Senior PR Consultant - APCO Worldwide - New Delhi

Role of Senior Consultant

A Senior Consultant is responsible for managing portions of large client projects or small client projects. preparing client-ready materials (i.e. summary reports, press releases, credentials, proposals and can quickly review and improve the work product of Consultants. Senior Consultants maintain an awareness of macro business issues impacting clients by conducting and analyzing research on a variety of client related issues. The Senior Consultant is responsible for independently coordinating client meetings and events. Completes client deliverables under the supervisor of an Associate Director or assigned account manager. The Senior Consultant is expected to demonstrate an understanding of Agency's business practices and processes, as well as strong tactical and strategic abilities. Senior Consultants possess strong written and oral communication skills and the presence of a consultant. The Senior Consultant will interface with all levels of staff and will have contact with clients regarding project issues.

EDUCATION: University degree

EXPERIENCE: 8 – 10 years relevant exp in a consulting firm, corporation, diplomatic posting or media role pref Comma Consulting, Deepak Talwar and Associates, IPAN or in-house people with exp in telecom or healthcare

Local travel required; some international travel may be required

Suitable candidates can send their resume to Diana at corporatesearch99@gmail.com

Head Talent Acquisition - MakeMyTrip.com - Gurgaon

Job Description

Location             Gurgaon
Industry Type      E Commerce
Experience         8 Yrs – 10 Yrs
Reporting To       VP - Human Resources

• Heading talent acquisition vertical, managing recruitment on a PAN India basis, across level and domains.
• This would include devising out ways to keep recruitment costs at an all time low, with no impact on TAT and quality of hires, formulating recruitment mechanisms depending upon the type of position and its quantum and also ensuring smooth on-boarding of the new hires.
• This will also involve building connect with employees (new hires / existing ones) to ensure their engagement levels are high, handling grievance if any, running R&R schemes for regions etc.
  
  Any other info
• The person should have strong execution understanding & capabilities and good strategic thinking skills as well to be able to Develop and Deliver the Marketing Plans independently.

Desired Skills & Experience

• The applicant must be an MBA in HR from premier institutes with good recruitment experience.
  scholastic academic background is a must.
• Must be people oriented and affable; should have an aptitude to keep pace in a fast, dynamic and challenging environment and flexible with working hours.
• Should have good communication skills and extremely good interpersonal skills.
• Must have worked in fast growing organizations (am flexible on industry but should have been exposed to hiring at senior level and at the same time ability to be hands on)
• Should have extensive hiring experience for a minimum of 12 – 18 months in the whole tenure.
• Experience of a start up will be an added advantage

Suitable candidates should send their resumes to Gaurav Gaur at gaurav.gaur@makemytrip.com 

 

Senior Director of Product Management - Yahoo! - Bangalore

Job Description

Title: Senior Director of Product Management
Location: Bangalore, India


The Director of Product Management for Media Products will be an innovative thinker and strategic planner who will manage content feed onboarding and the portfolio of products being developed and supported by our Bangalore engineering team. This position involves cross-business-unit coordination and leading a team of product managers to create, prioritize, and deliver against a strategic product roadmap.

Key responsibilities include gathering and synthesizing product requirements from internal and external sources, driving product strategy and roadmap development, and executing against the roadmap to deliver a great user experience. Success for you will be to delight our customers by enabling world-class, innovative product capabilities across the portfolio of Media Products sourced from Bangalore.

The ideal candidate must be capable of managing many critical projects with multiple stakeholders and focusing on details while not losing sight of the big picture. Successful Yahoo! product managers have great interpersonal and relationship-building skills as well as keen analytical and strategic minds. The candidate must be self-motivated, persistent and a consummate team player.

