Location: Bangalore
About The Role
• Own the P&L of the brand, right from pricing, discounts & marketing
activities
• Plan & deliver on growth, in alignment with the company’s strategies
• Conceptualize & execute plans across all marketing channels (Digital,
Outdoor, Social, 3rd party platforms, BTL etc).
• Identify & program manage new product development opportunities that
helps the brand stay relevant with the latest trends & consumer needs,
through market and consumer research.
• Identify brand's differentiation, positioning in the market, build a coherent
consumer language across all touch-points.
• Build newer channels of communication for the brand and help the brand
build channels previously unexplored.
• Work to drive discovery, traffic & conversion. Understand business
trajectory, capture data, analyze campaigns and documents. Create detailed
specifications for all e-commerce platforms and analyze site traffic
management.
• Work closely with operations & supply chain teams to ensure stock
availability by providing growth projections in advance & avoiding out of
stocks
• Complete ownership of campaigns which are rolled out on a weekly, monthly
and yearly basis.
Qualifications and experience
Looking for candidates with an MBA from a Tier 1 & 2 B-School with 1-3 years of post-MBA experience.
Skills required
- 1-3 years of experience in Brand/ Category Management in a consumer facing company
- An understanding of trends and an ability to respond to customers wishes.
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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.
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
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
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
- Own the measurement of the brand and associated KPIs
- Primary owner to identify consumer insights and reasons for brand preference for OneCard/OneScore and category linked insights
- Refine the external voice and expand public presence of the brand
- Drive brand consistency across written text, voice/verbal communication, visual communication and content
- Define tonality, style guides, brand guidelines, brand vision and value proposition for short as well as long term
- Managing the budget for advertising and promotional items
- Driving NPS, CSAT and other surveys and deriving insights from these surveys
- Conduct competitive consumer insight linked primary and secondary research
Our client is a renowned social transformation organization that bridges government, corporates, non-profits as well as citizens to create a sustainable livelihood for underprivileged urban youth
Requirements
Benefits
Gathers the materials necessary to understand the project and competition in the area such as literature or previous marketing campaigns; analyzes these materials to determine the most effective communications technique.
Based on assessment, drafts and proposes communications campaigns, which may include social and online media, print media, direct mail, and other multimedia.
Presents design ideas and recommendations to marketing manager, committee, or sales team.
Creates and coordinates multimedia packages.
Composes draft speeches for senior management and assists with finalizing speeches.
Schedules and develops filming scripts and production.
Evaluates success of campaigns when completed.
Attends trade shows and community fairs and staffs the company booth.
Performs other duties as assigned
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
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.
PAVONIAN SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED is looking for an experienced, versatile, multi-faceted UX Writer to perform copywriting magic on our BRAND. This is a remote full time role.
ABOUT YOU
Improve our users' experiences through copy: Creating original concepts and following through with clear, detailed and clear copy that is interesting, on brand, and focused on performance marketing. Writing in range of styles as appropriate for different clients
- Following best practices for quality user experiences from ideation user flow and wireframes to final content and implementation.
- Shape our product tone of voice guidelines:Help raise the bar for all brand communication, driving consistency and further developing our voice and tone guidelines as part of our wider foundational design system.
- Strengthen our brand:Working closely with our marketing copywriting team to make sure the copy you write to help people use our services is also consistent with our brand tone of voice and guidelines. Together you'll make sure that the brand is represented from marketing material through on boarding into using the product regularly, balancing that tone of voice with the context of the copy.
- Communication:You'll frame your decisions with strong rationales. Be able to tell a story, articulate the insights from market and UX research, and support decisions firmly and reasonably. Building brand awareness and increasing brand value and profitability
- Execution:Make sure marketing initiatives resonate with the target market
- Market research:You will research on services and data to determine the performance of the original solutions. This will allow you to iterate on your concepts and improve them over time.
You'll also be an integral part of the UX & Design team
- Collaboration: We believe that working with other disciplines makes for better solutions. Feedback is an important part of our personal and team development and we encourage one another to engage in regular, open conversation within cross-functional teams to build trust and respect about our work.
- Contribute to our design system: Helping take our mature design system, maintained by the whole team, to the next evolution.
- Grow the community: Coaching your colleagues in the team. Evolving our design processes, leading by example. Working on initiatives to expand the reach of UX and Design in the company.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
You have a demonstrated track record of content and linguistic background, ideally in digital products. Maybe you've been called a copywriter, or a content designer, brand manager or a content strategist in a previous role. Maybe you're a UX research or a designer who has become more focussed on language. You're someone who can communicate and present the decisions and constraints within a project.
You've worked on complex projects before. You have a strong opinion on how copy and communication can be applied to product development. You are a fast, iterative thinker who can partner with any relevant department.
What to include in your application
A portfolio is a must. A portfolio with case studies is better. Tell us about the work as well as showing it.
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