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Aman Bhatia

Marketing Professional
Bangalore
Aman Bhatia

Summary


A competent professional with nearly 20 years of extensive experience in the entire gamut of marketing operations with domain expertise in Brand Management & Positioning


Currently heading business for west & South region for Group M


Expertise in devising scheme for overall brand architecture and creating decision tree to rationalize numerous acquisitions


Pivotal in improving customer engagement with the product through focused market research and using the resultant analysis to devise the future product roadmap


Recognized for being the batch topper & Gold Medalist in MBA


Recognized as a brand change agent, persistent innovator and team motivator who has championed some of the most successful branding strategies and product launch campaigns


Extensively worked on ATL & BTL/OOH/Content planning/ Technology driven campaigns to achieve the brand objectives and generate ROI for the campaigns managed


High integrity & energetic leader with proven capability in quality assurance and product development to deliver quality services to clients / customers

Overview

20
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
1
Language

Work History

GrouM Media
Bangalore

Business Head
03.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • West & South
  • Key Result Areas:
  • Responsible for managing the branch functions for the West & South market by delivering the effective and innovative strategic solutions to the clients in the customer engagement space by creating content related campaigns
  • Managing P&L for the branch by keeping track of top & bottom-line revenue figures at par with the stakeholders
  • Driving team to provide the solutions to the clients as per their requirement and help them in day-to-day workings
  • Liaising with other verticals to get the 360 approach solutions to the clients
  • Create properties for the brands to help in attaining the competitive market position by uplifting the market share
  • Achievement – Making branch the highest profitable ever among other units internally by adding new clients in the system
  • Won awards for the campaign planned and executed for Castro, HSBC and Unilevers
  • Categories managed – Automobile, Insurance sector, FMCG, Banking, Education sector etc.

Barbeque Nation
Bangalore

Head Marketing
06.2018 - 02.2020

Job overview

  • India & Overseas
  • Key Result Areas:
  • Successfully initiated strategies for the new market development – Domestic & International
  • Creation of different IP’s to make brand visible among different players in the market
  • Conceptualization of marketing initiatives/ festivals to help company’s top-level growth
  • Initiated marketing programs by focusing on driving growth, market share and innovations for the brand
  • Consumer understanding and research to reposition the brand communication and its philosophy
  • Accomplish relation with cross functioning teams for all the new initiatives on marketing front
  • Manage external marketing partners - advertising agencies, digital marketing firms and production companies
  • Supervise brand content
  • Created new business line for the brand – Online food deliveries under brand name “UBQ” and made it profitable by attaining the targets set
  • Commenced another vertical – Alliances & Partnership which acted as revenue generator for the company
  • Develop brand standards and usage guidelines
  • Track consumer and market insights by reviewing metrics such as sales volume, market share, profit projections, pricing and distribution, and by conducting consumer research
  • Manage entire P & L for marketing vertical
  • Awarded “Manager of the year” for the campaign planned and executed which helped in 200% increase in the footfall by generating 15 million of business in one year.

Fountainhead MKTG Dentsu Aegis Network
Bangalore

Associate Vice President & Branch Head
08.2016 - 06.2018

Job overview

  • Conceptualization & implement a detailed business plan for the clients for their new brand and products like Tata Global
  • Beverages / Aditya Birla fashion/ Nissan/ Simon Cater etc
  • Initiating marketing programs by focusing on driving growth, market share and innovations for the brands managed
  • Organizing and executing training programs for branch personnel
  • Increasing brand awareness for the company in the market and make it among top 3 preferred agency
  • Creating an innovative properties for the brand resulting in recall and equity
  • Managing budgets, allocating branch funds, and defining financial objectives

Chai Point Bangalore
Bangalore

Head
10.2015 - 07.2016

Job overview

  • Key Result Areas:
  • Strategizing offline marketing for creating awareness and visibility for the brand
  • Driving a comprehensive and a customer centric marketing program through BTL / ATL and social media
  • Initiating marketing programs by focusing on driving brand growth, market share and innovations
  • Creating new avenues for the brand to be visible and become the preferred brand
  • Designing modifications for overall improvement in quality & service standards; setting the quality monitoring tools and methodologies and ensuring adherence to the same
  • Recognizing significant issues impacting the buyer’s decision process, enabling and launching appropriate content to generate sales interest, optimizing the marketing programs investment
  • Delivering the consolidated product as per requirements and timelines for launch; negotiating & discussing new business commercials and liaising with third party suppliers for value added & third-party promotions
  • Planning strategies for enlarging the core market base of the company based on market research data; conceptualizing, planning and implementing processes to drive business volume growth
  • Accomplishments:
  • Managed marketing PAN India by delivering 200% targets in terms of awareness and sales
  • Planned, strategized and executed 100+ outlets in different regions/ cities
  • Initiated the tea subscription model which has seen a huge success
  • Planned innovative marketing campaigns to provide amazing memorable experience to the customers
  • 10% increase in the market share from the campaigns executed
  • Key Partnerships with Creative Agency, Media Agency, Digital Agency and BTL Agency

