Pragadeesh Manoharan

Performance Marketing Manager

India10 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 10 years of experience in Growth Marketing.
  • Expert in AI-led Media Planning and Execution.
  • Proficient in SQL for data analysis and reporting.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Digital Marketing expert with a focus on Programmatic Media Buying and Campaign Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital MarketingMedia PlanningCampaign ManagementProgrammatic Media Buying

Other Skills

Digital CampaignsAnalytics ToolsClient ServicingData AnalysisProgrammatic CampaignsOptimization StrategiesAd OperationsClient CommunicationOnline AdvertisingDigital StrategyMobile AdvertisingAdvertisingMicrosoft OfficeCampaign OptimizationAd Trafficking

About

Pragadeesh is a Digital Marketing professional with 10 years of experience in Growth Marketing including AI led Media Planning & Execution. During his tenure in YuMe, he had the chance to learn about their proprietary Digital Marketing products (YFN, YFA, and YDMP) and their features. Initially, he started his career as a Campaign Manager where he was supporting Sales and Account Managers and also managing and executing the Digital Campaigns. And he got a chance to move into Programmatic team where he bought and sold media programmatically through YuMe's proprietary DSP (YFA). In his next tenure with Zapr, he started servicing Clients meanwhile managing end to end Post Sales Digital Marketing support ranging across Account Managemen - Campaign Planning - Campaign Execution. By his own interest he learned SQL and extracted complicated reports by running queries which helped his team with data at the right time for analysis. And then he moved into Media agency, Mindshare where he got the chance to handle the Digital Mandate for one of the biggest FMCG and IT brands. Owning their brands from Media planning, Audience Strategies and Campaign Execution. Key Operational areas: - Media Planning, Ad Operations, Campaign/Account Management, Agency Management and Client Servicing - Digital Media - Web, Mobile, Search, OTT, Publisher network and Connected TV - Media Planning, Inventory Analysis & Implementation - Troubleshooting campaign-related issues - Providing process enhancement insights - SQL Querying Platforms Knowledge: - DSP: DV360, YFA, Zapr DSP, PocketMath, AppNexus - Adserver: Adwords, DCM, YFN - Social Media: Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin - Thirdparty Vendors: DCM, Sizmek, Innovid, Atlas, Telemetry, Mediaplex etc., - Audience Vendors: Nielsen, Similarweb and Comscore - Verification Vendors: IAS, Doubleverify, MOAT, Adloox

Experience

Atlan

Growth Marketing Manager

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Remote

Freshworks

2 roles

Lead - Growth Marketing

Mar 2023Feb 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Digital Marketing Specialist

Feb 2021Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mindshare

Business Manager - Digital

Feb 2019Feb 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Develop consumer digital behavior insight and trends.
  • Analyze the role and impact of various digital touch points on client’s business and marketing strategies.
  • To deliver planning at both implementation and strategic levels.
  • Familiar with digital content strategy and channel strategy.
  • End to end planning, implementation and reporting of clients media campaigns.
  • Maintain a summary and analysis of all digital campaigns and stimulus for further collation and benchmarking.
  • Provide on-going updates to the team of industry trends, issues, and best practices for relevant categories.
  • Independently source supporting data and research.
  • Work across a broad range of client categories and a swathe of very different consumer groups.
  • Proficient in planning and implementation and analytics tools - Comscore, Similarweb, GA, Adwords, FB Business Manager, Twitter Ads, Linkedin Ads
Media PlanningDigital CampaignsAnalytics ToolsClient ServicingDigital Marketing

