Functional Skills

Vendor Management
Data Analysis
Marketing Strategy
Data Visualization / Reports
Digital Marketing / Advertising
Marketing Analytics
Sales Strategy
Business Analysis
Operations Management
Sales Operations
Business Development
Campaign Optimization
Growth Marketing
Growth Strategy

Software Skills

Microsoft Excel
PowerBI
Data visualization
Google Analytics
Google Sheets
Google Docs
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint

Sector Experience

Business Services
Consumer Goods
Media & Entertainment
Retail
Technology

Experience

Freelancer Management Consulting
Business Strategy Consulting
9/2024 - 2/2025
Indian Audio Content Startup Helped an Indian, serialised audio content startup with their launch
• Benchmarked micro-transactions, subscriptions and a mix of monetisation strategies to propose client's launch strategy
• Formulated Paid Growth spends' plan, starting at INR 2Cr monthly, scaling to 10Cr monthly over 12 months at 300%+ ROAS
• Setup Paid Growth accounts on Meta & Google; setup marketing funnel analysis' dashboards for CXO reporting
• Benchmarked regional market leaders' organic strategy across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube; proposed strategy for client

Pocket FM Start-Up
Growth Manager
1/2024 - 8/2024
Growth Manager – Fantasy Genre, US Markets
Scaling Fantasy Genre 10X for Pocket FM’s largest market across platforms- Meta, Google Ads, TikTok
● Used Gen AI & open source content to test Animation vs LA for ads and in-app content; ran Meta A/B tests to compare
● Scaled on Animation based on test results and cost of ad making; scaled 5X to 200,000$ spends at 50% D30 recovery
● Identified and pioneered unexplored advertising channels- TikTok and Google Ads; Google ads were very relevant to genre
● Evaluated multiple sub-genres by testing CPIs on Thumbnail+Text visuals to expand growth roster; added 3 sub-genres
● Grew Fantasy Genre ~12X from 40,000$ to 500,000$+ monthly spends exceeding D30 recovery of 40% during tenure

Pocket FM Start-Up
Growth Manager
7/2023 - 12/2023
Growth Manager – Google Ads, UK Markets
Scaling Google Ads from scratch for Pocket FM's foray into UK markets
• Setup Google Ads account, linking 3rd party apps- AppsFlyer & GA4 to pull conversion events and for funnel data analysis
• Assessed relevant conversion events across inventories to identify consumption pattern and optimization goals for growth
• Discovered lower CPMs & CPIs for UK, vs US; maintaining conversion levels and ARPPU validated the decision to scale
• Collaborated with creative teams to localize in app and advertising content- accents, character names, locations in stories
• Scaled to 3,000£+ daily spends at D7 recoveries of 15%+; proposed plans to scale 5X to 15,000£ daily spends
• Established campaigns for Ad's CPI testing on Meta & TikTok; created dashboards for tracking growth funnel metrics

NIIT Digital Corporate Strategy & Development
Business Strategy Lead
1/2023 - 6/2023
Building channel strategyfor NIIT Digital Business- NIIT's direct-to consumer arm
• Designed vetting process for Vendor and Business Partner channels; benchmarked competitors for incentive structure
• Evaluated 40 service providers; onboarded 10 vendors and 2 business partners; liaised with sales resources to manage
• Generated INR 50 Lakh revenue in May 2023 from channels; proposed INR 60 Cr ARR plan by scaling pan-India; 20% delta

Ofbusiness Start-Up
Head of Retail || Zero to One Business
1/2022 - 12/2022
Strategize & Execute GTM strategy for Pan India Retail Distribution of Construction Material
● Evaluated Market X Category mix & GTM and Channel strategy to pioneer operations; focus- trading margins
● Led vendor negotiations to secure the best rates and service levels; onboarded 10 vendors across categories/geographies
● Built business teams for sales, supplier operations, MIS, order processing, and fulfilment; assembled a team of 35+
● Achieved MRR of INR 10 Cr at 8% GM; onboarded 400+ retailers across India; acquired a mfg unit of 150Cr+ ARR

OfBusiness Start-Up
Head of Leather/Leather Accessories, B2B Sales || Zero to One Business
3/2021 - 12/2021
Strategically identify manufacturing units to set up raw material & other accessories’ supply
● Identified relevant markets with footwear, bags, and other leather accessories’ manufacturing units to set up business
● Built a team for vendor management, customer onboarding, sales ops, & fulfilment; hired 5 resources with P&L experience
● Trained team to become individual P&L owners & grow businesses; clocked monthly revenues of 1.5Cr at 10% GM

Reckitt Benckiser Group Sales
Area Sales Manager Telangana
7/2020 - 2/2021
● Owner of RB Health portfolio business- 14 health & personal care brands, scaled SWB- primary driver during tenure
● Led a team of 6 direct & 50 indirect reports across urban & rural geographies; 14 districts, annual turnover of INR 150Cr
● Managed 30 channel partners- 17 urban distributors, 8 rural & 5 pharma stockiest; deployed POS material to drive SWB
● Ranked consistently amongst the top 3 in the region on RBSS- Sales, GTM & brand specific priorities, in H2 2020

Reckitt Benckiser Group Sales
Sales Development Manager- South
1/2020 - 7/2020
● Drove GTM Urban Expansion in HYD & BLR; 14k outlets added, contributing to nearly 10% incremental business
● Liaised with ElasticRun to improve rural distribution; Added 20 SubDB villages in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu
● Partnered with AZGO- vending machines consisting daily essentials & JustMyRoots- intercity food delivery, to initiate D2C

Reckitt Benckiser Group Sales
Management Trainee; Area Sales Manager Tamil Nadu North
6/2018 - 12/2019
ASM Tamil Nadu North
● Owner of RB Health portfolio business- 14 healthcare and personal care brands, scaled IFCN- primary driver during tenure
● Led a team of 53+ reports across urban & rural geographies; 13 districts, annual turnover INR 75Cr+
● Managed 30 channel partners- 19 urban distributors, 6 rural stockiest, and 5 pharma stockiest, created to drive IFCN
● Ranked 1 in the region on RBSS rankings- Sales, GTM and brand-specific priorities, in Q3; consistently amongst top 3

Management Trainee: International Stint- Field Sales Ops, South Africa
● Designed ‘Vision Score’(VS), gauging visibility elements at retailer level, & ‘Must Stock List’(MSL) dashboards

Dabur, IBD(Dubai) Marketing
Summer Trainee
4/2017 - 6/2017
Marketing Project- Identify relevant growth opportunities from new products in Post Wash Hair Styling
● Created & tested relevant western hair styling product concepts with Arabic consumers
● Proposed product concepts for formulating packaging, pricing and 3-year P&L