Head of Brand Marketing at D2C company into fresh produce · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 8 - 16 years · ₹30L - ₹55L / yr · Posted 26 Aug 2022

You will be the
‘Voice of Consumer’ - bringing in consumer insights and shaping cross functional decisions by partnering closely with leaders in Marketing, Product, Engineering, Sales and Customer Experience in addition to working with the leadership team and founders. As we’re scaling
our go-to-market and marketing efforts pan-India, we’re looking for a passionate, experienced, and customer-focussed leader to build and grow a team dedicated to building and scaling the brand.
You will be heading the Brand Marketing function at for the company. Lead teams across Brand (Traditional + Digital), Media, Social, Marketing Research, Creative & Content and Partnerships/Collaborations.
Position based out of Bangalore
Job description:
● Own the Brand vision - Develop strategy for establishing and scaling the brand pan-India - multicultural, multilingual context
● Translate strategy into actionable goals in close collaboration with Product, Marketing, Strategy, Category and other cross-functional teams
● Lead the transformation of the organisation into a consumer-driven company reflecting in culture, systems and processes
● Translate brand elements into plans and go-to-market strategies
● Oversee new and ongoing marketing and advertising activities across cities
● Create the quarterly and annual plan, propose options and help prioritise the same with the leadership team; secure resourcing and ensure budget vs. actual compliance on spending, input, lead, and outcome metrics
● Develop and manage a fit-for-course agency network and an in-house team to ensure effective and efficient execution of the Brand Strategy
Successful applicant:
● Should have 8-10 years of experience leading Brand Strategy and Development for a mid-to-large brand in consumer space (category agnostic). Prior experience only in a agency will be considered too
● Proven track record of helping scale up digital marketing in a start-up environment and/or relevant work experience
● A start-up mentality and ability to flex in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
What’s on offer:
● Lead the Brand building for a D2C brand in a never-before-done category
● To be at the centre of action in scaling the brand across the country successfully

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Working Days: 5 Days
We are looking for a young, dynamic, and hands-on Marketing Manager to lead brand building and marketing campaigns
The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with fresh, out-of-the-box ideas and strong experience in fashion/apparel marketing, retail marketing, digital marketing, and brand building.
Key Responsibilities
• Own and strengthen the brand identity across retail, digital, and outdoor touchpoints • Conceptualize, plan, and execute marketing campaigns to drive footfall, engagement, and brand recall • Develop creative and cost-efficient marketing initiatives, including organic social media, partnerships, in-store activations, and influencer collaborations • Plan and execute marketing initiatives that directly contribute to retail sales growth across EBOs, MBOs, and department stores • Manage the brand's digital and social media presence, including content calendars, social platforms, e-commerce marketing, and online presence • Track campaign performance, ROI, and sales impact and continuously optimize marketing spends • Work closely with Retail, Sales, and Design teams to align marketing initiatives with business priorities and new collection launches • Monitor competitor activity, fashion trends, market developments, and consumer preferences to keep campaigns relevant
Required Skills & Competencies
• 2–6 years of experience in Marketing, Brand Management, or a related field • Fashion, retail, or apparel industry experience preferred • Strong ideas-first and entrepreneurial mindset • Proven ability to deliver impactful campaigns with limited or no budgets • Strong understanding of social media, digital marketing, and e-commerce platforms • Ability to analyze campaign metrics, ROI, and sales impact • Excellent communication, coordination, and project management skills • Strong understanding of brand building and retail marketing
Qualification
Graduate/Postgraduate in Marketing, Mass Communication, Business Administration, or a related field.
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.
JOB DETAILS:
- 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
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
This role holder is responsible for end to end management of
the brand including profitability and growth
Qualification & Experience
Post-Graduation in Management (from a Premier institute)
Experience of 4 to 5 years in Digital Marketing
FMCG experience is preferable
Key Deliverables of the Role
Responsible for Launching & Brand building of the assigned brand
Responsible for growth and profitability of the Brand
Develop social media and influencer strategy for the brands
Consumer Insighting for brand strategy
Create and execute a holistic content strategy for Digital First Brands
Lead communication development on the brand
Create Brand equity and loyalty among target consumers using innovative methods
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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.
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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-Create and execute the brand strategy for the company. This involves developing a clear understanding of the company's mission, target audience, and brand positioning.
-Responsible for managing the visual identity of the brand, developing and maintaining brand guidelines, overseeing the design of marketing materials, and ensuring consistency across all communications.
-Responsible for conducting market research to understand consumer behavior and trends, as well as to identify opportunities to enhance the brand's reputation.
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-Developing marketing campaigns that effectively communicate the brand's message to the target audience.
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-Building relationships with key stakeholders, such as media outlets and influencers, to enhance the brand's reputation and increase brand visibility.
Requirements
-Creative mindset to come up with innovative ideas for branding and marketing campaigns.
- Ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive branding strategies that align with the company's overall goals and values.
- Strong understanding of marketing principles and techniques to develop effective marketing campaigns and measure their success.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with various stakeholders, including cross-functional teams, vendors, and customers.
-Analytical skills to analyze market data, consumer behavior, and marketing trends to develop effective branding strategies.
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