Manager - Media & Digital
Location: Mumbai (Client Side)
Employment Type: Full-time, On-site (In-office role)
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Media Manager with 8-10 years of expertise in planning, buying, and optimizing media across digital and traditional platforms. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of driving ROI through innovative campaigns, managing large-scale budgets, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and external agencies. This role is pivotal in shaping how our brand is seen and heard in a competitive market.
On any given day you might:
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Develop and execute 360-degree media strategies aligned with marketing and business objectives.
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Lead the planning, execution, and optimization of our integrated media campaigns across digital, social, and traditional channels like TV, Print, Cinema and OOH.
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Work collaboratively with brand team members to create comprehensive plans that have clear measurement criteria and ensure alignment with campaign objectives and overall marketing goals.
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Ensure campaign objectives and agency alignment across brands.
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Champion test-and-learn initiatives and pilot new media solutions/platforms leveraging larger joint business proposals and boutique agencies while ensuring measurability.
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Measure campaign effectiveness using key KPIs (reach, engagement, conversions, ROI) and deliver post evaluations of paid media campaigns. Ensure learnings taken into the next campaign.
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Keep abreast of the latest media trends, technologies, and best practices.
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Manage procurement pitch & deal evaluation for non-agency on record mediums and activations like OOH plans, influencers and content deals around native PR plans with publishers.
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Execute 3 disruptive paid traditional media-digital innovations for the year.
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Collaborate with research and brand teams to integrate consumer behavior, psychographics, and media consumption data into campaigns.
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Translate audience insights into actionable media recommendations and innovations.
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Guide the media agency to collect media-digital data for the marketing mix modelling, do the sense check and ensure right collection & validation in DMC and Extract tools.
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Collaborate with the global Matrix team to brainstorm and arrive at key insights across each brand by touchpoints and markets.
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Cascade learnings to the brand marketing team to take more effective and efficient A&P allocation decisions across the different consumer touch points identified, in accordance with the MMMs and further build on consumer insights.
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Deploy Matrix for rate validation & budget adjustments while maintaining sufficiency across media types.
The Ideal Person
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MBA or Bachelor s/Master s degree in Media, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
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Minimum 8-10 years of overall experience in renowned media agency or marketing teams managing brands or digital platforms
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Excellent English written and verbal communication skills are essential for interacting with senior stakeholders
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Preferably from FMCG Industry with successful stint in managing media or brands
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A strong understanding of the media industry, including traditional and digital media, is crucial
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At least 3-4 years of experience in handling media-digital data, analytical methodology understanding in earlier roles to bring in the best practices and up-to-date industry knowledge
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Should be able to connect the consumer insights in media planning
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Hands-on experience with media tools such as YUMI, Google Ads, Meta Business Manager, DV360
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