Brand Manager

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Senior Brand Strategist Profile
• Must have 4+ years of pure brand strategy experience at branding/strategy agencies (not advertising/campaign-only roles)
• Must have hands-on experience with brand strategy frameworks for new brand creation and rebranding initiatives (brand persona, positioning, narrative, tone of voice, guidelines)
• Must have experience conducting and leading brand workshops, integrating research inputs (primary + secondary) into insights and brand positioning
• Must have B2C brand strategy experience (B2B exposure is highly preferred but optional)
• Must have strong writing and storytelling skills to translate brand positioning into compelling narratives, messaging, tone, and strategic decks.
• Must be able to manage end-to-end brand strategy projects, including research synthesis, workshop facilitation, positioning, framework creation, and collaboration with design teams for visual translation.
• Must have a portfolio or compilation of case studies showing rebranding projects, positioning frameworks, workshop involvement, research synthesis, and strategy-to-design translation
• Preferably a degree/master’s in Marketing, Brand Strategy, Design, or Communication from reputed institutes (e.g., MICA, NID, Srishti, or similar).
• Must come from Branding Studios, Brand strategy firms, Strategic design consultancies, branding agencies etc.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for a senior brand strategist professional, who can help us deliver innovative strategic directions that benefit our client’s business with measurable results. The candidate should have thorough knowledge and experience in the methods and application of tools to deliver an effective programme. Candidates should have experience with both mass and premium brands as well as FMCG, durables, and service categories.

Experience with digital-first or digitally marketed brands is an advantage that we look forward to.

ROLES & EXPECTATIONS-

• Drive brand and business strategy processes in our firm.
• Thorough practical knowledge and experience in implementing methods, tools and processes with capabilities to handhold teams to deliver at the highest standards.
• Proficient in conducting research programs to uncover customer and user needs, business and market findings, drawing insights for branding, service and CX design for digital and traditional applications.
• Conduct primary and secondary market research in marketing, sales and consumer experience.
• Programming workshops, conducting them and creating a comprehensive outcome report with insights and recommendations.
• Bring an idea to life on a whiteboard, articulate it, create systems and deliver.
• Strong understanding of pan-India markets across a wide range of verticals and categories.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Excellent storytelling skills, capable of good verbal and written communications, client interfacing and presentation skills.
• Proficient in putting together presentations and strategy decks.
• Good articulation and writing skills.
• Understanding business, data tools and analytics (The math of it)
• Capable of managing and building relationships with senior client executives with strong domain-level competence along with a well-informed worldview.
• Team player capable of working across verticals with leadership skills.

ADVANTAGEOUS / OPTIONAL SKILLS-

• Experience in ethnographic, observational and behaviour studies.
• Management skills, idea creation, directing and delivering through a creative team.
• Interest in trends and analysis of brands, brand strategies and staying up-to-date and well-informed.
• Experience in analysing the brand and marketing landscape and writing advisory and opinion articles on branding and brand communication.
• Well-informed and knowledgeable with a world view.
• Observant and aware of current trends and their evolution.

JOB DETAILS:

- Job Title: Director – Brand Marketing

- Industry: Media and entertainment Industry

- Experience: 8-12 years

- Working Days: 5

- Job Location: Noida

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Required Skills: Brand Strategy & Positioning Ownership, Cultural & Creative Judgment, Earned Media, PR & Social Brand Voice, Integrated Brand Campaign Leadership, Cross-Functional Brand Governance

Criteria:

• 8+ years of experience in Brand Marketing, Brand Strategy, Creative Strategy, or Brand Leadership is Must.
• Experience working on or scaling meaningful consumer brands (media/entertainment preferred)
• Must have owned brand meaning, not just executed campaigns
• Must have launched or scaled a brand platform, not only shows or campaigns
• Prior ownership of earned media, social brand voice, and PR
• Fluent Hindi is mandatory
• Exposure to regional cultural contexts is a strong advantage
• OTT experience is a plus

Description

Role Overview (Non-Negotiable)

This role is the custodian of company’s brand meaning, voice, and long-term equity. The Director – Brand Marketing owns the master brand and its child brands, ensuring company scales nationally while preserving cultural depth, authenticity, and emotional consistency.

You own brand meaning, not just marketing output.

