Mujtaba Ayub

Strategy, insights & analytics APAC & MENA

Curriculum vitae

Insights, Analytics and Growth Strategy professional with expertise in revenue channel growth, product and brand management, performance measurement, consumer research, P&L management, strategic project execution, and decision support for leadership on big bets.

Experience

Riot Games

Singapore, 2025 to 2026

Insights, Analytics and Strategic Projects Manager, Publishing Operations APAC

  • Built the P&L and unit economics framework for games and ran portfolio prioritisation across nine APAC markets, supporting trade-off and resourcing decisions for the APAC General Manager.
  • Led a multi-quarter growth programme for VALORANT in Japan. Shaped the thesis, brought together publishing, esports and creator teams, and delivered a strategy playbook covering cultural fit, creator dynamics, growth models and a forecast of monthly active users.
  • Built a Python-based scraper and Natural Language Processing sentiment analyser to close player intelligence gaps across APAC languages.
  • Designed executive reporting infrastructure across APAC games on Tableau Cloud, turning ad hoc reporting into a repeatable operating mechanism.
  • Led a strategic review of the Riot ONE esports event in Japan, designing new formats and a framework for cross-border expansion.

Mondelēz International

Pakistan and UAE, 2021 to 2023

Manager, Shopper Insights, Retail Strategy and Analytics, MENA

  • Deployed a $600K research budget to generate the analytics and insights behind decisions across Oreo, Cadbury and other brands.
  • Applied conjoint pricing and media mix models to quantify the P&L and return impact of pricing and advertising decisions, then translated the outputs into channel activation through a shopper missions framework.
  • Ran cross-functional sprints with product development, brand and sales teams to ship price, packaging and positioning changes driven by shopper insight.

Manager, Consumer Insights and Analytics, MENA

  • Diagnosed the gum and candy category decline in Egypt and Morocco and launched repositioned variants in response.
  • Refined pre-launch television and digital creative through consumer response testing with brand teams.
  • Assessed brand positioning and messaging across the portfolio and set out how they should evolve.

McDonald's

Pakistan, 2018 to 2021

Consumer and Business Insights Lead

  • Built Power BI dashboards and OKR reporting across more than 70 outlets, putting daily decision data in operators' hands.
  • Forecast item-level demand, helping the supply chain team cut average monthly wastage cost by 2%.
  • Developed consolidated P&L analysis to improve the precision of financial planning and performance measurement.
  • Identified menu mix as the drive-thru bottleneck and restructured assortments, cutting average service time by 40 seconds.
  • Lifted gross profit margin by 2% through price changes driven by conjoint price elasticity analysis.

Pfizer

Pakistan, 2017 to 2018

Country Lead, Business Analytics and Insights

  • Identified high-potential therapeutic areas and reallocated 500 medical representatives, contributing to 2% year on year sales growth.

Nielsen

Pakistan and UAE, 2015 to 2017

Senior Executive, Retail Marketing and Strategy

  • Led retail execution, consumer and marketing strategy advisory for clients including PepsiCo, Frito-Lay and Red Bull.
  • Drove the design, execution and advocacy of product improvement initiatives at Nielsen.
  • Grew business unit revenue by 20% year on year by securing ad hoc and syndicated products including the Brand Health Tracker and Retail Audit.

Nova Founders Capital

Malaysia, 2013

Entrepreneur in Residence (Intern), Digital Marketing and Operations

  • Handled digital advertising, operations and corporate partnerships across several startups hosted at the venture incubator.

Education

INSEAD

2024

MBA

LUMS

2011

BSc Economics

Tools

Tableau · SQL · R · Python · BI · LLM augmented coding and agent development