Monday, February 14, 2011

Marcom Program Manager - HP - Bangalore

Role: Program Manager

Experience: 5 to 8 yrs

Location: Bangalore

Business Environment

HP Invents. We make ideas happen, and we deliver great services. Our service delivery locations are state-of-the-art, cutting edge, and all over the world.

HP Decision Support Analysis Services (DSAS) team commenced in May 2005 as a global initiative to provide support to Supply Chain, Marketing, CRM, Finance and HR business functions through data mining & predictive modeling, reporting & business intelligence, business research, data management, optimization & simulation solutions. We are poised for substantial growth by building a new service line for HP services and non-HP clients globally.

The team has an excellent mix of experienced professionals with strong analytics and business consulting background and significant experience in BPO, who are driven by a passion to draw business inference from external and internal data while delivering on global client requests.

The Marcom team at DSAS supports the Demand Generation team within Americas PSG Consumer Exchange spanning across various Marcom activities - Program Management and Design support for email and Direct Mail marketing.

Description:

This position is responsible for mentoring a team of Project Management Leads within the PSG Marcom Ops team. He/she will be responsible for managing, enhancing and building the processes and acting a SPOC between Onshore and Offshore teams, and mentoring team resources in order to meet AMS Demand Generation Communications needs.

Specific Responsibilities:

 - Is responsible for overall setting up of Process between On shore and Off Shore
 - Fine tune Solutioning of the process along with
 - Mentor the team of Project Management leads responsible for managing a strong client relations with the on shore Marcom team
 - Act as main point of contact on new areas of Marcom support/project requests from AMS Demand Generation Team.
     - Manages any Process violations/errors with both the teams.
     - Assures Marcom projects are on strategy and completed on time. 
     - Ensures effective management of overall projects, including metrics/status updates
 - Develop and maintain strong partnerships with AMS Demand Generation teams and agency counterparts that promote collaborative working engagements.

Qualifications:

 - Requires 5+ years of expert level knowledge in area of marketing communications preferably as part of off-shore team, plus minimum of 4 years managing project teams.
 - Bachelor's (undergraduate) degree or Master's  (graduate) degree in Business Administration or Marketing 
 - Depth of knowledge across marketing communications discipline and managing to objectives
 - Demonstrated leadership abilities; experience in managing people, including developing and mentoring employees
 - Demonstrated ability and desire for creating and fostering collaborative off-shore relationships
 - Enthusiasm/high interest for playing key role in developing and executing off-shore working model
 - Effective project management skills, preferably managing process and change management.
 - Strong verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills

If interested please revert back with the following details to ayesha.hina@hp.com
Updated resume
Total Exp
Current CTC and Expected CTC
Willing to relocate to Bangalore

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Online Product Manager - Makemytrip.com - Gurgaon

Job Description

You might have heard of MakeMyTrip. We’re hopeful you’re even a customer that has bought from us. If you’re a product professional, I’m sure you’ve had ideas such as “why don’t they do it this way or that way”. Well, here’s your chance to get in the door and help transform India’s leading Online Travel Company into an even more delightful experience.

Experience: 4-7Yrs
Location: Gurgaon

Job Description
  • Get into the life of a customer and identify their needs and pain points
  • Define the product working with cross functional teams; also build the roadmap for the product
  • Work in a hands-on capacity with Engineering and UX teams to deliver on the product
    Identify the metrics for the product and the business; rigorously measure and improve them
  • Evangelize your product externally working with Marketing, and internally to the various teams

Desired Profile
  • A degree in Computer Science/Engineering (alternatively, 4 years of hands-on programming experience) Masters degree in CS or an MBA is an added plus
  • Must have 4+ years of professional work experience as a Product Manager or a Software Engineer
  • Strong analytical and problem solving ability
Contact Details
Gaurav Gaur
Gaurav.gaur@makemytrip.com

City Head - Religare Technologies - Kolkata

Job Description

-ROLE AND CONTEXT

Main Priorities:
→Generate Revenues through the Direct and Channel Sales
→Manage BD Executives and their sales team
→Business Development in Information (Healthcare) domain
→Responsible for tapping new avenues for business development in Healthcare Information Domain.
→Client Relationship
→Competitor tracking
→Market Intelligence
→City/ Territory management
→Marketing activities in assigned City/ Territory.
→Ensuring sales target achievement on monthly basis.

