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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

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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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