Aishwarya Swarup
Marketing, Branding & Growth Consultant | E-Commerce domain expert | Rookie Podcaster
đź’ˇ
Business Strategy
🤳
Content Creation
đź›’
E-commerce Specialist
đź’»
Product Development
📲
Digital Marketing
Mumbai, India

Experienced marketer with 8+ years of expertise in marketing, branding, and growth strategy. Worked with Paytm, Swiggy, and Sony Pictures Networks India. Specialize in data-driven decision-making and problem-solving. #MarketingExpert #BrandGrowth #StrategicConsulting

Marketing, Branding and Strategy Consultant, Freelance
July 2023 - September 2024
Assistant General Manager, Paytm
December 2022 - May 2023
Growing and expanding revenue led business of Soundboxes in North and West regions for Paytm. Strategising inputs for 3 layers of the SB business - 
1. Business (Performance)
2. Manpower (Regional Strategy)
3. Sales (Output)
Manager - Brand & Strategy Virtual Brands, West, Swiggy
October 2021 - October 2022
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
PnL Owner, Virtual Kitchens Business - West 

- Headed business of Virtual Kitchens as launch team for high ticket partners, drove brand acquisition, launch, GTM, growth,
merchandising, PnL and consumer retention
- Discovered supply opportunities via big data analysis and market segmentation, grew the portfolio to 20+ brands in restaurants, guilt free and FMCG food category 
- Drove 0 to 1 launch and growth via conceptualization, quality, packaging, pricing strategy, merchandising, visibility and EBITDA projection
- Demonstrated improved consumer journey through multi channel campaigns at relevant touchpoints, campaign impact measurement and A/B testing attaining a growth in repeat users by 34%, retention by 78%, AOV by 45%
- Reached revenue growth to 518% in 8 months for West and GMV growth rate of 112% for P&L projections set quarterly
- Created and improved CPC/CPV campaigns, discounting and pricing to arrest cold starts and consumer attrition
- Notable Launches - Oh! Hashi, Wonton Pot, The Neapolitan Oven, NYC Burger Co., Harvest Salad Co., Kuro's Sushi & Ramen
Brand Manager - Sony YAY!, Sony Pictures Networks India
July 2020 - September 2021
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Brand Manager - AXN, Sony Pictures Networks India
April 2020 - July 2020
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Marketing - AXN and Sony AATH - 

The custodian of the brand, what the brand stood for and what the brand looked like. 

Insights - Sony BBC Earth, AXN, Sony PIX, Sony AATH - 
- Viewership & target analysis for campaigns, distribution strategy & tracking, programming
analysis, Genre/Time Band/FPC analysis Identifying and resolving distribution challenges in
MRP regime.
- FCT Analysis for understanding advertiser behaviour for Ad Sales Maximization.
- Competition Analysis and prediction of ad sales avenues.

Skills: Brand Management, media research, predictive analysis, competition analysis, discovering ad sales avenues, brand solutions and barters.
Management Trainee, Sony LIV | Sony Entertainment Television | AXN and English Cluster
April 2019 - March 2020
Mumbai Area, India
Stint 1:
Part 1: SonyLIV Consumer Insights team

I worked on creation and design of dashboard for the OTT platform SonyLIV bringing together data in the most effective and useful manner. Along with this, I was involved in insight mining and OTT consumer and media research.

Part 2: KBC Play Along Game 
Designed game economy for KBC Play Along Game for 2019. Designed games for KBC PAG and worked with the operations of the same.

Stint 2: Sony Entertainment Television - Marketing
Launch of Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein - 

Defined, designed and implemented the media campaigns of SET's new show "Ishaaron Ishaaron Mein". 
Wrote scripts of the digital videos for the same show, charting out the character archs of the characters of the show in the script. Implementation of the same on sets and it's marketing.

Stint 3: Research and Marketing - AXN, Sony Pix, Sony BBC Earth
Writer, Writing platform
December 2016 - January 2019
- 99 written pieces | 36K followers
- Some poems heavily plagiarised on social media and by other writing pages
- Quit the app and writing on social media because I despise plagiarism


Wrote poetry and very short stories on creative writing platform YourQuote. I look back at it and I want to edit and re-edit each and every piece of writing that I had shared. But it'll be unfair to the hibernating bear that I was back in 2016.
Marketing Intern, Sony Pictures Networks India
April 2018 - May 2018
Mumbai Area, India
Created the first ever chatbot in OTT space for SonyLIV’s Facebook Messenger.

End to end design, persona, API integrations to implementation of SonyLIV live Chatbot

- Created use cases, storyline and persona for the bot 
- Introduced nudges in the consumer journey in the form of a notification system by 
- Targeted shows apart from SonyLIV library -FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, Indian Idol, Dus Ka
Dum, IND vs ENG series

The company largely liked me and my work, so they offered me a PPO. 
Project Manager, Stembridge Labs
September 2016 - October 2017
Creative Head, SolPoo
April 2017 - June 2017
Skills: Team management, product management, campaign management. Campaign Development
Managed the product - DocOn App. 
Apart from this, handled the CRM and headed a team of 20 were UI/UX of designers, scripting programmers and writers.

Company declared it were broke right after I resigned. I wasn’t paid throughout the period of employment. Luckily for me, I didn’t have to search for another job as I had resigned to join PGDM-C course in MICA, Ahmedabad.
Product Marketing Manager, AlmaConnect
March 2016 - June 2016
I handled and managed thousands of networks across the portal, created content and optimised the database.
Conducted market research and product requirement analysis as well to develop the product framework with the team and achieved an optimized product.
Systems Engineer, Infosys Limited
December 2014 - April 2016
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Royal Bank of Scotland

Evaluation, designing, coding and testing improvements as required for complex modules; developing system parameters; providing prime assistance towards application releases and installation into production in RBS mainframes.
System Engineer, HCL Enterprise
June 2014 - November 2014
Education
PGDM-C, Strategic Marketing and Communications
2017 - 2019
MICA | The School of Ideas
Activities and societies: - Co-Creator of course “Intensity of Thought” for the curriculum at MICA, Ahmedabad
- Designed Supply Chain system for Eco Tourism and Minor Forest Produce for Gujarat Forest Department in Mahisagar district
- Published research paper for The Third Eye Integrated on “The Rise of Conservative Youth in India”, MICA, Ahmedabad
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science Engineering
2010 - 2014
IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad (UPTU)
Activities and societies: - Awarded honour for Technical Paper (2012) paper titled 'Face Detection Model'
- Convener - ICACEA (International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering & Application) (2014)
- Convener - Placement Committee (2012 - 2014)
- 2nd Champion, Chess (2012), National Inter College Sports Competition, UPTU
High School
1995 - 2008
Carmel School
Activities and societies: Best Debater: 2007-08 zonal competition held by Diocese of UP & UK
SuperStuff.ai logo