About

Ankita Saraf is a Senior Manager in Analytics with over 9 years of technical expertise and business acumen. She holds an Executive MBA in Marketing, Strategy, and Leadership from the Indian School of Business (ISB), as well as an Advanced Management Programme in Business Analytics (AMPBA) from the same institution. Ankita is also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB®) certified professional. Currently, Ankita works at Volvo Group, where she is responsible for incubating analytics and insights capabilities, building teams from the ground up, setting up operating frameworks, and driving excellence over time. She has successfully established multiple capabilities such as innovation research, strategy mapping, business analytics, and stakeholder management. Ankita leads data analysis, vehicle validation, and reliability testing for Volvo electric trucks and buses, representing ~70% of the company's revenue. She identifies process and technological gaps, formulates precise problem statements, and leads a cross-functional team to develop POCs in alignment with the short and long-term strategic goals of the organization. Ankita also leads strategic partnerships with startups and premium educational institutions with the aim of reducing time to market, mitigating risk, and accelerating innovation. She designs the electromobility strategy roadmap, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders and incorporating an agile delivery process. Ankita provides advisory and support to stakeholders, identifying business needs, providing analytical insights for real-time monitoring, and predictive maintenance of complete vehicles as well as vehicle components leading to reduced range anxiety, vehicle downtime, maintenance costs, and an improved customer experience. Ankita has previously worked as a Data Scientist at Volkswagen IT Services India Pvt. Ltd., where she was responsible for data-driven business process reengineering aimed at improving processes in terms of control design, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance as part of the Corporate Group Data Intelligence Team. She has also worked as a Business Performance Analyst at Adobe, where she was responsible for performance and rebate analysis of Adobe Sales Partners as part of the Consumer and Business Analytics team (Global Sales Operation Center). Ankita's education history includes an Executive MBA and an Advanced Management Programme in Business Analytics (AMPBA) from ISB, an Educational Evaluation, and Research degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering from Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical, and Technological Sciences. Ankita's technical skills include research scientist, AI, test, ML, and data scientist. She