Akshay Palande
P&L Management | Business Development | Growth Marketing
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Team player and outstanding performer in Product Development and Marketing within Edutech Industry. Proven success in leadership, operational excellence and organizational development with keen understanding of elements of education business. Recognized for inspiring management team members to excel and encouraging creative work environments.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Associate Director
Unacademy
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2022 - Current
- P&L Ownership: Take complete ownership of the P&L of western zone in the BU.
- People management: Understanding and solving the obstacles faced by team members.
- Stakeholder management: Act as a bridge between the senior management and category team to manage and communicate the MoM objectives and plans.
- Strategic partnerships: Onboard strategic partners in various categories to increase the users and revenues of multiple categories.
Senior Category Manager
Unacademy
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2021 - 04.2022
- P&L Optimization and Strategy: Owned business operational strategy including both financial and operational inputs/outputs, forecasting, monitoring, and reporting.
- Stakeholder management: Drive and communicate clear category roadmap and work with stakeholders like legal, ops, finance, product, etc. across teams and deliver.
- Growth Management: Formulate growth plans in collaboration with various marketing stakeholders like PM, CLM, etc. to increase the user base of the categories.
Growth Consultant
Unacademy
05.2020 - 03.2021
- Revenue forecasting: Formulate revenue plan for various categories using historical data and in collaboration with category managers.
- Process development: Build processes to optimize value offering, new user growth and user retention.
- Mentorship and training: Guiding and training of new recruits to ensure they are aligned with company culture and processes.
Category Manager, Months
Unacademy
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2019 - 04.2020
- Revenue Management: Manager to increase the category revenue from 60K MoM to 1.5 Cr MoM
- Product development: Onboard partners and complete the value offering of the product.
- Category growth: Find new ways and strategic partners to increase the users on the platform.
Product Manager
Ufaber Edutech Private Ltd.
Mumbai, Maharashtra
02.2018 - 06.2019
- Product management: Understanding product requirements through market research, setting a roadmap for every single product, maintaining quality standards, collaborating with cross functional teams for its execution.
- Identifying opportunities for newer products through market research, customer engagement and feedback etc.
- Tech management: Enhancing IT architecture for hyper personalization in order to track student
progress. Improve UX for better customer experience. - Digital Marketing: Collaborating with the marketing team to run paid campaigns and SEO campaigns.
Co-founder
Ideaboxx Automotive Solutions LLP
05.2016 - 01.2018
- Aligned organizational objectives with company mission, increasing revenue, profit and business growth by collaboratively developing integrated strategies.
- Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
- Established and administered annual budget with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.
- Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
Education
MBA - Marketing
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Chennai 07.2020 - 06.2021
Master of Arts - Public Administration
IGNOU
02.2012 - 03.2014
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
Mumbai University
05.2007 - 07.2011
Skills
Analytics
Microsoft Office
Digital marketing
Business Development
Negotiation
Critical thinking
Self-Motivated
Certification
Fundamentals of Data Analytics
Timeline
Associate Director
Unacademy
04.2022 - Current
Senior Category Manager
Unacademy
04.2021 - 04.2022
MBA - Marketing
Great Lakes Institute of Management
07.2020 - 06.2021
Fundamentals of Data Analytics
05-2020
Growth Consultant
Unacademy
05.2020 - 03.2021
Category Manager, Months
Unacademy
07.2019 - 04.2020
Certification on Product Management
03-2018
Product Manager
Ufaber Edutech Private Ltd.
02.2018 - 06.2019
Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
02-2017
Co-founder
Ideaboxx Automotive Solutions LLP
05.2016 - 01.2018
Master of Arts - Public Administration
IGNOU
02.2012 - 03.2014
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
Mumbai University
05.2007 - 07.2011