Demand Generation Lead

Digital marketing encompasses various roles and responsibilities, including: 

 1. Digital Strategist: Developing comprehensive digital marketing strategies aligned with business goals.

 2. Content Creation: Crafting engaging content for websites, social media, emails, and other digital channels. 

 3. SEO Specialist: Optimizing online content to improve search engine rankings and visibility. 

 4. Social Media Manager: Managing and executing social media campaigns across platforms.

 5. Email Marketing Specialist: Creating and executing email campaigns to nurture leads and engage audiences. 

 6. PPC Specialist: Managing pay-per-click advertising campaigns on platforms like Google Ads. 

 7. Analytics and Data Analyst: Analyzing digital marketing metrics to measure campaign performance and derive insights.

 8. Web Developer/Designer: Ensuring the website is user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing, and optimized for conversions. 

 9. Digital Advertising Manager: Overseeing online advertising efforts, including display ads and social media ads.

 10. CRM Manager: Utilizing customer relationship management tools to optimize customer interactions and retention.

 11. Influencer Marketing Coordinator: Collaborating with influencers to promote products or services.

 12. Video Marketing Specialist: Creating and optimizing video content for digital platforms.

 13. Mobile Marketing Specialist: online sales platforms.

 15. Brand Manager: Ensuring consistent brand representation across all digital channels. These roles work together to create a cohesive and effective digital marketing strategy.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Undertake creative content creation initiatives to contribute towards business goals.
• Involve in brainstorming and pitch in ideas for social media posts and campaigns
• Liaise with concerned team members for content marketing strategies which supports and extends marketing initiatives with setting short-term goals.
• Collaborate with designer and copywriter for content requirements.
• Amalgamate ideas with creative agencies and internal team for performance marketing creatives.
• Align brand communication throughout the channels.
• Ensure content created is in sync with brand language, consistent in terms of style, tone and formats and communications as per the brand personality.
• Analyze customer/community feedback and work collaboratively to generate ideas to increase consumer engagement.
• Monitor on-going market trends and competitive activities on digital platforms.
• Own the development and messaging of the brand narrative.
• Create, execute, and manage marketing programs and campaigns.
• Understanding and involve in decisions pertaining to brand budgets.
• Set brand planning calendar, coordinate with cross-functional activities and planning processes, manage timelines, and ensure timely completion of all deliverables.
• Lead the development of strategies and objectives for building and executing year-round brand engagement through partnerships, social media, and varied platforms.
• Involve in brand pitch and narrations for influencer/celebrity collaborations.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

1. Education: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field. MBA preferred.
2. Work Experience: 5-7 years of experience in brand management, brand marketing and creative content creation.

DESIRED PROFILE

1. Excellent written and Oral presentations skills
2. Insightful as well as an aptitude for creative, out of the box thinking.
3. On top of industry trends and consumer psychology.
4. Knowledge of consumer marketing.
5. Ability to think both creatively and strategically.
6. Deadline-oriented, inquisitive, with great follow-up and reporting skills.
7. Solid exposure to content creation for social media platforms and experience working with influencers/celebrities.
8. Project and budget management skills.    
9. Quick and enthusiastic learner

• Deep knowledge of website development, Facebook marketing, Mail Chimp, Hub Spot, Google Ad words and SEO
• Run PPC campaign and management (other paid campaigns)
• Social Media Strategy
• Promote content online
• Keep an eye on current updates in social media and work accordingly
• Co-ordinate with the US team
• Design Magazine(Vibe and Pac Buzz)
• Portals management
• Write Relevant blogs
• Online Database storage & Management
• Online Reputation Management
• Campaigns on Nearbuy & similar portals
• Coordination with Relevant online portals for banner work
• Coordination with the USA office for research on their localized requirements
• Post-execution performance analysis of the campaign

Our client belongs to a reputed 125-year-old group of businesses in multiple locations with a turnover of $4 billion. It is one of the fastest growing brands in the packaged food category committed to adhering to the highest health and safety standards.

It has a diversified range of products in various categories like dairy and snacks. It is also a supplier to the leading institutional buyers like Mother Dairy, Walmart, Grofers, Spencers, Amazon and Big Basket.

The group has earned the recognition of "A Great Place to Work at" and the “Best Employer” tag as well.

