Dakshan Ramachandran

Led global deployment of Vista Rev-Up, an analytics and ML-powered pricing platform delivering retail and promotional elasticity insights to commercial and revenue management teams across global markets.

• • Deployed Vista Rev-Up to 10 markets directly (of 27 total worldwide), onboarding ~50 primary users and 200–300 total users across commercial, marketing, and finance functions; impacted revenues in the mid-to-high nine-figure range (EUR).

• • Led end-to-end deployment cycles of 4-5 months per market, covering scoping, data integration, user acceptance testing, training rollout, and post-launch adoption tracking.

• • Partnered directly with data scientists on product design, feature selection, elasticity model validation, and ML driven promo optimization deployed across 5 markets.

• • Piloted experimental GenAI use cases for global data mapping and pre-processing of inputs feeding into ML models, accelerating model-readiness and reducing manual data prep time.

• • Delivered 100+ training sessions and workshops to user groups ranging from analysts to VP/Director-level leadership, driving sustained adoption and platform stickiness.

• • Built and rolled out a lightweight Excel-based pricing module to extend elasticity capability into smaller markets with limited data infrastructure, broadening reach without additional engineering investment.

• • Acted as primary consultant to VP- and Director-level RGM and Commercial leadership, providing best practices on deployment methodology, change management, data governance, and pricing strategy.

• • Established deployment frameworks covering adoption monitoring, automated reporting dashboards, and process standardization - now used as templates for subsequent rollouts.

• • Completed covering C, Python, SQL, Flask, and web development

• • Completed covering HTML/CSS/JS, and control.

• • Pivoted skill set from commercial/RGM toward digital, analytics, and product deployment in preparation for Digital program management roles.

• • Built and deployed two RGM digital tools (POC Discount Optimization tool and On-Invoice tool) for field sales teams, accelerating stock-at-risk sell-through and reducing inventory exposure nationwide.

• • Led strategy and development of the 2022 French 1-Year Plan and €60M budget, including country and brand P&Ls, discount allocation, and a 7% annual price increase - the largest in the history of the French business.

• • Repositioned price architecture across the on-trade portfolio in alignment with brand strategy and competitive benchmarks.

• • Conducted Rate & Mix analyses to pilot sales strategy execution, communicating insights to country leadership and BU stakeholders.