Sanduni Rathnayake
Digital Marketing Lead
Colombo, Sri Lanka+94 77 000 0000sanduni@example.lklinkedin.com/in/example
41%
direct bookings, from 18%
LKR 62m
OTA commission saved a year
63%
lower acquisition cost
Profile
Performance marketer with seven years in hospitality and consumer brands. I run paid, search and CRM as one funnel, and I report in revenue rather than reach — most recently growing direct bookings from 18% to 41% of revenue for a six-property hotel group.
Experience
Digital Marketing Lead
2022 – PresentHotel group, six properties · Colombo
- Grew direct bookings from 18% to 41% of revenue, cutting OTA commission by LKR 62m a year.
- Manage a LKR 40m annual budget across Google, Meta and metasearch, with weekly revenue reporting to the board.
- Built a CRM programme of 90,000 past guests that now drives 12% of room nights.
- Lead a team of four plus two agencies.
Performance Marketing Executive
2019 – 2022Consumer electronics retailer · Colombo
- Reduced blended acquisition cost from LKR 2,400 to LKR 890 over eighteen months.
- Launched the first Google Shopping feed, reaching 22% of online sales within a year.
- Introduced incrementality testing, reallocating 30% of spend away from brand search.
Marketing Executive
2018 – 2019Creative agency · Colombo
- Ran social and search campaigns for nine FMCG and banking clients.
Selected campaigns
- “Book direct, stay better”Always-on direct-booking campaign with member rates; 3.4× return on ad spend in year one.
- Avurudu flash saleThree-day retail sale across search, social and email; LKR 48m in online revenue, a record for the brand.
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