Mindshare Fulcrum | Lead Communication Planning

Comms & Strategic Planning Mumbai, India


Description

Mindshare, India 
Partner Communication Planning


Overview of job
 
Mindshare is looking for “Partner - Comms Planning” with minimum 12- 15 years of work experience. We are looking for people who are a combination of left and right brain. Someone who has hands on experience of social listening tools and a comprehensive understanding of social / digital platforms and their data eco-system. In this role you will be decoding a vast universe of data, marrying various data sources (online/offline) and funnelling it down to arrive at data backed actionable consumer insights.
 
If you are an out of the box, strategic thinker, love data and want to create great work that works, this is the role for you.
 
Reporting of the role: 
This role reports to the Communications Planning lead
 
3 best things about the job: 

Opportunity to work with the leading FMCG giant in India across a variety of categories and work with some of the the best tools and technologies in the market.
  • Create path breaking work that impacts the brands goals as well as win awards
  • Part of most exciting innovation hub – Content/ Creative/ Insights/Technology/ Measurement
  • Spot the not-so-obvious – Requires you to be a numbers gig with the ability to play with data for churning out meaningful actionable insights and develop products
  • Drive the thinking behind big campaign ideas, laying down the foundation with data, insights and consumer understanding
 
In three months: 
  • Work as part of a team to contribute to the Content Strategy and Listening function and streamline operations/ reporting with minimal supervision
  • Bring fresh thinking and insights which is data backed to enable the content team to develop insightful work
  • Integrate and learn the different streams of work/processes in data and digital
In six months:
  • You would have taken complete control of the process, deliverables, and client relationship
  • Provide strategic inputs on project briefs through data driven insights
  • Enabled content team to develop proactive work by supporting them, sharing consumer insights and cultural trends
  • Drive meetings and present analysis to the content team and clients
In 12 months: 
  • Emerged as the go-to person both internally and amongst clients for all strategy and measurement requirement
  • Independently work on client requirements from scratch - from decoding the brief, setting up a structure, analysing and sharing recommendations basis the analysis that matches the clients’ expectations
  • Be equipped enough to independently explore and evaluate the best tools and technology in the market for Mindshare
What your day job looks like: 
  • Fun, charged and highly motivated work environment 
  • You will be coordinating on deliverables internally and externally 
  • Identify content opportunities for the brands by tracking brand conversations to identify alerts or opportunities for the clients
  • Interactions with the clients on a regular basis to build trust
  • Ability to work on stringent deadlines.
  • Participating in projects beyond retainer accounts to gain exposure and learning
What you will need: 
  • Possess organizational skills in the form of written and oral communication, critical thinking, troubleshooting, and problem analysis. 
  • High proficiency on social listening and monitoring tools, well versed with social media benchmarking tools, broad knowledge of Microsoft office (PowerPoint, word and excel) and good presentation skills
  • Strategic, analytical and problem-solving approach but with a creative bent of mind is a must
  • Demonstrated aptitude for learning new technologies
  • Understanding of general business, digital and social media platforms and technology in general.
  • Ability to work in cross-functional teams across different expertise and collaborate with internal and external teams
  • Demonstrate a combination of highly quantitative analytical skills, strategic judgment, and creativity.
  • Tracking time-resource engagement for all projects to ensure timely deliveries. 
  • Someone who is proactive, takes initiative, and demonstrates the ability to perform in a fast-paced, high pressure, and highly competitive environment.
  • Very quick learner, resourceful, with smart problem-solving skills.