Assistant Manager

Role & responsibilities

Marketing Plan

• To assist in creating the business development plan for the assigned store in consultation with the Marketing team.
• To create individual business development targets for marketing executives and ensure that overall targets are met.

Functional Responsibilities

• Responsible for achieving sales targets set by the organization and generate revenue through the Marketing Team.
• Assist in supervising all marketing MTMs and motivate, manage and train the subordinates to close the target.
• Drive new customer acquisition in coordination with Marketing and Sales team.
• Conduct follow ups on all addresses collected from prospective customers, DNF Data & other related businesses (wedding related agencies, event management, beauty salons, etc.)and build a good relationship to generate leads.
• Collect leads from marketing executives/Sales team and other different sources of prospective weddings and develop a database of potential customers to report to superiors.
• Verify reports of the marketing staff and cross check the authenticity by making follow up calls to the prospective customers.
• Invite potential customers(leads)/existing customers to the Store, to whom the marketing employee has already met; for exhibitions, promotional events/campaigns, etc.
• Monitor the visits of the Marketing Executives through GPS tracking and verify the entry of leads into the CRM software regarding the client visits.
• Provide guidance and resolve queries of Marketing Executives and is responsible for their movements.
• Assist in visiting high net worth customers to convince them to make purchases from Malabar.
• Review leads from different sources of prospective weddings & advances and update the Showroom Heads on the same.
• As part of the CSR initiative of stores, check the eligibility of applicants to various charitable schemes introduced by the organization.

Marketing

• Understand the creative requirements of the store and inform superiors and make necessary arrangements.
• Communicate and participate in meetings with Visual merchandising team for store branding requirements, new visual and decor ideas.
• Supervise and execute ATL, BTL, digital activities & other localized marketing campaigns at store level in coordination with Showroom Head based on the approvals from MHQ Marketing team (execution,tracking, generating leads and analyzing outcomes).
• Assist in monitoring hoardings by collecting relevant information from Marketing Executives and manage BTL expenses.
• Make necessary arrangements to replace the damaged hoarding boards.
• Network with major industry players and gather information on competitors marketing strategy and their activities and update superiors with current market situation.
• Assist in monitoring the general sentiment about the brand online (monitoring reviews, comments, messages & posts) and execute online reputation management activities to ensure neutral/positive sentiment.
• Coordinate for all events, campaigns, exhibitions at regional and store level.
• Ensure and measure the effectiveness of community marketing.

Internal Process

• Generate marketing MIS reports to monitor and analyze market trends, campaign-based expenses, and activities done.
• Analyze call center reports to understand the feedback from prospective customers and manage customer inquiries.

People development

• Identify learning needs of team and self and provide requirements to L&D team
• Ensure completion of mandatory training programs for self and team
• Drive a performance driven culture in the team by timely monitoring, review of performance and feedback to the team members.

Preferred candidate profile:

• Minimum 3+years of experience in marketing role (digital, in- store)
• Education Bachelor's degree
• Experience in retail marketing, brand promotions, store activations, field marketing
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Team player with cross -functional coordination ability
• Local market understanding.
• Regional Language proficiency - Konkani, Marathi.