Yasemin Cengiz
Sant Quirze Del Valles
Summary
Passionate and results-driven data and analytics professional with extensive global experience. As the Global Leader Data & Analytics, I oversee a multidisciplinary team of experts to deliver data-driven insights, drive business growth, and foster innovation. Collaborating with various functions and regions, we provide strategic decision-making support, customer engagement solutions, and optimize operational efficiency.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Product Director, Strategy & Transformation
PepsiCo
Barcelona
09.2023 - Current
- Executing Global Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to drive digital transformation for Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance.
- Identifying potential business opportunities and effectively managing associated budgets and building a digital roadmap.
- Managing a global team of professionals in data analytics,data engineering, DevOps, modeling, and product ownership.
- Managed complete lifecycle of data products from inception to deployment.
- Conducting executive meetings with department heads to review progress on strategic initiatives.
Senior Data Engineering Manager
PepsiCo
Barcelona
02.2022 - 09.2023
- Led the establishment of a world-class data team on a global scale.
- Developed data foundation for PepsiCo, adhering to FAIR principles, facilitating reuse of cross-functional data assets.
- Implemented accelerators for all company initiatives, including Ingesting, Audit, Data Quality, and DevOps on Azure Cloud and Databricks Tech
- Managed and organized engaging events to foster diversity in the Digital Hub.
- Managed annual budgeting and forecasting, optimizing resource allocation.
- Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance.
Data, Analytics and Integration Product Manager
Nestle
Barcelona
11.2020 - 02.2022
- Managed end-to-end deployment of Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics solutions on a global scale
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive strategy for data analysis and analytics in Nestle Health Science and Nestle Nutrition products.
- Collaborated with senior business stakeholders to define Analytics road map and technology and platform strategy.
- Developed a robust Clinical Data Hub for Global R&D Center
Technology Lead
Nestle
Barcelona
08.2019 - 11.2020
- Interacting with the business to understand and prioritize their needs and anticipated ways in which technological solutions can enhance the business processes (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, VR / AR...)
- Leading data strategy with F.A.I.R data approach by creating data sets in Azure Technology
- Providing broad guidance to IT strategy and ensured overall alignment with business strategies
- Managing overall cross-functional schedule, risks and issues to enable teams to be successful at delivering project milestones
- Experience owning and driving end-to-end product requirements across multiple technology teams and able to prioritize complex deliverables, have highly technical discussions, and run large meetings with technical and business leaders.
Data Engineer Lead
Nestle
Barcelona
12.2018 - 08.2019
- Developing all Analytics Azure Cloud solutions in worldwide Nestle
- Articulating a vision and roadmap for ingestion, cleansing, staging, harmonization and exploitation of data as a valued corporate asset in relation with existing functional priorities to help Product Managers explore new ways to solve complex business problems
- Using open source tools and big data technologies (such as Hadoop, HBase, Spark, Impala, Storm, etc.) in integration with other open-source or proprietary tools available through the Azure Market Place
- Experiencing with SQL, NoSQL, relational database design (SAP HANA), methods for efficiently retrieving data, as well as data preparation/wrangling both on demand and in an industrialized way
- Gathering and processing raw data at scale (including writing scripts, web scraping, consuming and consuming/exposing APIs, etc.)
Business Analytics Solution Designer
Nestle
Barcelona
03.2018 - 12.2018
- End to End responsibility for solution design, build, integrate and deploy
- Explore and influence business needs and conceptualize solution design
- Capture designs in technical specifications
- Collaborate with offshore build teams
- Create and execute test scripts
- Track and test Prod environment
- Driving hackathons on the new architecture of solutions
- Exploring new tools and technologies and identifying how to leverage them when industrializing solutions.
Business Analytics Specialist
Nestle
Istanbul
11.2016 - 03.2018
- Defining and building innovative and integrated business analytics strategies
- Ensure strategies are translated into specific objectives, metrics, and action plans
- Transform business needs into valuable products
- Running department meetings to ensure solid collaboration and communication between cross-functional departments
- Managing and coordinating the analyze, development, modelling, implementation, test and go live processes of the analytics projects
- Staying current on the latest technology trends and innovations in Business Analytics.
Business Intelligence Analyst
British American Tobacco
Istanbul
12.2014 - 04.2014
- Managing databases and data warehouses using Microsoft SQL Server
- Developing scripts and stored procedures with T-SQL
- Designing ETL processes with MS SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- Implementing OLAP cube related operations using MS SQL Server Analysis Server (SSAS)
- Generating reports with MS SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- Creating BI dashboards on Microsoft Sharepoint platform.
Business Analyst
Garanti Technology
Istanbul
04.2014
- Working closely with business to understand their processes and requirements, driving opportunities for value creation through leveraging information technology and process reengineering
- Being responsible from processes and/or IS solutions for Business Intelligence, Accounting, Common Financial Products, Customer Relationship Management
- Developing flowcharts and test cases for the financial systems and services
- Formulating alternative solutions for the inaccuracies discovered during testing
- Applying static, dynamic, white-box and black-box testing methods.
Senior Business Analyst
Garanti Technology
Istanbul
- Analyzing and evaluating business demands and requirements
- Assign the tasks and jobs to team members
- Managing scope, schedule, quality, communications, risk and procurement.
Education
Master of Science - Applied Science And Data Engineering
Politecnico Di Milano
Milano, Italy01-2022
MSc. Management Information Systems -
Kadir Has University
Istanbul,Turkiye01.2017
BSc. Industrial Engineering -
Kadir Has University
Istanbul,Turkiye05.2014
BSc. Computer Engineering, Double Major -
Kadir Has University
Istanbul,Turkiye05.2014
Information Technology -
Northern Michigan University
Michigan, USA01.2012
Skills
- Azure
- Databricks
- SAP
- Power BI
- SAP Design Studio
- Tableau
- SAP BW
- SQL
- Python
- Air Flow
- iCEDQ
- DBT
Timeline
Data Product Director, Strategy & Transformation
PepsiCo
09.2023 - Current
Senior Data Engineering Manager
PepsiCo
02.2022 - 09.2023
Data, Analytics and Integration Product Manager
Nestle
11.2020 - 02.2022
Technology Lead
Nestle
08.2019 - 11.2020
Data Engineer Lead
Nestle
12.2018 - 08.2019
Business Analytics Solution Designer
Nestle
03.2018 - 12.2018
Business Analytics Specialist
Nestle
11.2016 - 03.2018
Business Intelligence Analyst
British American Tobacco
12.2014 - 04.2014
Business Analyst
Garanti Technology
04.2014
Senior Business Analyst
Garanti Technology
Master of Science - Applied Science And Data Engineering
Politecnico Di Milano
MSc. Management Information Systems -
Kadir Has University
BSc. Industrial Engineering -
Kadir Has University
BSc. Computer Engineering, Double Major -
Kadir Has University
Information Technology -
Northern Michigan University
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