Influencer Marketing

Brand Strategist (Brand Consultancy Team)

About Us: We are not just an AD agency or a creative agency, we are a Communication Company. Founded in 2014, Moshi Moshi is a young, creative, gutsy, and committed communication company that wants its clients to always Expect the EXTRA from it. Our primary clientele consists of Startups and corporations like Ola, Zoomcar, Mercedes Benz, ITC, Aditya Birla Group, TATA Group, MTV, IHCL, Jaquar, Sobha, Simple Energy, and Godrej amongst others. We have a huge team of creative folks, marketers, learners, developers, and coders who believe Moshi Moshi is an experience rather than a company.

Job Role: Brand Strategist - Brand Consultancy Team

Experience Level: 3+ Years

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka (On-site)

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Define, plan, and execute brand research - primary and secondary.

● Plan & Conduct primary research by way of interviews, site visits, focus groups, etc.

● Plan & Conduct secondary research by way of brand audits and SWOT analyses to assess

strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

● Develop brand positioning statements and value propositions that differentiate the company in the marketplace.

● Collaborate with creative teams to develop compelling visual assets, marketing collateral, and brand campaigns.

● Present brand strategies, recommendations, and campaigns

● Stay updated on industry trends, consumer preferences, and emerging technologies to recommend innovative brand strategies and tactics.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.

● Demonstrable experience as a Brand Strategist, Brand Manager, or similar role with a minimum of 3-4 years in brand development and management.

● Experience in developing and launching successful brand campaigns.

● Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data, consumer insights, and market research findings.

● Creative thinker with a strategic mindset and a strong understanding of brand identity and positioning.

● Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively.

● Strong leadership and management skills.

● Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

● Proficiency in branding tools and software, as well as Google Workspace and project management tools.

Objectives of this role:

● Developing and implementing comprehensive brand strategies that align with the company’s objectives and target audience preferences.

● Conducting branding focused market research and analysis to identify trends, competitive insights, including conducting primary research to understand consumer behaviours that inform brand positioning.

● Defining brand elements, including brand architecture, messaging, value proposition, positioning, tagline, voice, and tone, to ensure consistency across all channels.

● Aiding design & content teams in properly understanding and implementing finalised strategies

● Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including marketing, PR, and web to integrate brand strategies into ongoing initiatives.

● Project ownership, coordination, and client management on key accounts.

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

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.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelors/Masters' degree in related field
• 4-6 years of experience in PR, branding or a related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Prior B2B or startup experience preferred    

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

Key Responsibilities

• There are two main responsibilities of the role:
  • to increase the overall top line by increasing the application rate(optimizing the funnel) 
  • ensuring more users are retained post the first consumption cycle. 
• Create and refine effective programs that leverage tenure and customer behaviour data, and include a mix of triggered and targeted campaigns.
• Identify key, measurable metrics for Customer lifecycle programs with a focus to test and scale rapidly.
• Create, implement and optimize daily/weekly/monthly campaigns and user journeys (retention and reactivation - both automated and not automated)
• Generate deep insights about customers that increase their retention, root-cause & predict churn and lead to inventing new ways to delight and retain customers. Will include conducting primary & secondary customer research through surveys and talking directly with customers. 
• Experiment across the whole retention & re-activation funnel constantly looking for maximum impact on DAU (daily active users)
• Brainstorm new ways of segmenting potential customers and means of communication, leading to quick-test pilots with clear measurable outcomes