Nitin Pandey

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India22 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of India's largest parenting platform.
  • Achieved 200% PAT growth at KIDZEE.
  • Expert in community engagement and child development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in EdTech and community engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Community DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentMarketing StrategyLeadershipSales Management

Other Skills

Business Relationship ManagementCommunity OrganizingAdaptive LeadershipStrategic ThinkingTeam LeadershipProject ManagementEmployee BenefitsCross-cultural CompetenceFundraisingBrandingPartnerships & PlatformIntellectual PropertyTalent ManagementDistribution StrategiesSocial Media

About

At Parentune, we are revolutionizing parenting with a safe, trusted, and expert-backed digital community for parents from pregnancy to 14-year-olds. With over 5 million engaged parents and growing rapidly, Parentune's vision is to empower each parent with the most prompt and verified support on earth. Parentune offers a rare opportunity to engage meaningfully with an active and responsive community. Through data-backed strategies, personalized content and meaningful Brand integrations, we have helped Brands build lasting trust with parents. We unearth deep consumer insights, behavior analytics, and help with innovative engagement tools that create unparalleled engagement. For CMOs & Digital Marketing Experts, Let’s connect as and when you would like to deep dive into understanding parents' challenges, needs and wish lists. Let's talk when you would like to explore innovative collaborations for meaningful engagement with parents. For parents & folks working in the area of child development, I am passionate about learning perpetually and creating an empowering ecosystem for each parent and child. Please reach out to me if you think I can be of help or if you think you can help us in taking strides towards our vision.

Experience

Parentune.com

Founder & CEO

Nov 2012Present · 13 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon

  • parentune.com is the most rapidly growing parents network. It's a community helpline supporting parents 24x7 with trusted advice, validated support, and services. Know more about us and find our story here. http://www.parentune.com/About-Us/about-parentune
Business Relationship ManagementCommunity OrganizingAdaptive LeadershipStrategic ThinkingTeam LeadershipProject Management+3

Xseed education

2 roles

Head of Marketing - XSEED & Business Head- XSEED Preschools

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr

  • Leading the own Preschool vertical, the mantle is to create leadership in the domain of early childhood development & education.
Project ManagementMarketing Strategy

Head Of Marketing

Jun 2010Jan 2011 · 7 mos

  • Leading the marketing mantle for XSEED is in a way partnering the initiative to transform the way our children learn at schools. XSEED is a unique complete school solution focused on improving teaching & learning performance, building clear concepts, thereby enabling superior learning outcomes. would wish all children & schools to gain from the XSEED advantage, build life long concepts & hence have a strong & lasting foundation for life.
  • Among others, "School of Tomorrow" is special as it not only lived up to being "THE education conference" but also achieved unprecedented levels of "school interest levels" in inquiries and footfalls both. To being teamed up with best media partners to being telecasted on CNN IBN, it clearly raised the bar.

Zee learn ltd

Business Head

Jan 2008Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • A P&L role for the Child development and learning category. The role overlooks cross functional teams of Marketing, Finance, Logistics & operations, R&D, consulting, competitive intelligence, business modeling, & reports in to the CEO.
  • the key challenge was to make headways in the space of Child development & education. Early childhood education is of paramount importance to our country's soicio-economic growth & development. It gives Nitin a lot of pride and joy hence to have lead KIDZEE, the largest pre-school chain in Asia & Zee schools, the fastest growing and no. 2 chain of schools in India.
  • My tenure saw complete turnaround of business & best summed up in some results
  • 1. PAT growth-200%
  • 2. Topline growth-64%
  • 3. Best in class profitability
  • 4. Most recalled brand in value for money category
  • 5. A dream run to IPO
Adaptive LeadershipStrategic ThinkingTeam LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentLeadership

L'oréal

Zone Manager

Jan 2007Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • The role overlooked retail and modern trade for the zone based at Mumbai. A mix of traditional, modern retail and marketing, the main objective was to drive new initiatives and carry out special projects for sustainable future business models.
Business Relationship ManagementCross-cultural CompetenceAdaptive LeadershipStrategic ThinkingTeam LeadershipMarketing Strategy+1

B-schools (imi, symbiosis, mdi, iim a, iim b)

Visiting Faculty & Case studies

Jan 2005Nov 2018 · 13 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai, Delhi, Gurgaon, others

  • Visiting Faculty in the area of Consumer Behaviour, Brand Management, Online Branding, Marketing of services, Retail Marketing, Franchising. Real Cases based on current real conditions specially designed to bring forward application oriented learning at B-schools backed with alternative scenarios of analysis.

Apollo tyres ltd

Manager-marketing

Jan 2004Jan 2007 · 3 yrs

  • The role overlooks the passenger car tyre portfolio which includes Tubeless, high performance and ultra high performance passenger car & SUV tyres.This role reported into the Head of Marketing. The key responsibilities of this role were formulation & implementation of throughput marketing initiatives, product launches, BTL/ATL activities, events and promos, Brand management, media tie-ups, & ensuring an overall profitability of the portfolio.
  • The portfolio in his tenure has seen the highest growth of close to 40% YOY, which beat the average growth across the passenger car sement (27%). Nitin was recognized & rewarded as an Outstanding Achiever for two consecutive years at Apollo Tyres.
Business Relationship ManagementProject ManagementMarketing Strategy

Bd

ASM

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

  • Nitin was being inducted as a trainee at B.D. During his stint as a trainee, he worked extensively on formulation & kickstarted the first retail plan at Ahmedabad. A year's programe got him absorbed in the role of an Area sales Manager (ASM).The role reported into the National sales head.
  • Nitin started with the Western-UP market,wherein he kickstarted the entire operations & channel network.Post a good launch at western UP, he was then relocated to Andra pradesh, one of the biggest healthcare markets in India, where he kick started retail and worked extensively on market development. The market saw a growth of 50% during his tenure.His responsibilities included channel management, Recruitment,training & grooming of the sales team, sales promotion and channel promos.Nitin was recognised for "outstanding achievement" in the year 2004.
Business Relationship ManagementProject ManagementMarketing Strategy

Leo burnett

Trainee/intern

Apr 2001Jul 2001 · 3 mos

  • This position worked on the launch of first pre paid mobile cash card from Airtel, it was then called MAGIC. The main task was to device a complete launch plan for MAGIC using Shahrukh and Karishma Kapoor mainly focused on the youth.
Business Relationship ManagementProject ManagementSales Management

Education

IMI Delhi

Postgraduate Degree

Jan 2000Jan 2002

Harvard University

Food Systems Live!: Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies — Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Jan 2023Apr 2023

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

laureate-advance leadership program — General management

Jan 2007Jan 2007

Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology and Science, Indore

B.E.

Jan 1996Jan 2000

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