Aayush Damani

About

I'm an MSc Business Analytics & AI candidate at Imperial College London, with a BSc in Economics and a Mathematics minor from Duke University. Before Imperial I worked as a data and business analyst in Mumbai, building dashboards and running analyses across HR, invoicing, and revenue data.

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Experience

AstraZeneca

Jun 2026 – Sep 2026

London, England

Market Research Intern

  • Led supplier identification and outreach to dual-source critical supply chain categories for AstraZeneca's cell therapy expansion in China, run in collaboration with Imperial College Business School.
  • Screened around 80 suppliers through a weighted evaluation framework I designed, with regulatory and financial risk gates, contacted around 25, and progressed 7 to formal engagement.
  • Priority recommendations were validated by AstraZeneca's technical team and advanced to commercial discussions.
  • Built a Power BI dashboard the procurement team uses to assess performance across 200+ existing and candidate suppliers.

Core Integra Consulting Services

Aug 2024 – Jul 2025

Mumbai, India

Data Analyst

  • Built an automated talent acquisition dashboard in Excel and VBA from 10,000+ HR data points for the client, TCS, reporting on recruitment KPIs and the hiring funnel, and cutting manual data preparation by 60%.
  • Built a second automated dashboard in Power Query and VBA for client invoicing and payment tracking, cutting preparation by a further 30%, and wrote the executive reporting off the back of it.
  • Ran a Python analysis of revenue decline across 7,000+ records, classifying clients by commercial characteristics to direct business development.

Jamshri Realty Limited

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024

Mumbai and Solapur, India

Business Analyst

  • Provided strategic support for a 20-acre mixed-use campus development, running market assessments and engaging national and international companies on expansion opportunities.
  • Founded and led the customer engagement function, collecting 100 to 200 customer responses a day across the 10+ businesses on site.
  • Drove a 20% revenue increase for a 200-seat restaurant through survey analysis, menu redesign, targeted campaigns and pricing changes.
  • Optimised digital campaigns using Google Analytics, lifting daily footfall from 1,500 to 2,000.

Education

Imperial College Business School

Aug 2026

London, United Kingdom

MSc Business Analytics and AI

Modules include Deep Learning and Generative AI, Machine Learning, Data Structures and Algorithms, and Marketing Analytics.

Duke University

Sep 2023

Durham, United States

BSc Economics, minor in Mathematics

Tools I reach for

PythonRSQLStataExcel (Advanced)VBAPower QueryTableauPower BILooker StudioMachine LearningStatistical Modelling

IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate (Aug 2023 – Nov 2023). Languages: English, Hindi, Spanish.

Skills, and where I used them

Every skill below links to the project it came from, so you can check the work rather than take the list on trust.

Exploratory Data Analysis3 projects
Airbnb Listing Language·Operational Analytics·IPL Match Analysis
Python3 projects
World Cup Rules Chatbot·Heat Smart Orkney·Distress & Multimorbidity
Data Cleaning2 projects
Heat Smart Orkney·Operational Analytics
Data Storytelling2 projects
Brand Strategy Simulation·IPL Match Analysis
R2 projects
Customer Churn Segmentation·Airbnb Listing Language
Window Functions2 projects
Operational Analytics·IPL Match Analysis
AI Safety Testing
World Cup Rules Chatbot

Beyond the spreadsheet

I grew up playing football and still follow it closely, which is what pulled me towards sports analytics. Earlier on I co-founded My Prayaas, a small NGO supporting HIV-positive families in Solapur, India. It taught me more about data collection than any course did: people only give you honest answers once you've earned their trust.