“Author, Artist, Marketer, Baker. Motto: ‘Challenge Accepted’. Always ‘all-in’.”
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Fun reality about your self: Recently, I printed my first e book of poems ‘Verses & Sonnets – Freshly Brewed’ which was an acclaimed International Best Seller.
Undergraduate School and Degree:
Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) – University of Mumbai
Master of Commerce (Business Management – M.Com) – University of Mumbai
Master of Science (MSc) Marketing & Strategy – Warwick Business School
Where was the final place you labored earlier than enrolling in enterprise college? Head of Customer Marketing & Strategy, All Sports, for India (Star Sports – Walt Disney India)
Where did you intern throughout the summer time of 2021? N/A
Where will you be working after commencement? TBC
Community Work and Leadership Roles in Business School:
Warwick Scholar and Ambassador
Co-President – The Marketing Club, Warwick Business School
Content Director – TEDx Warwick
Mentor and Steering Committee Member – Warwick Business School Global Mentoring Programme
Member of the ‘Women in Business’ Club at Warwick Business School
Member of the ‘Entrepreneurship Club’ at Warwick Business School
Participant for the INSEAD Product Challenge 2021-22
Delivered a Marketing ‘Master class’ to the Marketing Department Professors of Warwick Business School
Led the sub-group that conceptualised and carried out the ‘10-year celebration occasion’, a milestone for the Business School’s Award Winning Global Mentoring Programme, at The Shard, London
Which tutorial or extracurricular achievement are you most happy with throughout enterprise college? Being Co-president of the Marketing Club at WBS has left me with a robust feeling of fulfilment. This has given me the chance to name upon some superb leaders that I’ve had the privilege to work with and I’m grateful for his or her assist. Each of those people has been inspiring to me alongside my journey and their willingness to assist and share their insights for the Marketing Club, has been humbling. The most rewarding half has been the sense of belonging constructed among the many members of the membership and having the chance to current a Masterclass to the lecturers of the Business School.
What achievement are you most happy with in your skilled profession? In the 15 years that I’ve spent in several Marketing roles, my longest stint was with Castrol-BP. This interval of my profession was a excessive level as I used to be constantly recognised for every of my campaigns 12 months after 12 months. These included being awarded for the ICC Cricket World Cup for ‘Best Project Delivery and Execution in connecting with First Time Users and making a Unique Customer Experience’. Winning the ‘Brand Building’ award for the Best Digital Marketing marketing campaign on the ‘Marketing the Castrol Way Awards’ Asia Pacific Region. This resulted in being one of many youngest to be chosen within the Emerging Leaders Program – BP Worldwide.
Why did you select this enterprise college? This is my second time being a scholar at Warwick Business School as I resonate with the CORE values of the varsity (Curiosity, Openness, Restlessness, Excellence) in each manner. Having the chance to develop and share concepts with a global cohort, being in an setting that challenges you and stretches you to be the Change Makers of the longer term is one thing distinctive to Warwick.
Who was your favourite MBA professor? My favorite Professor at Warwick Business School was Professor John Colley. His distinctive manner of bringing the speculation to life by case-studies, extremely participating discussions, and getting us to assume and analyse each scenario with a unique lens made studying fulfilling.
What was your favourite MBA occasion or custom at your small business college? My favorite occasion throughout my MBA was a session we had on ‘tough conversations’ within the LeadershipPlus module. This session threw gentle on features of our emotional intelligence, serving to us perceive that with our alternative of phrases and method a scenario’s consequence can ‘change’. It was extraordinarily insightful for all of us and positively helped me replicate on how completely different dialog types impression relationships each in an expert and private setting.
Looking again over your MBA expertise, what’s the one factor you’d do otherwise and why? While my MBA isn’t over but, Term 1 is. I used to be reflecting again at what we had been instructed on the Dean’s reception. The worth of this MBA is not only within the classroom however exterior, the place you may construct relationships and networks, the significance of which most individuals don’t realise till the MBA is over. If I needed to do one thing otherwise in Term 1, it might be to have a more healthy steadiness between my tutorial and social life. I’ve began Term 2 with a recent outlook, studying from Term 1 and I’m having fun with it immensely.
What is the most important delusion about your college? Myth: There is a delusion that individuals think about Warwick very elitist in its recruitment.
Truth: I’ve studied with individuals from throughout 33 completely different nations, a spectrum of industries and social backgrounds. Each one being celebrated and an integral a part of the general studying expertise..
What stunned you probably the most about enterprise college? What stunned me probably the most was the openness (one of many CORE values of the varsity) of the lecturers on the enterprise college, to tackle insights shared by the cohort.
