Abe Train
Toronto, ON, Canada
abraham.train@gmail.com
A Business Intelligence Manager is someone with the business-savvy to identify problems in any domain, the technical skills to solve those problems, and most importantly, the ability to manage a team of Analysts to follow his lead.
HelloFresh Canada
Business Intelligence Manager
Jan - Dec 2021
- Leading the business intelligence team, coaching, mentoring, and developing the team.
- Hands-on approach to executing analytics projects and ensuring that business stakeholders are able to effectively use the analysis to drive business decisions.
- Improving the data infrastructure available to the business (e.g., dashboards) to allow for an effective self serve usage of data across the enterprise.
- Building automation tools and distributing automatic reports and dashboards using JavaScript, Python, SQL, and Tableau.
- Collaborating with Global stakeholders to implement best practices from other markets.
- Organizing the Data Guild, a group of analysts from all departments who collaborate to solve data-centric problems and share learnings.
Business Analyst
2019 - 2020
- Primary project manager for Business Intelligence projects, such as demand forecasting, financial analysis, and waste reduction.
- Product Owner for Procurement planning and ordering software tools.
- Primary contact to HelloFresh International for reporting operations metrics, including procurement spend and production errors.
- Data analysis and report building using JavaScript, Python, SQL, and Tableau.
- Restructured spend reporting system, freeing up 10% of operations budget for Product and Marketing spend.
Category Buyer & Analyst
2018 - 2019
- Supply chain management of all meat and seafood for Canadian HelloFresh customers, from purchase of goods to nationwide distribution.
- Analytically predicting trends in customer behaviour and market variability.
- Communicating directly with suppliers, storage facilities, and transportation companies for 24/7 problem solving at 3 nationwide fulfillment centres.
- Programming automation tools on Google Sheets and SQL.
- Designed an inventory management program to save $500k per year.
University of Waterloo Co-op Program
Technical Project Manager @ Tesla Inc.
2017
- Worked on the Central Manufacturing team
- Saved approx. $5000/year by restructuring hardware testing program.
Group Leader @ General Motors
2016
- Assembly line supervisor in the paint shop, responsible for 2 teams of 8
- Quality control of paint defects saved $1000/week in damages.