Aakanksha Cheema

Digital strategy | Performance marketing | Growth

Aakanksha builds campaigns that move.

A growth and digital marketing leader with 8+ years of experience owning performance, media, P&L, app growth, and retention across D2C, omnichannel retail, ecommerce, agency, and banking environments.

Google Ads Meta Ads DV360 Apple Search Ads App growth P&L ownership GA4 Retail growth

Brands I've worked with.

Cross-category experience gives the portfolio range: high-velocity beauty, ecommerce platforms, enterprise retail, performance agency work, and banking.

Reliance Retail logo Reliance Retail / Vibrant
SUGAR Cosmetics logo SUGAR Cosmetics
Tata CLiQ logo Tata CLiQ
Performics logo Performics India
Axis Bank logo Axis Bank

Marketing truths I work by.

The beliefs that shape how I plan, build, and measure every campaign — across retail, beauty, ecommerce, agency, and banking.

It's not about big budgets.

It's about spending on what actually moves the customer.

It's not vanity metrics.

It's about outcomes the business can bank.

It's not set-and-forget.

It's learning loops that compound every week.

It's not creative versus performance.

It's creative built to perform.

It's not channels in silos.

It's the full funnel working as one system.

It's not guessing.

It's reading the numbers, then acting on them.

Work shaped like campaigns.

Instead of static resume bullets, I've framed my experience as the kind of business problems recruiters and marketing teams scan for.

Case study 01

App ecosystems, not just websites

Scaled app install and engagement programmes for D2C beauty and built the app side of brands that had grown web-first — Sephora and Urban Ladder among them.

  • Apple Search Ads, Google, Meta app campaigns
  • Attribution through AppsFlyer and Branch
  • Install cost brought down month on month
Case study 02

Carrying the number, not just the campaign

At SUGAR Cosmetics the D2C unit's annual operating plan was mine to hit — budgets, media mix, offer calendar, and the P&L underneath.

  • Budget planning against AOP targets
  • Monthly offer and launch calendars
  • Alliances with bank and payment partners
Case study 03

Playbooks that survive handover

Twelve retail brands across fashion, beauty, F&B, and furniture can't each invent their own measurement. So I wrote the playbooks — separate ones for launches and for sale periods.

  • Standardised measurement across verticals
  • Geo-targeted campaigns with offline attribution
  • Creative, CRM, analytics, and store ops aligned
Case study 04

Teams and agencies that get better

Led teams of five to eight across in-house and agency settings, and taught the craft formally — inside Performics Academy and later to an MBA cohort.

  • Mentoring associates and analysts
  • Agency and platform partner management
  • Integrated planning sessions run end to end

Experience, clarified.

Teaching, brand, marketplace, agency, and banking — most recent first. The range is the point: I've sat on every side of a media plan.

Visiting Faculty, Digital Marketing — Crucible Institute of Management

Senior Account Director — Vibrant (Reliance Retail)

Senior Manager, Growth Marketing — SUGAR Cosmetics

Assistant Category Marketing Manager — Tata CLiQ

Business Manager — Performics India

Deputy Manager, Business Intelligence — Axis Bank

Certified across the ad stack.

Platform certifications now show as logo-led proof points, built directly into the page so recruiters can scan them without broken image links or a fragile lightbox.

Facebook Certified Media Buying Professional.

Google Ads (Search, Display, Mobile, Shopping)

Google Analytics Individual Qualification

Apple Search Ads Certified

Amazon Advertising Sponsored Ads Accreditation

LinkedIn Marketing Fundamentals & Marketing Strategy

Bing Ads Accredited Professional

Twitter Flight School Video Badge

What are you hiring for?

Pick the problem on your desk. Here's where I've done it before.

Full-funnel paid acquisition

Prospecting-to-conversion programmes across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, DV360, Snapchat, and Apple Search Ads — audience strategy, budget focus, and analytics-led optimisation cycles.

Google Ads Meta Ads DV360 Media planning

Built for the next growth brief.

For roles that need someone who can plan the funnel, understand the platforms, read the numbers, and still care about the creative idea.

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