Zapr media labs

Account Manager - Digital

Nov 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • End to end campaign management/account management, ideally from Client Servicing to Trafficking
  • Ensured timely execution of online advertising campaigns including launch on specified dates, delivering the campaign to client specifications, troubleshooting tech issues, suggesting new pitches etc.,
  • Established strong relationships with agency clients and internal teams and proactively managed communication during all phases of an active campaign’s lifecycle
  • Handled pre-sales and planning campaigns based upon the inventories available across specified targeting and platform
  • Update detailed client campaign reports and PCAs’ on a timely basis
  • Instrumental in setting the campaign with dynamic functionalities which needs to run dynamically with the constraints likes geo, behavior and demographic based
  • Managed key accounts with focused approach and nurturing relations for productive business relations
  • Resolved customer issues, providing first time resolution and handling escalations
  • Responsible for identifying issues, technical or human errors, and taking steps to mitigate the effect of such unforeseen bugs in platforms
  • Leveraged large and abstract datasets to identify opportunities for advertisers to increase performance, and scale their results to maximize return on investment
  • Responsible for media planning & evaluating the effectiveness of campaigns, systems & processes through consistent feedback gathering
  • Tutored new joiners with basic concepts of online advertising and instructed them in trafficking ad within various ad servers.
  • Served as a key resource in Adops by suggesting product managers and engineering team for revamping the Zapr proprietary DSP
  • Updated myself on Adtech environment and shared some knowledge with company VPs’ and Managers’ on diverse topics as per their request
Campaign ManagementClient ServicingMedia PlanningData AnalysisDigital Marketing

Yume

2 roles

Senior Member - Programmatic Operations

Sep 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Setting up the advertising campaigns in YFA platform as a part of managed services team within the SLA and include measurement tracking implementation and finance/billing operational support
  • Optimizing programmatic campaigns with unique real-time strategies to meet multiple parameters without sacrificing any of them and stayed below the allocated publisher budget
  • Observe and evaluate trends of media campaigns and provide recommendations to team for optimization tactics to help drive campaign efficiency and effectiveness
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues pertaining to tagging, discrepancies on impressions, conversions and click tracking
  • Walk-through advertisers/agencies and sometimes internal teams on how to leverage the platform plus appropriate 3rd party vendor data with goal of producing best campaigns
  • Raising various improvement/bugs in the product and driving discussions with developers, solutions, project managers to come up with suggestions to resolve them and enhance the product features
  • Coordinate with Account Management/Campaign management teams proactively for any relaxation if really required in campaigns’ targeting to deliver the budget in full
  • Independently manipulating raw data sets into information fit for analysis and monitor key data to recognizable patterns and analyze trends and develop a consistent mechanism to communicate the information
  • Forecasting inventories to ensure higher client satisfaction and increase revenue
  • Ensured regular monitoring of live campaigns which made to ensure the overall success of Campaigns, reconciled suggestion would be guided for optimized result, if needed
Programmatic CampaignsOptimization StrategiesData AnalysisProgrammatic Media BuyingDigital Marketing

Campaign Management Specialist

Jun 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  • Support AM from the USA and streamline processes to support Account Executives (AEs) and Account Manager (AMs). Oversee 50-300 campaigns per quarter
  • Manage both direct and indirect campaigns for US, Canadian markets
  • Manage campaigns with budgets ranging from $500k-$6MM+ USD; overall campaign annual revenue of $40MM+ USD
  • Serve as sole CM for key political accounts & showcased 100% delivery on all campaigns during election period
  • First CM to support YuMe Programmatic initiatives and to share knowledge with the team. Oversee and optimize campaigns running through various DSPs and Trading Desks
  • Versed in media allocation process and campaign setups in internal ad servers. Deal with cost models like CPM, CPCV, CPA, CPV, CPC and CPE
  • Provide and automate reports to AM’s/clients, and provide extensive post-campaign analysis/summary reports for high potential advertisers and key accounts
  • Provide tracking and technology support as well as advanced optimization strategies to meet and exceed client Key Performance Indicator (KPI’s)
Campaign ManagementAd OperationsClient CommunicationDigital Marketing

Nlc india limited

Project Intern

Jan 2015Apr 2015 · 3 mos · Neyveli

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Executive Programme in Sales and Marketing (EPSM) — Sales and Marketing

Jan 2019Jan 2020

SNS College of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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