WHAT DOES A BRAND MANAGER DO?

Updated: May 21, 2025 - The Brand Manager manages the wholesale business, achieves sales targets, and enhances brand visibility. This role involves collaborating with retailers, ensuring adherence to guidelines, analyzing sales data, and supporting stock management. Additionally, the manager implements training and merchandising programs and coordinates marketing activities and roadshows with retailers.

A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Brand Manager

1. Brand Manager Roles and Responsibilities

  • Brand Strategy: Take brand ownership and develop brand strategy, including the setting of style guides, brand guidelines, brand vision, and value proposition for the short as well as the long term
  • Brand Planning: Create a brand plan and a go-to-market strategy based on the brand strategy
  • Market Research: Keep abreast with market developments and analyze consumer insights, as well as competitor strategies
  • Competitor Analysis: Do competitor and customer insight analysis, along with the analysis of sales forecasts, relevant financials, and product sales
  • Product Development: Assist with product development, pricing, and new product launches, as well as developing new business opportunities
  • Media Planning: Plan and execute communications and media actions across offline, online, and social media
  • Budget Management: Guide the Advertising and Promotion budget
  • Campaign Analysis: Understand media campaign performance and results to develop future campaigns
  • Performance Reporting: Manage post-campaign analysis of all major launches
  • Sales Forecasting: Present forecast bulletins to the wider sales team

2. Brand Manager Duties and Roles

  • Marketing Planning: Develop marketing plans for the nominated brands and products.
  • Marketing Execution: Execute and manage marketing activities in coordination with digital, communication, and design teams.
  • Performance Analysis: Analyze and report on brand performance
  • Market Monitoring: Monitor market and consumer trends, and competitors' activities
  • Client Coordination: Coordinate with clients to develop, implement product strategies to achieve higher growth
  • Market Research: Identify research needs, execute research studies and projects, analyze research to identify opportunities, conduct SWOT analysis, and assist the marketing director with other appointed tasks
  • Distribution Strategy: Develop distribution strategies
  • Marketing Calendar: Develop well-paced marketing calendars with the Senior Marketing Manager and Commercial Director
  • Campaign Support: Support the planning and implementation of marketing campaigns
  • Budget Management: Manage the day-to-day marketing budget
  • Agency Liaison: Liaise with media agency partners, EMEA and Global, and the in-house design agency

3. Brand Manager Responsibilities and Key Tasks

  • Campaign Planning: Working within the Central grocery team and local markets to plan an annual calendar of campaigns
  • Campaign Development: Working with in-house Creative Studio and/or external agencies to develop integrated campaigns
  • Consumer Research: Briefing internal and/or external insights and research teams to test creative routes with consumers to ensure campaigns are clear and customer-first
  • Best Practices: Building playbooks to ensure marketing teams leverage best practices from around the world and from HQ teams
  • Channel Alignment: Aligning with central channel experts to execute campaign creative with channel-first strategies and approaches
  • PR and Social Media: Working with the local consumer comms leads on planning PR and social media activity to support campaigns
  • Market Visibility: Maintain visibility of TOMA and CVP across all markets, reviewing and planning tactical activity in response
  • Performance Reporting: Leading on performance, sharing post-campaign analysis and reporting learnings with the business

4. Brand Manager Roles and Details

  • Wholesale Development: Wholesale business and develop external retailers to achieve annual business plan objectives and improve the quality of retailer shops to follow the headquarters' guidelines
  • Sales Achievement: Achieve the annual sales budgets allocated to the wholesale channels
  • Sales Growth: Fulfill and complete the opportunities to strengthen sales growth and brand visibility
  • Sales Analysis: Analyse sales and stock reports to assist wholesalers to manage stock and follow brand guidelines
  • Partnership Implementation: Work closely with wholesalers and retailers to ensure partnership program implementation as planned, including product training and merchandising
  • Marketing Support: Assist the Brand Manager in planning and arranging marketing activities or roadshows with retailers
  • Marketing Evaluation: Assess marketing activities and propose solutions/improvements
  • Relationship Building: Build and establish a positive attitude with wholesalers and retailers. (efficiency, unity, and cooperation)
  • Market Visits: Regular market visits and generate the action plan report

