Arpita Yadav

VP of Marketing

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led 50% revenue growth for an omni-channel D2C brand.
  • Achieved 120% increase in retail revenue through strategic marketing.
  • Expert in both digital and traditional marketing strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C marketing leader with expertise in brand management and digital strategy.

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Skills

Core Skills

Marketing StrategyBrand ManagementDigital MarketingBusiness StrategyProduct LaunchSoftware Development

Other Skills

AdvertisingMedia PlanningAnalyticsRevenue & Profit GrowthRetail MarketingSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)Business PlanningMedia BuyingSocial MediaCustomer InsightCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam ManagementLead GenerationPerformance MarketingProject Management

About

Consumer-centric marketing leader with 9.5 years of industry experience. I have spent last 7.5 years building consumer first brands. Having worked on both business growth with marketing, I come with deep insights in consumer space with experience in traditional and digital media. In my last stint, I headed online revenue and marketing for an omni-channel D2C brand, managed marketing and communication for both online and retail channels. Managing a team of highly skilled marketers and creative folks, we managed the marketing budget, the team ran Google Ads and Meta Ads in-house, performed competition analysis and optimized campaigns in line with the business strategy. Prior to that, an experienced brand manager in FMCG with ~6 years of marketing consumer goods for varying consumer segments: women, men, and youngsters as consumers on both digital-first and traditional brands. Skills: Brand Management, Marketing Strategy, Market Research, and consumer understanding, business operations.

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 1 mo
Current Experience

Duroflex

Head of Marketing

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Sleepyhead

Head of Marketing

Feb 2025Sep 2025 · 7 mos

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Feb 2024Jan 2025 · 11 mos · Uttar Pradesh

  • Full time daughter, stay at home wife. Student, freelancer, entrepreneur - a bit of everything.

Urban ladder

Head of Revenue and Growth - Online Business

Jun 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Managed online revenue and handled marketing for omni channel business through performance marketing, ATL, BTL, and creative.
  • Developed and executed business growth strategies, resulting in a 50% revenue growth for website.
  • Led Conversion Rate Optimization initiatives, leading to a 10% improvement in conversion.
  • Directed performance and brand marketing strategies leading to 15% reduction in Customer Acquisition cost
  • Collaborated with multiple banks and introduced bank offer as a discount lever during important sale events, thereby improving conversion
  • Led comprehensive website redesign for UL, orchestrating a complete overhaul of the UI/UX in collaboration with product and tech
  • Created a clutter-breaking proposition ‘Built to Last’ highlighting the strength and durability of Urban Ladder products
  • Overhauled Urban Ladder’s Pinterest as a key point of contact in a consumer’s search and inspiration journey for furniture; 10x increase in traffic to the website
  • Improved SEO rankings through consistent efforts on identified keywords with a mix of tech and on and off page efforts
  • Supported new retail store openings (from 12 in Jun’22 to 55 in May’23) with a mix of ATL, digital marketing and local marketing, resulting in a 120% jump in retail revenue
  • Achieved 3x increase in engagements on Google My Business profiles across the 60 retail stores by establishing clear updating SOPs
Marketing StrategyAdvertisingMedia PlanningBrand ManagementAnalyticsRevenue & Profit Growth+28

Itc limited

4 roles

Brand Manager

Promoted

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos

  • Brand owner and P&L manager of Aashirvaad Spices, and RTE-RTC categories under ITC Masterchef. and Kitchens of India
  • Leading a team of 5 for driving business and operations across the three brands
  • Managing marketing budget and media planning across Digital, traditional media, & BTL inputs
  • Developed brand strategy basis data analysis, defined strategies for brand switch & consumer behavioral changes
Business StrategyBrand ManagementRevenue & Profit GrowthB2C e-commerceBusiness PlanningMedia Buying+18

