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Sagnik G. - Remote marketer

Sagnik G.

Founder, SME360DIGITAL
Based in: 🇮🇳 India
Timezone: Kolkata (UTC+5.5)

About

A Marketing leader with about 20 years of track record across Brand strategy, marketing communication, Consumer research, E-commerce, Digital Marketing, Loyalty and customer engagement.

Have been part of senior leadership teams - heading the marketing function for SKIDOS, a Danish edutainment brand and part of the 5-member senior leadership team. Prior to this, headed Marketing for Apex Footwear (a USD 120mn fashion & lifestyle leader in Bangladesh) as General Manager and a part of the 10-member Executive Leadership Committee.

Prior to this, he has successfully built the greenfield omnichannel business for Jio Platforms (Reliance Digital) into an annualized 150 cr. (USD 20mn) business for the Entertainment category (smartphones / accessories)

Extremely hands-on with tools and applications: marketing automation tools, digital advertising tools (Meta, Google, web and App marketing), analytics tools, loyalty and e-commerce platforms.

Experience with SAAS Products

1. ASO tools: App Follow, App Tweak (Customer Acquisition) in SKIDOS
App store optimization: Extensively optimized the individual apps listings on Appstoreconnect – keyword research, optimization, competition analysis using these tools.

2. Customer Engagement and Retention Tools: Webengage in SKIDOS
Used the tool to segment audiences who were lost in different stages of the acquisition funnel and then re-engagement campaigns were run in order to acquire them. These included campaigns around customized pricing, exposure to specific parts of the product based on individual interests. Similarly, based on different customer usage behavior, existing customers were segmented into different cohorts and specific campaigns were run to drive increased engagement of the users with the product – this was done on both predictive churn segments as well as users with low engagement. Different kinds of campaigns were run including recurring, one-time.

3. Analytics tools in SKIDOS, Apex, Reliance Retail
Web Analytics: Google Analytics 4, extensively used to analyze user behavior from the moment they land on a website to when they exit across multiple sessions. Created many customized reports based on business requirements. Generated actionable insights.
ZOHO: Created multiple reports on customer acquisition, retention, customer cohort analysis, product engagement based on which actionable insights were taken across diverse areas including landing pages and screens optimization, pricing, acquisition funnel, etc.

4. Customer Loyalty tool: Capillary
Customer segmentation and loyalty categories were done based on previous purchase behavior of customers. Tool used to create customized offers based on the RFM matrix (Recency, Frequency, Monetary value). The whole idea was to increase purchase frequency, average basket value, average order value, churn reduction. Incentives in the form of points were used and integrated across both online and offline formats. Post that, extensive analysis was done on customer behavior at a micro-segment level with the whole idea of creating a loyalty ecosystem based on personalization and customization.

5. Paid Marketing Attribution tool: Singular
Used Singular to attribute and quantify the impact of paid marketing (App analytics) on overall acquisition count and value, including metrics like CLTV. Used it to analyze the impact of multiple marketing channels including Meta and Google Ads, Email marketing, etc.

6. E-commerce Platforms: Shopify, Capillary
Have used different e-commerce platforms with different brands and have got experience in multiple modules including product listing, web merchandising, offers and promotions, analytics, and logistics and order fulfillment.

Work Experience

Chief Marketing Officer
SKIDOS | Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Growth Marketing
Brand strategy
Performance marketing
Social media strategy
Consumer insights

o Responsible for Growth strategies – customer acquisition, retention and engagement. Responsible for driving brand visibility, content marketing, get more from owned and earned media and enhanced engagement of existing customers.

o Managing an annual revenue of USD5mn with 9% profitability at EBITDA level, a digital marketing budget of USD600k Scaled paid marketing channel contribution from 1% to 15% of overall acquisitions in under 2 years. Have improved retention and Customer LTV by 60% in past 18 months and achieved standalone profitability of paid marketing channels

o Improved conversion rate optimization of the marketing funnel – download monetization has improved from 4.5% to 6% over 2 years through continuous A/B testing.

o Have led the SKIDOS 5-year brand strategy formulation exercise (including the critical repositioning exercise with Bates Denmark) and co-created a product strategy completely aligned with the brand vision with the rest of the leadership team

General Manager, Marketing and Digital
Apex Footwear | Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Digital marketing
Social media marketing
Content strategy
Customer Care
Brand strategy
Digital strategy
Brand marketing
Ecommerce marketing
Customer success management

o Custodian of the flagship Apex brand as well as the 5 key sub-brands. Managing annual marketing budget of USD3.5mn

o Responsible for delivering brand-level top-line and profitability, media planning, marketing RoI, consumer research.

o Responsible for driving market share, brand leadership across the fashion and lifestyle space for the organization.

o Creation of a loyalty eco-system (Apex Rewards CRM Program) that thrived on continuous engagement (through a high-end CRM engine driving personalization, customization and differentiated experience across all consumer touchpoints).

Built the e-commerce business from scratch, created long-term capabilities to create a truly omni-channel experience, integrating customer experience across physical retail stores and digital

Education

ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL
MBA・Marketing, Finance (Dual Specialization)
May 2003 - Apr 2005
BURDWAN UNIVERSITY
Bachelor's degree・Computer Science
Jul 1998 - Jun 2002

Certifications & Awards

Award: Golden Globe Digital Awards for Best Performance Marketing
CMO Asia, Bangalore Chapter (under aegis of World Marketing Congress + CMO Asia) | Oct 2021