Vaibhav Makhija

Co-Founder

Gurugram, Haryana, India8 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of a successful wellness startup.
  • Achieved significant growth in e-commerce orders.
  • Led innovative product management initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a growth-oriented e-commerce and wellness professional with strong product management expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness StrategyGrowth StrategiesP&l ManagementMarketingResearchBusiness Analysis

Other Skills

Digital MarketingE-commerceConsumer ProductsBusiness DevelopmentAnalyticsBusiness AlliancesConsumer BehaviorSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Web AnalyticsEmail MarketingMicrosoft ExcelGoogle AnalyticsMicrosoft WordMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft PowerPoint

About

Building What's Up Wellness - making wellness fun and frictionless.

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs
Current Experience

What's up wellness

Co-Founder

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Wellness Made Fun!
Digital MarketingProduct ManagementBusiness StrategyE-commerceConsumer Products

Vostro

Marketing Consultant

Feb 2021Sep 2021 · 7 mos · India

Gurunanda llc

Marketing Consultant

Jan 2021Jun 2021 · 5 mos

Kraftshala

Industry Expert - Feedback Coach

Dec 2020Nov 2021 · 11 mos · India

Pee safe

Consultant

Jul 2020Jan 2021 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Led the project to move the website to React
  • Set up and grew affiliate marketing
  • Worked on Increasing the ROI of FB ads by 40%

Fizzy goblet

Consultant

May 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Nonu care

Marketing Consultant

Apr 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Udyan tea

Marketing Consultant

Nov 2019Dec 2019 · 1 mo · India

Grofers

Sr. Manager - Growth

Oct 2019May 2020 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Heading Marketing and Digital Strategy for OrangeSomething.com, a startup inside of Grofers.
  • Responsible for P&L and EBITDA, became EBITDA +ve within 5 months.
  • Scaled up from 600 orders/day to 4,500 orders/day within 5 months, while also increasing the AOV by 3x and ROI by 4x.
  • Net marketing cost per order was under INR 45, the website had an industry-leading conversion rate of 8% plus.
  • Led a team of digital marketers and creative designers.
P&L ManagementDigital MarketingGrowth Strategies

Alt. vapors

Head - Product & Growth

Aug 2019Oct 2019 · 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Played my part in trying to provide a safer alternative to 110 million adult smokers in India. Business had to shut down due to the Indian government placing a ban on ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems).

The man company

Product & Growth

Oct 2017Aug 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

  • Product Management:
  • Drove vision and built the roadmap for the website.
  • Completely revamped the website design, giving it a more lifestyle-oriented look and feel, in-sync with the growth of the brand. Increased conversion rate by 15%, halved the site load speed and boosted user engagement by 30%.
  • Leading the SEO initiatives, ranking in top 2 for the most searched keywords in the category. Enabled AMP on the website to boost this further.
  • Undertook website optimizations like Exit intent popups and product recommendations, which increased the revenue by up to 15%. Onsite implementations like shoppable Instagram increased session duration by 300% and conversions by 60%. Maintained an above industry average conversion rate of 4% at scale.
  • Built a chatbot on FB messenger which helped increase the productivity of the customer care agents by up to 10%.
  • Marketing:
  • Handled Facebook, Google and Affiliate Marketing, enabled the website to become operationally profitable.
  • Set up personalized email flows on each step of the user journey. Email and SMS retention marketing contributed more than 20% of the overall revenue.
  • Amongst the first in the country to implement marketing and abandon cart recovery on Facebook Messenger. Enabled Messenger chatbot on the website, increased the efficiency of customer care executives by more than 10%.
  • Alliances and Partnerships:
  • Handled Strategic partnerships with brands like Cred and PayTM First, tactical ones with mass brands like Cure.Fit and USPA and niche brands like Townscript and StepSetGo. Heading payment partnerships with the likes of PayTM and PayPal.
  • Operations:
  • Reduced RTO(Return to Origin) orders by up to 60%, by implementing a unique mix of measures.
  • Undertook initiatives like offering a flat discount on online payment, which helped reduced COD orders and hence RTO. Increased prepaid orders by 400%.
Product ManagementMarketingBusiness Development

Healthmir

3 roles

Assistant Product Manager

Promoted

May 2017Sep 2017 · 4 mos

  • Leading the Product Management, Research and Analytics domain, including contributing towards firm's medium-term strategy. Managing a team size of 7 people, spanning across development, digital marketing, content management, AI operations and User Experience (UX). Reporting directly to the CEO.
  • During the current tenure of 4 months:
  • Increased visibility and usability of various product features. by completely overhauling the UX
  • Successful implementation of in-app wallet and invite and share feature
  • Successfully launched Audio Consultation and a complete UX overhaul
  • Increased the average session duration by 33% (from 4.5 min to 6 min)
  • Increased crash-free sessions from 80% to 98%
  • Sessions per user per day increased by 20% (from 1.2 to 1.45)
  • App became the number 1 trending healthcare app in India for a period of 1 week
  • Proper prioritization of AI operations increased the accuracy of AI from 40% to 85%
  • Created a cohesive strategy to close the virtuous loop of user engagement
  • Conducted regular testing of the product to ensure that it stays bug-free
  • Cross-functional interaction with business development team
  • Marketing Initiatives:
  • Market survey to increase the delivery area of the new food-delivery venture by 15%, by adding 3 more areas to the existing 20 areas
  • Designed the Loyalty Program for the new food venture, striking a balance between creating repeat orders and providing true value to the customer
  • Devised a cross-selling strategy by incentivizing users of one platform to use another by offering attractive schemes
  • User-Experience Initiatives:
  • Assisted the UX designer with secondary research to improve the usability of the app
  • In absence of a UX designer, created a blueprint for the User Interface for the new food venture, ranging across landing page, order status, feedback, loyalty, customizations, and cart structure

Business Analytics and Product Operations

Jan 2017May 2017 · 4 mos

  • Led the domains of Business Analytics and Product Operations. Reported directly to the CEO.
  • Major responsibilities during this time were:
  • Business Analysis:
  • Analyzed and reported usage trends from data coming in from Google Analytics, which helped in pinpointing and eliminating major pain points
  • Reduced dropoffs from various screens by 20% and increased them for the chat screen, which was the default screen at that time
  • Conducted regular testing of the product to ensure that it stays bug-free
  • Research:
  • Did regular research on a wide-range of topics as and when required by the CEO
  • Increased the mobile app's ranking by 40-50 ranks on an average for major keywords by employing App Store Optimization (ASO), started ranking in top 10 for major ones
  • Did a detailed competitive analysis. It helped in identifying ways of improving the AI, and the type of questions asked by our chatbot
  • Summer Internships:
  • Mentored 2 interns at a time for 2 months from Tier-1 B-Schools
  • Analyzed summer internship projects for using the improving upon and adapting the best inferences in our product
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Managed consultation operations
  • As a part of the product team, successfully launched the Hindi version of the app
Product ManagementResearchAnalytics

Business Analyst Internship

Dec 2016Jan 2017 · 1 mo

  • Received a full-time offer on completion of 1 month, for an internship that was supposed to be of a duration of 2 months.
  • Learned and worked on web analytics for mobile apps
  • Assisted the core team with their research requirements
  • Learned and undertook user-testing of the app
  • Also undertook video editing activities as per the requirement of the organisation
Business AnalysisResearch

Education

DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

St. Joseph's Convent School, Pathankot

High School — High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

Jan 1999Jan 2010

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