Dimensions:
Reportees:
→Managers
→BD Executives

Decision Making Authority:
→Financials.

Key Outputs:
→Revenue
→Team building
→Create Product Awareness
→Establish Client Relationship and utilise that channel to position our product

Relationships:
Internal Customers
→Team of BDEs, Astt Mgr / Managers

External Customers
→Healthcare Service providers – Doctors, Hospitals, Pharma, Clinics, Nursing homes, Equipment providers
Key Performance Indicators:

Quantitative: Percentage achievement of targets

Qualitative: Depth and Width of Relationship building with the customers and Capability building in the BD/Sales team.

Competencies:
→Leader
→Motivator
→People’s person
→Business acumen – pref should have handled P&L centre
→agressive

Desired Skills & Experience

Qualifications:
→MBA/ BBA (Marketing)

Skills/ Knowledge:
→Media – Digital, Voice, Mobile
→Ad Sales
→SAAS
→Flair for sales &Business development
→Creative to generate revenues
→Experience in Internet, Mobile and Voice

Experience:
→6 to 9 years

Contact Details
Abhimanyu Shah
Head of Recruitments at Religare Technologies
abhimanyu.shah@religaretech.com  

Director Technology (ecommerce) - Sapient - Gurgaon

Job Description

Director – Ecommerce
As a Director of Ecommerce, you will join the world’s first customer experience company and award winning leader in multi-channel commerce industry. You are passionate about technologies that drive digital commerce and will use this position to innovate and improve digital commerce solutions.
We are looking for an exceptional ecommerce expert to join our capability team. Foremost you are an inspiring technical leader with a passion for digital commerce products and a deep understanding of software development and tools. This is both a people management and technical leadership position where you will manage a team of talented engineers and architects that work on cutting-edge technologies.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience on any of the ecommerce product stack - WCS, ATG, Hybris
Lead capability development for all ecommerce products we choose to work with.
• Own competency development including creation of training content and enable training on technical and domain topics.
• Assist pre-sales, client presentations, solution development for bids and participate in scoping and estimating key deals and taking our services to market.
• Create thought leadership in digital commerce areas through publishing papers & participating in events.
• Develop solutions that align with the business strategy using predominant digital commerce technologies.
• Provide Technical Assistance and Assurance to ongoing digital commerce projects including enabling delivery teams with deep technical expertise.
• Work with product vendors to align solutions with their strategies and develop roadmap for solution accelerators.
• Setup Labs for all relevant latest technologies that are accessible for team members (from various locations) to build capabilities, solutions and proof of concepts. These labs should also be ready for customer visits to demonstrate our commitment and investments.
• Develop and drive community of digital commerce experts within the company to enable knowledge sharing and expertise development.
• Be the key quality gatekeeper of hiring process in the digital commerce area.
You possess
• Significant experience (5+ years) leading and developing services and solutions in the digital commerce area.
• Deep knowledge of digital commerce technologies with hands on experience in the latest version of one or more of the key product stacks (ATG, WCS or Hybris).
• Hands on experience in digital commerce technologies, developing and maintaining enterprise scale solutions.
• Experience in developing strategies to cope with aggressive business growth.
• Prior experience working with digital commerce vendors and alliances.
You have
• Overall experience of 15+ years with 5+ years of ecommerce experience with one or more commerce packages.

Contact Details 
Sandhya Gultai
sgulati@sapient.com

Marketing Specialist - Mumbai - Patni Computer Systems

Job Description

No. of positions: 3

Minimum industry experience: 3 years

Qualification: B.E.

