APPOLINE ODHIAMBO

• Product Manager - P&G Inbuilt SFDC Solution
  
  Oversee product matching and mapping process in collaboration with multifunctional teams, designing market requirements and user stories while working concurrently with mobile/web development team to ensure product delivery aligned with market use case. Additionally, craft roadmaps for Sales System solutions and ensured proper evaluation, documentation, and delivery of change requests.
• Project Manager - Real-Time Image Recognition Projects, P&G IMEA Region
  
  Managed end-to-end requirements setup, from inception, setup, testing to end-user utilization in stores for various Image recognition solutions. Project's primary goal was to qualify a solution for use across IMEA countries. Leading transition and ongoing expansion across IMEA region.
• Technology Strategist - Sub-Saharan Africa Distributors
  
  Formulated technology strategies and roadmaps for Sub-Saharan Africa distributors, ensuring alignment with CPS alongside P&G distributor IT team and project teams. Negotiated with IT solution vendors employed by P&G distributor teams to ensure development cost commensurate with proposed business value.
• Business Intelligence Dashboard Developer
  
  Drive simplification initiatives by analyzing and identifying business problems. This includes designing data set up, Connections to DBs and creating informative BI dashboards used by multifunctional teams on a daily basis.
• Team Management
  
  Managing and coaching a team comprising 6 full-time employees, three interns, and four contractors responsible for delivering Sub- Sahara Africa IT roadmap.
• IT Operations Coordinator and Budget Management
  
  Coordinating IT operations activities to ensure smooth flow of daily business requirements while maintaining allocated FY budgets for IT.
• Stakeholder Communication
  
  Regularly communicating with key stakeholders regarding IT roadmap, project status, and disseminated IT newsletters.

Senior Marketing Technologist

• Spearheaded collaboration with brand teams to craft robust consumer data strategies in anticipation of digital plans for upcoming financial year.
• Orchestrated validation of compliance with government and ROPA guidelines for consumer data collection, ensuring strict adherence to Privacy, Security, Accessibility, and Tags criteria. Implemented secure data storage and encrypted transfers to marketing platforms.
• Spearheaded generation of well-informed seed audiences aligned with campaign objectives.
• Oversaw and directed social Mass campaigns, meticulously targeting specific audiences and enabling data-driven decision-making for brand teams. This initiative resulted in remarkable 35% improvement in media effectiveness and 2X increase in OTA (On Target Accuracy on 3M Consumers) in South Africa and Kenya.
• Exhibited remarkable ability to swiftly acquire and adapt to emerging digital workspace technologies.

• IT Services Leadership
  
  Led IT services and capabilities for Kenya, Africa, and Expansion Markets (5 major countries and 15 smaller countries).
• Transformational Selling Oversight
  
  Oversaw, outsourced, managed, and delivered P&G's transformational selling capabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa (17 major countries). This included requirement collection, product sprint planning, and monitoring delivery to release retail execution products.
• Image Recognition Solution Management
  
  Operations Manager for image recognition solution, leading revamp of in-store merchandising across 13 countries in Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
• Sales Force Automation Delivery
  
  Responsible for oversight and delivery of Sales Force Automation capability to 40 Sub-distributors in Kenya, enabling real-time capture of distributor's sales and coverage. This resulted in a significant disruptive improvement in Go to Market strategy in Kenya.
• Distributor Stewardship
  
  Ensured distributor stewardship by overseeing correct system usage and accurate data sent to P&G for all Middle East and Africa countries.
• IT Capability Expansion
  
  Facilitated access to IT capabilities for all new countries established in African region to ensure implementation of world-class systems meeting P&G reporting requirements and evolving needs. Additionally, set up operational processes and developed and automated reports through IT team.
• Training and Development Coordination
  
  Coordinated technical training and personal development classes for organization on data platforms.