What You Own

• Brand positioning, narrative, and long-term brand truth
• Brand tone, voice, and cultural posture
• Earned media, social brand voice, and PR narratives
• Final authority on how company shows up across all channels
• What the brand amplifies—and what it consciously avoids

Key Responsibilities

Brand Strategy & Positioning

• Define and evolve company’s core positioning as the platform for India’s regional cultures
• Own master brand architecture across regions, IPs, and markets
• Protect the “red thread” connecting cultures without dilution or tokenism
• Act as final brand gatekeeper across product, content, marketing, partnerships, and PR

Earned Media & Brand Voice

• Own brand social handles, PR, and cultural conversations
• Act as Editor-in-Chief of company’s public voice
• Ensure social presence feels cultural, not promotional
• Exercise judgment on public engagement vs. silence

Integrated Brand Campaigns

• Lead brand strategy for flagship launches, regional expansion, and national moments
• Ensure every campaign has a strong idea, emotional depth, and scalability
• Align brand equity with performance marketing without short-term erosion

Creative Direction & Governance

• Set creative standards for visual identity, copy, and storytelling
• Ensure respectful, non-stereotypical representation of regional cultures
• Build brand guardrails that protect meaning without limiting creativity

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Work closely with Content, Performance, Product, and CRM teams
• Act as the brand conscience—calling out dilution or short-termism when needed

This Role Is NOT For

• Social media managers or execution-only marketers
• Brand marketers without commercial accountability
• Candidates who see brand and performance as opposing forces
• Candidates dependent on large teams or budgets to create impact

8+ years of experience in Brand Marketing, Brand Strategy, Creative Strategy, or Brand Leadership is Must.

Experience working on or scaling meaningful consumer brands (media/entertainment preferred)

Must have owned brand meaning, not just executed campaigns

Must have launched or scaled a brand platform, not only shows or campaigns

Prior ownership of earned media, social brand voice, and PR

Fluent Hindi is mandatory

Exposure to regional cultural contexts is a strong advantage

OTT experience is a plus

Need candidate from these Target Companies ONLY :

Netflix India

Spotify India

Hoichoi

Aha

TVF

Tata Tea

Surf excel

Fevicol

Amul

ITC

Asia Paints

Britania

CRED

Zomato

Dunzo

Swiggy

Meesho

Zepto

IPL Teams - Rajasthan Royals, RCB, CSK LSG, DC

Strong Brand Marketing Manager profiles, with experience with well-known B2C brands

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have total 6+ YOE, and recent 3+ years working in end-to-end Brand Marketing (including Brand building, positioning, & brand strategy)

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have strong hands-on experience in Brand Marketing for a Top / well-known B2C or Fintech brands

Mandatory (Core Skills): Must possess creative thinking, strong project management skills, and be execution-focused; should have managed brand campaigns including creative development, production, social content, media planning, and buying..

Mandatory (Education): Candidates from Top college like IIMs, ISB, MICA, VGSOM-IIT Kharagpur, IIT etc (Note: College can be ignored if candidate is from unicorn companies like Bharatpe, Unilever, Reliance, Groww etc)

Mandatory (Company): Well-know B2C Brands in FMCG, Fintech, BFSI, Consumer Tech, or Lifestyle brands.

Are you looking to work in the ecommerce space? Read on to know more.

Our client is a 360-degree boutique firm that provides single-point branding and eCommerce growth consulting to its clients. They have best-in-class professionals with a combined experience of over 40 years in Retail, Textiles, FMCG, Fashion, Consumer Durables and more. They create online brands for their clients through strategies like marketplace management, marketing, social media channels, and analytics that help planning and forecasting.

Currently, they are helping businesses from Fashion, Lifestyle and Personal technology to create a unique space in leading marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, TataCliq etc. With over Rs.100 crores revenue generated through their 10000+ listings, the team is led by passionate entrepreneurs with a mission to simplify the digital market and e-commerce presence for all businesses.

As a Client Success Manager, you will be responsible for managing clients’ account end to end, including developing channel strategy, defining targeting, managing creative, setting up campaigns, measuring performance, and deriving insights.