5. Brand Manager Key Accountabilities

  • Advocacy Strategy: Co-creating the (digital) advocacy strategy and campaigns (influencers, seeding, etc) with my main stakeholders.
  • Brand Alignment: Ensuring that all social digital activities are aligned with the brand strategy and expression.
  • Budget Management: Managing PR/Influencer budgets in alignment with my stakeholders
  • Advocacy Campaigns: Managing the advocacy pyramid and campaigns
  • Agency Management: Managing and facilitating PR/advocacy agencies, platforms, and tools
  • Social Media Oversight: Overseeing brand social media pages
  • Community Management: Owning community management
  • Performance Tracking: Tracking and reporting the social media activations
  • Event Organization: Organizing advocacy events
  • ROI Monitoring: Guarding ROI by monthly KPI’s, budget reporting, and proactively sharing best practices.
  • Market Representation: Being the voice of the BNL market to international leaders on digital advocacy topics

6. Partnership Brand Manager General Responsibilities

  • Brand Advisory: Act as the brand advisor and advocate in crafting strategic partnerships to support the brand and commercial return
  • Partner Communications: Own the Partner marketing communications and collateral, implementing the new brand guidelines across all touchpoints
  • Lead Generation: Support merchant leads, conversions and create new opportunities
  • Partner Strategy: Execute the strategic framework for partner tiers that defines value beyond commercial
  • Proposal Execution: Execute partner proposals by tiers and support the Partnerships team in defining, communicating, and building relationships with partners
  • Partnership Marketing: Identify opportunities for extended partnership marketing collaborations and execute campaigns, events.
  • Integrated Planning: Work cross-functionally with the Partnership team to develop integrated Brand and Partner marketing plans aligned to business objectives
  • Activity Reporting: Measure and report on all activity
  • Consumer Analysis: Analyze market and consumer data to create consumer segmentation to further improve consumer acquisition and retention
  • Content Strategy: Develop an online and offline product content strategy to increase conversion rate and drive O2O traffic

7. Brand Manager Role Purpose

  • Campaign Communication: Develop and execute brand campaign communication plans in social contact points, including landing on EC
  • Digital Communication Planning: Develop a communication plan and execution plan on all digital aspects that align with the specific brand strategy, and drive world-class digital engagement with consumers on all digital platforms in a scalable and sustainable approach
  • Digital Framework: Define a digital framework under the supervision of a line manager that seamlessly synchronizes consumer experience across platforms, media and social networks to maximize brand engagement, connection, and purchase intent
  • Cross-functional Integration: Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure a fully integrated digital initiative across all channels
  • Ecommerce Growth: Drive ecommerce growth through digital and social, including driving traffic and increasing shopper engagement and purchase intent on digital and social to KO ecommerce destinations
  • Content Development: Undertake Glucerna SR content development to achieve communication targets
  • Content Collaboration: Collaborate with design and writing teams/candidates to produce high-quality content to increase consumer engagement through seeding
  • SEO Optimization: Optimize content considering SEO
  • Content Distribution: Share content through various channels, ensuring a strong web presence
  • Consumer Feedback: Receive consumer feedback and generate ideas to increase consumer engagement
  • Campaign Performance: Measure and report performance of Glucerna marketing campaigns, including content development and assessment against goals (ROI and KPIs)
  • Performance Optimization: Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights

8. Brand Manager Essential Functions

  • Brand Leadership: Lead the allocated brands, guaranteeing effective and efficient business cooperation with local sales, local demand, and materials management
  • Brand Development: Actively develop proposals (e.g., product and promotion ideas) to improve the brand performance based on local consumer and market insights
  • Strategic Alignment: Align the local initiatives to the regional strategy
  • Marketing Strategy: Develop and monitor the execution of the Marketing Strategy based on market needs, competitive situation, and company targets
  • Product Launches: Launch and re-launch of products and Central-East Europe-wide promotions
  • Category Knowledge: Build and continuously improve category and brand knowledge.
  • Budget Planning: Formulate brand strategy and annual budget plan to achieve business and marketing goals
  • Go-to-Market Planning: Develop a go-to marketing plan for product launches and strengthening brand awareness with both online and offline initiatives

9. Brand Manager Additional Details

  • Product Development: Develop new products for the market, as well as develop new markets for current products or new products.
  • Business Collaboration: Work together with the new business development group.
  • Internal Coordination: Build relationship internally to ensure the business process is working accordingly with trade marketing for trade promo and distributor communication, sales and distribution group for sales and distribution performance, marketing research group for conducting marketing research, regulatory and legal for communication and new product development, new business development for developing new product, production and supply chain to ensure product availability, finance for payments, pricing and profitability.
  • External Relations: Build relationships externally, with Ad agency, PR agency and media in developing communication strategy, plan, implementation and evaluation.
  • Promotions Management: Promo agency in developing promo activities, marketing events and sponsorship.
  • Marketing Research: Conducts marketing research activities.
  • Market Sensing: Outlets and consumers need to get the “market feel” on what is going on currently.
  • Policy Compliance: Ensure that all activities comply with QEHS policy.

