Curriculum vitae · Auckland, New Zealand

Pavithra Maduranga Bamunu

Commercial & Business Analyst — Category · Forecasting · Retail Analytics
Eden Terrace, Auckland 1021 022 619 7626 pavithrasam.s6@gmail.com LinkedIn Portfolio
14 yrs
multi-site retail, NZ and Asia
$8.9M → $16.8M
category growth at Samsung, against a contracting segment
120
product consultants led across four territories
First Class
the only such honours across three Unitec intakes

Profile

Commercial and business analyst with fourteen years across multi-site retail in New Zealand and Asia — spanning category P&L ownership, demand forecasting, and the direct leadership of teams of up to 120 people. I have sat on both sides of the analytics divide: building the forecasts, and being the person accountable when they are wrong.

At Samsung Electronics I grew a television category from $8.9M to a $16.8M annual peak while the 32-inch segment it depended on was actively contracting, hitting 120% of target three years running. Earlier, as Team Leader of Samsung's retail field force, I led 120 product consultants across four territories and was named Best Team Leader in two consecutive years.

I then relocated to New Zealand and deliberately rebuilt from the ground up: a Master of Applied Business in Business Analytics at Unitec, finishing with a GPA of 7.0 and the only First Class Honours awarded across three graduating intakes — alongside frontline retail roles that keep me close to the operational reality most analysts only model.

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Education

Master of Applied Business — Business Analytics

Unitec Institute of Technology · Auckland

GPA 7.0, First Class Honours — the only such award across Unitec's February, July and October 2024 intakes graduating in 2025. 180 credits at NZQF Level 9.

2024 – Nov 2025

International Master of Business Administration

Buckinghamshire New University (UK) · IDM Nations Campus

Dissertation of 60 credits at Level 7 in strategic international business research.

2022 – May 2023

Executive Master of Science — Project Management

Asia e University · Kuala Lumpur

CGPA 3.40. Project governance and strategy, business research methods, leading and managing project teams.

2017 – Oct 2018

Coursework, business analytics core

What the 180 credits actually covered

Statistical methods, data warehousing and SQL, machine learning, and visual analytics — including a 16-visualisation Tableau workbook on job-market salary data. The research project is listed above under built work.

2024 – 2025

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