DDB Mudra
Bangalore

Group Director Brand
11.2008 - 10.2015

Job overview

  • Accomplishments:
  • Headed South for experiential urban and rural marketing
  • Key role in revamping the leading promotion unit Kidstuff in DDBMudramax, South
  • Conceptualized properties for major clients like LSH, SAB Miller, ITC, HUL, United
  • Spirits – MC Dowels, Bagpiper & DSP
  • Transformed and accelerated the unit as the fastest growing unit in the South (At least one client being added every month and overachieved targeted revenues)
  • Pitched and won major clients for the BTL unit - Ashok Leyland, LSH, SAB Miller, V
  • Guard, United Spirits – MC dowels, Bagpiper & DSP, Indo Nissin (property), Mahindra & Mahindra, Britannia and Wipro
  • Spearheaded the Servicing and Operations team for all clients in South for all ATL, BTL and content related needs
  • Independently handled the 200 crore Hayward's brand continuously for 5 years. Launched and executed successfully resulting into increase in the market share by 3%


Ogilvy & Mather
Bangalore

Account Director – Management Supervisor
11.2005 - 11.2008

Job overview

  • Planned, strategized and implemented rural & urban communication programs across India for key accounts like Unilever, ITC,
  • Britannia & United Breweries which included static and interactive communication programs
  • Received rating of 6 on scale of 7 for the projects managed in 2005 – 2006
  • Pivotal role in winning the award for the Bru campaign “Campaign of the Year”
  • Contacted 26 lacs consumers in South market providing them with a complete Bru experience resulting in 45% productivity and growth in LUP category
  • Created a template for an annual branded event for different beverage brands of HUL
  • Won personal awards from HUL for Media Enterprise and Newcomer; Courage Award from Ogilvy
  • Brand: Bru coffee
  • At Pan India level, implemented 360 campaigns targeting 26 lacs households in Kar/TN/AP
  • Increased growth by 29% in LUP category during the campaign time
  • Won Ogilvy Award for Bru campaign; every year I was promoted in Ogilvy that is the biggest achievement which is very rare usually
  • Ogilvy outreach able to revive HUL business due to the results achieved for the campaign done for BRU

Lintas India
Bangalore

Account Supervisor - Account Director
03.2003 - 10.2006

Job overview

  • Helped to develop key client partnerships by seamlessly overseeing workflow, learning clients' business and delivering key presentations.
  • Contributed ideas to concept development, strategic planning and business operations.
  • Planning and implementation of various BTL campaigns in rural/urban markets for various FMCG companies - Britannia, HUL, Coca Cola, ITC etc

Some of the Achievements are -

  • Launch of , Red Label Tea, Taj Mahal Tea, 3Roses tea in 300 towns/ Villages
  • Planned and executed “Thumbs up Hai Dum” challenge in 91 towns of AP
  • Spearheaded social campaign for UNICEF in 5138 villages within 1 month in five districts of UP to create awareness for polio drops


Education

Punjabi University
Patiala

MBA from Marketing
04.1998 - 05.2000

Indian Institute of Technology
Madras

Pursuing Advanced Digital Marketing Course
07.2023 - Current

Skills

Business planning

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Accomplishments

  • Footprints in more than 1000 villages and 500 towns for the brands managed
  • Planned and executed “Thumbs up Hai Dum” challenge in 91 towns of AP
  • Spearheaded social message for UNICEF in 5138 villages within 1 month in five districts of UP
  • Reached out to 26 lacs people successfully for BRU STCP campaign in one year
  • Successfully launched rural campaigns for different brands of Unilever's, Britannia, ITC and many more FMCG companies in more than 1000 villages.
  • Launched Hausla Bulund Anthem for the flagship brand of SAB Miller - Hayward's 5000 which was thew highest followed anthem on the social media
  • Established foot prints in more than 30% market of Maharashtra/Haryana/Punjab/Orissa and successful in creating recall for the Hayward's brand among masses


Timeline

Indian Institute of Technology

Pursuing Advanced Digital Marketing Course
07.2023 - Current

Business Head

GrouM Media
03.2020 - Current

Head Marketing

Barbeque Nation
06.2018 - 02.2020

Associate Vice President & Branch Head

Fountainhead MKTG Dentsu Aegis Network
08.2016 - 06.2018

Head

Chai Point Bangalore
10.2015 - 07.2016

Group Director Brand

DDB Mudra
11.2008 - 10.2015

Account Director – Management Supervisor

Ogilvy & Mather
11.2005 - 11.2008

Account Supervisor - Account Director

Lintas India
03.2003 - 10.2006

Punjabi University

MBA from Marketing
04.1998 - 05.2000
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