Dr. Christopher Dillon

Operating across all 18 businesses within the group. Core role in the formation of the Global Finance and Data Analytics Department, a strategic initiative to centralize finance and data operations globally.

• Team Leadership: Building, hiring, and managing a high-performing global data team to support senior leadership across the group
• Standardization: Designing universal data and reporting architecture to replace fragmented legacy systems, ensuring consistency and transparency
• Self-Service Analytics: Developing secure, tailored Streamlit dashboards with Entra SSO across dashboards and BI
• Operational Reporting: OTIF performance increased by 25%, identified millions in E&O inventory, detecting ~1% revenue in OOS-related sales loss
• KPI Strategy: Designed and implemented EOS Level 10 executive scorecard aligning KPIs with operational priorities
• Advanced Analytics: Delivering data science initiatives focused on customer behavior, margin improvement, and strategic growth

Transformed data function for 5 European businesses across tattoo, beauty, and pet grooming supply. Consolidated fragmented data sources into universal data warehouse, enabling consistent automated reporting. This work resulted in my promotion to Global Lead.

Built the Data Science function from scratch at one of the world's largest pet-grooming supply companies. Created unified reporting across Christies and sister company Transgroom. Promoted to European Data Scientist based on this work.

Joint venture with Randox Laboratories developing statistical techniques for astrophysical and biomedical analysis. Developed algorithms for large-scale statistical analysis of below-noise-floor signals, leading to novel discoveries of stellar nanoflares. Created image feature recognition software achieving 98.8% reduction in processing times (saving 600+ seconds), key component of biochip diagnostics pipeline in $12B industry.

Seagate bursary recipient. Head of peer mentor scheme.