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Work History
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Karan Hora

Karan Hora

Marketing Manager
Delhi/NCR,India

Summary

A Results-Oriented and Efficient, Marketing and Communications Professional with an experience in Team Management, Campaign Management, Channel Management, Data Analysis, Marketing and Digital Advertisement. An MBA graduate in Marketing from SP Jain with an experience in Rural Marketing, Consultancy/Service, Media & Communication industry and Logistics industry with the desire to be a new age marketer. With an excellent eye for marketing and sales promotions, web analytics, market research and advertising skills coupled with relationship-building skills ensures the ability to network skillfully and build mutually beneficial relationships.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Marketing Campaign Manager

Varahe Analytics, Noida
Noida
08.2022 - Current
  • Leading a team of 16 members on a project for Punjab with a national party .
  • Creating comprehensive political campaigns, strategies and narratives. Coordination with client and ministers for execution of the same.
  • Offering strategic recommendations on a daily basis for updates to institutional programs and policies, factoring in current political climate and trends in Punjab.
  • Providing content for social media, speeches and media narratives for key stakeholders in the state.
  • Providing research on political issues to showcase benefits and suggested action plan for the client.
  • Planned the biggest campaign ever to be executed by the party in the state of Punjab.
  • Built and strengthened strategic relationships with vendors, advertising agencies and leading industry partners.

Channel Augmentation Manager (Marketing)

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.
Delhi/NCR
04.2021 - 07.2022
  • Used Market intelligence, business and consumer insights to provide management with complete channel data analysis and trends for different regions while ABC classification of channel partners based on various factors.
  • Developed customer centric integrated marketing plans and engagement strategies for different category of channel partners while ensuring implementation of same with efficiency.
  • Developed strategy, AOP, All type of brand communications, activations and brand campaigns along with all stakeholders for channel engagements and retail visibility campaigns while executions with help of agencies.
  • Planned Customer Loyalty programs and schemes for trade channel with seamless executions through agencies. Schemes like Scratch Card Coupons, Wheel of Fortune, Total Quantity Discount, Advance Collection Schemes and pointers scheme.
  • Extensively laid out Alternate channels i.e. Agri startups with demand generation models to provide trends of new development in Agri input industry while also On boarding Agri startups in alternate channel space
  • MIS reporting for analysis and empower stakeholders for informed and data driven decision making with generating automated dashboards on Data studio, Power Bi and Excel.

Marketing Analyst

Aussizz Group
Ahmedabad
08.2019 - 04.2021
  • Automated all campaign and analytics reports to the management and clients- weekly, monthly & quarterly while creating dashboards on Google Data Studio.
  • Monitored Brand Communications and assisted in aspects of Brand Management
  • Performed market research & analyses for different products and provided with competitive intelligence in terms of digital presence and brand equity .
  • Performed STP for various products and built paid marketing strategies for off-shore clients in Australia, India and Middle-East.
  • Developed and monitored advertising campaigns on Facebook/Instagram, LinkedIn, Bing and Google ad network.
  • Provided useful insights to Digital Marketing Manager which further helped reducing Cost per result to reduce by 46% and increase traffic on social media channels and optimize Paid campaigns .
  • Helped in configuration, management and maintenance of analytics related products and software's ( Google Analytics, Data Studio, Google Ads, Google Search Console, Marketing Automation products, Email Marketing analytics, Social Media analytics )

Marketing Intern

Aramex
Dubai
09.2018 - 01.2019
  • Collaborated with team members to help expand marketing channels.
  • Conducted advanced market and competitive analyses along with the financial analysis , highlighting opportunities and trends with company profiling.
  • Developed marketing strategy for specific campaigns for strategic accounts while coordinating with internal stakeholders.
  • Learnt and helped in on-boarding Account Based Marketing and marketing automation software with AI and Data Analytics .
  • Content generation for company website, company presentation, brochures.
  • Created proposals and organised pursuit documentation to support marketing staff.

Education

MBA - Master's in Contemporary Marketing Management

SP Jain
Singapore, Sydney And Dubai
08.2017 - 01.2021

Bachelor of Journalism And Mass Communication -

Vivekanda Institute of Professional Studies
Delhi
07.2014 - 07.2017

Skills

Integrated Marketing Communication

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Accomplishments

  • Varahe Analytics: Handled Punjab election project compelling key stakeholder to take suitable and sustainable actions on current political narratives while advising suitable campaigns for effective buzz creation.
  • Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.: Analyzed Channel Reach and market penetration while presenting management and field force with opportunities for different territories all over India . Performed ABC clustering of channel partner while strategizing Marketing activities and executions of engagement plans for specific category of channel partners. Developed different sales promotional tools and brand communication for channel partners and internal stakeholders.
  • Aussizz Group: Acted as a digital problem solver for an internal team of 42 members while handling off-shore clients. Provided solutions to various questions and came up with innovative ways to create and execute various marketing plans to reduce costs and increase efficiency through data and marketing analysis.

Tech Skill Sets and Extra Curricular

  • Proficient in Microsoft suite with good Excel skill sets.
  • Data Analytics and business analytics software with highly visual and graphic dashboards- Data Studio, Power Bi, Tableau.
  • Digital Marketing tools and analytics.
  • Successful Practitioner of MARKSTRAT by STRATX SIMULATION and Data Analytics Practitioner on Rapid Miner.
  • Teamwork and team building comes naturally to me as a former professional athlete.
  • Secured first place in Delhi State Badminton Championship and IP University Badminton Championship in Men's Singles & Doubles .
  • Represented Delhi and IP University at National badminton meets . Pre-quarter finalist at All India University Badminton Meet.

Other Professional Experiences

  • Royal Matrimonial Services (Marketing Intern): Fully accountable for the digital media presence – adapted SEO and SMO optimisation resulting in significant increase in engagement and traffic. (+25% more lead generation)
  • Franchise India (Management Trainee): On- boarded Lenders, Incubators, mentors and start-ups to BusinessEx.com while attending press conferences and events on behalf of the company.
  • Indo-Asian News Service(Journalist Intern): Covered Olympics and took interviews of sports personalities which lead to articles being published by leading newspapers and websites.

Timeline

Marketing Campaign Manager

Varahe Analytics, Noida
08.2022 - Current

Channel Augmentation Manager (Marketing)

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.
04.2021 - 07.2022

Marketing Analyst

Aussizz Group
08.2019 - 04.2021

Marketing Intern

Aramex
09.2018 - 01.2019

MBA - Master's in Contemporary Marketing Management

SP Jain
08.2017 - 01.2021

Bachelor of Journalism And Mass Communication -

Vivekanda Institute of Professional Studies
07.2014 - 07.2017
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