Branding and PR Manager

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.

Responsibilities :

• Design and execute ‘ Brand positioning strategies ‘ for campuses . Including the execution of quick wins and strategic alignment of long term plans
• Plan and organize ‘campus engagement events’ for better brand positioning
• Primary and secondary research to forecast  and mitigate any brand threats or perception mismatches
• Work with multiple stakeholders in creating brand strategy, designing new programs to help campus students and entry level graduates start and pursue their learning journey from onboarding through deployment
• Project management skills to manage delivery of branding materials like digital content, blogs, mailers, websites, brochures, posters, standees, newsletters, WhatsApp communication posters, events, video storyboarding, press write-ups, with individual accountability
• Conceptualize, create and edit presentations for learning strategists, managers, leadership team, with a high level of accuracy and aesthetic value
• Efficient in designing collaterals with new age themes, attractive messaging, taglines, hashtags, WIIFM strategy that drives a call to action.

Here's a Bit More About What We're Looking For

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

● Building GTM Strategy. You’ll own our growth strategies and identify the key channels in which we can invest in and scale our customer acquisition efforts. You’ll be a thought leader who is excited to take a scrappy approach, brainstorm and launch new experiments, A/B test,

and double down upon early signs of success.

● Relentlessly optimizing.. You’ll combine quantitative and qualitative insights to identify opportunities, improve conversion rates, and reduce costs.

● Scale a world class team. We’re looking for someone who can build the playbook that the team will operate against as it grows. You’ll be empowered to recruit and get the most out of a high-performing, efficient team.

● Execute a broad mandate. You’ll roll up your sleeves and get done what is necessary to remove blockers to our company’s growth, recognizing that this will change and develop as the business matures. You aren’t afraid to dive in and help us solve other business problems as needed.

● Own growth, content and digital marketing completely: experience in PR/ Comms not needed.

● Highly quantitative approach to growth and marketing. Experience with A/B experiments, growth hacks and other tools.

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

CupShup is looking for Operations Executive for the respective city. You will be responsible to handle the network growth, BTL Campaign function & operations, audit i. e. internal audits, client audits, cost audits, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Exeuctiion of BTL / Offline marketing campaigns across locations
• Strengthening network of promoters 
• Vendor/Partners Empanelment
• Logistics and Collaterals
• Success of the campaigns
• Process improvement and streamlining
• GST Compliance and reconciliation
• For Client - Media, Financial, Rate Benchmarking, Competition
• Functional Audits as and when required by Management
• Regional reporting
• Network tracker
• Collaterals Tracker
• Partners Tracker

Requirements:

• Graduate
• 0-2 years of experience BTL marketing is a must
• Self Motivated, Passionate, and a never give up attitude
• Team player
• Fair at communication and expression
• Willing to learn not only operations but also marketing and the other functions
• Two wheeler driving and license is an added advantage

We are scouting for an experienced candidate who has worked in Brand Activation and has an experience in managing brand campaigns effectively to promote products to generate brand recall.

The candidate must have a proven credential in managing the vendors and executing events/activations meticulously to avoid any hiccups. 

We expect the candidate to also have deep understanding about the VM, In-branch branding collaterals, material and media types to efficiently implement the branch branding and manage the marketing collaterals requirements for internal stake holders.

Experience skills

• 6-8 years of experience in brand, activation, VM, negotiation, vendor management in CPG / FMCG / FMCD / BFSI. 
• Excellent knowledge of media types, printing and vendor network. 
• Understanding of conceptualization and execution of branding activities. 
• Proven track record in brand campaign strategies 
• In-depth knowledge of market catchment. 

Key Responsibilities

• Developing the regional activation strategy for the company in line with the company objectives.
• Planning and implementing regional promotional campaigns in alignment with the sales team.
• Manage and execute lead generation programs.
• Stakeholder alignment on activation setting & budget sharing/planning basis Calendar. 
• Co-ordinate new branch launches.
• Planning and managing small, medium and large format branch level channel partner engagement periodically in alignment with the stakeholder.
• Create value proposition for the product portfolios, on immediate and long-term basis
• Derive the regions budget for all marketing activation initiatives basis brand and business objectives in conjunction with the Brand Activation Lead.
• Scan the competitive and industry environment for potential consumer insights or marketing opportunities.
• Ensure brand compliance in all forms of communication.
• Leverage data analytics and martech tools to analyze sales, marketing, customer service, and competition trends.

Key performance Indication

On Time & In full Delivery Of:

• Ensure Budget compliance - Allocation vs actual spends, Billing Management & Vendor Management.
• Ground Activations, Catchment Visibility & Joint Business Activations - Planning, executing and monitoring on ground initiatives in line with Business objective. Initiatives focused in and around branch / micro branch catchment.
• Channel partner engagement, Branding Initiatives, Contests & R&R Meets - Planning and managing small, medium, large format and branch level channel partner engagement. End to end management of events.
• Large-scale activations – Planning, budgeting, Execution and monitoring all large-scale activations. 
• Activity Efficiency - Ensure achievement of Conversion per lead generation activity for all business. 
• Stakeholder Management – Ensuring stakeholder alignment and meeting on goal setting for all business.

Core Competency

• Execution & Delivery - Takes ownership providing timely and result oriented solutions with operational excellence
• Accountability - Responsible for the tasks assigned under the ambit of the key responsibilities of the role and   additionally for any dependencies with cross functional teams
• Team - Work & Collaboration - Fosters a culture of trust, collaboration and support
• Effective Communication - Communicates timely and responsively with clarity and effect (both verbal and written). Seeks and provides feedback

• Execute and manage the company’s brand strategy as well as corresponding brand elements in order to maximize the brand’s equity
• Responsible for the creation and placement of advertising that is in support of the business’s initiatives through media planning, creative development, metrics, market research, and vendor management.
• Drive programs and projects across the various customer touch points to drive customer consideration and trust for our products
• Execute aggressive multi-channel marketing plans to drive customer acquisition and retention
• Take ownership of the brands voice by defining guidelines and best practices across products and platforms
• Work with digital teams to create digital first assets that can help drive acquisition & engagement
• Establish metrics for the purpose of measuring campaign effectiveness against KPI’s.
• The role will report to the Head of Brand marketing

Key skills

• Customer Centricity
• Innovative and creative thought process
• Analytical
• Exposure to Brand Communication and Media Planning
• Prior experience in an internet/digital company, or managing digital first brands is preferred

Industry we can Look at: FMCG/ Consumer Durable/Retail or any B2C

Based Location: Bangalore (work from Office)

• Setting up the annual brand calendar, coordinating cross-functional activities and ensuring consistency in brand-related decisions
• Reporting on brand performance to determine ROI
• Analysing competitor brands, shopping behaviours as well as consumer trends
• Creating brand budgets
• Coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high performing creatives
• Ensuring the rapid growth of the brand

What you need to have:

• MBA in Marketing from a tier 1/ tier 2 Business School
• Prior experience in working with brands in wellness/ nutrition
• Solid understanding of packaging, marketing communication, new product launch, market places etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills