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Animish Gautam

Summary

Seasoned brand and marketing measurement professional with 15+ years of experience.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Marketing and Media Effectiveness

Kantar
01.2020 - Current

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Pre-sales lead for effectiveness business in Singapore, worth USD 1.0 million.
  • Customer Success lead for effectiveness business in the South-east Asia region, worth USD 2.5 million.
  • Delivering 5-10% business performance improvement to clients across industries.
  • Delivering through teams in Singapore, Indonesia and India.
  • Working with Marketing and Media Directors to develop effective and optimized media strategies.
  • Making sure these strategies are landed well with business and finance heads within the client organizations.
  • Experience spans across industries such as CPG, Banking and Financial Services, eCommerce, Travel, Healthcare and Media Publishers.

Senior Consultant, Platforms and Automation

Kantar
01.2020 - 05.2022

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Conducted detailed end-user requirements gathering sessions to inform the design of tailored BI solutions.
  • Evaluated existing business intelligence infrastructure, identifying areas for improvement and recommending solutions based on industry best practices.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define, develop, and deploy BI projects in a timely manner.
  • Managed multiple concurrent BI projects, ensuring timely delivery within budget constraints.
  • Achieved cost savings through the careful evaluation of third-party vendors for software tools and consulting services.
  • Contributed meaningfully to proposal development efforts by offering subject matter expertise during sales presentations for new client engagements.
  • Provided training and mentoring to junior consultants on best practices in BI development and implementation.
  • Championed knowledge sharing among team members, facilitating the exchange of best practices and lessons learned from past projects.

Insights Manager

Mastercard
06.2015 - 12.2020

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Led marketing initiatives, including brand health tracking, campaign impact measurement, KPI benchmarking, and industry sizing through travel and eCommerce dashboards.
  • Conducted merchant identification by analyzing consumer reviews.
  • Collaborated with product teams on development, market opportunity analysis, and CVP creation; supported Mastercard credit card launches for two Singapore banks and presented innovations to Korean banks.
  • Managed an internal knowledge platform, achieving 5X growth in unique visitors, hosting 2K insights documents, and overseeing vendor management.
  • Developed index ranking models to assess market readiness across 14 AP markets.
  • Spearheaded the creation of an advanced insights tool for automatic document classification and summarization.

Insights Manager

Evalueserve
10.2009 - 05.2015

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Acted as the primary client contact for developing consumer insights.
  • Led a cross-functional team of 8-10 members, including 3 direct reports, ensuring utilization targets and productivity goals were met.
  • Directed Annual Market Planning to strategize research projects for the upcoming year.
  • Oversaw survey design and data quality for vendor-conducted studies.
  • Enhanced brand positioning by tracking brand health and key drivers.
  • Conducted market sizing and identified opportunities in financially excluded segments across 20 global markets.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Metallurgical Engineering

IIT-BHU
Varanasi, India
05-2009

Skills

  • Skilled in data-driven decision making
  • Data visualization
  • Marketing Mix Modelling
  • Return on investment analysis
  • Client account management
  • Project coordination
  • Collaborative networking abilities
  • Stakeholder engagement

Timeline

Director, Marketing and Media Effectiveness

Kantar
01.2020 - Current

Senior Consultant, Platforms and Automation

Kantar
01.2020 - 05.2022

Insights Manager

Mastercard
06.2015 - 12.2020

Insights Manager

Evalueserve
10.2009 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Metallurgical Engineering

IIT-BHU
Animish Gautam