Kenji Watanabe

Data & Analytics Lead Digital Singapore office With Проверка темы Corwell since 2018
Data & Analytics Lead

Data that changes what people do.

Kenji leads Corwell’s Data & Analytics team in Singapore, turning messy customer and operational data into models that people use every day. His rule of thumb: if a dashboard does not change a decision within a month, it should be switched off.

Kenji started as a data scientist in route planning for a logistics group in Tokyo and later led analytics for a large e-commerce marketplace. Since joining Corwell in 2018 he has put more than 40 models into production, from demand forecasting to customer matching — including the single customer view behind Vertexa Retail’s unified commerce roadmap.

Kenji teaches an evening course in applied statistics and contributes to open-source forecasting tools. He is an amateur photographer and spends long weekends exploring Southeast Asia by train.

  • 12Years in data & analytics
  • 40+Models in production
  • 25Data specialists in his team

Core skills

  • Customer data & identity94%
  • Forecasting & predictive models92%
  • Data platforms & architecture87%
  • Analytics adoption89%

Areas of expertise

Customer data Forecasting Machine learning Data platforms Data governance Retail analytics Route optimization Dashboards Python & SQL
Background

From models to decisions.

A decade of building analytics inside companies taught him that adoption, not accuracy, is the hard part.

Experience

  1. Data & Analytics Lead Corwell · Singapore

    Leads a 25-person team of data scientists and engineers across the Digital practice.

  2. Senior Data Scientist Corwell · Singapore

    Built the firm's forecasting and customer analytics toolkits.

  3. Analytics Lead E-commerce marketplace · Tokyo

    Ran pricing and recommendation analytics for 30 million customers.

  4. Data Scientist Logistics group · Tokyo

    Developed route-planning models for urban parcel delivery.

Education & credentials

  1. MSc Statistics University of Tokyo · Tokyo

    Research on time-series forecasting for demand planning.

  2. BEng Information Engineering Osaka University · Osaka

    Graduated top of his cohort in data systems.

Selected work

Projects Kenji has led.

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