Brand Manager - FMCG D2C
at Indian MNC consumer goods into health, wellness, beauty
Key Deliverables of the Role
- Define and execute innovation pipeline for the brand – knowing the stage Gate process
- Conceptualizing & launching new products – have past successes in conceptualizing a brand from scratch / repositioning etc.
- Responsible for driving and delivering business results on the brand
- Identify opportunities for the brand to grow which involves forecasting consumer insights and any opportunities and/or threats emerging from the competitive or technology landscape.
- Custodian of data for the portfolio; Analyse & Publish analytics for relevant categories/brand to aid critical brand decision making
- Work with activation and creative agencies on aspects like artwork, adaptations, in-store activations etc.
Knowledge, Skills & Competencies
- Category Management
- Understanding of Marketing Communication Development and Assessment
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Knowledge of Business & Financial Analysis
· Consumer centricity
· Excellent Communication Skills
Shubham Vishwakarma
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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
ROLES AND 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 analyzing 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.
The candidate must have at least 2 years of experience in managing ATL activities for renowned brands with thorough knowledge of all performance metrics. And would be required to craft and execute all the branding campaigns for our Apps.
The ideal candidate should have a strong analytical/business mindset, highly-focussed, self-motivated, and have prior experience in end-to-end managing brand campaigns. The candidate should be highly effective in cross-functional teams - working in collaboration with the agency, design team, business managers, and other stakeholders. We’re looking for someone with a “can-do” attitude who wants to work in a startup environment and always finds a way to make things work.
What is Must - ATL campaigns/ Offline Campaigns experience(especially Television) & media buying/planning experience
Joining: IMMEDIATELY
Responsibilities will include:
- Define the brand’s marketing strategy, deliver against app brand objectives
- Drive the development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns at national/regional levels
- Develop, manage, and analyzes branding campaigns across marketing channels - offline and online
- Coordinate with agency and internal design team to execute the campaign
- Analyze campaigns and provide strategic recommendations
Attributes we value:
- Strong analytical foundation with meticulous attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong intellectual curiosity
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented
- Proficiency in Excel
Requirements:
- Graduation/Post-Graduation from a tier-1 institute
- Demonstrative experience in executing brand campaigns
- Work-ex: 4 - 8 years
As a Brand marketing professional, you will be in charge of working out marketing strategies that help in positioning and promoting our brands, products, and services. You will be interacting with the growth, creative, social, website, SEO, sales, content, copywriting and user experience teams.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate in shaping and executing the brand's vision, ensuring a deep comprehension of its evolving trajectory over time.
• Contribute to the leadership in refining the brand's positioning, ensuring its readiness for future competition by managing a strategy aimed at enhancing brand vitality and its commitments to customers.
• Oversee brand strategy, planning, and its overall management.
• Cultivate innovation by spearheading the development of a robust pipeline of New Product Development (NPD), in alignment with the brand strategy and category insights.
• Take charge of our Visual and Verbal identity, aligning it with our positioning and maintaining consistent application across all customer touchpoints. Continuously evolve it to sustain brand momentum and align with an unwavering customer-centric approach.
• Identify and capitalize on trends and insights to optimize expenditures and performance.
• Engage in brainstorming sessions to generate novel and imaginative strategies for growth.
• Assess emerging technologies and offer visionary perspectives on their adoption when suitable.
• Ensure a unified brand message resonates across all platforms consistently.
Requirements
• BS/MS degree in marketing or a related field
• Proven working experience in Branding digital marketing
• Proven work experience in the Creative field
• Solid knowledge of website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, NetInsight, Omniture, WebTrends)
• Great problem-solving skills, because working for a fast-growing startup is filled with
challenges
• Great execution skills
• Ability to identify long-term trends in data
• Great communication skills
• Experience working with a content management system
• Strong project management skills
Key Responsibilities
- Day to day management and successful long-term relationships with different accounts.
- Experience in fronting client relationships directly
- Handling operations and client management
- End to end project management
- Briefing the creative team, helping in the creation of a concept.
- Facilitating communication between Client Service Operations & other business units to ensure an effective operating environment.
- Focusing on the strategic aspects of maintaining and growing long-term relationships.
- Establishing growth plans for teams and managed accounts
- Strategizing and executing campaigns for clients.
- Identifying prospective clients, establishing strategic partnerships and alliances
- Working with senior management keeping them informed of new developments, service issues and new business opportunities.
- Managing paid social media campaigns
Preferred Requirements:
- 4-10 yrs RELEVANT experience
- Must have worked with digital agencies managing social media marketing and performance marketing (preferable)
- Also willing to consider exceptionally talented folks from offline agencies
- Located in Bangalore and willing to travel to HSR layout
- Experience in fronting client relationships directly
- Experience in social media marketing (organic & paid)
- Experience in relationship management, strong verbal and written communications skills
Our client is the Health-tech initiative of India's largest business house. Started in 2015, it empowers healthcare providers and consumers in India. All healthcare monitoring services are made available through an app that will help connect doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories and consumers, enabling preventive and predictive healthcare. It helps the care-givers to track the entire patient journey from the initial appointment and maintaining their records, generating lab test reports to providing virtual consultation and home-care solutions. It is expected that this futuristic guide will strengthen doctor-patient relationship and enhance the in-clinic experience.
- Identifying how our brand is currently positioned in the market.
