Position Title : Deputy Manager
Brand : Times of India - Brand Team
Reports to : Asst. General Manager
Location : Mumbai
Markets Responsible for: Mumbai & Gujarat
The applicant must have hands on experience in brand marketing, ability to create and execute fresh campaigns, events to drive engagement while providing opportunities for sponsorship. He/she must have the ability to think on the brand and contribute to building high recall & engagement.
The duties & responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
Strategic Responsibilities
- Generating ideas for Brand management & communication
- Create higher profile of visibility by seeking strategic print, outdoor, other media partnerships and striking barter deals with relevant partners
- Understanding reader preference through research methodologies and suggesting necessary product & brand enhancements
- Focus on alliances that contribute to readership and drive PR mileage
Operational Responsibilities
- Execute brand and sponsor activities on-ground, ensuring optimum cost management
- BTL/ Field marketing/ promotions/ brand activation
- Ensure smooth functioning and relationships with partners & internal customers by coordinating internally for their needs
- Regular reporting from and to other cities on brand developments and activations
- Set benchmarks in process compliance
- Booking & Releasing of Ads for Brand campaigns and ensuring that the same has appeared as per sanctioned media plan
- Oversee and maintain the Ad Edit Ratio, LPRS for Key Editions
- Oversee the third party payments for their services through SAP module and ensuring timely payments to vendors
- Driving & Managing Creative Meetings with Ad Agency and ensuring the agency delivers the ads on time.
Developmental Responsibilities
- Drive digital extension and loyalty for readers towards the brand. Manage the news and campaigns on social media handles
- This would include the following:
Strategic tie-ups in the digital space (including online and mobile)
All brands campaigns will have a larger footprint in the digital space
- Trade focus: Communication towards media agencies as and when required
Requirements
Experience: 3-5 years- experience
Education: MBA from good institute- Tier 1 (preferable) or Tier 2 (if candidate is good)
Skills
- Strong management & leadership skills
- Result oriented and capacity to operate in a growth environment that is increasingly competitive
- Set the highest ethical and professional standards & lead by example
- Comfortable with change & fast paced environment
- Clear and concise written and spoken communication skills
- Strategic thinker with strong analytics and execution skills, with a flair for innovation.
- Ability to keep up with the competitor landscape and be updated with what's new in the industry space
- Strong understanding of online marketing and marketing concepts
- He / She should possess MS Office skills to create PowerPoint presentations & tabulate data in Excel Sheets for creating monthly reports
Behavioral Skills
- Strong Interpersonal Skills
- Attention to detail
- Self-driven, ability to drive an initiative end to end
- Updates self regularly on latest trends, tools and technologies
- Strong problem solving skill
- Ability to work under demanding timelines
- Analytical thinking
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