Anish Agarwal has joined Dr. Reddy’s as head of analytics. He will spearhead the Analytics CoE of the pharmaceutical giant: Business analytics, data science and technology (data engineering and visualisation/apps) come under his purview.

“Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories is driven by the purpose to accelerate access to innovative and affordable medication with commercial presence in 42 countries globally. I strongly believe that data and analytics will drive the next wave of innovation along with science and technology for the pharma/life science industry. A strong analytics capability will help the organisation make better decisions about products and processes by leveraging big data, ML and AI-driven forecasting to present visual data and market trends to stakeholders,” said Anish.

Anish will both set the vision and strategic plan for advanced analytics at Dr. Reddy’s. His major responsibilities include:

• Partner with the business leaders to create and execute analytics vision to improve decision support in critical organisational/cross-functional processes and execution of business strategy.
• Bring in the best-in-class AI/ML capabilities to bear and drive forward the organisation’s strategic priorities of growth, efficiency with continuous improvement and patient centric innovation.
• Build a strong internal and external network of capabilities and capacity to execute on the vision with quality and speed.
• Identify strategic partnerships that enhance Dr. Reddy’s in-house capabilities (data, technology or modelling). 
• Assess the current state of digitisation and data maturity to prioritise actions (data partnerships, digitisation imperatives) that create the maximum business impact.
• Design and drive initiatives to integrate advanced analytics (AI/ML) to make the core operating processes intelligent. Define high RoI strategic decision support initiatives in partnership with business leaders where advanced analytics capabilities can create exponential impact.

Anish comes with 20 years of experience and has worked with major multinational corporations, including NatWest Group, Clifford Chance and Vertex Data Science. He has made it to many illustrious lists, including the Top 50 influential AI Leaders in India, the Top 40 under 40 Data Scientists and the Top Five Data Science mentors in India. Anish also has a Ph D in Computer Science.