What is one factor you probably did throughout the utility course of that gave you an edge on the college you selected? During my interview with the Business college, one of many questions requested by the interviewer was what makes my utility completely different. MY utility had an edge as a result of I used to be a feminine chief in enterprise and advertising and marketing, had labored in and overcome challenges in some male-dominated industries, and was in a position to be succeed regardless of private challenges.
Which MBA classmate do you most admire? I must say, a classmate I like probably the most is Mónica Vargas. Monica is a brilliant and pushed girl who leaves no stone unturned. She is heat, approachable and intensely supportive when she places her coronary heart into one thing. Monica are on the identical wavelength on varied views and have so much in frequent, together with being ladies in enterprise, leaders in our earlier organisations, managing groups, and coping with challenges. Hers is a connection I treasure as she’s not only a colleague in my MBA however a life-long pal I’m lucky to have made.
Who most affected your determination to pursue enterprise in school? I at all times needed to be an architect as a younger lady. One day, I noticed a business. A superb emotional advert made by Cadbury. I keep in mind being blown away because it touched each nerve. And the primary thought that got here to my thoughts was: “What if I may do this sometime? Create one thing so highly effective that it blows somebody away?” And that was the beginning of my seek for a profession in enterprise and particularly in advertising and marketing – since then I’ve by no means regarded again.
What are the highest two objects in your skilled bucket record?
To be the Global CMO of one of many high 50 manufacturers on this planet within the subsequent 10 years.
And to go away a legacy and make a distinction on this planet of selling.
How has the pandemic modified your view of a profession? The pandemic hasn’t modified my view of a profession in advertising and marketing. If something, it has opened my eyes to newer alternatives, a unique manner of implementing communication and advertising and marketing methods. The emergence of Web 3.0 and AI has opened up a complete new world of potentialities.
What made Nupur such a useful addition to the Class of 2022?
“I met Nupur simply earlier than she began her Full-time MBA at Warwick Business School and was struck then by her skill to construct relationships, to face in another person’s footwear and to see the world from their eyes.
As I bought to know her, it grew to become evident that her abilities prolonged past her expertise in Marketing & Strategy and relationship-building to efficient networking, organisation and management expertise.
“Nupur is a consummate networker and appears to know somebody from each sphere of life. She is keen about private growth each for herself and empowering others. If you meet her, discover a solution to collaborate together with her and you’ll be taught one thing! “She totally engages with life and alongside her busy Full-time MBA has engaged with a variety of extra-curricular actions, specifically:
She is a member of the steering committee at Warwick Business School’s award-winning Global Mentoring Programme. She leads the advertising and marketing sub-group to drive consciousness and recruit for the programme. And she has lately put collectively a 10-year celebration, a milestone occasion for the programme and has mentored two mentees to this point.
Nupur can also be co-President, of The Marketing Club at WBS. She leads the strategic agenda for the Marketing Club, a student-led voluntary physique. The membership focuses on creating fascinating and insightful conversations round advertising and marketing as a topic, and its varied branches like model advertising and marketing, sports activities advertising and marketing, digital advertising and marketing and many others. “The members talk about case research, tune-in to speaker periods who’re veterans from the business and imagine in a typical ardour of understanding advertising and marketing higher.
She is content material director for TEDx Warwick, which is basically accountable for setting the theme for each TED occasion, searching for and securing highly effective and impactful audio system who will make a distinction with an concept. Nupur has over 15 years’ expertise throughout a variety of industries from Consulting, Entertainment, Automotive, Toys & Sports. Her ardour is for Marketing & Strategy and he or she has a variety of notable achievements.
She designed and carried out the first-ever buyer advertising and marketing template inside Star Sports-Walt Disney. She constructed a sustainable relationship-based mannequin by focused communication to evangelise sports activities, due to this fact making it the popular alternative for advertisers. She achieved year-on-year development in promoting income, together with 14% development throughout the pandemic.
“Nupur devised and launched the “Barbie careers Dolls” according to the model’s imaginative and prescient “You might be something”, giving younger women a motive to imagine and picture themselves in aspirational careers. This included implementing shopper promotions to construct consciousness and centered under the road activations that helped develop the model consciousness rating by 12% over competitors
Nupur developed, launched and executed Castrol’s Brand Assets Strategy for over 4,000 sellers and distributors. As a consequence, she was nominated for the “Emerging Leaders Program-BP Worldwide” and was awarded “Best Project Delivery and Execution for the ICC Cricket World Cup”, beating over 100 different initiatives nominated within the Asia Pacific area
In my opinion, Nupur is an ideal candidate for the Poets & Quants Best & Brightest record as her addition to the FTMBA 2021-2022 cohort has been and continues to be invaluable.”
Sarah JacksonMBA Careers Manager at WBS Careers Plus
https://poetsandquants.com/students/2022-best-brightest-mba-nupur-gadkari-warwick-business-school/?pq-category=students
