Director – Brand Marketing OTT platform company only

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.

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.

Responsibilities will include:

• Define the brand’s marketing strategy, deliver against app brand objectives
• Drive the development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns at national/regional levels
• Develop, manage, and analyzes branding campaigns across marketing channels - offline and online
• Coordinate with agency and internal design team to execute the campaign
• Analyze campaigns and provide strategic recommendations

Attributes we value:

• Strong analytical foundation with meticulous attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong intellectual curiosity
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented
• Proficiency in Excel

Requirements:

• Graduation/Post-Graduation from a tier-1 institute
• Demonstrative experience in executing brand campaigns
• Work-ex: 4 - 8 years

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.

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

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

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