Marketing Manager - Wellness Brand

Description:

We are seeking a Marketing Manager for a Series A funded Wellness Brand.

Job Profile:

Campaign Execution & Operations (70% of role):

- Execute direct-response campaigns across outdoor (hoardings, metro stations, bus shelters), print (national + regional newspapers), radio, and TV in 50+ cities

- Priority channels: Outdoor and print are primary focus; radio is tertiary; TV is exploratory for future scale

- Manage end-to-end campaign delivery: vendor coordination, placement booking, timeline management, quality control, on-ground verification

- Build the operational playbook: systems, processes, checklists for multi-city rollout
- Identify high-traffic advertising spots in each city that drive foot traffic to clinics and online leads

- Conduct physical site audits: verify hoarding placements, print ad quality, contracted deliverables

Media Planning & Buying (Core Strength Required):

- Own the offline budget with full P&L accountability

- Negotiate and buy media across Tier-1, Tier-2, Tier-3 cities: outdoor vendors, print media houses, radio stations, and TV networks

- Master regional media landscape: understand pricing, vendor dynamics, seasonal fluctuations

- Build and manage relationships with outdoor agencies, print publications, radio companies, and TV media houses across India

- Extract maximum value: negotiate volume discounts, secure prime placements, identify distress inventory opportunities

- Audit vendor delivery rigorously: catch fraud, demand refunds for non-performance, hold vendors accountable

Performance Measurement & Optimization (Critical):

- Build lead attribution infrastructure for offline campaigns (QR codes, unique phone numbers, promo codes, landing pages, location tagging)

- Track and report daily: Cost per lead, foot traffic uplift, lead-to-customer conversion, ROI by

city/channel/placement

- Conduct ongoing campaign optimization: kill underperforming placements within 2 weeks, reallocate budget to winners

- Partner with Director of Growth (digital) to benchmark offline vs. digital CPL and optimize total marketing mix

- Present performance data to Founders weekly: whats working, whats not, what youre changing

Creative Coordination (Not Creative Creation):

- Work with Founders and copywriters to execute creative briefs

- Provide market feedback: what messages resonate in which cities, audience insights from ground

- Coordinate A/B testing of creative variations based on performance data

- Ensure brand consistency and messaging clarity across all placements

- You dont write the ads instead you make sure they get placed correctly and deliver results

Team & Vendor Management:

- Build and manage team: media buyers, coordinators, city-level field staff (as scale requires)

- Liaise with city-level agencies for outdoor media, print placement, radio bookings, TV media houses, and on-ground execution

- Build vendor scorecards: delivery quality, negotiation leverage, responsiveness, fraud tracking

- Handle day-to-day operations: spot identification, booking confirmations, creative trafficking, invoicing, payment cycles

- Create systems that can scale from 50 to 100+ cities without Founder dependency.

Requirements:

- Experience: 8-12 years in B2C marketing with demonstrated success in operational delivery of offline campaigns

Best-fit profiles:

- D2C brands scaling offline: Operations/Media heads from similar businesses (managed 10-30cr offline spends operationally)

- FMCG regional launch specialists: Ran multi-city rollouts for companies similar to HUL/ITC/Dabur with hands-on vendor management and budget accountability

- Media agency veterans who moved client-side: Operations heads who then took P&L ownership at brands

- Outdoor/Print specialists: Deep expertise in traditional media buying, vendor networks across India, negotiation mastery