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Sumanth Manjunath · Bengaluru, India

Clarity is the whole job.

I'm a brand and corporate communications leader. For 8+ years I've helped large, complex organizations — a national aluminium manufacturer, a healthcare institute, agency clients — become easier to understand, easier to trust, and harder to ignore. I also build the tools my field needs.

Open to select opportunities 8+ years in brand & comms Marketing · PR · ORM · Builds his own tools
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The short version

A communications career that started in a ledger, not a headline — and a habit of building the thing instead of just describing it.

I started in numbers, not words. My first roles were in accounts and finance — reconciling books at Honda, chasing collections, learning early that data only matters when someone can act on it. That instinct, making the complicated legible, became the through-line of everything after.

Over eight years I moved from running performance campaigns for agency clients to leading brand and corporate communications for one of India's largest aluminium manufacturers. I've rebuilt how a company sounds, cut how long it takes to respond when its reputation is on the line, and reshaped how its own people experience the brand from the inside.

I also build. Finio untangles my own messy bank statements; Atlas keeps my training on track; ContentHub is the content-operations tool I wanted for my own field, so I made it. To me, communications and software are the same craft — take the friction out of the space between a person and what they're trying to do.

  • a.
    Message before medium
    The channel is easy. Knowing exactly what to say, to whom, and why, is the actual work.
  • b.
    Measure or it didn't happen
    Sentiment, reach, conversion, response time. Communications is accountable to numbers like everything else.
  • c.
    Reputation is a system
    You don't fix it in a crisis. You design the workflows that keep it steady before one arrives.
  • d.
    If a tool is missing, build it
    Not everything needs a vendor. Sometimes the fastest path is to write it yourself.

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Selected work

Signature work Brand, communications & change · Jindal Aluminium group
Brand & communications Jindal Aluminium group · 2022–present

Rebuilding a manufacturer's voice

Assistant Manager, Brand Marketing & Corporate Communications

One of India's largest aluminium manufacturers, with a brand far quieter than its scale — and communications stretched across the parent company and three very different group entities: a naturecure institute, a herbals business and a charitable foundation. Four audiences, one small team, and a reputation handled reactively, after the fact.

The problem

An industrial B2B brand most people had never really heard speak, four entities pulling in different directions, and an online-reputation process that could take a full day to respond — long enough for a small issue to grow into a public one.

What I did

Rebuilt the content strategy across all four entities and rebalanced the paid and organic mix. Ran integrated campaigns across digital, print and events, and stood up a faster reputation-management workflow with clear ownership and response paths. Built MIS and performance dashboards so senior management could plan against real numbers instead of gut feel.

The outcome

Within twelve months, measured brand visibility rose ~40% and engagement ~55% across LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. Sentiment improved ~25% while ORM response time dropped from 24+ hours to 6–8. Fifteen to twenty media placements were secured across major initiatives. I led a creative team of 5–6, worked across 6–8 departments, and managed digital budgets of ₹12–20 lakh alongside exhibition and event budgets of ₹2–3 crore.

+40% brand visibility +55% engagement +25% sentiment ORM 24h → 6–8h Team of 5–6 · budgets to ₹3 Cr
Systems & change Company-wide initiative

Rewriting the rulebook

Project lead — communications & documentation

Led an end-to-end rewrite of roughly 230 company policies covering 4,000+ employees, turning dense and inconsistent documents into clear, usable language people could actually follow. A policy nobody reads doesn't protect anyone — the goal was documents that hold up in practice, not just on paper.

~230 policies rewritten 4,000+ employees covered Plain-language rewrite
Systems & change HR transformation

PeopleStrong rollout

Implementation & change-communications lead

Drove the implementation of PeopleStrong across the organization, reshaping how remuneration, performance scoring, promotions and increments work — and, just as importantly, communicating the change so employees understood it and trusted it. New systems fail on adoption, not features; the communications made the difference.

4,000+ employees Comp & performance Adoption & training comms
Brand & digital jindalaluminium.com

Reshaping the company website

Brand & content lead

Led the brand and content side of rebuilding Jindal Aluminium's website — moving a fifty-year-old manufacturer off a dated, template-heavy WordPress site and onto a cleaner, more modern presence that matches its actual scale. The old site is still online as an archive, so the before-and-after speaks for itself.

Website redesign Content & structure Before / after
Things I build Products I designed & shipped solo — proof, not the headline
Product · self-built Multi-tool SaaS · Razorpay · Vercel

ContentHub

Solo designer & developer

A content-operations dashboard for Indian freelancers and agencies — one place to run everything instead of switching between five tools. Six modules in a single dark-native interface: a post scheduler, an analytics dashboard, a cross-platform content calendar, a competitor tracker across Instagram, YouTube, X and TikTok, and a curated industry-news feed for marketing, PR and communications. Built end to end, with accounts, workspaces, tiered plans and Razorpay payments — the tool I wanted for my own field, so I built it.

