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Umang Sharma

Umang Sharma

Bangalore

Summary

Seasoned leader with 19 experience in driving strategic marketing initiatives. Proven ability in creating sustained business growth, enhanced brand engagement and driving customer advocacy. Hands on experience in establishing and leading high-impact marketing teams across geographies, including USA, Europe, APAC, Middle East & India.


Recognized as “Top B2B Marketing Strategy voice” by LinkedIn in 2024, “Influential Leader” by organizations like the World Marketing Congress in association with CMO Asia & the World Federation of Marketing Professionals.


A recognized voice on B2B Marketing, Marketing Campaigns, ABM, and Martech.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Marketing

CONVERSIVE
08.2023 - Current
  • Redefined and developed a new marketing framework for the organization to achieve turnover of USD 90 Mil ARR in 3 years.
  • Lead complete Go To Market (GTM) for SMS Magic and Conversive product lines.
  • Delivered an impact of USD 32 Mil with USD 18 Mil ARR realized revenue in 3 quarters.
  • Launched new brand – Conversive which is a new product, brand and identity for the organization.
  • Conceptualize the PLG (Product Led Growth) motion for the organization. Delivered 3 growth experiments every month.
  • Manage P&L, budgets, and teams. Lead marketing efforts on global partnerships for the organization with
  • Salesforce, Zoho, Vonage, and Aircall.
  • Manage end-to-end events: Dreamforce events in the USA, Australia and Europe and Zoholics in the USA and India.
  • Led the complete 21 member marketing function including Demand Generation, Inside Sales, Product Marketing, and Marketing Operations.
  • Responsible for product launch and closely aligning the marketing buyer’s journey programs with product lifecycle
  • stage.
  • Responsible for contributions to product name, pricing and is evaluated for impact made on closed revenue.
  • Developed and managed tech stack to facilitate fast growth for SMS Magic and Conversive. Main layers include: Hubspot, SFDC, Zoominfo, SEM rush, Google data studio and more.

Head of Growth

Talview
12.2021 - 06.2023
  • Instrumental in achievement of USD 200 Mil valuation with the objective to raise Series B round for Talview.
  • Led the complete Marketing function including Demand Generation, Field Marketing, Product Marketing, Marketing Operations and Digital Marketing.
  • Executed programs to deliver a high-value pipeline in a fast-paced, high-growth environment for 2X growth YoY.
  • Delivered a pipeline of USD 12.4 Million, and with a realized net new quarterly ARR of USD 6.5 Mil.
  • Managed Hubspot and SFDC tech stack with a PowerBI and a TPP reporting overlay.
  • Managed events including yearly #instahiring events that witness over 800,000 visitors on digital and other mediums.
  • Maintained a lean, performance focused team.
  • Responsible for product launch and closely aligning the marketing buyer’s journey programs with product lifecycle stage
  • Executed GTM plans for Recruitment (Hiring) and Proctoring business verticals.
  • Managed 2 large events in USA and India – generated pipeline worth USD 3 Mil.
  • Responsible for contributions to product name, pricing and is evaluated for impact made on closed revenue.

Chief Operating Officer/ Head of Marketing

SABERNI
10.2016 - 12.2021
  • Domain: Marketing Operations outsourcing for IT / ITES, Pharma, Life Sciences, Manufacturing and Real Estate, High level description of responsibilities
  • Founded the company with the objective of creating an impact with customer centered B2B marketing and demand generation framework
  • Bootstrapped the company from 0 to USD 4.8 Mil ARR
  • Made a profitable exit in Dec 2021
  • Oversaw campaigns that generated a cumulative USD 1.2 Billion pipeline across more than 450 marketing campaigns
  • Setup and handled operations of 5 captive Marketing Centres of Excellence(MCoE) for IBM, Happiest Minds Tech
  • CMS IT services, Microgenesis and Quinnox
  • Responsible client acquisition and managing clients including - IBM, Unisys, Swiggy, Happiest Minds
  • Technologies, Capgemini, Quinnox, CMS IT services, MicroGenesis and more
  • Launched USA HQ and created a healthy brand in India and USA demographics
  • Starting a company from scratch and running it profitably for 5+ years
  • Increased the resource strength from 1 – 64 in 3 years
  • Created the largest ecosystem for marketing automation implementation
  • Created partnerships with Oracle (Eloqua), Marketo, Demandbase, Sales Manago, Foxtra and others
  • Made large-scale financial decisions and supervised company spending to reduce material losses and maximize profits.
  • Improved employee satisfaction and reduced turnover through the development of effective training programs and performance management systems.
  • Promoted a positive corporate culture by implementing employee engagement programs that recognized achievement and fostered collaboration among teams.
  • Oversaw day-to-day operations to keep organization running smoothly while meeting business goals.
  • Developed quarterly business plans to evaluate cost projections.
  • Championed continuous improvement initiatives, fostering a culture of innovation within the organization.