1. Help develop Go-to-Market (GTM) plan and fully own the execution of the GTM plan for the portfolio of Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI), Manufacturing, Enterprise Application Services (EAS), and Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) services
2. Develop marketing plan and product requirements specifications for the identified solution productization. Define value proposition for the BFSI,  Manufacturing, EAS, and ADM offering in line with the top of the mind business issues
3. Create targeted awareness for the BFSI, Manufacturing, EAS, and ADM offering
4. Work with solution architects, practice leads, corporate marketing, sales, and presales team to maximize market awareness and market leadership
5. Lead and develop product marketing initiatives including content creation for outbound marketing campaigns, Website content, product videos, webinars, customer case studies, and more
6. Launch multi-channel campaigns to create demand for the BFSI, Manufacturing, EAS, and ADM services in the target market
7. Drive thought leadership initiative
8. Arrange training for sales to help them understand the differentiation and value proposition of the BFSI, Manufacturing, EAS, and ADM offerings
9. Enable sales with sales playbooks, presentations, training, demos, etc.
10. Support influencer outreach, analyst briefings
11. Suggest improvements for the competitiveness of BFSI, Manufacturing, EAS, and ADM offerings to adapt to the changing business landscape

Please email your updated resumes to:

Neeraj Sangani
Marketing Head  - BFSI At Patni Computer Services
neeraj.sangani@patni.com

Marketing Manager - Technical Services - Adobe - Noida

Job Description

• Comprehends customer needs, competitive insights and translate to appropriate marketing strategies
• Translates services/program construct and features into winning value propositions and engaging messaging for key audience segments – customers, field sales, and channel partners
• Creates core marketing content – collaterals and web content – based on the core messaging
• Contributes to the development of the Go-To-Market plan for new and existing services offerings to meet the revenue and marketing adoption goals
• Defines and implements the marketing communication strategy (including campaigns) to support the overall Go-To-Market plan
• Contributes to sales training and channel enablement
• Works effectively in a global work environment with globally distributed teams and stakeholders

Desired Skills & Experience

• MBA (or equivalent) from (IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS/IIFT/XLRI/XIM/ SP Jain/IIT/MICA/JBIMS/ Symbiosis)
NO DISTANCE EDUCATION
• Relevant work experience of at least 3-5 years with exposure to solution/services marketing/management at a global level
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Understanding of Enterprise Software/IT Services/Enterprise Technology
• Experience in any of marketing, product management or business development with a Software/IT Services/Enterprise Solution company
• Experience in creating product/service customer facing materials for the US, EMEA or global markets

Please email your update resumes to  
Shannon Victor Peter 
Adobe Systems India Pvt Ltd
svictorp@adobe.com

Regional Merchandising - FMCG - Mumbai

Position: Regional Merchandising Manager

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 7-8 years 

Job Profile:
1) Interface with the sales , commercial  and H.O. team to implement the merchandising plan of the region
2) Execute with excellence the merchandising objectives with the help of his own team and vendors .
3) Vendor management

Key Competencies /requirements
1) Good working knowledge of the  Western  region
2) FMCG work experience (channel expertise  for both traditional and MT )
3) Strong communication skills ( both written and verbal )

If  Interested, Kindly email your resume at nehab@globalhunt.in

Neha Bhambri

GlobalHunt India Pvt. Ltd.

Direct Line:-+91 11 46547722                             
Board Line:- +91  11  46547700

E-mail:-  nehab@globalhunt.in

Brand Change Manager - Liquor Conglomerate - Mumbai

Position reports to – TECHNICAL HEAD.

Qualifications
 - Degree level qualification in Engineering, Process or Food Technology
 - MBA and strong innovation/project management background preferred
 - 5-10 years in FMCG/Beverages/Food industry

To summarize the role , incumbent will be responsible for the following deliverables:

- “True to concept” Product or packaging solutions delivered to market requirements.  Demonstrable innovative value-add on all brand change solutions for immediate or future use.

