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Pawan Pandurangi

Growth marketing manager - Commentsold
Thane

Summary

Forged in the fiery furnaces of martech, customer retention and engagement, I bring with myself a hard earned set of project management, people management, marketing tech and strategic skills that are all tuned over the years to find the fastest route to optimization.

I am best work buddies with product managers, product marketers, support, sales, customer success managers, Marcom, engineering and your friendly neighborhood CEO/founder!

Love chatting over SAAS, edtech, ecom and all things martech/adtech. Insightful

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Growth Marketing Manager

Commentsold (Industry - Social Commerce)
12.2023 - 02.2024
  • Managed PPC, adwords and paid acquisition for lead-gen. Generated. 400+ SAAS subs paying customers in Jan/Feb for videeo.
  • Introduction of Monday boards for project management, bringing TAT down by 33% on an average across Social media, Martech, Design, Performance marketing, copy and Web development (CMS + LP builders) managing managing a team of 8 resources.
  • Landing page creations with unbounce + CRO (Averaged 6-17% CR on each landing page)
  • Customer retention improvement by 11% though SF and SFMC onboarding journey enhancements.

Sr Marketing Retention and CLCM Manager

Join Ventures Pvt Ltd (Industry - Ecommerce)
02.2023 - 11.2023
  • Owned engagement and retention for IGP.com (Gifting ecom), Interflora (Floral Ecom), Masqa (Gourmet Ecom) and Propshop24 (New gen gifting Ecom)
  • Improved ORs for Email by 50% (From 13-14% to 24-27%) on an average
  • Avg order per customer improved from 1.18 to 1.86
  • Exceeded every festival target (Valentines, Mother's day, Father's day, Rakhi) as per last year by 18% on an average.
  • Cannibalization of Web customers to App: 8-11% month on month
  • Improved AOV on app as against web transactions by 27% (1100 AVO on web, 1400 AOV on app (previously 1120)
  • Repeat purchase avg conversion time reduced by 32% through automated journey orchestration and category wise dynamic recommendation.
  • Highest ever revenue achieved for Rakhi festival (5.4Cr INR i.e. 650,000 USD) across app and website.
  • App retention rate improvement by 13% overall.

Sr Marketing Retention and CLCM Manager

FITTR (Industry - Fitness Tech)
06.2022 - 12.2022
  • Clevertap, Appsflyer and CDP setup for thorough attribution analysis and automated outreach
  • Redesigned end to end customer journey based on funnel analysis
  • Grew revenue by 13% by end of 1st quarter and 8% in the 2nd
  • Repeat subscription improvement by 11%
  • 100% improvement in email open rates through humanised content alignment and effective retargeting through segmentation. (From 24% to 55%)
  • 100% improvement in CTR for emails and push notifs (3% for push notifs and 6% for Emails).

CRM Manager

Toothsi & Skinnsi (Industry - Healthtech)
03.2021 - 05.2022

Planning and delivering CRM strategies across the company encouraging customer conversion and boosting referrals.

  • Ownership and full management of the overall CRM and loyalty strategy.
  • 6.64% of all revenue generated through CRM as last touch.
  • 2.3% (150% improvement) Conversion rate for tooshi shop.

Marketing Generalist - Martech and Retention

GreyAtom Edutech Pvt. Ltd (Industry - Ed Tech)
07.2019 - 09.2020
  • Architect the overall marketing stack of all marketing technology products.
  • Integrate marketing technology products with non-marketing and Sales CRM systems in record time in liaison with engineering and product team.
  • 31% improvement in SQL to conversion (Payment) ratio through lead scoring implementation.
  • Improved MAU by 9% and D7 student retention by 25% calculated over 90 days
  • Implemented A/B testing strategies to optimize landing pages for increased conversion rates. Best performing landing pages recorded a CR of up to 19.7%.

