Marketing Manager

About PhonePe Group:

PhonePe is Indias leading digital payments company with 50 crore (500 Million) registered users and 3.7 crore (37 Million) merchants covering over 99% of the postal codes across India. On the back of its leadership in digital payments PhonePe has expanded into financial services (Insurance Mutual Funds Stock Broking and Lending) as well as adjacent techenabled businesses such as Pincode for hyperlocal shopping and Indus App Store which is Indias first localized App Store. The PhonePe Group is a portfolio of businesses aligned with the companys vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.

Culture

At PhonePe we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work Everyday! And creating the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here you own your work from start to finish right from day one. Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology that impacts millions ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed join us!

The Role

Overview

We are looking for a dynamic and resultsoriented marketer to drive & execute the marketing strategy for Payments. As the Marketing Manager you will be the voice of the consumer while championing the brand & business objectives. You will be responsible for influencing and executing strategies that drive overall business growth by understanding business context & helping translate that into marketing strategy & then executing the marketing strategy.
This is a highimpact role that requires :
a) First principle thinking business & category understanding ability to process and appreciate disparate category business & consumer context & translate that into sharply focussed marketing strategy & plan of action.
b) It will also need ability to bring the aligned marketing strategy to life. It will involve brief writing ability to identity partners creative flair analytical abilities media & research understanding.
c) For daily success : being on top of business context structured thinking presentation skills & relationship building with external and internal stakeholders are must have skills. This role warrants for the candidate to exhibit a high degree of accountability & ownership.

You will work crossfunctionally collaborating with teams across Product Business Finance Analytics Tech Legal Procurement and Marketing to drive impact.
Experience : Min 57 years of experience of driving the marketing charter for categories across FMCG & internet brands (travel fashion fintech D2C brands ecommerceedutechF&Bconsumer goods)

Description
The Role: Marketing Manager

This role is in the Marketing team at PhonePe reporting into AD Marketing Payments
This role will be responsible for marketing of payments business.

Responsibilities

1. Payments marketing will involve driving growth for the payments business through an integrated marketing approach. This will warrant strong category & business understanding AOP deep dive ability to process business data into insights and translate that into marketing strategies & actionables.

2. Marketing strategy & execution: Defining business objectives & translating them into clear actionables from communication media reserach & measurement pov. Execution & operational excellence is critical. This will involve proactively planning for campaigns & their networks with ownership & accountability breaking down tasks into action items & identifying & working with partners to drive high quality output in a timely manner.

channels knowhow: This will involve understanding channel capabilities from a targeting impact & measurement pov. Coordinating with channel owners like traditional media social media digital : on and off deckCRM & merchandising to define clear problem statements & follow up on solutions & impact.

4. Integrated campaign planning: Understanding & appreciation of business realities into clear & simple problem statements & objectives through creative & media briefs. Identifying evaluating & onboarding the right creative content & media partners to solve for problem statements. Planning campaign networks & campaign designs and then working with agencies/ partners to timely deliver the output.

5. Research & Insights : Ability & comfort with qualitative & quantitative data translation into insights that power planning at a strategy level creative development media planning & impact measurement. Prior experience of utilising Brand tracks U&A like studies is mandatory.

6. Stakeholder mgmt : Managing influencing & collaborating with key stakeholders while navigating the system to seek clarity & inputs influence decision making negotiate repivot if needed.

Must haves

1. MBA from Tier 1 college with at least 57 years of Marketing experience in a well established & marketing first internet/ fintech FMCG brand. Marketing experience to that is holistic and centred around a deep category & consumer understanding with bias for action & measurement.

2. Analytical bent of mind. Comfort with numbers & relevant business media & research metrics to arrive at clear & actionable insights.

3. Relationship mgmt: Ability to manage diff stakeholders while managing ambiguity & navigating the system to influence decision making seek clarity negotiate & drive impact

4. Media understanding: Proven experience of evaluating measuring and optimising both traditional & digital media (paid & owned). Ability to plan & drive experiments that lead to incremental impact for the categories

5. Experience of working with different creativeresearch & media agencies with working relations across the top league brief writing skills for Business approach notes & creative and media agencies

6. First principle thinking : Ability to think strategically ask the right questions to get and drive clarity for key stakeholders. The ability to appreciate disparate pieces of information and translate that into clear actionables is important.

7. Execution excellence: Operational and execution excellence with a high sense of accountability & ownership

Critical Requirement

1. Business & category understanding along with experience in bringing marketing strategies to life through excellence in program mgmt & marketing ops
2. Ability to process & translate different points of view & information to insights that help define clear & singular marketing tasks & goals.
3. A selfstarter with a bias for action & measuring impact
4. Accountability & ownership of work
& resilience to evolve ways of working in agile environments

PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits (Not applicable for Intern or Contract Roles)

• Insurance Benefits Medical Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Accidental Insurance Life Insurance
• Wellness Program Employee Assistance Program Onsite Medical Center Emergency Support System
• Parental Support Maternity Benefit Paternity Benefit Program Adoption Assistance Program Daycare Support Program
• Mobility Benefits Relocation benefits Transfer Support Policy Travel Policy
• Retirement Benefits Employee PF Contribution Flexible PF Contribution Gratuity NPS Leave Encashment
• Other Benefits Higher Education Assistance Car Lease Salary Advance Policy

Working at PhonePe is a rewarding experience! Great people a work environment that thrives on creativity the opportunity to take on roles beyond a defined job description are just some of the reasons you should work with us. Read more about PhonePe on our blog.

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