Aravind Menon
Summary
MBA professional with over 7 years of experience leading projects and people. Proven track record of delivering cost-effective, high-performance solutions to meet challenging business demands. Passionate about leadership, teamwork, communication, and driving results to achieve win-win solutions.
Learning and being curious is at the core of what excites me. Investing and working with people brings me immense joy and I believe in supporting as much as I can to every individual and team journey.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Target
Bengaluru
04.2024 - Current
- Managing and leading 5 creative work streams. My responsibilities include understanding the business, process and timing to craft processes and ways of working. These ways of working enables the SEM team to deliver efficient & effective creative solutions that are on brand and has the guest at the center of it all.
- Led multiple workstreams to build, test, and deploy new technology, achieving key business goals.
- Established PMO best practices for the program, including routines around Process flow, decision-making, timing and milestones prioritization, and stakeholder communication.
- Currently managing third-party consultants, overseeing up to 5 consultants with an annual expense of approximately $300K.
- Worked closely with senior leaders, providing meaningful executive updates and ensuring they were well-versed in the program to aid in decision-making and removing roadblocks.
- Identified and resolved project issues quickly and efficiently, minimizing their impact on project progress
- Developed a comprehensive project plan that outlined the key tasks and milestones for a major consulting project, resulting in the successful completion of the project on time and within budget
Project Manager
Target
Bengaluru
11.2021 - 03.2024
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Managed a creative work stream which were experimental/entrepreneurial or in early discovery stages. My responsibilities included understanding the business, process and timing to craft processes and ways of working.
- Created process improvements in Electronics department in Vendor management processes. Delivering savings of 200 hours of manpower usage annually.
- Configured & setup initiation for campaign creatives using various project management tools & processes.
- Facilitate process management and associated communication with internal stakeholders.
- Facilitate project execution & operation thru the entire concept & activation phase by working with CFT team across US and India.
- Co-lead resource and creative assignments to support the business and drive growth
- Oversaw project pipeline & operational health for assigned category through workflow management tools
- Created launch reports & facilitate launch readiness
- Reviewed & analyzed campaign requirements, setup campaigns/creative briefing forums & facilitated brainstorming sessions
Senior Associate
Amazon India.
Bengaluru
07.2020 - 09.2021
- Account Management, handling over 400 sellers and 60,000 in added materials to Amazon market place.
- Facilitated in forming initial process of team's workflow management.
- Mining voluminous amounts of data of over 10 million retail partners for profitability and target achievement.
- Long term planning and strategy development to simplify process, improve stakeholder experience and minimize manual intervention.
- Reviewed performance and devised improvement plans or corrections, including over 50 daily calls to key individuals to reach specific targets.
- Developed junior team members and cultivated collaborative culture.
- Oversaw project planning, schedule management and customer relations.
- Supported loss prevention goals by monitoring shopper behavior.
- Planned and implemented promotional activities, coordinating with peak selling periods to create sales opportunities, increasing revenue by minimum 20%.
- Built and maintained relationships with new and existing clients while providing high level of expertise.
- Approached each problem with fresh mind and analytical strategies to quickly resolve concerns.
Corporate Key Account Manager
OYO Hotels and Homes India.
Bengaluru
02.2019 - 06.2020
Relationship Manager
Edelweiss Wealth management.
Bengaluru
05.2018 - 01.2019
Internship Student
Aditya-Birla Sunlife Insurance
04.2017 - 06.2017
Education
Marketing Management And Research
Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode 11.2023 - 11.2024
MBA - Marketing
Jain University
Bengaluru 07.2016 - 04.2018
BBA - Retail Marketing
PSG College of Arts And Sciences
Coimbatore 05.2012 - 05.2016
High School Diploma -
Devamatha CMI International Public School
Kerala 04.2010 - 03.2012
Skills
Training and mentoring
Microsoft Office Suite
Stakeholder Management
Agile & Scrum Methodologies - Jira
Market Research & Competitive Analysis
Data-Driven Decision Making & Analytics – Tableau
Project Management
Accomplishments
- Won the Marketing Champ award as a project manager at Target.
- Top performer as an account manager at Amazon India Jul '20- Dec '20.
- Top revenue grosser and account growth at OYO hotels and homes- Jan '20 & Feb 20'.
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Target
04.2024 - Current
Marketing Management And Research
Indian Institute of Management
11.2023 - 11.2024
Project Manager
Target
11.2021 - 03.2024
Senior Associate
Amazon India.
07.2020 - 09.2021
Corporate Key Account Manager
OYO Hotels and Homes India.
02.2019 - 06.2020
Relationship Manager
Edelweiss Wealth management.
05.2018 - 01.2019
Internship Student
Aditya-Birla Sunlife Insurance
04.2017 - 06.2017
MBA - Marketing
Jain University
07.2016 - 04.2018
BBA - Retail Marketing
PSG College of Arts And Sciences
05.2012 - 05.2016
High School Diploma -
Devamatha CMI International Public School
04.2010 - 03.2012
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