Growth Marketer and Product Evangelist

Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd (Industry - Martech)
05.2018 - 06.2019
  • Deliver strategic communication planning, message development, writing, using research and analytics to drive planning and messaging
  • Develop testing and optimization product roadmap and assist in technical documentation.
  • Improved onboarding rate by 29% by the end of Q3.
  • 3.33% average Conversion rate across 5 months from search ads leading to 219 SAAS subscription paying customers.

Customer Success Manager (Onboarding + Retention)

Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd (Industry - Martech)
12.2016 - 04.2018
  • 80% demo to sale conversion rate and 100% onboarding to retention as a Growth consultant across 1.5 years.
  • Consulted renowned clients ranging from BFSI, OTT, OTA, Ecom, Hospitality, Edtech, Healthtech with an average MAU of 10M+ and secured 3.7Cr INR (~400K USD) in SAAS fees.
  • Recognized with SILVER in ACEF (Asian customer engagement forum) for a hyper-personalization based cross channel (Across WA, Fb CA retargeting, Email) for Taj Hotels Safaris and resorts that led to an overall ROI of ~1200% through a combination of RFD and RFM and location prediction based targeting.
  • Recognized with GOLD in IAMAI (Indian digital awards) for Thomas cook (20% increment in revenue through a series of Smart discount campaigns) & SBI (Improved Sales by 54% using Cross-channel Marketing Automation)

Education

High School Diploma -

Sulochanadevi Singhania School (ICSE)
Thane
03.2005 - 03.2006

12th Standard (Higher Secondary Certificate) -

International Indian School, Jeddah (IISJ) (CBSE)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
06.2006 - 06.2008

BBA (Bachelors in Business Administration) - With Diploma in Media & Advertising

Deviprasad Goenka Institute Of Management Studies
Malad, Mumbai
05.2013 - 05.2016

PG in Digital Marketing - Digital Marketing

DMTI - Digital Marketing Training Institute
Churchgate, Mumbai
05.2016 - 06.2017

Skills

    Business growth and retention

Team leadership and coaching

Sales training and leadership

Campaign Management (Cross Channel, automation)

Technical writing

Business operations

Problem resolution

MS Office

Project organization

Design, UI, UX guidance

Strategic Planning

Copywriting expertise

Analytical tools (GA4, zoho analytics, Mixpanel)

Engagement and retention tools (Clevertap, Gamooga, Smartech, hubspot, Marketo, Totango, SFMC, Braze)

Sales cloud setup and management (Hubspot, leadsquared, Freshsales,Salesforce)

Database Management

Timeline

Growth Marketing Manager

Commentsold (Industry - Social Commerce)
12.2023 - 02.2024

Sr Marketing Retention and CLCM Manager

Join Ventures Pvt Ltd (Industry - Ecommerce)
02.2023 - 11.2023

Sr Marketing Retention and CLCM Manager

FITTR (Industry - Fitness Tech)
06.2022 - 12.2022

CRM Manager

Toothsi & Skinnsi (Industry - Healthtech)
03.2021 - 05.2022

Marketing Generalist - Martech and Retention

GreyAtom Edutech Pvt. Ltd (Industry - Ed Tech)
07.2019 - 09.2020

Growth Marketer and Product Evangelist

Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd (Industry - Martech)
05.2018 - 06.2019

Customer Success Manager (Onboarding + Retention)

Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd (Industry - Martech)
12.2016 - 04.2018

PG in Digital Marketing - Digital Marketing

DMTI - Digital Marketing Training Institute
05.2016 - 06.2017

BBA (Bachelors in Business Administration) - With Diploma in Media & Advertising

Deviprasad Goenka Institute Of Management Studies
05.2013 - 05.2016

12th Standard (Higher Secondary Certificate) -

International Indian School, Jeddah (IISJ) (CBSE)
06.2006 - 06.2008

High School Diploma -

Sulochanadevi Singhania School (ICSE)
03.2005 - 03.2006
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