Megha Nair

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India18 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 19+ years in digital advertising and marketing.
  • Led media strategies across APAC and Europe.
  • Passionate about innovation and data-driven marketing.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with extensive experience in digital strategy and consumer engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital StrategyCrm

Other Skills

AdvertisingBrand ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Digital MarketingDigital MediaIntegrated MarketingManagementMarketing CommunicationsMedia BuyingMedia PlanningMobile MarketingOnline MarketingStrategy

About

With 19+ years in digital advertising and marketing, I have led media strategies, digital transformation, and brand growth across diverse industries. Currently, I drove media excellence across APAC and currently lead consumer engagement initiatives in Europe, integrating MarTech, data-driven personalization, and dynamic creative optimization. Previously, I led digital strategy at Carat India and managed over 35 brands at PHD India for Hindustan Unilever. Passionate about innovation and data-driven marketing, I thrive on creating impactful brand experiences, optimizing media efficiency, and staying ahead of industry trends.

Experience

Pepsico

Associate Director - Marketing, PepsiCo, Strategy & Transformation

Jan 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Spearheaded the deployment of Consumer Engagement & Personalization strategies across Europe, enhancing customer interaction.
  • Leveraged 1st-party data to refine digital media targeting, significantly improving campaign precision and reach.
  • Streamlined Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO) processes, facilitating easier deployment and execution.
  • Orchestrated marketing technology platforms, driving efficiency in workflows and enhancing overall marketing performance.
CRMDigital MediaDigital StrategyStrategyCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

Carat

3 roles

Senior Vice President

Apr 2023Jan 2024 · 9 mos

  • Leading Digital Media planning, buying & Strategy for Standard Chartered Bank, ACCA - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Intel, WWE, Tata Neu , Tata Croma and TimesPro
  • Building, managing & mentoring large team of media planners, operations.
  • Leading the dentsu gaming India initiative with a gaming task force
  • Leading the Mentor Mentee initiative in dentsu - is a unique opportunity for reverse learning, driving discussions on Gen Z mindset and values, current trends, as well as to improve digital innovation skills. Click here to know about the sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8IEjso8koE

Vice President

Jul 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

AVP - Digital Media Planning at Carat India

Sep 2018Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • At Carat, Megha has been leading Digital Media Planning, buying and strategy for Carat across West and South India with Digital P&L responsibilities. Her experiences at Agencies and Client-Side have helped us build robust processes that deliver more efficiencies and value for clients. An annualised Media Strategy approach that Megha has championed at Carat has helped enterprises generate value across their brands and align their media plans to their marketing goals with minimal spillage. Megha has also managed to develop a strong team and robust processes that has ensured execution of multiple projects at scale, and improved efficiencies in delivery. She has been managing client relationships with key Carat accounts like Standard Chartered Bank, ACCA - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Total India Oil Pvt. Ltd ,Intel India and ITC Foods.

Phd

Digital Marketing for Hindustan Unilever (Personal Care)

May 2016Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Leading Digital Media & Strategy for HUL – Personal Care category. Brand like Lakme , Vaseline , Closeup, Axe etc..
  • Partnering with the brand leads from HUL, understanding the business,process, moonshot objective and delivering a media strategy to meet those objective
  • Always thinking and exploring new media ideas which is Technology led and backed by consumer data
  • Building and reinforcing planning process in coordination with HUL & PHD regional teams. Driving successful process to other markets like APAC regions
  • Building, managing & mentoring large team of media planners, operations & tech
  • Managing a versatile team to deliver all aspects of the business

Myntra

Sr. Manager Digital Marketing

Sep 2015Apr 2016 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Responsible for digital marketing campaigns of Myntra Fashion Brands. That includes Myntra's Flagship Brand - Roadster, Celebrity Brands - HRX with Hrithik Roshan, All About You with Deepika Padukone and other Myntra Fashion Brands - Mast & Harbour, Dressberry, Anouk, Ether, Invictus, Kook N Keech, Yellow Kite, Moda Rapido, Here And Now
  • Role includes managing agency relationships and their deliverable's
  • Creating relevant content and media strategy for each of the brand's to ensure build in reach, awareness, conversations and transactions
  • Effective usage of the digital investments on mobile advertising and ensuring adequate ROI

Ogilvy & mather

National Media Director - Mobile

Jan 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Educating internal and external stakeholders on how mobile can be used as a marketing medium for Ogilvy and Mather clients across India with a team of 3 people
  • At Neo Ogilvy, for IBM Lenovo, Megha worked with offline media planners as part of B2B Marketing activity to transform their media mix. She challenged the traditional approach head on by channelizing print spends to digital properties specifically on tablets thereby increasing efficiency of reach and resultant output for the client
  • Defining and institutionalizing systems, processes and measurements for mobile marketing across the organization.
  • Support Neo Ogilvy in other countries to deliver insights across all digital platforms
  • Knowledge sharing with clients and internal teams through updates on emails/newsletters on digital media
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with multiple disciplines within the agency like mainline advertising ,PR and rural activation teams
  • Nurturing the mainline advertising team under the age of 30 folks on how to integrate digital marketing as part of the 360 approach to clients
  • Activated Dabur , Sab miller , NSDC, GPI, Diageo , Federal Bank , TBZ,IBM, Fortune Foods ,Lenovo, Roche and won few accounts from GroupM also.
  • Won 8 awards at domestic and international level for my brands

Maxus global

Associate Business Director - Mobile

Jan 2010Jan 2014 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Handling mobile marketing business for Maxus North India for clients Nokia, Nestle ,Perfetti Van Melle, Chivas Regal, Absolut, Fuel, Bausch + Lomb,& American Express
  • Maxus India was awarded the Mobile Media Agency of the year by Mobile Marketing Association in 2012 and 2013 and swept away 22 awards out of which 18 are for brands handled by self – Nokia, Perfetti, Hero MotoCorp, Google and Nestle.
  • Introduced and activated 30 exclusive brands (like Google, Bausch and Lomb, Akzonobel, Spencers, Hero MotoCorp, American Express, Pernod Ricard) on mobile across different categories that resulted in over 170 mobile campaigns within four years therefore converting them into big spenders.
  • Worked with internal and external partners to create mobile strategies and tactical plans
  • Maintaining relationships with Media Owners to enable seamless and value-added media buying

Tribal ddb india

Account management & Business Development

Dec 2007Nov 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

  •  Strategic Account Planning & management.
  •  Responsible for managing the online campaign for the brands.
  •  Review and performance analysis of the campaign with clients
  •  Pitching for new clients, working on website analytics

Montage advertising pvt. ltd

Account planning & management

Apr 2006Nov 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Joined Montage Advertising Pvt.Ltd as a junior account executive even before completing my post graduation.
  • My job profile over the next one year involved supervision of various ATL & BTL exercises for Outlook Group,Footmart Retail India Ltd and Brushman India Ltd.I also mastered day to day issues like creative briefing, client interaction, production supervision, cost estimation etc.

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

Post Graduate Certificate — Business Management

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan

Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising and Public Relations — Public Relations/Image Management

Jan 2005Jan 2006

National Institute of Advertising

Post Graduate Diploma in Advertising & Communications — Advertising and Communications

Jan 2005Jan 2006

Delhi University

B.A Economics (Hons) — Economics

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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