Marketing Manager

About FOY

FOY is redefining employee engagement and workplace experiences through innovative solutions that help organizations create happier, more connected, and productive workplaces. We are seeking a dynamic Brand Manager to strengthen FOY’s brand presence, drive impactful marketing initiatives, and ensure consistent brand communication across all touchpoints.

Role Overview

The Brand Manager will be responsible for developing and executing brand strategies that enhance awareness, engagement, and business growth. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong marketing expertise, creative vision, and the ability to manage multiple campaigns and stakeholders effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute brand strategies aligned with business objectives and growth plans.
• Ensure consistent brand positioning, messaging, and visual identity across all marketing channels.
• Plan and manage integrated marketing campaigns to drive brand awareness and engagement.
• Collaborate with content, design, social media, and performance marketing teams to deliver cohesive brand initiatives.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and consumer insights studies to identify growth opportunities.
• Manage brand communication across digital, offline, PR, events, and partnership channels.
• Oversee the creation of marketing collateral, presentations, case studies, and brand assets.
• Monitor and analyze campaign performance, brand metrics, and customer feedback to optimize strategies.
• Coordinate product launches, events, and promotional activities from a branding perspective.
• Build and maintain relationships with external agencies, vendors, and strategic partners.
• Ensure all brand communications reflect the company’s values, vision, and market positioning.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Communications, or a related field.
• 4–7 years of experience in brand management, marketing, communications, or related functions.
• Strong understanding of brand strategy, consumer behavior, and marketing principles.
• Experience in managing multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret market and campaign data.
• Experience working with creative teams, agencies, and cross-functional departments.
• Proficiency in marketing tools, analytics platforms, and project management software.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in startups, SaaS, Consumer Tech, or B2B technology sectors.
• Knowledge of digital marketing, content marketing, and performance marketing.
• Experience managing employer branding and corporate communications initiatives.
• Familiarity with PR, influencer marketing, and event marketing.

Key Attributes

• Strategic and creative thinker.
• Strong ownership and execution mindset.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Results-driven with a strong focus on brand growth and business impact.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape and scale a growing brand.
• Collaborative and innovation-driven work culture.
• Exposure to high-impact marketing and business initiatives.

Significant opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.

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 :

• 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.

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.

What will set this person apart:

• BS/BA degree
• 3+ years experience in management consulting and/ or previous experience in a founders role. Former founders encouraged to apply
• Strategic thinker that can tailor nuanced responses to different audiences and define priorities
• Ability to weigh in on or make decisions with authority across all parts of a business
• Self starter; highly motivated and resourceful with proven ability to lead and execute
• Exceptional organizational and task management abilities
• Ability to execute good judgment, tact, professionalism and diplomacy when interacting with employees, managers or clients
• Adept at handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, results-driven, rapidly changing environment