What you will do:

• Taking complete ownership for a portfolio of accounts
• Understanding the client and their business from a holistic perspective
• Strategizing and creating a robust plan of action/ roadmap for clients
• Guiding a team of 2-3 people to work on client’s listings, reviews, account health and day to-day operations
• Tracking and driving the progress of various projects to ensure timely delivery
• Being responsible for all regular (and ad hoc) reporting and analysis
• Onboarding clients on multiple marketplaces by liaising with category managers at respective marketplaces
• Co-ordinating with various Marketplaces for solving queries and issues regarding the accounts
• Reviewing every account in the portfolio in complete detail to understand the current level of performance
• Being accountable for hitting goals and driving sustainable growth
• Preparing and presenting plans and results to the clients

• Minimum bachelors' degree in any field
• Strong analytical skills including Microsoft Excel
• Proactive, Team Player, requires good co-ordination and networking capabilities
• Good written communication skills and typing speed in English
• Self-motivated with passion for e-commerce
• Outstanding client handling & communication skills both written & verbal

About CercleX:-

CercleX is a digital technology platform which is a leading https://cerclex.com/blog/waste-management-in-india/">waste management company in India  with an extended outlook of circularity through its various ventures into the field of sustainability.

We have received FICCI Impactful Cleantech Startup Award, MeitY Emerging Startup Award, TVS Capital Budding Nxt Gen Entrepreneur Award, and many more for our digital solutions enabling transactions between waste generators, and aggregators, processors, and bringing in complete transparency, traceability to the waste ecosystem.

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Job Description:-

Brand Managers are the people who shape a company’s outward image. To do that, you’ll need to uncover consumer insights and deliver innovative marketing campaigns. We’ll turn to you to learn what can attract our customers and prospects and how we can improve customer experience.

Cerclex is looking for an experienced Brand Manager to help us build our brand and raise brand awareness. You’ll work across all levels and departments of our organization to find what makes us unique and communicate it to the world.Ultimately, you’ll help us improve our company’s reputation and drive growth.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze brand positioning and consumer insights.Stay current on market trends and competitive activity
• Translate brand elements into plans and go-to-market strategies
• Manage a team of marketing people working on brand initiatives
• Lead creative development to motivate the target audience to “take action”
• Establish performance specifications, cost and price parameters, market applications and sales estimates
• Measure and report performance of all marketing campaigns, and assess ROI and KPIs
• Monitor market trends, research consumer markets and competitors’ activities
• Align the company around the brand’s direction, choices and tactics
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field. MBA preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in brand management, brand marketing, or marketing management
• Experience managing a brand across multiple markets
• Creative thinker and problem solver
• Strong communication skills
• Project management experience, with a solid understanding of project management principles and techniques

• Past experience of working with startups is preferred
• Metric driven marketing Strategies & Campaigns
• Digital & Social Media Marketing
• Experience in Market Research & Consumer Insights is preferred
• Ability to Advertise & Activate Campaigns

Designation: Anchor & Producer

Department: Video Content Team

Location: Bangalore (preferred) / Mumbai

Qualification: Any Graduate or Postgraduate

Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience in Anchoring or Vlogging on Youtube channel

Responsibilities:

1. Candidate should be the face for YouTube channel and should have experience as YouTube channel anchor
2. Should be able use own creativity in presenting the given script
3. Should be able to present topics related to sports, science, history in an entertaining way
4. Should be confident on camera
5. Candidate should be known to languages. (English and Hindi) Fluently
6. Candidate who is available for 8 and half hours in a day
7. Candidate should bring in new ideas

Skills:

1. A good understanding of the Youtube platform.
2. Solid content research skills.
3. Video editing skills.
4. Social Media Presence.
5. Digital Awareness.

Salary: 4.80LPA (Negotiable)

IMMEDIATE JOINING PREFERRED!

We are looking for a skilled and solutions-oriented Brand Strategist with a strong analytical mind to craft compelling brand stories and strategies that deliver results. The Brand Strategist's responsibilities include conducting extensive research, analyzing findings, making recommendations, presenting to clients and briefing creatives. You should be a strategic thinker with a knack for uncovering consumer insights that inform strategy development.

The ideal candidate should be open-minded and passionate about creating holistic brand experiences. Ultimately, the outstanding Brand Strategist should have strong research skills, an analytical mindset and be an excellent storyteller.

• Conducting extensive primary and secondary research.
• Staying up-to-date on consumer research and market trends.
• Analyzing research, data and trends.
• Creating competitive reviews and situational analyses.
• Identifying insights, challenges and opportunities.
• Developing brand architecture, positioning and strategy.
• Writing compelling brand stories.
• Meeting and presenting to clients.
• Briefing and collaborating with creative teams.
• Leading ideation and brainstorming sessions.
  
  

• Degree in business, marketing, branding, communication or related field required.
• Previous experience as a brand strategist or similar role.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience leading client meetings.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Creative and compelling storyteller.
• Strong research skills.
• Strategic thinker.
• Excellent presentation skills.