- Developing and executing marketing campaigns aimed at communicating our brand message.
- Communicating our brand personality internally and aligning different teams towards common goal.
- Leading marketing team members through campaigns.
- Measuring and reporting on success of marketing campaigns.
- Anticipating consumer trends and keeping brand up to date.
- Creating brand advocates and running referral campaigns.
- Driving consumer engagement and retention while managing LTV.
What you need to have:
- MBA from Tier-1 B-Schools
- Expertise in running ATL / BTL led marketing campaigns.
- Media planning and buying
- Good know how of the digital eco-system, managing geo-targeted or pan national campaigns as and when required.
- Creative development and agency management
- A go-getter with ownership and commitment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Especially the ability to work cross-departments to achieve results.
portal.
• Responsible for the complete P/L, Sales, Operations, Inventory, pricing and gross
margins.
• Develop concept / brand attributes and positioning strategy in line with Global
guidelines.
• Responsible for developing the Sales targets with E Commerce portals and making
360-degree marketing plan to achieve the same
• Prepare the Periodic online marketing budget for the e-commerce key accounts and
with the management team and allocate budget to listings with the break up in
terms of season, campaign, media etc.
• Prepare design and plans for exclusive product ranges for e-commerce partners and
working closely with design, product and production team
• Recommend e-commerce (online) store promotions in consultation with the
marketing team and e-commerce portal.
• Ensure that all communication material required for the promotions is developed,
designed within the time frame specified.
• Recommend events specific to brand, product category and season.
• Ensure the listing of all live stock on the e-commerce portal.
• Manage appropriate product promotions on all E Commerce platforms in
collaboration with the Marketing team.
Skills / Requirements:
• Broad understanding of E-commerce business operations required
• E-Commerce -Sales/Sales Operation
• E-commerce Marketing
• E-commerce Ads : Amazon, Flipkart etc.
• Affiliate Marketing Management
• Deep understanding about Amazon Seller Central, Flipkart Seller Accounts.
Our client works as a battery swapping network so that instead of purchasing, it allows electric auto rickshaw drivers to swap batteries and pay for it as they use it. Their focus is on advantages like earning a non-stop battery for 150 KM, no waiting to charge till 100 KM and pay-as-you-go option till 50 KM.
Our client works as an App that focuses on providing comfort to people in terms of ride sharing, ride hailing and cashless payments. Their prominent features include digital payments, trained drivers, doorstep pickup, daily affordable pricing etc.
Headquartered in Delhi, our client was co-founded by three veteran entrepreneurs who are BITS Pilani alumni.
As a Brand PR Manager, you will be responsible for enhancing the company’s brand awareness and corporate image.
What you will do:
- Developing and executing effective PR plans through translating brand and key messages into media concepts and compelling stories
- Leveraging a variety of media channels to maximize the company’s brand exposure through interviews, editorials, etc.
- Building strong and positive relationships with media, influencers, and other related parties
- Developing and editing news releases, speeches, articles, and other editorial collateral
- Managing an external PR agency
- Analyzing and reporting on the results of PR campaigns & initiatives
- Checking and managing content produced for website and social media channels
- Developing and implementing PR policies and procedures
- Determining KPIs for PR department
- Deploying successful marketing campaigns and owning their implementation from ideation to execution
- Positioning and messaging the company to win based on an in-depth understanding of the market and the competition
- Working cross-functionally with Product, Marketing & Customer Experience teams
- Experimenting with a variety of organic and paid acquisition channels like content creation, content curation, pay per click campaigns, event management, publicity, social media, lead generation campaigns, copywriting, performance analysis
- Coordinating and managing graphic designers and content team to target the market
- Producing valuable and engaging content for our website and blog that attracts and converts our target groups
- Building strategic relationships and partnering with key industry players, agencies and vendors
- Preparing and monitoring the marketing budget on a quarterly and annual basis and allocating funds wisely
- Overseeing and approving marketing material, from website banners to hard copy brochures and case studies
- Measuring and reporting on the performance of marketing campaigns, gaining insight and assessing against goals
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Demonstrable experience in marketing together with the potential and attitude required to learn
- A passion for issues around Sustainability, Energy Transition, Climate Action, Distributed & Renewable Energy
- Startup experience desired
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and execute
- Proven experience in identifying target audiences and in creatively devising and leading across channels marketing campaigns that engage, educate and motivate
- Solid knowledge of website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, NetInsight, Omniture, WebTrends)
- Experience in setting up and optimizing Google Adwords campaigns
- Numerically literacy, comfort working with numbers
- Ability to make sense of metrics and processing figures with spreadsheets
- Up-to-date knowledge of the latest trends and best practices in online marketing and measurement
- Identify and sign up with influencers in the digital platforms to increase brand reach through content
- content planning, strategy to improve brand engagement in the social media
- tie-up with brands ( co-branding) for amplifying brand reach and building ROI ( generate leads)
- work closely with the PR agency to monitor and enhance the brand engagement in the print/ digital platforms through paid and organic methods
- Handling AB LinkedIn page to run engaging write up, videos, tech talk, industry snippets to develop and build a business audience in LinkedIn
- Outstanding project management skills
- Strong analytical ability – analyze data, develop insight
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.
Brand Strategist Responsibilities:
- 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.
Brand Strategist Requirements:
- 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.
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