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Sandhya Venkat

Senior Business Analyst, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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sandhyavenkat11@micamail.in
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9176348162
New media professional having 5 years of work experience across FMCG, Digital and Healthcare domains and interested in brands, consumers & new media trends. Areas of expertise include social analytics, social media marketing, digital marketing, brand management and product marketing. Please note that I am currently based in India, but am currently looking out for opportunities onsite in London/United Kingdom to join my husband who is based out of Brighton as a Business Consultant.
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Work Experience

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Senior Business Analyst
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Mar 2015 - Current

Team lead for a social media listening and analytics project for one of the leading F&B companies in India. Responsible for complete project delivery including regular interaction with clients and Executive stakeholders. My work involves data-mining and report generation using various tools to mine data from social media networks and deliver insights on products, brand behavior and company strategies to drive business decisions. I also conducted Requirements gathering for new projects with client meetings along with template report generation, effort estimation and resource identification.

Additionally, I have worked and converted RFPs across the Sales, Marketing, Corporate Branding and Consumer Insights divisions into projects.

  • Increase in scope over 8 months to include 2 more projects leading to the growth of the team by 70%
  • Obtained the top rating, “Exceeds All Expectations”, in the 2015-16 Performance Appraisal cycle, Cognizant, 2016

United Breweries Ltd

Product Manager
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Jun 2013 - Aug 2014

As the product manager of the flagship brand Kingfisher Premium, my role involved maintaining the Market leader position at 52% and strengthening the Market share via consistent brand activations, visibility drives and competition tracking. One of the main campaigns I worked on was Kingfisher Premium’s biggest National campaign IPL 2014 where I ideated and executed a 360 degree marketing campaign, leading to a total of 200 million consumer contacts created during the two-month campaign period.

Additionally, I also worked across various HORECA channels in New Delhi, Pune and Bangalore as part of sales stints tracking spends, competitors and resourcing requirements

  • Obtained Appreciation mail by Senior VP – Marketing, United Breweries Ltd for mentoring initiative of summer internship project “Analyzing the effectiveness of promotional visibility elements across channels during IPL7”.

Philips Electronics India Ltd

Senior Software Engineer
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Jul 2008 - Jun 2011

I worked for Philips in the Healthcare division and my role involved the Quality Assurance and Software development of frameworks for medical devices. Apart from garnering skills such as Agile, Scrum, SDLC methods of working, I also underwent cross site interaction and training at partner site in Hamburg, Germany in 2011.

  • Obtained Spot awards for excellence in Performance and Customer Satisfaction, Philips Electronics India, 2009-10.
  • Promoted to Senior Software Engineer in 2011

Education

MICA

PGDM(Communications) Marketing
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Jun 2011 - Mar 2013

Digital marketing, Brand management, Advertising, Sales, Marketing, Strategy

RV College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science
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Oct 2004 - Jun 2008

Skills

  • 1. Social listening/monitoring tools – Radian6, Unmetric and Brandwatch, Social Studio, Facebook Insights, Twitter Analytics
  • 2. Trend and Content Marketing tools – BuzzSumo
  • 3. MS Office Suite, Communication skills