Sushant Sharma

Co-Founder

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India8 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Pioneered world's first paper origami lamps.
  • Led successful marketing campaigns for boAt.
  • Contributed to prestigious publications like Architectural Digest.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Marketing and Brand Strategy expert in the Home Decor and Consumer Electronics industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Brand ManagementProduct DevelopmentMarketing StrategyBrand StrategyDigital Marketing

Other Skills

BlockchainBrand DevelopmentBrand PositioningBusiness StrategyCampaign ManagementClient ManagementCompositingConsumer Insight MiningContent StrategyCreative StrategyCreative WritingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Data AnalysisDesign ThinkingDigital Strategy

About

As an Independent Director at Inmark, I contribute to the family business of creating and exporting innovative and sustainable paper products, including the world's first paper origami lamps. I also manage the marketing and branding strategy for the company, which has been featured in prestigious publications and platforms such as MoMA Design Store, Elle Decor, and Architectural Digest. I have a strong background in marketing and branding, with a PGDM-C, MBA degree from MICA, where I won the Mallenial Challenge for reimagining the future of shopping malls in India. I have also worked as a Brand Manager at boAt, a leading digital lifestyle brand, and as a Brand Strategist at Publicis Groupe, a global marketing and communications company. I have honed my skills in consumer insights, creative strategy, media planning, campaign management, and market research, and have led several successful BTL and ATL campaigns for boAt, such as #moveofchampions and #dowhatfloatsyourboAt. I am passionate about creating value for the collective good of the people of India, and I share my knowledge and experience with leaders, professionals, and students through my LinkedIn posts, which have an average of 50K views. I am also a contributing author for Indian Management, AIMA, where I write about brand semiotics and the fashion industry. I am always eager to learn and collaborate with others who share my vision and purpose.

Experience

8 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Fig living

Making Magic Happen

May 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Building a premium design led, export validated light+living brand. Coming from an exports legacy - globally validated product range and supply systems.
  • Shop Now - www.figliving.com

Inmark

Business Owner

Jun 2023Present · 3 yrs · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Self-Employed and part of the family business. ODM for Lamps and Lighting, Home Decor, Handmade Paper Products Export to top-end retailers across the world. Started by my father in -1995.
  • 1) World’s first creator of Paper Origami Lamps (2010)
  • 2) Creators of the most Instagram-ed lampshade “Snowblooma(2018)”, "Cloud Lamp(2020)", "Sky Lamp (2020)"
  • 3) Only Indian company to sell at MoMA (Museum of Modern Arts) Design Store, New York
  • 4) Largest seller of paper lampshades in Nordics - Sweden + Denmark
  • 5) Also featured - Elle Decor- Japan, Elle Decor- France, Architectural Digest, Dagens Nyhter, Business Standard, Indian Express
  • 6) Also exhibiting: IHGF Spring + Autumn, Ambiente + Christmasworld - Messe Frankfurt, HKTDC - Lighting Show, Tokyo - Giftex
ODM for Lamps and LightingHome DecorHandmade Paper Products ExportBrand ManagementProduct Development

Boat

Brand Manager

May 2020Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Delhi, India

  • Planning and Strategy: Formulating marketing plan, GTM strategy, Decoding consumer, category, and brand, channel selection, and shaping value proposition for the brand, AOP and managing annual marketing budget FY23, Instilling purpose into brand - Do What Floats Your boAt
  • Creative Strategy: Agency management, brief writing, evaluating ideas, copy and design, driving asset production for both ATL and BTL
  • Media: Drawing cross-channel media plan reach and frequency planning, ensuring sufficiency across different media vehicles
  • Campaign management: Leading BTL and ATL campaigns for the brand #moveofchampions #rockinindia #trebelwithboAt #dowhatfloatsyourboAt #theunheardbreak
  • Market Research: Carrying our qualitative research (ZMET) and quantitative research including brand tracks to understand the momentum shift with the brand
  • Hiring: Recruiting young passionate brand marketers and managing the brand marketing team at boAt.
Marketing PlanGTM StrategyCreative StrategyCampaign ManagementBrand ManagementMarketing Strategy

Publicis groupe

Brand Strategist

May 2019Apr 2020 · 11 mos · Delhi Area, India

  • Publicis is a French marketing company and third largest marketing companies in world. My job involved the application of insights and strategical techniques to direct brands unique direction across marketing channels.
  • Account planning : Worked as a strategist leading consumer insight mining, creating brand elements - brand positioning, brand essence, brand values, brand identity and brand image, structuring the plethora insights into a framework, crafting a powerful brand narrative for clients.
  • Anthropological research : Worked with data to scavenge for meaningful anthropological insights. The insights become the platform for the brand strategy which fuels the creative renditions.
  • Agency collaboration : Worked with other agencies of Publicis Groupe to create an end to end marketing solutions across channels for the clients
  • Pitching : I was a part of the team that took part in high-intensity agency pitching processes.
  • Client management : VietJet, LIMCA (The Coca-Cola Company), SBI, LOTS, Canara HSBCS & OBC Life Insurance Company, and Car Dekho.
Consumer Insight MiningBrand PositioningClient ManagementBrand StrategyMarketing Strategy

Khadi and village industries commission

Rural Immersion Programme, MICA

Jun 2018Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Rajkot, Gujarat

  • Rural immersions programme that involved ethnographic research at KVIC with craftsmen in Gondal, Gujarat.

Zilingo

Marketing Internship

Apr 2018Jun 2018 · 2 mos · Singapore, Singapore

  • Zilingo is a unicorn start-up active in South East Asia. As a part of my summer internship, I was selected to be a part of the marketing and branding team of the unicorn startup from Singapore. I was responsible for
  • International experience : Working with a multi-cultural global team in Indonesia, Thailand. and Singapore
  • Experiential marketing : Executed experiential branded events with NET Media (one of the biggest media houses in Indonesia
  • ATL Marketing : Worked with the ATL marketing team on the #siapasihlo campaign
  • Business Reporting : Improved the data reporting and create business dashboards to make the data and business KPIs more accessible to people from different teams
  • Social Analytics : Carried a social media audit with reporting the performance of the brand's social media assets for Q1, 2018
Experiential MarketingSocial Media AuditMarketing Strategy

Inmark

Marketing Specialist

Jun 2015Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Greater Noida

  • Inmark is a design studio and production facility for top international home decor and lifestyle brands,
  • worked on the social media and other digital assets of the company
  • content strategy for social media
  • lead the launch of their revamped website
  • lead marketing strategy to increase lead generations
  • worked with the sales team during the Giftex Tokyo Show, 2015
  • lead new business development
  • worked on social media advertising, search and display advertising, and SEO
  • lead the interaction with the agency
Social Media AdvertisingSEOContent StrategyDigital Marketing

Forever 21

Retail Internship

May 2014Jun 2014 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Forever 21 was my first professional engagement where I worked as a floor operations intern for one month. Key responsibilities included -:
  • Worked as a full-time floor operations sales assistance
  • Worked with the Visual Merchandising team to create multisensory interventions that improved buying preferences of shoppers in a retail setting
  • Enhancing the shopping experience by human interventions: greeting them, helping them in navigating, and assisting them to find merchandise
  • Be a part of sales briefings and add value to each of the meetings with actionable insights for the brand

Education

MICA | The School of Ideas

PGDM-C

Delhi University

Post Graduated Diploma in International Marketing — International Economics

Shaheed Bhagat Singh College

B.COM (H) — Marketing

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