- Deliver Innovation and Renovation pipeline of business on time, on cost, on quality by engaging respective business stakeholders and through effective coordination of the new or brand change projects across India or the export market. Accurate and timely preparation of product data and key developmental transactions.

- Drive and execute Brand Value Engineering projects to maximize value of the brands by modification in designs, change in material science or technical specifications or through improvements in process, technology or resources.

- Leads all developments, trials, commissioning and commercialization of such changes.

- Custodian of Innovation and Brand Change Gate Process in Supply and e-navigation Entropy system.

- Engage various stakeholders across supply chain process and maintain amazing relationships with vendors and functional partners in supply, sales, marketing, corporate affairs or legal. The role also liaises with Co’s regional and global Technical or brand innovation fraternity to calibrate India’s way of working.

Those interested, please forward your resume at recruitment@executivehiring.in 

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Sr Product / Brand Manager - Luxury - Mumbai

Designation – Sr Product Manager Luxury Brand

Location – Mumbai

Qualification : MBA

DESCRIPTION OF ROLE:
Looking out for candidates who have handled Luxury Brands..

Brand management.

Develop marketing strategy for brand
Plan and implement Marketing initiatives
Manage brand promotion
Develop strong understanding of consumer behavior and expectations in the Luxury category.
Develop a marketing strategy to meet business growth objectives
Plan and implement Marketing Plans in close collaboration with Sales, Training and Merchandising functions.
Strengthen endorsement of the brands thru effective marketing initiatives.
Conceptualise and design brand presentation.
Plan and implement brand animations and promotions
Plan and manage Marketing Budgets
Liaise effectively with Zone and International Marketing teams

Reporting : Reports to the HEAD – Marketing- Luxury

If Interested kindly send across your resume along with current and expected CTC to vidya@topgearconsultants.com

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Manager Corporate Communications - Gurgaon

Job Title: Sr. manager/ Manager, Corporate Communications
Location: Gurgaon, India
Reporting to: Director, Marketing, Sapient India

Job Summary:
As part of the top‐notch Global Marketing team of Sapient, you are responsible for driving all aspects of
Sapient’s PR strategy and program, including company announcements, messaging, media/influencer
relations, thought leadership, social media, company awards, and other brand‐building programs. You
will help deepen the Sapient brand in the India marketplace, both from an employer brand and business
brand aspect. The goals are to raise brand awareness; increase our reputation for marketing, technical,
and creative excellence; furthere our thought leadership positioning; showcase our subject matter
experts and our work; and facilitate lead generation. A heavy focus will be on content generation:
building the news pipeline by working with internal constituents to craft compelling story angles and
pitch assets, and partnering with our PR agency to place the stories in key media outlets. This position
will report to the India Marketing Director, and be an extension of the global corporate marketing team,
ensuring that Sapient’s PR outreach is consistent and in line with overall marketing and business
direction.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Overall development and execution of Sapient’s PR strategy and supporting programs
• Write company announcements
• Build and cultivate strong relationships with key influencers, including press, bloggers, industry pundits
and other influencers. Main media targets include: marketing, creative, business, and technology press
• Manage India‐based PR agency
• Bring analysis of key industry trends and competitors to play a key role in the development of
company messages and brand positioning
• Manage India speaker program, including placement of subject matter experts and management in
key panel or presentation slots
• Drive placement of POVs, white papers, and bylined articles on key industry trends and issues
• Manage efforts around business and people recognition
• Educate BD and client executives on how to leverage PR successes
• Develop relationships with key professional industry associations
• Launch “influencers” outreach program
• Contribute India‐specific content to thought leadership initiatives, such as client newsletters and blogs
• Contribute India content to the corporate social media presence (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
Yammer, YouTube, Wikipedia)
• Develop and manage process for measuring PR effectiveness
• Develop and manage PR budget
• Engage with India management regularly to uncover news hooks and key projects and initiatives in the
pipeline
• Cultivate “spokes‐stars” in each region, including media training