6 tools, one dashboard Scheduler · Analytics · Calendar Competitor tracking Auth · plans · Razorpay
Product · self-built Vanilla JS · local-first · Vercel

Finio

Solo designer & developer

A private, local-first personal-finance app — a financial operating system where every figure lives on your own device and nothing is sent to a server. It turns messy bank data into a live dashboard with a financial-health score, then tracks budgets, savings goals, loans and EMIs, recurring payments and net worth. The engine at its core imports CSV, PDF and Excel: it auto-detects statements from major Indian banks, pulls figures out of salary slips and invoices, and handles the awkward edge cases like Canara's ePassbook format with its comma-notation amounts and collapsed PDF structure.

Import engine CSV · PDF · XLSX Health score & analytics Net worth, loans & goals 100% on-device
Product · self-built Offline-first PWA · Vercel

Atlas

Solo designer & developer

A body-recomposition companion I built for myself: build strength, lose fat, stay consistent. It's the app I wanted when I started training — offline-first, and it installs to the home screen and runs full-screen like a native app. A single daily view ties together meals, workouts and progress, so a beginner can stay consistent instead of juggling three separate trackers.

Meals · Workouts · Progress Offline-first PWA Built for beginners

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Press & communications

A sample of press releases I wrote and placed for the group across national media. Several list me as the media contact — these are public, and you can read the originals.

Naturopathy and the case for drug-free treatment of lifestyle disease
The Week (via PTI) · Jindal Naturecure Institute
2023
How naturopathy is paving the way to a healthier future
Business Standard (via ANI) · Jindal Naturecure Institute
2020
The rise of naturopathy in India
APN News · Jindal Naturecure Institute
2024
Naturopathy's growth in India — issued release
openPR · Jindal Naturecure Institute · media contact: me
2024
Jindal Aluminium to invest ₹150 crore in capacity expansion
Business press · Jindal Aluminium Limited
Aluminium's growing role in high-speed rail
JAL Press Room · thought leadership
Debunking the myths around aluminium windows
JAL Press Room · thought leadership

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The path here

Jun 2022 — Now
Assistant Manager, Brand Marketing & Corporate Communications
Jindal Aluminium Limited · Bengaluru

Multi-channel brand campaigns, PR and media relations, and reputation management across the group. Built MIS and performance dashboards for senior management, and led a small creative team.

Oct 2020 — Jun 2022
Digital Marketing & Corporate Communication
Jindal Naturecure Institute · Bengaluru

Integrated content and regional campaigns that lifted patient engagement and grew organic traffic year over year, alongside press outreach for major health and wellness initiatives.

Oct 2017 — Oct 2020
Digital Marketing Executive
Zerozilla Technologies · Bengaluru

Ran multi-client SEO, SEM and paid social campaigns, cutting cost-per-lead and moving priority keywords into top-ten rankings while reporting results back to clients.

Apr 2016 — Apr 2017
Accounts Officer
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India · Bangalore

Daily accounting, reconciliations and MIS reporting. Reduced outstanding collections and tightened documentation accuracy, with audits closed at zero non-compliance.

Apr 2015 — Nov 2015
Sales Process Executive
FinMitra · Bangalore

First role out of university — sales process and customer coordination. Where the finance-to-communications arc began.

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A few numbers

8+
Years in brand & corporate communications
+40%
Brand visibility, within 12 months
+55%
Social engagement across LinkedIn, Instagram & Facebook
3 Cr
Peak campaign & events budget managed

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What I do

Brand & Communications

  • Brand strategy
  • Corporate communications
  • PR & media relations
  • Reputation management / ORM
  • Content & editorial
  • Executive communications

Digital & Performance

  • SEO / SEM
  • Paid social (Meta / LinkedIn)
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Ads
  • Campaign budgeting
  • Power BI dashboards

Build & Tools

  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • WordPress
  • Shopify
  • Figma
  • Excel (advanced)
  • PowerPoint (advanced)

AI Workflows

  • LLM-assisted content
  • Content automation
  • Custom writing systems
  • Prompt design
  • Research & synthesis

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Education & languages

Bachelor of Commerce — Accounting & Finance
Christ University, Bangalore · 2012–2015
Pre-University, Commerce
Sri Sathya Sai Loka Seva PU College · 2010–2012
Languages
EnglishHindi KannadaMarathi
Let's talk

Have something worth
saying well?

If you need someone who can make a complex organization easier to understand, modernize how its brand looks and sounds, and build communications that actually scale — that's the whole job, and it's exactly what I do. Let's talk.

sumanthmanjunath1000@gmail.com