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About our Client :
Our client is an Indian retail conglomerate which is setting up a tech driven brand co-creation platform that transforms powerful ideas into authentic, profitable and experience-led brands that will define the future of brands in fashion, beauty, food and home decor space.
Role: Brand Manager
This opportunity is for new brands that are in stealth mode & backed by major retail giant. It's a house of Personal care D2C brands in the space of haircare, skin care & kids personal care.
In 2020, CoVid 19 affected every business, few positively and many negatively. However, E- commerce adoption has gone through the roof and we have seen consumer's e-commerce spends grow. India's fast-growing e-commerce market is seen growing by 30 percent a year to $200 billion (roughly Rs. 14,68,640 core) by 2026.
On the back of strong product-market fit and a change in human behaviour due to CoVid that buoyed e-commerce, we are currently building D2C personal care brands. The overall D2C market in India is expected to reach $100 billion in the next 7-8 years. We will be building a digital first content led approach to target this community of consumers. We aim to win shoppers at the moment of purchase by algorithmically managing demand forecasting, promotions and advertising spend, supply chain, content optimization and other aspects that help shoppers make online purchase decisions, all backed by Data Science.
Requirement :-
- 3-5 Yrs Exp. Ideal candidate should have Personal Care D2C experience.
- Female, Ideally from beauty start-ups
- Hands on experience in running performance and influencer teams.
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● Analyzing market and sales information
● Identification of prospective clients.
● Preparing a go to marketing strategy on digital, social media and print media
● Set up a Brand identification strategy and execution plan
● Research competitive products by identifying and evaluating product characteristics,
market share, pricing, and maintaining research databases.
● Tracks product line sales and costs by analyzing data and reviewing the competitors
reach
● Supports sales staff by pre sales tasks, providing sales data, market trends, forecasts,
account analysis, new product information; relaying customer services requests
● Follow up with Clients through the CEO's contacts
● Website maintenance and press releases
● Marketing collateral – creation and maintenance and presentations
● E – campaign coordination
● Setting up tracking systems for marketing campaigns and online activities
● Reporting to management on marketing and sales activities
Requirements
● Strong analytical, organizational, and creative thinking skills.
● Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
● 8- 16 years of experience in Sales and Marketing
● Demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
● Ability to work under pressure.
● Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
● Good negotiation and sales skills
1. Owning the brand face/voice
2. Own creation that goes to the customer or retailers or even to the non-user platforms.
3. Planning 360 degree campaigns and omni-channel adaptation strategy
4. Maintaining and evolving brand guidelines as per usage and trends.
5. Build teams and grow them.
6. Need a nack of understanding the User and building creative strategy around it.
7. Will lead all the branding Initiatives.
8. Orchestrating customer interviews and focus group studies
9. Work closely with the Marketing, Product and business leaders.
Perks
● Work with the Founding team to create one of the MOST Valued B2B companies in times to
come
● Be a pioneer in an emerging and futuristic business space
● Opportunity to create an impact as a C-Suite leader
● Massive learning and execution opportunities at a large scale
● Non-hierarchical, a flat and transparent culture where we also have lots of fun
● Pay at par with market salaries + stock options and a steep growth curve
Must haves
7-10 Years of experience in building, scaling and leading the Brand Function at a product/tech company.
Experience in working with VC backed start-ups, internet/tech companies, retail companies
Excellent communication and story-telling skills with in-depth knowledge of marketing & branding
Penchant to work hard to strengthen the brand in the initial few years to gain a better work-life balance in future
About Railofy:
Solving one of the biggest challenges in India!
Railway (IRCTC) congestion (waitlist) is one of the biggest problems in India. Approximately, ~90%+ of India travels by trains making this one of the biggest opportunities in the travel space in the country.
We are a small team of technologists who have made a significant breakthrough in this field using AI, so that no waitlisted railway passenger has to ever miss a trip again!
Read more about us here: Your Story
Website: www.railofy.com (we are mobile only)
Railofy was started in 2020 by Rohan , Vaibhav and Hrishabh alumni of IIT, IIM and ISB. Prior to this founder had experience in venture capital investing, Artificial Intelligence and consulting.
We are backed by some of the leading VC investors in India.