Key responsibilities include:
• Manage the funnel and work queue for content partnerships and feeds work
• Lead and drive product management and planning process for several products within the Media Products group; ensure that group initiatives are correctly scoped, designed, built and launched on time and within budget; collate and prioritize product requirements; write formal and well-structured PRDs
• Outline and rationalize key goals, strategy and tactics, and roadmaps
• Communicate and evangelize the group’s strategy to senior management, leadership teams and internal stakeholders
• Execute the roadmap ensuring the team hits major milestones – responsible for delivering the product roadmap including key project management tasks

Desired Skills & Experience

Candidate should be working as Product Manager and Senior product manager before moving to Director role.

Minimum Job Qualifications:
• Strong leadership and team building skills including the ability to generate product concepts that add significant improvement to current capabilities
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional groups and drive decision making
• 7+ years domain experience in with internet and web products
• 12+ years product management experience, preferably in the above domain
• Experience in leading Product Management teams for global/multinational products and working with geographically distributed teams
• Deep Product Management process knowledge and a proven track record using these skills to develop and manage products through the entire product life cycle; experience with Agile development preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated success in delivering product on time and on budget

Candidate whose job profile matches with the job description can send your resume to lathav@yahoo-inc.com ASAP.

Marketing Manager - Product Engineering Services - MindTree Ltd. - Bangalore

Job Description

Planning

Own the creation of the marketing plan for Product Engineering Services (PES), which is est. 40% of MindTree's revenue. Marketing plan includes objective/goal setting; segmentation; messaging; positioning; GTM plan (channels) and budget  

 

Execution (Awareness building & Driving Pipeline) 

1. Content Creation - Work with managers/technical team to generate collaterals, datasheets, case studies, deep dive case studies etc
2. PR -Work with business head and PR team to build awareness in the market
3. Website and Online Marketing - Own the industry group/business specific sections of MindTree.com (website) and a strategy for leveraging other social media channels, including video
4. Analyst Relations – Own analyst relations for the business unit (build and track our positioning among analyst community leading to recommendations)
5. Events – Manage industry specific events independently or with vendors. This includes our annual PES customer council.
6. Demand Generation – Run campaigns, webinars etc with inputs from business and sales heads and able to track the results

 Reporting

1. Communicate the marketing ROI on all the activities that are executed
2. Experienced in measuring and reporting marketing KPIs and metric

Desired Skills & Experience

Please read this carefully, and do not apply if your CV and cover letter cannot articulate these specific skills and experiences that we require. Thanks in advance.

A minimum of 7 years of professional/marketing experience. Less than that will not be considered. Previous PES experience a plus.

Of the marketing skills needed for this role, event management and online marketing are most essential. Please highlight what you have done in these areas in your cover letter to me.

Strong communication--both written and oral--are needed. A demonstrated track record of speaking/communicating with C-level executives and industry analysts must be demonstrated

Suitable candidates can send their resumes to Joseph King at joseph_king@mintree.com

Manager - Strategic Marketing - NetApp - Bangalore

Job Description

Job Summary:
As a Manager, Marketing you translate broad strategies into structured marketing plans. You will work with marketing senior management to ensure that departmental goals are established and reported; and provide management oversight to subordinate level managers.

Essential Functions:
- Provide support and leadership to a cross functional team of Marketing Managers, Product Managers, and Sales to meet departmental objectives and revenue targets.
- Utilize previously acquired expertise to support Marketing Managers complete projects and meet deadlines.

Areas of focus may include:
- Sales Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Market Sizing and Segmentation
- Outbound Marketing
- Tradeshows and events
- Cross-functional team projects
- Communications
- Presentations
- Other
- Monitor the development of business plans, managing lifecycles, and product positioning in the marketplace.
- Create structured product marketing plans, communicate plans to Product Managers, Sales, Support, and

Product Development.
- Oversee market research efforts, monitor competitive activity, and identify customer's marketing needs.
- Interact with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales to enhance existing products or product line(s).
- Lead new product definition and business plans with other departments.
- Select, develop and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
- Develop an annual budget collaboratively with senior management.
- Manage and participate in long-term projects and strategic initiates.

