Aakarsh Sood

Product Marketing Manager

New Delhi, Delhi, India8 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in brand strategy and marketing communications.
  • Proven track record in managing high-value brand portfolios.
  • Strong analytical skills with a background in Economics.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Marketing Professional with expertise in Brand Strategy and Consumer Insights.

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Skills

Core Skills

Brand StrategyMarketing CampaignsBrandingMarket ResearchEthnographic Research

Other Skills

Pricing StrategyCampaignsCompetitive LandscapeBelow the Line AdvertisingMarketing CommunicationsConsumer ResearchConsumer InsightsCommunication StrategyDigital MarketingSalesAdvertisingContent WritingContent MarketingSocial Media MarketingBusiness Strategy

About

Marketing Aficionado | Bibliophile | Liverpudian A voracious reader, compulsive story-teller, creative writer and an unapologetic thinker, I nurture a passion for marketing, brand and business strategy. I thrive in asking questions and employing cultural intelligence to shape product and brand experiences. A graduation in Economics has helped me develop the requisite analytical skills while a specialisation in marketing has equipped me with the tools to explore the shifting markets, landscapes, expectations and behaviours. I specialize in tackling open-ended strategic problems through exploratory imaginative research, design thinking and applied analytical frameworks.

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Google

Product Marketing Manager

Dec 2025Present · 6 mos · India · Hybrid

Perfetti van melle

2 roles

Brand Manager

Mar 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Product Manager

Mar 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Brand StrategyBrandingPricing StrategyMarketing CampaignsCampaignsCompetitive Landscape

Rspl group

2 roles

Brand Manager

May 2021Mar 2022 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Brand Lead for Xpert (Dishwash Brand) & Pro-Ease (Feminine Hygiene Brand). Collectively managing a brand portfolio of Rs. 700cr+.
  • Responsible for handling business & brand strategy, marketing communications (ATL/BTL/Digital) & Media Strategy, Trade & Channel Strategy, Consumer research & insights, Product Optimization, & New Product Development for the respective brands.
  • Co-creating with internal teams like CMI, R&D, SI, Ops, & Procurement. Responsible for managing external vendors & creative agencies.
Brand StrategyBrandingPricing StrategyBelow the Line AdvertisingMarketing CampaignsCampaigns+1

Manager - Strategic Initiatives

Dec 2020May 2021 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

BrandingPricing StrategyMarketing CampaignsCampaignsCompetitive Landscape

Ddb mudra group

Brand Strategist

Apr 2018Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Worked across categories like FMCG, FMCD, Alco-Bev, Gaming, & Automobiles.
  • Managed & executed brand & business strategy projects with businesses including Tanishq, TTK Prestige, ITC, Puma, McDowell's N1, Signature Whiskey, Captain Morgan, Mercedes Benz, Khukri Rum & several others.
  • Strategized & Managed development of brand campaigns (ATL/BTL/Digital) for respective businesses and brands.
Marketing CampaignsCampaignsCompetitive Landscape

Swades foundation

Rural Immersion Project

Sep 2017Sep 2017 · 0 mo · Raigad, Maharashtra

  • Conducted an ethnographic research and understood the socio-culture dynamics, psyche and perceptions of Raigad farmers
  • Conducted primary and secondary research and understood the logistical and mental bottlenecks of Raigad farmers towards high-value vegetable cultivation
  • Designed a 360-degree communication strategy that addressed and solved the mental as well logistical bottlenecks which helped encourage vegetable cultivation

Ddb mudra group

Account Planning and Strategy Intern

May 2017Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • 1. Judge by TTK Prestige (Brand Launch)
  • Co-Conceptualized a Brand Conviction Springboard Workshop for a new brand being launched by TTK Prestige to develop a well-defined brand proposition and positioning.
  • Designed a Discussion Guide to conduct in-depth interviews with housewives in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities
  • Visited Meerut and Delhi to conduct in-depth interviews with around 12 respondents that fit the TG
  • Conducted Retail Audits of stores and markets to garner an understanding of the category
  • Conducted Shopper Shadowing to better understand the consumers’ purchasing pattern and decision making
  • Researched and conducted a Competition Analysis
  • Conducted a communication analysis of the competing brands
  • Traced the insights to make consumer and category discoveries
  • Established a Path To Purchase model for the target group consumers
  • Worked on developing Consumer Archetypes
  • Participated in a day-long Brand Conviction Springboard Workshop which was conducted with TTK Prestige
  • 2. Captain Morgan Rum
  • Transformed the Captain Morgan brand strategy and brand codes to suit Indian palate for
  • the India launch by developing a brand-persona framework for selecting Indian
  • Ambassadors
  • Conceptualized a strategic framework for Captain Morgan to democratize
  • the Indian sports arena for brand promotion
  • Strategized and developed non-conventional brand promotion routes such as capitalizing on political discourse
  • 3. Puma Retail Audit
  • Conducted an extensive retail audit, derived insights and made recommendations for
  • improving the retail shopping experience for the brand
  • 4. Royal Challenge on-ground campaign
  • Conceptualized on-ground campaigns for Royal Challenge's new product launch.
  • 5. Research Project - Gen Z and their tryst with Entertainment
  • Conducted primary research with over 150 respondents, discovered 8 fresh insights
  • pertaining to the Indian. Gen Z and conceptualized new brand strategy framework to be
  • utilized by DDB for brands looking to market to Gen Z

Education

MICA | The School of Ideas

PGDM C — Strategic Marketing and Communication

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Sri Guru Gobind Singh College Of Commerce

Economics Honours — Economics

Jan 2012Jan 2015

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