Experience Guidelines:
• 8+ years experience in public relations/corporate communications, Good relationships with key editors
of leading national, business and financial dailies and business magazines
• Experience in marketing and/or interactive space required
• Established relationships with media and blogger communities
• Strength in communications, written and verbal
• Experience building integrated marketing communications campaigns
• Proven track record managing a PR agency and guiding them to success

Other Requirements:
• Ideal candidate will have a mix of PR agency and corporate‐side experience
• Highly creative and innovative thinker willing to take risks to build our brand
• Excellent writing skills, with experience drafting press releases, contributed articles, white papers and
media speaking points; ability to alternate between business writing and “creative flair”
• Savvy with social media and eagerness to experiment in new channels and platforms
• Eye for creativity and understanding of corporate branding
• Demonstrated ability to tie ROI and measurement into PR programs
• Ability to quickly build a network of strong media & blogger relationships
• Ability to provide strategic counsel to senior executives and quickly gain credibility
• Self‐starter who can work autonomously while collaborating with dispersed corporate marketing team
and subject matter experts, as required
• Poise and professionalism required for high‐level executive interactions

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, or related field.

Contact Details 
Mukta Kanojia Jha
mkanojia@sapient.com

AVP Corporate Marketing - Bangalore

Job Description

Head of corporate marketing overseeing corporate branding and communications reporting into the CMO. This is a leadership role and the position will be based out of Bangalore.

Responsibilities:
1. To head a corporate team comprising website, research and PR
2. Drive companywide corporate communications internally and externally including PR, media relations globally
3. Drive and support strategic corporate research that provides insights and inputs to the executive management staff and sales teams
4. Manage corporate brand identity and standards internally and externally in all communications, working in close coordination with other marketing group leaders within the company
5. Manage and drive corporate website
6. Manage all corporate collateral
7. Manage corporate database of customers, drive central marketing programs and support geo specific programs/ requirements

Key result area:
The role will be measured by the success of the composite brand index, a measure instituted within the company

Experience/ skills/ background:

1. 15 years experience in marketing
2. Experience in managing teams
3. Strong understanding of B2B and B2C brands with proven experience in managing brands
4. Strong experience in corporate communications spanning PR, marketing communication
5. Strong online/ web background with experience in social media
6. Experience in matrix roles will be a benefit
7. Graduate with MBA in marketing

Contact Details:
Embassy Golf Links Business Park
Off Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore -560071
India. Tel: +91-80-30582470 / 39890247
Mail your resumes in word format to careers@247customer.com  and mention the name of the city (Bangalore) in the subject line.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Marketing Head - Media/TV - Mumbai

RESPONSIBILITIES:

   1. Strategizing & Implementation of marketing plans as per the Annual operating plan (AOP)

   2. Drive Viewership for the channel by identifying strategies relevant for the brand

   3. Brand Management keeping in mind the channel identity & packaging

   4. Identify and execute key research requirements for the brand

   5. Drive sponsorship opportunities and customized solutions for key channel properties

   6. Drive tie ups and partnership to ensure Share Of Voice for the brand to ensure brand salience

   7. Drive brand and viewership interactivity online through key social media platforms

   8. Budget Planning and financial management to ensure adherence to AOP

   9. Ensure efficient tracking processes to monitor competition

  10. Build relationships with key trade media to ensure P.R for the brand

  11. Project  management expertise to ensure conceptualization and execution of key channel initiatives

ORGANISATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
 - The person is required to work with significant independence and should have leadership qualities

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
    * Postgraduate degree in management

EXPERIENCE:
    * Total 8-10 years of Marketing experience. Exposure to television is preferable.

Please send your resume to payal.shahri@timesgroup.com

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Head Corporate PR - HCL Technologies - Noida

Roles & Responsibilities
The candidate will lead Corporate PR campaign for HCL Technologies which will involve responsibilities like:

1. Managing planning and day-to-day operations of a PR Agency

2. planning, developing and implementing PR strategies in conjunction with a PR Agency;

3. liaising with colleagues and key spokespeople;

4. liaising with and answering enquiries from media, individuals and other organizations.