• Managing budgets and campaigns across all digital channels to drive strong return on investment and efficient CAC
• Ensuring successful planning, execution, optimization for key traffic KPIs via paid, organic & own media channels
• Working closely with the management to share funnel conversion improvement ideas, feedback & present results
• Driving the sales performance of all the 3rd party e-commerce platforms & market places
• Overseeing or directly managing digital marketing channels across PPC, SEO, display, affiliates and email marketing and social media
• Managing all online activity in relation to traffic acquisition, sales, conversion and a/b testing and reporting
• Working with developers to improve website performance and overseeing website uploads and landing pages development
• Analysing various data in order to deliver data driven strategies in order to deliver top performance and achieve predesigned KPIs
• Working closely with demand planning and warehousing teams in order to ensure smooth order fulfilment

Desired Candidate Profile

• A degree in Marketing, Business Administration
• Prior experience in a similar role for at least 4 years in performance marketing in consumer products
• A solid understanding of e-commerce frameworks
• A self-starter mentality with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced working environment
• A high level of attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Excellent communication skills    

• Provide Thought Leadership to Develop Global Marketing strategies to support and sustain the company’s business growth.
• Develop and implement a strategic marketing plan.
• Create and manage marketing budgets and monitor costs.
• Develop and implement Brand Strategies to build company brand equity
• Be custodian for the organization's Brand Guidelines & Brand management across all its verticals & geographies.
• Closely work with the leadership team to create growth strategies, new product/ service development, and brand extensions.
• Build and inspire creative teams together and vendors as required that guarantees a holistic marketing capability to support the growth of the business
• Manage and optimize the websites within the group and use digital marketing methods to increase traffic and the online demand for our services.
• Lead communication strategy for marketing initiatives and social media campaigns
• Plan, execute, and measure lead generation programs to grow the sales pipeline.
• Work to create marketing materials/collateral (physical and electronic) including, presentations, brochures, graphics
• Manage, optimize, and provide analytics on the company’s presence in social media and other channels.
• Ensure the creation of case study content that demonstrates the benefits of our Services, Products & Training portfolio
• Strategic Brand Management
• Organize and/or ensure participation in relevant technology events, conferences, trade shows, exhibitions that help to demonstrate the company’s technology authority and create a positive image to attract good talent.
• Demonstrate effective communication and Interpersonal Skills.
• Ability to work in Global, Matrix and Team environment
• Organize PR-related activities to showcase the company and its leadership’s industry strengths.
• Undertake competition analysis and tracking with regular updates to Sales & leadership.
• Evaluate results of marketing activities and campaigns to measure ROI and effectiveness on marketing initiatives (Awareness, Demand Generation, PR, Events).
• Digital Marketing skills SEO, SMO, LinkedIn, Google Ads, Twitter, Facebook

Demand Generation and Marketing Executive - Job Description

Position Summary: 

The Demand Generation and Marketing Executive will be responsible for developing and executing comprehensive, integrated B2B demand generation campaigns including email marketing, direct mail, webinar, and lead nurture tactics that deliver a consistent pipeline of high-quality qualified sales leads. The ideal candidate will have experience leading B2B demand generation campaigns and proven results in successfully planning, executing, building programs and reports in HubSpot, WordPress, google ads, LinkedIn sales navigator and analyzing results. 

This position is based out of our Pune office, and there may be ample opportunity to travel within India as and when required.

