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- 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
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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
Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing & driving the online business on E-commerce marketplaces.
- Responsible for uploading new collections on a weekly basis and ensuring catalogue hygiene of the uploaded catalogue.
- Handling the marketing budgets & the paid advertising campaigns/sponsored ads on the marketplaces.
- Responsible for handling product listings, promotions, deals, discounts & day-to-day operational issues related to the marketplace.
- Sole POC for communication with the category team.
- Strategizing & implementing the plan of action for the month on month growth in the sales from the existing online marketplace.
- Ensuring that all new products are uploaded and listed on websites/channels
- Repricing the products
- FBA Set up a pricing minimum to maximum for FBA listings
- Creating product listings and set minimum and maximum pricing
- Generating out of stock report, bestselling products report, runout stock report brand by brand on daily basis.
- Sort out pricing error issues and re-activate the listings. Inactivate listing to make active listing if required.
- Deleting discarded SKUs from all channels if required
- Optimizing listings with accurate product information, images, pricing and placement to increase sales and maximize revenue
- Optimize existing listings of current products to ensure we are exploring sales opportunities
- Keep up to date with industry techniques for SEO and content marketing
- To analyze product pricing vs our competitors on an ongoing basis and make pricing adjustments
- Support customer care emails and calls and also support social media campaigns.
- Ability to communicate effectively and to operate as part of a team
- 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
Job Responsibilities:
● Conceptualizing, executing & managing branded campaigns across LBB formats on web, app & social media based on client briefs
ensuring high repeat rate
Should have worked on branded content / content marketing
● Ensuring a mix of client objectives & LBB tonality
● Social Media Marketing & execution for sales collaborations
● Client servicing: Being the SPOC for a partner brand, daily liaison, end to end life cycle management of the brand campaigns from
brief to deliverables
● Creating pitches, briefs, presentations, campaign plans, innovations & partners to maximize conversion
● Mapping daily progress of branded content & reporting the success of a campaign post closure
● Keeping up with client deadlines & incorporating feedback/changes
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
About CercleX:-
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We have received FICCI Impactful Cleantech Startup Award, MeitY Emerging Startup Award, TVS Capital Budding Nxt Gen Entrepreneur Award, and many more for our digital solutions enabling transactions between waste generators, and aggregators, processors, and bringing in complete transparency, traceability to the waste ecosystem.
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Job Description:-
Brand Managers are the people who shape a company’s outward image. To do that, you’ll need to uncover consumer insights and deliver innovative marketing campaigns. We’ll turn to you to learn what can attract our customers and prospects and how we can improve customer experience.
Cerclex is looking for an experienced Brand Manager to help us build our brand and raise brand awareness. You’ll work across all levels and departments of our organization to find what makes us unique and communicate it to the world.Ultimately, you’ll help us improve our company’s reputation and drive growth.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze brand positioning and consumer insights.Stay current on market trends and competitive activity
- Translate brand elements into plans and go-to-market strategies
- Manage a team of marketing people working on brand initiatives
- Lead creative development to motivate the target audience to “take action”
- Establish performance specifications, cost and price parameters, market applications and sales estimates
- Measure and report performance of all marketing campaigns, and assess ROI and KPIs
- Monitor market trends, research consumer markets and competitors’ activities
- Align the company around the brand’s direction, choices and tactics
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field. MBA preferred.
- 3-5 years of experience in brand management, brand marketing, or marketing management
- Experience managing a brand across multiple markets
- Creative thinker and problem solver
- Strong communication skills
- Project management experience, with a solid understanding of project management principles and techniques
- Past experience of working with startups is preferred
- Metric driven marketing Strategies & Campaigns
- Digital & Social Media Marketing
- Experience in Market Research & Consumer Insights is preferred
- Ability to Advertise & Activate Campaigns
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
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