Akarsh Venugopal, Senior Marketing Associate

Akarsh Venugopal

Senior Marketing Associate

Cognizant - India

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
8 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :8 years, 0 Months

Senior Marketing Associate at Cognizant - India
  • India - Chennai
  • October 2018 to January 2019

Team size: 4; Function - Global Sales Support;

Clients: CMO (Digital Operations), Field Director, BU heads of Cognizant

Key Result Areas:
• Managed account wise requirements for marketing campaign execution
• Worked with in house design & content teams for creating marketing assets.
• Provided sales enablement support to BU leads, CMOs, Field sales directors
• Provided offshore event support - data, collaterals, content, presentations

Deputy Marketing Manager at HCL Technologies
  • India - Delhi
  • August 2016 to September 2018

Team size: 4; Function - Corporate Brand Marketing

Clients: BU heads, C-suit leaders, senior leaders, businesses, external talent, Emp

Key Result Areas:
• Prepared, drafted, collated content & managed analytics
• Worked on campaign ideation, plan, strategy & end to end execution with teams
• Managed content for HCL Europe webpages - Generic & Geo specific
• Managed corporate communications for important HCL events,
• Managed online content, SEM/SMM/GDN, ORM, budgeting & analytics for campaigns
• Prepared ad copies, creative routes, content for creatives - videos, banners, etc.
• Prepared media pitch, media briefing documents & scheduling for important events
• Liaised with PR & creative agencies to launch campaigns, publish news, promote HCL
• Managed media team for big ticket events such as WEF, VOR launch, MWC, IR, etc.

Manager at Religare Securities Ltd.
  • India - Delhi
  • May 2014 to August 2016

Team size: 20; Function - Business Marketing

Clients: Business partners/Franchises, traders

KRA
• Prepared quarterly/ annual operating plans & channel performance presentations
• Created a unified communication kit for Religare to provide it to the business partners and further to be forwarded by business partners to clients
• Launched sales drives for revenue generation, client acquisition & reactivation
• Prepared customer retention plans; managed online & offline promotions of campaigns/ drives along and conducted analysis of key metrics
• Organized meetings with investors, trainings and webinars for franchisees & clients
• Prepared framework for Integrating market intelligence tools, online documents, charts, videos & banners in a one stop shop online channel to support franchises
• Liaised with agencies for facility branding & branding of partner locations
• Assisted in creation of “advisory team” & “contingency team” as support to partners

Intern at Unilever
  • India - Mumbai
  • April 2013 to September 2013

Key Result Areas (team size 3); Function - Product Branding (FMCG)

• Conducted qualitative market research with TG to gain consumer insights for concept creation; prepared concepts for launch of new pouch pack of shampoo brand
• Worked with design team to prepare graphics & ad brief for clinic plus pouch
• Conducted main plant test/Trial for pouch pack quality
• Performed competitor analysis -price, SKU, variants across outlets in Mumbai

Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy services Ltd.
  • India - Delhi
  • November 2009 to July 2012

Key Result Areas:
• Monitored & managed potential bottlenecks in backend application performance
• Ran test cases for enterprise COBOL source programs & resolved tickets
• Managed resource repository for training and development of new candidates
• Liaised with testing teams & development teams for problem resolution

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Institute of Management Technology (IMT)
  • March 2014

While pursuing my MBA, I have done my 5 month internship in Brand Development from Hindustan Unilever Limited,Mumbai. I have worked on multiple live projects for Clinic Plus brand during that phase. I have also done some challenging short term/academic projects during my MBA stint.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Engineering
  • at Amrita School of Engineering
  • May 2009

During my Bachelor's course, I had worked on a project in the topic " Fault Tolerant system". The project was based on the existing model used by ISRO (Space organization in India). I studied the model & proposed a model which was efficient. It was named as "Proposed Model". This paper has won National level paper presentation competition twice & it was published in Internation Journal for Computer Application (IJCA) IN 2010.

High school or equivalent, science
  • at Kendriya Vidyalaya
  • March 2005

Bayt Tests

Marketing Management Test
Score 62%

Specialties & Skills

Content Marketing
Corporate Branding
Marketing Operations
Marketing Communications
Google AdWords
MS Office
LinkedIn Advertising
Facebook Ad Manager
Google Analytics

Social Profiles

Languages

Malayalam
Beginner
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

IEEE
  • Student Member
  • January 2007

Training and Certifications

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2019
Valid Until:
February 2020
Google Analytics (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2019
Valid Until:
January 2020
Google Video Ads certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2019
Valid Until:
January 2020
Google Digital Sales Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2019
Valid Until:
January 2020
Google Adwords Search Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2018
Valid Until:
February 2019
Understanding economic Policymaking (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014
Globalization of Business Enterprise (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Valid Until:
April 2014

Hobbies

  • Playing Cricket, Badminton, Table tennis; Body Building; Travelling; Listening to Music; Networking
    • Research paper in fault tolerant system was published in IJCA (International Journal of computer Application) in 2010. • Have been part of team which won 3rd in intra-TCS-basketball tournament in Chennai • Have won 1st prize for National level technical paper presentation twice. • Received certificate of achievement from Oil India Limited for performance AISSE,2003 & AISSCE,2005