Desired Skills & Experience

Requirements:
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills; presentation, customer service, business, and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to lead and influence cross functional teams.
- Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization, including remote areas.
- Marketing experience in the technology industry or related consulting experience.
- Ability to function well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities.


Management:
- This position is responsible for managing Business analysts in Bangalore while working cross GEO
- The focus of this role is on business and its implication.
- The potential impact of decisions made by this individual will be mostly operational with some financial.
- This individual will apply attained experience and knowledge to address issues that are diverse in scope, and resolve problems through short- and mid-term planning.

Interaction:
- This individual must work effectively with Staff to Vice President level employees and employees within and outside of their department and function.
- Utilizes people skills and available manager tools to positively impact the development of subordinates within their role and career.
- This individual must demonstrate favorable results through providing leadership to function and to staff.

Education & Experience:
- A minimum of 8 years of experience as an individual contributor and 1 to 5 years as a people manager is required.
- A Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree is required, as well as higher degree such as an MBA
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects is required.
Suitable candidates should email their resumes to Pooja Gultai at pooja.gulati@netapp.com

Marketing Programs Manager - Business Analytics - InMobi Bangalore

Marketing Director – India – (Bangalore)
Experience: 9+ years
Location:  Bangalore, India
Functional Area: Marketing
Reporting  to: James Lamberti, VP Global Marketing

Job Description
To help manage the faced paced growth of the company, a high-energy creative marketing communications professional is needed.  The ideal candidate will have at least 9+ years experience in all facets of marketing. The role will  help support India. The candidate will be based in our Bangalore office.  We are seeking A+, highly motivated candidates only for this exciting position.

Key Reponsibilities

• Plan the marketing strategy for the region which is inline with the global marketing plan but is still fine tuned to suit the Indian market.
• Support Sales and Business development teams by providing necessary collaterals like sales presentations, company flyers, network data reports etc.
• Handle media requests and interviews that come in either directly or through the PR agencies. Represent the company in the media when necessary.
• Represent InMobi in events happening in the region. This can be either by being a speaker from InMobi at events or by supporting the key speakers that InMobi sends to these events. This will include tasks like helping the speaker envision the topic for the presentation and the content for it. Work with the team in India to build the presentation.
• Collect information from the sales team about ongoing campaigns and help churn out case studies for these campaigns.
• Handle the social community messaging of the company for the country. This might include tweeting while at key events, blogs about certain topics, retweets of regional news snippets related to the industry. It will also include updating the company website with the latest mentions and coverages.
• Be the main point of contact for the PR agency that works with InMobi and help them come up with ideas for pitching into the media.

Required Skills

• Strategic Planning: Experience in planning the marketing strategy for India. The strategy needs to take into account the nuances of the region.
• Sales Support: Excellent powerpoint skills with the ability to communicate and design presentations along with envisioning the topic in support of mobile advertising sales efforts is critical.
• Marketing Communication Skills: Experience with business writing in all forms with a focus on digital channels including corporate websites, landing page copy development, blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and email marketing.  An understanding of best pratices in social media / community marketing is a plus.
• B2B Marketing: Knowledge of core marketing skills including development and management of key messaging with a B2B company, and a general knowledge of both traditional and digital marketing channels.  Experience with ad networks or digital performance marketing a strong plus.
• Project Management: Experience planning and tracking colleteral development including strategic sales support collateral, major website updates, powerpoints, sales presentaitons, and printed materials for a B2B company.  Ability to manage multiple priorities from mutliple people is key.
• Events / PR:  Experience representing a company in a professional manner at technology events such as trade shows, conferenes and summits. Knowledge and experience drafting a press releases is a plus.

Additional skill sets that will help improve your candidacy:

• Digital Advertising Industry Experience:  Experience with either an advertiser, agency, or publisher in the digital advertising space (web, search, mobile).
• Mobile Industry Experience:  The ideal candidate will have some experience in the mobile industry.
• Community Management:  Experience with managing a web-scale community of users is also a plus.

Suitable candidates should send their resume to Ashwitha Naik at ashwitha.naik@inmobi.com