Asst. Manager/Manager - Brand Solutions

You will be responsible for conceptualizing digital-led strategies and solutions to address client/brand requirements, generating business through effective identification of categories and concept pitch related to branded content & brand integration. Your key responsibilities will include: - Developing new business with existing clients & building new accounts to meet sales quotas. - Pitching content partnerships for both long form & short form formats to new and existing brands. - Identifying & monitoring categories to support increased revenue traction. - Creating strong and compelling pitches to showcase developed concepts/ideas proactively. - Understanding & interpreting the brand positioning, brand objective, suggesting creatively viable solutions, and creating proposal decks with complete content & marketing solutions. - Supporting the account management team in ensuring all deliverables communicated by the client are delivered in a timely manner. - Forecasting and tracking key account metrics (quarterly sales results and annual forecasts). - Staying on top of trends and aligning with editorial & content creation teams on upcoming impact properties, original content, and network-wide offerings. - Maintaining relationships and working collaboratively on developing and building concepts with production partners, media agencies, and talent. You should possess a minimum of 4-6 years of experience in branded content and solutions across digital & television mediums with a strong knowledge of the digital ecosystem capable of managing Brand partnerships, Business Development, and Brand Solutions. You should also have the ability to connect content with brands" objectives with effective creative orientation and a sales orientation to help clients visualize brand philosophy through branded content to close deals successfully. Additionally, you should be able to narrate stories for seamless understanding of the solutions and translate this to pitch decks, leverage relationships, build a strong network, and have effective negotiation skills to achieve shared strategic goals & targets of clients & internal stakeholders. Your role will require you to be a hustler with out-of-the-box thinking, striking the right balance between storytelling, marketing, creativity, and commercial acumen.,