Mujtaba Ayub

Strategy, insights & analytics APAC & MENA

Growth strategy, consumer insights, and the decisions underneath.

Understanding performance, consumers, and markets to help solve pressing business questions. From over 10 years of lessons in the Food & Bev, Packaged Goods, Gaming, and Pharma industries.

Built at Riot GamesMondelēzMcDonald'sPfizerNielsenINSEAD

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01

Sentiment analysis

Tracking consumer sentiment across local APAC languages

Riot Games had no dependable measure of player sentiment in Asia Pacific. This system reads local-language forums across eight markets and reports a weekly score.

Riot Games
02

Category and brand strategy

Repositioning a portfolio into category whitespace

The gum and candy portfolio competed on breath freshening, a claim every brand in the category was already making. This work diagnosed the decline in Egypt and Morocco and launched repositioned variants.

Mondelēz, MENA
03

Operations and demand modelling

Reducing drive-thru service times

Drive-thru service was slow because the menu on display did not match what customers ordered at that time of day. Restructuring the assortment cut average service time by 40 seconds.

McDonald's
04

Field strategy and market sizing

Reallocating 500 medical representatives

A field force of 500 medical representatives was deployed on allocations set years earlier. Reassigning them to higher-potential therapeutic areas contributed to 2% year on year sales growth.

Pfizer
05

Decision systems and reporting

Building the reporting layer executives actually use

Leadership, brand, sales and finance teams each needed a current view of performance, but the data sat in separate systems. This work built reporting on one agreed set of metrics.

Riot Games, McDonald's
06

Semantic search and retrieval

Conversing with fifteen years of journal entries

Fifteen years of personal writing sat in formats that could not be searched by meaning. Tagging and embedding 3,500 entries made the archive answerable in plain language.

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