About Navin
A marketing professional with ~4 years of experience and cross-border experience (South Asia, Middle East, Europe) with leading firms such as L'Oreal, CHANEL, Unilever, Hershey's and NielsenIQ. A double master's student in marketing and MBA and computer engineer in bachelor's, a jack of all trades and an expert of market research and strategy development. Winner of the L'Oreal Big Picture Challenge and the youngest awardee of the NielsenIQ secondment for an international client.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Basic
Hindi
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- L'Oréal FranceSTAGE – Corporate CMI and StrategyJanuary 2026 - Today (5 months)Paris, France
- Led Global Usage Tracker trainings and support, alongside One Intelligence.
- Key milestones: Building AI Companion tool for GUT to assist CMI teams to increase efficiency and easy training and support.
- Hindustan Unilever LimitedSenior Executive (HIVE) CMI – Home CareMay 2023 - December 2024 (1 year and 7 months)Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Led 300+ global projects, turning insights into actionable drivers across media, product and shopper touchpoints with
- expertise in all CMI study types. Worked for Home Care, Beauty and Wellbeing & Personal Care teams.
- Key milestones: 176% increase in innovation value incrementality through meta-analysis; saving 10K euros through internal resource optimization; AI based solution leading to 8K Euros optimization; brand recovery for Sunlight (losing 35bps per quarter in Kerala) through creative assimilation.
- Strategic analysis (data to decision), cross collaborating with marketing, insights and sales to create action plan for brands. Led communication with agencies across the world (Kantar, NielsenIQ, Ipsos and local agencies)
- The Hershey CompanyAnalytics and Insights (Secondment)August 2022 - May 2023 (9 months)
- Partnered with marketing, sales and innovation teams across EMEA/APAC to test concepts, evaluate creatives and track brand health. Led 20+ pricing and coverage, delivered Reese's activation strategy for Australia.
- Coordinated with global agencies and delivered clear actionable recommendations that shaped product launches and customer engagement strategies. Worked on the entire 2025 innovation pipeline and created internal benchmarking concept tests, leading to ~46% reduction in external agency costing.
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Education
- MSc in Marketing and CreativityESCP Business School (London and Paris)2026MSc in Marketing and Creativity
- MBA in Technology ManagementNMIMS University2021Majors in Marketing, Minors in Business Intelligence and Analytics)