5. researching, writing and distributing press releases to targeted media;

6. collating and analyzing media coverage;

7. writing and editing case studies, speeches, articles and annual reports;

8. devising and coordinating photo opportunities;

9. organizing events including press conferences, exhibitions, open days and press tours;

10. maintaining and updating information on the organisation's website;

11. sourcing and managing speaking and sponsorship opportunities;

12. commissioning market research;

13. Managing the PR aspect of a potential crisis situation.

14. liaising with Industry bodies and other external stakeholders

Experience – 7 to 14 yrs

The top three things we are looking in this person are :
 - Very strong understanding of the Media
 - Exceptional content writing and understanding, should be able to comprehend the content / message HCL would want to convey
 - Ability to build relationships. A team player and not a loner by nature.

If interested please send your resume to:
Sheela Nancy
Sheelanm@hcl.com
CoE – Recruitment & Resourcing
HCL Technologies Ltd.

Group Product Manager - FMCG / Retail - Mumbai

Qualification: MBA from premiere institute or well known Institute

Experience: 10 to 15  years of exp from FMCG or Retail sector. should have stable career with contributions at each of the places.

Candidate Profile : Having strong exposure in Branding with FMCG or  Retail   at National / Zonal With professional companies and competitive environment.

Job Profile :

   1. Brand performance
   2. Communication development
   3. Media plan development and execution
   4. Brand health monitoring
   5. Promotion Planning and execution
   6. Budget tracking
   7. Support new initiative (new brand) plan development and help manage execution of launch
   8. Consumer research
   9. Talent development

We would request you to forward this opening to your friends and yahoo groups to help us reach right candidates.

Contact : Vasim Nawab : 9892232903
Numbers : 022 - 40732119
Email : vasim.n@achconsultants.com , rushikesh.b@achconsultants.com

FMCG Consultant in Bangalore

Job Responsibilities:

Independently lead a team of 10-20 members, providing data based consulting to marketing and strategic business challenges for global FMCG major , reporting to account director.

    * Guide solution development on key business strategy/ marketing/sales /channel and category management and generate insights/ develop analytical solutions leveraging existing research, syndicated, client internal data and other market information for the client.

    * Develop scaled solutions for application across client organization, grow business.

    * Client relationship management at a senior manager, associate VP/ director level in the Marketing, Strategy development, Commercial Innovation  and Insights functions. Develop client champions; develop sound understanding the client’s business challenges, key stake holders, data available and way of applying analysis to business.

    * Oversee operations of planning and executing the project work streams from proposal- execution-client work progress reviews-final presentation phases

    * Own , coach and develop a team of analysts and domain managers, provide thought leadership and guidance to model outputs, coaching them on marketing and analytical frameworks, generating  actionable insights and making final business presentations to clients

Brief Job Description
 - Working with a CPG client/category on a day to day basis
 - Understanding business problems & converting them to analytical problems
 - Creating proposals including project delivery schedules
 - Drawing out analysis plan and working with a team of data analysts
 - Understanding data-outputs, identifying patterns, findings; stitching them into actionable insights and converting them into business presentations
 - Presenting final deliverables to clients

PERSON SPECIFICATIONS

Work Experience (mention no. of years) 4-5 years of Sales & Marketing or Market Research experience in MNC FMCG firm, or MR/Analytics firm servicing FMCG industry.

    * Experience in market research protocols, brand management, consumer insights & analysis: consumer segmentation, opportunity mapping, brand building & ROI analysis on marketing mix.

    * Demonstrated skills in data interpretation, analytical thinking, developing analytical constructs to marketing challenges

    * Experience in using research and market data to draw consumer insights and derive marketing plans will be preferred

    * Should have clarity of thought and strong communication skills

    * Should have an idea/ interest in application of quantitative techniques to guide marketing and business strategy

Please send your resume to rajini@avatarconsulting.in