About Us:  Aikon is a small B2B SaaS company that is looking to accelerate its growth and increase usage of its iEngage.ai platform. Our platform enables Small and Large enterprises to build enterprise intelligence from conversations and interactions that already flow through its various communication channels. We use cutting edge Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and other Machine intelligence tools to augment human capabilities within the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead Management:
1. Manage, nurture and convert inbound leads into qualified sales opportunities.
2. Identify strong potential prospects using initiative and creativity, to generate outbound lead opportunities
3. Assess and analyze a prospects current process and requirements;
4. Provide engaging and articulate information about Aikon Labs’  value proposition to potential customers.
5. Maintain well organized, up-to-date and accurate sales information and activity reports in Hubspot CRM system.
2. Sales Management:
1. Learn to manage complex enterprise sales throughout the sales cycle;
2. Efficient management of the sales pipeline using our  processes;
3. Confidently participate in the preparation of proposals and the presentation of professional product demonstrations, via webinars or face to face meetings;
4. Represent Aikon at corporate events or sales meetings independently or with colleagues;
5. Meet personal targets and work towards Aikon Labs’ growth objectives, sales goals, and profitability;
3. Communication:
1. Demonstrate the ability to interact professionally with potential customers via phone, email, telephone conferencing, webinars and face to face, to discover their business needs and develop a positive business relationship;
2. Provide accurate and timely information as required to project managers, the delivery team and senior management;
3. Proficient in the use of social media tools like LinkedIn, Twitter, SEO optimization, Google Analytics, Wordpress (basic), etc
4. Product Knowledge:
1. Develop a strong knowledge of Aikon Labs’ products and services in order to facilitate the sales process;
2. Understand and articulate how the benefits of Aikon’s products and services can meet customer’s needs in various business verticals;

Required Experience

1. 2 - 5 years’ proven experience in prospecting and lead generation some experience in sales management;
2. Experience of B-to-B sales, preferably in enterprise software solutions or in the cloud space or IT sector and has the ability to develop a good understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements;
3. Proficient in managing the sales pipeline using CRM systems, preferably Salesforce CRM;
4. Experience of working collaboratively in a combined sales & marketing team.
5. Can evidence a track record of increasing sales revenue by hitting or exceeding personal targets.

Required Skills:

1. Has highly developed all-round interpersonal skills.
2. Excellent communication, presentation, networking and negotiation skills.
3. Customer service oriented with a positive, well-motivated attitude.
4. Conscientious, hard-working and driven to improve sales and activity performance beyond targets.
5. Competent IT skills with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, GSuite programs and social networking tools. Experience of Hubspot, Canva, InVideo would be an added advantage, but not essential.
6. Work closely within a small sales & marketing team and develop cooperative working relationships with all company colleagues;
7. Good organisational and time management skills with the flexibility to reprioritise as necessary.
8. Must be highly proficient in all aspects of English language, especially speaking, listening and writing skills.
9. Must be passionate about the AI solutions for enterprises and B2B SaaS industry.

Competitive salary offered (dependent on skills and experience); and opportunity to earn generous rates of target based incentives;

A little about Flynote (http://www.flynote.in">www.flynote.in):

Flynote is an international vacation platform with a belief that the best way to plan your trip is to speak to someone who has lived there. To get this done, we work with a global community of travel enthusiasts (Flynote Fellows) who travel and experience the world on our sponsorship. We then leverage this experience to monetise their passion for travel, using Flynote’s Technology Platform to plan & book highly tailored itineraries for our holidaying customers.

Founded by IIT Kanpur-ians in 2018, we are backed by some of the largest venture capital firms in the world & labelled as one of the top 15 early stage startups in Asia.

We are looking for great talent to join as earliest members of our team and make the world travel.

Media: 

1. CNBC: http://bit.ly/2XB70FQ
2. YourStory: http://bit.ly/2ID2CTr
3. Techcrunch: https://tcrn.ch/2ICn46E

As a Social media marketing specialist your major responsibilities revolve around acquisition of travellers (leads) from social media channels such as Facebook & Instagram. This role requires you to take the ownership of the following responsibilities : 

• Research on current benchmark trends, audience preferences and then design strategies for paid acquisition via social media
• Managing a budget to be spent on social media ads
• Design and execute social media ads and align the goals of marketing, revenue and supply team
• Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies for paid acquisition 
• Measure and report performance of all marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
• Diligently infuse tracking parameters and UTMs in the campaigns. 
• Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights
• Align and leverage resources from the tech team, content team, supply team and revenue team to further optimize your campaigns.
• Identify potential new audience (eg :- lookalike audience) and leverage existing customer base by running remarketing Ads.

Requirements:

• Proven work experience as a Social Media Marketing specialist in an experience, travel or hospitality industry. 
• Worked on lead generation campaigns.
• Was involved in managing a marketing budget of 1Cr+ every month.

• Ability to present and communicate ideas and strategies.
• An ability to multitask, to work on a number of projects at once with multiple managers. 
• Facebook Blueprint Certification is preferred but not a must.