Why Explore Career at Railofy:
- Experienced founding team
- Become an integral and trusted member of the team mentored by professional with 10+ years of experience
- Right to win - The founding team knows the business & its secrets inside out. We are starting with a significant head start and a precise plan of action
- Barriers to entry - This is a specialized play with natural barriers to entry, allowing for significant value creation for all equity holders
- Backed by marquee global investors
- A leadership role at a fast growing start-up. There is no glass ceiling for this role that limits your growth
- Exposure to all aspects of company building - exposure to investors, fund-raising, decision making, building the team & culture
- Significant equity ownership
- All the above perks of joining a high potential company very early, along with a competitive market salary
Responsibilities
- Managing brand & marketing communications
- Building a content roadmap & strategy for engagement via for app notifications, social media, retargeting
- Brand communication on website & app
- Content marketing strategy
- Drive execution
Requirements
- Prior experience in building content road map / strategy for customer engagement
Overall, you would be responsible for the entire brand experience for monsoonfish whether it is with new hires, existing employees, prospective clients, existing and old clients, partners and create relevant touchpoints in a way that resonates our brand promise.
You would be owning things like our website, presentations, case studies, various letters and contracts, social handles- their strategy and the design, blogs, presentations for speaker opportunities, content collaborations, media presence and outreach, speaking opportunities, and everything else that is a brand touchpoint.
The candidate should be a great communicator, should love to interact with people and should be able to naturally connect to others.
Operationally, you would be required to keep your eye on the goals and report outcomes on a weekly basis.
Being a voracious reader with a discipline and temperament to write and create content on a daily basis is a must. Having knowledge of how content marketing, digital media and advertising works, is desirable. Should be able to respond quickly to requirements and should be completely self organised. Maintaining a quick response, cadence of social media posts, analysing and reporting and changing strategy accordingly is key.
Don't forget to attach some samples / some links to the brands or content you have managed or written or designed for.
DirectShifts is a tech platform for hospitals/employers to hire clinicians for short/full time term roles. We are disrupting the recruiting space for hiring clinicians in the United States. Our founding team comprises serial entrepreneurs. We have been called the “Uber of healthcare workers and employers”. At heart we are fast growing technology company bridging the gap in staffing for employers to enable. We work with leading employers such as Mount Sinai, Northwell health, Walmart etc.
We have raised $5.5 million from marquee investors such as YCombinator, PeakState Ventures, Altair Capital, Soma Capital Pioneer Fund, Anita Pramod (former CFO of Epic EMR), Tom Lee (founder of One Medical & Galileo) etc
Responsibilities
· Managing online events like panel discussion, podcast, webinars
· Editing videos & audio clips to create micro content
· Promoting & outreaching clinicians / SMEs to attend our event on various social media channels
· Create questionnaires & host online events
· Good communication skills (verbal & written)
· Willing to work in US shifts and should be open to work in different time zones whenever needed
· Well versed with online platforms that host webinars
· Online reputation management
· Ensure brand visibility to keep target audience engaged
· Will need to conduct 3 events a month (employers focused, clinician focused & podcast)
· Should be good at video editing tools like filmora , adobe or anything similar.
· Experience in a similar setup is preferred
· Experience (1 – 5 years)
· CTC 2.4 L p.a to 6 L p.a
Additional Requirement
Should be tech savvy, open to work with new tech
Our client is a call management solutions company, which helps small to mid-sized businesses use its virtual call center to manage customer calls and queries. It is an AI and cloud-based call operating facility that is affordable as well as feature-optimized. The advanced features offered like call recording, IVR, toll-free numbers, call tracking, etc are based on automation and enhances the call handling quality and process, for each client as per their requirements. They service over 6,000 business clients including large accounts like Flipkart and Uber.
- Understanding the organizational vision and mission and implementing the same through content marketing strategies.
- Ensuring that the content marketing team primarily facilitates brand and purpose to our end target groups with an aim to create better awareness about the product with clients and better brand strategy execution.
- Developing best practices and guidelines for the content team for various channels like social media, internal & external blogs, websites, newsletters, whitepapers, presentations, etc.
- Checking if the contents are aligned to the organizational mission and brand strategy & SEO needs.
- Training direct reports & peers by developing understanding of clients, product, use cases & industry solutions for story ideas.
- Keep aligned with SEO benefits.
- Monitoring & analyzing performance & quality of various contents across platforms and constantly working to improvise on outcomes.
- Working with other departments to generate product / mission use case / benefit stories and executing in distribution strategies.
- Pushing other department peers to generate insights, benchmarks, and use cases that can be shared from various channels
What you need to have:
- Graduate and over with excellent oral and written communication skills. MBA in marketing a plus.
- 7+ years experience in content marketing. 2+ years of experience managing content teams.
- Strong networking and interpersonal skills and should be able to establish quality social media communication.
- Strong analytical skills and hands-on with spreadsheets, presentation & document writing.
- Strong understanding of SAAS and other internet-based software products.
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Carrying out Market Research in order to keep up to date with customer trends, competitor analysis, product/service fitment as well as try to predict future trends.
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Creating and developing effective Marketing & Branding Strategies. Proactively developing comprehensive activities to leverage business development activities to support both B2B and B2C.
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Managing Marketing Campaigns across all platforms including online and digital to ensure that products and services meet customers’ expectations and to build credibility of all brands.
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Deep analysis of all Marketing & Branding campaigns. Ensuring scientific measurement and report generation of the effectiveness of each such campaign.
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Closely monitoring company’s corporate website/s and social media platforms. Ensuring that we pick the conversations across each, basis which formulating and redesigning the Marketing & Branding Strategies.
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Organizing and executing on the ground events to engage with various stake holders in order to enhance Brand Equity and drive Product Sales.
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Actively and aggressively identifying new business opportunities and coming out with innovative Marketing Strategies such as campaign, event execution, partnership etc.
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Being able to develop strong understanding of performance of the products to support continual optimization of Marketing, Sales and Product Strategy.
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Collaborating, reviewing and approving all marketing materials as developed by the content/design and other external vendors
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Building and managing a rich content/collaterals that attract a qualified audience of event organizers to company’s owned properties (including blog posts, white papers, ebooks, reports, infographics, case-studies etc.).
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Growing new leads, by converting site traffic through calls-to-action, landing pages, and lead generation content (including offers).
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Drafting, reviewing and finalizing the sales & marketing related communications, articles, blogs, etc. for all digital platforms such as SMM, emails to internal and/or external communication, etc.
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Managing various email campaigns, including the template designs, calls-to-action, and content used in our email sends.
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Building relationships with customers, prospects, and experts/speakers.
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Managing 360 Brand Communications across all media touchpoints.
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Handling all PR related activities & communications.
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Writing, Editing, and strategizing external-facing content as directed by the Senior Leadership Team.
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Ghost writing for senior management.
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Working closely with the Co-Founders and the senior leadership team to grow the business.
What you need to have:
- Masters in Marketing, Business Communication, or related fields
- An Absolute Digital Devil : Should be someone for whom Digital is second home and understands all the nuances of the world wide web.
- A real Go-Getter: Should be someone who is not ready to take ‘no’ for an answer.
- Passionate and Result Oriented: Should be highly result focused no matter what the odds are.
- A Peoples Person: Needs to have phenomenal people skills and should actually love and enjoy working with people across varied demographics.
- Demonstrated flexibility to manage multiple tasks, solve problems and work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Excellent project management and communication skills
- Ability to think strategically, conceptually as well as analytically
- Ability to work with teams, both internal and external
- Sales-minded, with sound understanding of enterprise marketing principles
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Desire to work in a team-oriented, entrepreneurial corporate environment
- Seeking an individual that is team-oriented, sound decision making abilities, collaborative, positive attitude, commercially aware, adaptable to changing priorities, change agent, continuous improvement mind set, ability to work under tight timeline
- Any other certifications in writing or business communication are an added advantage
- Complete working knowledge of designing tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design
- Familiarity with end -to-end design process, video production process, content writing process as well animation and VFX pipelines will be an added advantage
- Should be aware on the usage of external software’s and websites such as shutterstock, envato and tools like handbreak etc.
- Excellent written, verbal & technical skills
- Excellent presentation, organization, time management, and cross-department communication skills
- Ability to quickly adapt to changes and work effectively under pressure
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Ability to think strategically and drive the business strategy
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Strong problem management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to interact well with people at all levels within and outside the organization
- Setting up the brand bible for various products and audiences
- Making sure that the brand is consistent across various platforms
- Setting up brand guidelines to be followed for communication, social media, merchandise, product and other assets of the company
- Plan, lead and execute the projects required to boost our brand presence
- Collaborate with Creative Team, Growth Team & others for execution of projects
- Partner with creative agencies, research and media partners to create integrated marketing plans
- Taking up initiatives to position our brand
- Strategize, develop and execute marketing interventions at FamPay
- Develop accurate projects priorities, schedules and execution of Mass marketing campaigns.
Requirements
- 4 - 7 years total experience
- Worked with a B2C tech startup in Brand strategy, including the setting of style guides, brand guidelines, brand vision and value proposition for short as well as long term
- Extremely empathetic towards understanding of the user groups: Teenagers and their parents
- Should be excited about building a brand for teenagers
- Up to date with recent trends and social media
- Good understanding of business dynamics in India
- Proactive personality and self-driven
- Takes ownership and has whatever it takes attitude
- Excited to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Enthusiastic about early stage start-ups