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.