Jaya K. Soni, Ph.D.: Senior Manager, Reporting and Visualization

America’s Healthiest Grocery Store™ that seeks the finest natural and organic foods available, maintains the strictest quality standards in the industry, and has an unshakeable commitment to sustainable agriculture. Reported to the Executive Leader of Enterprise Analytics. Lead the Reporting and Visualization team, comprised of highly skilled analysts, in delivering scalable solutions for Product, Finance, Retail Operations, Merch Analytics, and other internal WFM stakeholder teams. • Guide the R&V team through complex partnerships with stakeholders, establishing prioritization, conducting project rationalization, road mapping, and clarifying partner needs/requirements while collaboratively ensuring improved solutioning (increased quality, expanded functionality, design and content alignment). • Product owner of enterprise wide intra-day reporting (Two-Bytes) solution, leading the development collaboration between Enterprise Analytics, Enterprise Information Delivery teams, and Change Enablement. • Oversee the management of the Whole Foods Market Vendor Reporting Portal with over 15,000 supplier partners. • Manage and facilitate the Regional Analyst Co-Op call, connecting global resources and updates. • Implement use of Confluence wikis, JIRA, intake mechanisms, and team operational tools to increasing efficiency and provide socialization resources for analysts and partners. • In collaboration with the Tech Team, established the annual Tableau User Summit with over 150+ analysts representing global and many of the regional embedded teams.

Reported to Civitas Learning Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer. Led NGLA curriculum development, program management, and operations for multiple institutional clients. • Executed on strategic vision from executive champion and subject-matter experts and articulated strategy across org. • Curated and developed engaging and interactive content and training materials on the use of data and analytics, student success strategies, leadership, and other higher education topics, with an eye to repurpose content for NGLA and for other Civitas consulting and Partner Success engagements. • Managed the LMS instances, including community-building, and intra- and inter-cohort learning activities during NGLAs--serving as a virtual faculty member and facilitator throughout. • Guided onboarding and alumni development. • Collaborated with executive champions, subject-matter experts, and stakeholders in Product, User Education, Marketing, Partnerships, and Partner Success on cross-functional....

Reported to the Vice President, Consulting. Lead in dual role serving ontier 1 strategic solutions consulting team and as a partner success account manager/product consultant for high-value clients with ACV of $ 1.5+ million and student enrollments between 50k-110k+. Strategic solutions consulting team: • Created change management, data inventory, compliance assets for external and internal clients including strategic partnerships and business development teams. • Completed contracted consulting assignments with onsite client reviews for data/technology readiness and change management needs to harness predictive analytics, relaying learnings for product development. • Trained products, data science, internal marketing user education, and partner success on higher education policy, culture, practices, and required protocol. • Provided highly-visible training webinars. Within account management: • Managed relationship and collaboration between Products, Data Science...

(Promotion from Director) Reported to President and CEO of University. Designed, established and managed strategic planning process that employed annual imperatives/projects with strategy teams and key performance indicators. Oversaw implementation and integration of new SPOL software for outcomes-based assessment, strategic planning, budget planning, and faculty credentials into current and emerging institutional processes at the University. • Managed, reviewed and approved data reports sent to IPEDS, ICUT, THECB, Petersons and other federal, state, local and commercial reporting agencies. • Continued oversight of institutional policies, procedures, and evaluation processes to acquire and report relevant data about the institution, accreditation, effectiveness and student learning. • Created organization-wide training and resources to increase staff engagement with performance metrics while also providing consulting services.

Reported to President and CEO of University. Designed, established and managed strategic planning process that employed annual imperatives/projects with strategy teams and key performance indicators. Oversaw implementation and integration of new SPOL software for outcomes-based assessment, strategic planning, budget planning, and faculty credentials into current and emerging institutional processes at the University. • Managed, reviewed and approved data reports sent to federal, state, local and commercial reporting agencies. • Continued oversight of policies, procedures, and evaluation processes to acquire and report relevant data about the organization and performance metrics. • Created campus-wide training curriculum and resources to increase staff performance, while also providing consulting services.