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Karan Bhargava

Karan Bhargava

Gurgaon

Summary

Accomplished marketing professional with demonstrated success developing and implementing strategic approaches to drive market growth and profitability. 13+ years of global experience, working for brands like Google, Samsung and IIFL. Was heading growth marketing at my last stint.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head Growth Marketing

IIFL Group
Gurugram
05.2024 - 12.2024
  • Team Management - Managed a team of 6 for respective functions, SEO, Digital, Social, Martech & 2 designers. Mandated with driving digital growth, reporting to CMO while CEO was the skip.
  • Lead Gen - Generated 13-14k leads for home loans, LAP, and SBL on a monthly basis, with blended CPLs hovering around 350-400 INR. Contributed to 10cr loan top line and driving brand visibility.
  • Website revamp - Revamped IIFLhomeloans.com, a 400 pager website while working with agencies like F1 studioz, spearheading the project. Built a CSR app, 'Kutumb'; Ph-1 is live on the Play Store.
  • Website improvement - Took bounce from 45% to 38%, avg engagement time to 1.2 mins from 50 sec, DA movement 26 to 29, Increase in total traffic & new users by 50-60% m.o.m.
  • Agency Management - Managed a monthly retainer (SEO, GA, Website, App) of 15 Lakh and avg performance marketing spends of 40L. Agencies like LogicServe, PepperContent, Schbang, F1.
  • Building Reporting Analytics - Setup Marketing Analytics for all different channels. Developed GA reports, Looker studio dashboards, executive dashboards for performance management.

Marketing Manager

Google Pay (XWF) [5.5 years]
Gurgaon
02.2019 - 05.2024
  • Growth Marketing - Managed growth for Google Pay's credit products. Eg. Credit Card, Personal & Business loans. BNPL, CIBIL, Credit line. Worked closely with NBFC's like Indifi, DMI, Axis.
  • Campaign management - Managing end to end campaigns for acquisition & drop offs, starting with calendarization, strategy, execution, post analysis. Used similar tools like CleverTap, Moengage.
  • Cross functional collab - Worked closely with Product, Eng, BD, UI/UX to scale loan books to 150cr+ for personal loan and 220cr+ for business loans, by generating 120k+ for business loans.
  • In-App Marketing - Other marketing efforts were driving 60% of the top funnel of the entire credit product mix. While nurturing nudges and acquisition campaigns attributed 45% of final conversion.
  • Other project - projects like Partnership marketing, worked on projects like Fastag, CIBIL, Food ordering with large partners like Uber, Zomato, PetPooja, IDFC, Axis, Reliance, Croma, PineLabs.

Global Marketing Manager

VisionSpring NewYork (1 year contract)
Gurugram
06.2017 - 05.2018

Strategized and executed an entire new marketing identity for VisionSpring in India, Bangladesh and Africa. Developed brand playbook, built and mobilized new collaterals.

Founder

CoconutAnna.com (Entrepreneurship)
Gurugram
03.2016 - 04.2017

Founded Coconutanna.com, an e-commerce platform doing doorstep delivery of fresh coconut water. Grossed a 0.5Mn revenue m.o.m while managing a team of 10 and serving 300+ households.

Senior Executive

Cheil, Samsung Group (5 Years)
Gurgaon
06.2011 - 05.2016

Worked on enhancing Samsung's retail presence in India. Helped rollout thousand of Samsung stores across categories and across retail formats like MR,RR, OT, GT, Brand shops.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - APSCM

IIM Calcutta
Kolkata
01-2016

BBA - Management, Marketing, IT

Symbiosis University [Full time]
Pune
04-2011

Skills

  • Growth and Digital Marketing
  • Performance Marketing
  • Team Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Retention & Funnel optimization
  • Retail ATL BTL TTL
  • Content Brand Social

Certification

  • Power Bi - Udemy (Jan 2023)
  • Advance Excel (2022)
  • Marketing - Hubspot (2018)
  • Instagram mkt M. Becker ( 2018)
  • Open water diver - Padi (2012)
  • SEO AtoZ by Neil Patel (2017)

Accomplishments

  • Topped in English, 10th boards
  • Winner NDTV Tiger contest 2012
  • 2 consecutive 'O' rating (Cheil)
  • Out of turn appraisal (Google 2023)
  • Featured in CondeNast (Diving)

Timeline

Head Growth Marketing

IIFL Group
05.2024 - 12.2024

Marketing Manager

Google Pay (XWF) [5.5 years]
02.2019 - 05.2024

Global Marketing Manager

VisionSpring NewYork (1 year contract)
06.2017 - 05.2018

Founder

CoconutAnna.com (Entrepreneurship)
03.2016 - 04.2017

Senior Executive

Cheil, Samsung Group (5 Years)
06.2011 - 05.2016

Some College (No Degree) - APSCM

IIM Calcutta

BBA - Management, Marketing, IT

Symbiosis University [Full time]
Karan Bhargava