Brand Alliances Manager - Hyperlocal Social Media Startup

Brand Alliances Manager | Hyperlocal Social Media Startup | Delhi/ GGN

Work for a social media startup that is reinventing local retail with its trendsetting mobile app with over a million active users!

Our client is a hyper-local social media start-up that offers offline retailers the opportunity to target online digitally savvy millennials. Their exciting digital platform enables local merchants to promote themselves and thus get discovered by customers. The founders are IIT and IIM graduates with extensive experience in top tier consulting firms, start-ups and marquee VC firms. In just over 18 months, the company has acquired 1 million customers, expanded in 4 cities and covered more than 50,000 merchants. It has raised 3 Million Dollars in the first round of funding and is growing at an impressive rate.-

As a- Brand Alliances Manager, you will be responsible for acquiring and deepening brand relationships. Your role will include:

- Proactively reaching out to top retail brands in F&B, QSR, Fine Dining, Beauty, Wellness etc

- Building relationships with branded restaurants, beauty and fashion retailers

- Creating use cases for brands and acquiring them as clients

- Maintaining relationships with clients by providing holistic solutions

- Working in close coherence with the marketing team to best optimize results for clients

- Generating sales insights and suggesting product level changes

- Managing end-to-end sales process, including invoicing, collection, up-selling etc.

The ideal candidate must have:

- Relationships with national F&B, fashion and/or beauty brands

- Prior experience in merchant acquiring and new business development

- Innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions

- Result oriented, proactive and self-motivated approach

- Excellent communication skills

- High sense of ownership

Candidates with work experience in media companies, media agencies or FMCG companies are preferred.