Assistant Brand Manager

Jul 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Assistant Brand Manager for one of ITC's most iconic brands - Bingo! Mad Angles.
  • Digital Manager for Bingo! - created numerous mother brand campaigns and handled social media for the brand.
  • E-Commerce Manager for Bingo! portfolio - launches, driving sales, advertisement.
  • Mad Angles:
  • Planned and launched Mad Angles Pizza and Nachos across 3 lakh+ outlets in the country. Also drove launches in MT, E-comm.
  • Created multiple rounds of communication with the brand ambassador Ranveer Singh for the brand basis insights and promoted them across various media.
  • Redesigned the packaging of Bingo! Mad Angles, and launched with innovative 360 degree campaign - including TV, Print, Radio, Digital, Outdoor.
  • Digital:
  • Conceptualized and created the one-of-its-kind Bingo! Connecting Campaign with Ranveer Singh during lockdown in 2020 - promoting it on back of digital PR.
  • Conceptualized and executed Bingo!'s largest social media & UGC campaign - Chill With Bingo! using 300+ influencers to drive 18000+ entries into the contest on social media, and created the property of beanbag for the brand.
  • Created 4 digital films for associating Bingo! with in-home consumption and promoted them across social media while optimizing them for various platforms.
  • E-Commerce:
  • Handled e-commerce sales for the Bingo! portfolio - ensured sales, visibility and new launches on the platforms.
  • 5 Star Kitchen:
  • Core content team of 5-Star Kitchen - ITC's TV Show - showcasing different ITC products being used by the chefs of ITC hotels in various recipes. Show was aired on Star Plus
Product LaunchAdvertisingCreative MarketerBrand ManagementDigital StrategyBusiness Planning+15

Assistant Brand Manager

Apr 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Planning the brand portfolio and architecture to sustain and enhance market share
  • Creating new trademarks in line with changing consumer needs and market dynamics
  • Creating Trade Marketing Plans to ensure distribution and offtake of all SKUs in the portfolio
  • Handling a budget of Rs 60 crores effectively to execute all elements of the brand plan
  • Managing Capsule and New Product Development Portfolio (Player’s, American Club, Hollywood) with annual turnover of more than Rs. 900+ crores
  • Liaising with various stakeholders – Internal (Packaging, Product Development, Supply Chain, Legal, Research, Purchasing) and External (Creative and Execution Agencies)
Brand ManagementCustomer InsightCommunicationCustomer Marketing

Assistant under Training, Marketing

Jul 2016Mar 2017 · 8 mos

  • Underwent rigorous sales training in Foods, Personal Care and Tobacco in the state of Rajasthan
  • Independently handled Jaipur section and set up a new direct distributor. Defined salesmen routes, ensured outlet coverage, added rural infrastructure thereby successfully increasing personal care turnover by 25%
  • Initiated multiple market coverage plans to add new outlets/market to the service base and increase presence in uncovered channels
  • Worked on a project to increase distribution of premium biscuits resulting in a 60% increase in value
  • Planned and executed the launch of Savlon Sachet Handwash across Rajasthan achieving 70% ND

Spice mobility ltd

Marketing Intern

Apr 2015May 2015 · 1 mo · Noida

  • Prepared a multi-phase semi annual marketing plan for Spice for Uttar Pradesh.
  • Achievement -
  • Secured a Pre-Placement Interview from Spice Mobiles for excellent performance during summer internship. Only 1 out of 4 interns.
  • Strategized with CMO for an investment of ₹ 1 crore across ATL, BTL, in-store activities; multiple recommendations implemented in the market
  • Formulated merchandizing plan, cost-effective POS strategy for 900 stores(U.P.), presented to the CEO Conducted primary research-50+ retailers, 7 distributors & 70 customers across 3 districts, 5 up-country markets(U.P.)

Brocade

Software Engineer

Jul 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked with security team of enterprise solutions of switches and routers of Brocade
  • Worked with EMC Corp, HP, Reliance BIG Animation by working on Brocade switches and routers
  • Achieved a 100% error free code for enhancing customer internet experience with help of 23 test cases
  • Enhanced customer experience by prioritizing network traffic
  • Brainstormed, designed stacking infrastructure for cost effective networking solutions; team of 4
  • Reduced debugging time by 80% through an initiative to implement new command line interface (CLI)
  • Saved 85 work hours in a week for 22 people across 3 teams by working independently on the CLI
  • Brought down defect fixing time by 5% through coordination with testing and quality assurance teams
  • Revamped command line interface for tests by trimming output; decreased verification time by 60%

Ca technologies

Intern

Jul 2011Dec 2011 · 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Designing and implementation of a new data structure for optimization of rule search for Secure proxy Server, a reverse proxy server.
Software Development

Indian institute of toxicology research

Summer Intern

May 2010Jun 2010 · 1 mo · Lucknow Area, India

  • Excellent grade for project funded by Government of India to classify proteins on basis of half-lives
  • Led a team of 4 to reduce classification time by 98%; automated retrieval of parameters from internet

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

PGDM

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Information Systems

Jan 2008Jan 2012

10Xer Club

Marketing

Sep 2024Nov 2024

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