Associate Director of Marketing

ArisGlobal Software Pvt. Ltd
09.2009 - 09.2016

Drive Business Performance

  • Drive regional rigor in definition and orchestration of strategic go-to-market plans inclusive of marketing, field, consulting, customer success, and partner functions that support ArisGlobal’s LifeSphere platform in overall business strategy and execution.
  • As the executive team member, led ArisGlobal’s growth from USD 35 Mil to USD 700 Mil.
  • Heading Demand Gen, Brand Management, Product Marketing and MOps functions.
  • Built and executed strategy to increase the market share by from 12% to 34% in the Safety market.
  • Develop a qualified pipeline of USD 180 Mil across Safety, Clinical, Regulatory and Med Information business verticals.
  • Partner in areas to drive GTM for aligned solution plays, identifying growth opportunities in the market and build clear execution plans.
  • Partner across ArisGlobal’s core teams to bring the voice of field and co-design strategy and programs

Leads Sales Enablement

  • Championed aligned solution plays, activated connected sales and marketing execution in every segment to maximize performance and share.
  • Collaborates with local PoCs to drive local partner-led marketing strategies and demand generation that support aligned solution play performance.
  • Enables collaboration across relevant partners and stakeholders across the region and leverages expertise in strategic cross-product/aggregate business metrics to drive insights and impact go-to-market strategy and delivery.

Champion Product Advocacy

  • Advocated as the voice of the customer to provide thought leadership on competitive landscape, solution area gaps, sales trends, etc. to drive improvements on the GTM plan.
  • Facilitate and drive engagement across a complex stakeholder map to drive the product marketing growth strategy and drive impact through correction of error initiatives as required.

Respected People & Organization Leader

  • Built organizational capability for employees, partners, and market opportunities. Grew marketing team from 2 to 44 FTEs.
  • Built effective & inclusive teams where people can do their best work

Sr. Group Manager - Central Marketing

MGL Consulting
05.2007 - 08.2009
  • Sales Enablement
  • Own and manage sales enablement initiatives.
  • Champion effective proposal writing and sales training functions.
  • Led the successful Salesforce CRM implementation for the organization
  • Managed analyst relations with Gartner and IMS health.
  • Manage Oracle and Microsoft - Gold Partnership levels
  • Key Accounts Management (Steering committee member)
  • Head – Product Marketing for EZ Plastic – the only SAP endorsed ERP system Managed USD 180 Mil across Manufacturing and BFSI GTM plans, strategy and pipeline management
  • Lead campaigns and events planning.

Marketing Operations Manager

Parsec Technologies Ltd.
2006 - 2007
  • GTM plans, strategy and pipeline management Market research, landscaping and analysis.
  • Campaigns/Events planning and management
    Website content development and management
  • Communication for each of the product lines (internal and External i.e. Press releases etc.
  • Provide effective sales support for India sales
  • Research and work along with the CSO and CEO on VC partnerships and investor relations
  • Lead researcher and GTM plan developer for Cisco platform integration
  • Optimized website content for better search engine ranking and increased organic traffic.
  • Performed market segmentations, targeting and positioning for each product line.
  • Used data analytics to track lead generation campaigns and improve quality.
  • Analyzed and reported on KPIs to validate and demonstrate success of marketing campaigns.

Education

Advanced General Management - General Management

Wharton Business School
USA
10.2023

Skills

  • Strategy and Planning
  • Demand generation
  • GTM Planning
  • Enterprise AI / Generative AI
  • Budgeting and Cost Management
  • Product marketing
  • Martech
  • Marketing Operations
  • Marketing Analytics
  • Branding and Positioning
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Martech
  • Strategic thinker
  • Pricing strategist
  • Stakeholder management

Accomplishments

  • Senior leader with 19 years of specialization in B2B marketing and organizational leadership at various levels.
  • Spearhead demand generation initiatives resulting in 50x growth for multiple organizations.
  • Delivered USD 3 Billion in cumulated SAL pipeline and managed a product / services portfolio of USD 2.3 Billion.
  • Led marketing in ArisGlobal’s growth from USD 35 Mil to USD 700 Mil. A 20X growth.
  • Created and implemented C.I.L.M. impact driven demand measurement and growth framework.
  • Founded and scaled SABERNI to USD 5 Mil on a bootstrapped mode to turnover with 32 engaged clients.
  • Responsible for winning and managing clients including - IBM, Unisys, Swiggy, Happiest Minds Technologies, Capgemini, Quinnox, CMS IT services, MicroGenesis and more.
  • Setup captive Marketing Centres of Excellence (MCoE) for large clients. Manage and run 45 OEM partnerships in Americas, Europe and Asia with Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, Paulo Alto, Splunk, Amazon, VMWare, Red hat, MacAfee, and Fortinet.
  • Proficient in buyer’s journey, solutions selling, program management, and Go-to-Market (GTM) programs.
  • Tech enthusiast with hands-on experience with full marketing tech stack. Proficient in tools like SFDC, HubSpot, Pardot, Marketo, Zoominfo, 6sense among others.
  • Regular participant on various NASSCOM discussions as speaker and a panelist.
  • Created and grew SABERNI from zero to USD 4.8 Mil in less than 5 years on a bootstrapped mode.
  • Serves as an adjunct professor in India’s top 20 MBA university. Teach B2B Marketing to 4'th year MBA students.

Timeline

Head of Marketing

CONVERSIVE
08.2023 - Current

Head of Growth

Talview
12.2021 - 06.2023

Chief Operating Officer/ Head of Marketing

SABERNI
10.2016 - 12.2021

Associate Director of Marketing

ArisGlobal Software Pvt. Ltd
09.2009 - 09.2016

Sr. Group Manager - Central Marketing

MGL Consulting
05.2007 - 08.2009

Marketing Operations Manager

Parsec Technologies Ltd.
2006 - 2007

Advanced General Management - General Management

Wharton Business School
Umang Sharma