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Extra Curricul Arachievements
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KARANBIR SINGH

KARANBIR SINGH

Bangalore

Summary

Strategic Growth Manager known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Specialize in market analysis, customer engagement strategies, and scaling business operations. Excel at communication, teamwork, and adaptability, ensuring seamless collaboration and innovative growth solutions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Growth Manager

POCKET FM
Bangalore
03.2024 - Current

Enhanced growth through data-driven digital campaigns

  • Handled the budget distribution of about $3M monthly across shows and optimized spends over Meta, TikTok, and UAC platforms, by targeting M9 recovery.
  • Data-backed creative oversight for acquiring assets and cracked under $1.5 for multiple shows.
  • Drove the spending on one show by 5x by identifying the growth lever and cracking multiple assets.

US Growth Lead | Drama & Romance

  • Streamlined and structured the existing process to effectively track throughput of new shows. This helped in testing 50+ shows a month
  • Sentiment analysis: Introduced a new way to interpret the comments posted which was later adapted by India, UK & Germany teams

Retention Growth | USA

  • Formulated the first ever benchmarks to qualify a show as a potential blockbuster. These benchmarks are being used by the complete US team and has been replicated by India team
  • Automated the process to judiciously use the daily average listener's time and select the top shows together
  • Reduced leakage across different modules available in the app & increased the throughput from 55% to 85%

Assistant Branch Manager

ITC
Kolkata
08.2020 - 02.2024
  • Among the top 5 percentile Assistants to get a 5/5 rating consecutively in the 2nd year of service
  • The youngest employee with ITC handling the largest branch in India for Personal care portfolio
  • Directly managing a team of 20+ people and indirectly a team of 300+ people to deliver a monthly sales value of 20+Cr while directly handling sale of 12+ categories and 150+ SKUs
  • Ideated growth strategies for brands such as Savlon, Fiama, Engage, Vivel, Homelite, Mangaldeep etc
  • Currently the best branch in terms of delivering top outlet growth, loyalty plan execution outlet, distribution and rural reach execution in Personal care and Agarbatti portfolio

Assistant Manager, Projects

ITC
03.2021 - 02.2022
  • Among the top 5 %ile Assistants to get a 5/5 rating in the confirmation review (Batch of 55 AUTs)
  • Managing the PMO on one of the biggest Strategic transformation projects in ITC in partnership with BCG and was among 4/30 Assistants to be a part of the core team, handling 3+ modules
  • Defined the logic behind Sales/lines target for the ground team, currently rolled out all over India
  • Independently handled the execution of the project across 2 branches (Jaipur & Mumbai), currently delivering a growth of 10%+ in productivity measures and 5%+ in sales, across food categories
  • Designed multiple dashboards to track the progress of the project, which are now used as reporting standards to the Top Management (PMO, Sales recovery, Distribution benchmarking etc)

AUT

ITC
08.2020 - 02.2021
  • Independently worked on 7+ projects, across 4 months, presented analysis at a Western District level
  • Runners up at the Intra-ITC national quiz - 'Star Wars' (75+ teams), Youngest Assistant to qualify

Brands Intern

P&G
04.2019 - 06.2019
  • Identified key problems in trial methods used for SEC B&C by 4 brands - Whisper, Oral-B, Tide etc
  • Single-handedly designed 2 new trial methods; Successfully conducted 3 pilots to increase brand trials
  • Proposed incremental sales of $1.2Mn with 150% increase in new users through successful pilot runs
  • Enhanced ROI by 133%; Reduced cost/trial by 22%; Demo time by 33% by redesigning Demo kit

S&M Executive

L&T
07.2015 - 05.2018
  • Was the Youngest member of All-India Application working team, performed highest job studies
  • Subject matter Expert (SME) on analytical tool Power-BI, trained 20 L&T Senior HR managers
  • Led a team of 5 trainers, to train 45 operators (2000 manhrs), in Operation & Maintenance module
  • 1/5 to handle business worth ₹100Cr with Coal India; ₹35Cr with private & ₹17Cr with Ultratech
  • Strategized pitch to select 1/20+ products, revived Goa - Iron Mines sale, won ₹3.5 Cr worth orders
  • Strategized equipment re-fleeting at Ultratech, led to 25% lesser equipment time usage & fuel savings
  • Pioneered study at Navi Mumbai Int
  • Airport on load and haul, proposal led to increase in production

Education

MBA - Marketing

Indian Institute of Management
Kolkata
01.2020

B.E - Mechanical

Mumbai University
Mumbai
01.2015

Class XII -

Rajhans Vidyalaya
01.2011

Class X -

Navy Children School
01.2009

Skills

  • Customer Acquisition
  • Marketing Strategy Development
  • Sales Targeting
  • Brand Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Analytics
  • Sales strategy
  • Problem-solving abilities

International Certifications

  • Financial Markets, Yale University
  • Behavioural Finance, Duke
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset, MITx
  • Biases & Portfolio Selection Risk Management, Rice University, 87%
  • Inspiring & Motivating Individuals, Michigan University
  • Analytics for Decision Making, Babson

Extra Curricul Arachievements

  • Debating & Sports, Winner, Vidyasagar Memorial Regional level debating competition; Runner-up, Inter IIM debating competition, IIM B, 1 among 2 /460+ to represent IIMC at FMS founder's day debating competition (IIM-A,B,C,L,FMS), Gold Medallist, Varchasva Tennis & Frisbee, organized Inter-Univ. Tennis tour, officiated 36 teams, 10+ colleges, Certificate of Excellence awarded to represent college in 15+ tournaments in Lawn Tennis in 2012 & 2013
  • National Cadet Corps (NCC), Won, 1/500, in Firing (Junior Division) as a part of NCC, South Training Camp, held by Ministry of Defence ['07], Received 'Certificate A' from NCC, attended a 10-day training camp, with 500+ cadets organised by NCC EU
  • Social Initiatives, Taught 15+ underprivileged children of 10th & 11th, for a cumulative of 50+ hrs, with Angel Xpress Foundation, Conducted Motivation & Career Counselling Workshop for 80+ 10th standard students in 2 x 4 hr sessions ['17], Represented L&T CSR to host talent show for children of 30+ NGO's, in Maharashtra with 2000+ footfall ['18]

Academic Distinctions

  • CAT 17', 99.82% (360/2L)
  • MAH CET17', 99.76%
  • XAT18', 99.2%
  • Converted 11 MBA programs
  • Selected to Join the Indian Army & Indian Navy (NDA) as an Officer, through UPSC & SSB
  • 1 of 150 to represent KJSCE in Sweden-India Nobel Memorial Quiz, IIT-B, by Swedish embassy

Positions Of Responsibility

Co-Founder, DebSoc IIMC, Co-founded the DebSoc & drafted Constitution for sustainability; Formed a core and extended team, Launched first ever Vidyasagar Memorial Regional level debating competition in collab with CDC, Conceptualized Remini Alumni & freshers' debate; Initiated connection drive among 10K+ alumni

Timeline

Growth Manager

POCKET FM
03.2024 - Current

Assistant Manager, Projects

ITC
03.2021 - 02.2022

Assistant Branch Manager

ITC
08.2020 - 02.2024

AUT

ITC
08.2020 - 02.2021

Brands Intern

P&G
04.2019 - 06.2019

S&M Executive

L&T
07.2015 - 05.2018

MBA - Marketing

Indian Institute of Management

B.E - Mechanical

Mumbai University

Class XII -

Rajhans Vidyalaya

Class X -

Navy Children School
KARANBIR SINGH