete overhaul of existing Measurement methodology used to evaluate initiatives and experiment to reduce the noise and allow the business to take faster/correct decisions. Built the new initiative measurement platform to automate and standardize the overall measurement process

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Lead Director - Strategic Analytics and Data Science, Front Store Personalization and Loyalty

Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 · 4 yrs

Led the design, development, and orchestration of testing analytical strategies across key channels (email, In-store offers and app offers). Collaborated with Data Science, Merchants/Category teams, IT, Digital/Product teams and execution to deliver top-line/bottom-line growth.
Responsible for strategic design, development, measurement, and orchestration of analytical solutions across marketing strategies (retain, acquisition, re-activation, etc.) for our channels (Email, In-store, Direct Mail and App), mass vehicles (Beauty Rewards, Pharmacy Rewards, and ExtraBucks) and promotions. Built 3 new programs that each delivered an annual value of $100M+.

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Operasolutions

4 roles

Vice-President/Director - Retail/CPG Practice

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

Delivered analytics-driven growth and digital strategy solutions, contributing hands-on to the development of predictive, segmentation, and optimization models for Retail, CPG, Financial Services, and PE clients.

Cross-functional Team Leadership