10. Brand Manager Roles

  • Omnichannel Strategy: Develop superior omnichannel Brand Plan strategy and action plans through strong alignment with local Medical, Sales, Access and with Global marketing counterparts
  • Mitigation Planning: Develop mitigation plans for key market challenges (e.g., competitive launches or significant competitive change)
  • Cluster Collaboration: Partner with the Brand Manager counterpart in the cluster to identify synergies and avoid duplications
  • Market Access: Contribute to Market Access, Pricing and Commercial policy activities
  • Research Evaluation: Evaluate marketing research plans continuously to ensure they are informing strategy and monitoring performance
  • Cross-functional Leadership: Lead cross-functional Brand Team to monitor execution excellence and maintain an effective level of collaboration
  • Campaign Execution: Execute communication campaigns and programs to deliver brand strategy, sales and expenditure objectives
  • Customer Engagement: Identify innovative mechanisms to engage and provide value to key customers and differentiate Ipsen based on key company and brand strengths
  • Competitive Monitoring: Monitor the competitive landscape and develop communications and action plans
  • Creative Problem Solving: Apply creativity, innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to solve complex business/marketplace issues
  • Vendor Management: Work closely with vendors to conceptualize, develop, and execute all patient education and promotional materials and programs
  • ROI Measurement: Implement an ROI measurement plan to assess the impact of key tactics on marketing and sales growth, and make adjustments with a sense of urgency

11. Brand Manager Tasks

  • Brand Strategy: Brand strategy and brand plan development based on a deep understanding and comprehensive analysis of all factors influencing brand equity building and brand financial results delivery.
  • Initiative Execution: Execute all initiatives within the agreed budget, not only according to the agreed strategy/brand plan, but also initiate during the year and agree with the functional manager.
  • Global Strategy Execution: Execute against the global strategy to deliver applicable end-to-end marketing initiatives that, when executed along the path to purchase, drive business financial and share growth
  • Activity Analysis: Post activity analysis of all activities conducted and developing recommendations for future process improvement.
  • Project Leadership: Proactive project leadership and project management.
  • Brand Implementation: Develop and implement the brand's strategies, brand plans and new brand initiatives, deploy brand assets across all relevant consumer/shopper touch points (pack, on shelf, digital, media, etc.)
  • Forecasting: Lead the brand forecasting process in line with the corporate timetable, and work with Demand Planners to ensure a proper long-term forecast.
  • Consumer Insights: Drive consumer understanding and insights to strengthen the brand's communication.
  • Marketing Mix Development: Proactive development of marketing, communication and promotional mixes to meet the brand objectives and customer needs.
  • Performance Monitoring: Monitor business performance and external environment via appropriate tools to deliver corrective action, meeting business objectives.
  • Brand Analysis: Conducts analysis and periodical reviews of the brand, competitive, category, customer and consumer trends, post activity effectiveness evaluation to maximize the brand’s equity and marketplace performance.

12. Brand Manager Details and Accountabilities

  • Consumer Insights: Identify consumer insights and market trends to execute marketing tactics that will grow the brand profitably
  • Regional Campaigns: Bring innovations to life through the development of marketing campaigns relevant to the Eastern Europe region
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with a multifunctional team (sales, finance, logistics, and others) to deliver business targets
  • Project Management: Manage all ongoing client projects.
  • Client Communication: Meet with clients for weekly updates and brief intakes.
  • Marketing Deliverables: Manage and produce marketing deliverables and sales tools such as web pages, digital campaigns, videos, presentations, conference booths, etc., in collaboration with all Atreo’s professional departments
  • Quality Assurance: Quality assurance for brand consistency.
  • Client Methodology: Work with the Atreo client management methodology (Client Points/ Status charts/Gantt charts, etc).
  • Customer Relationship: Build and leverage effective relationships with key customers across business segments, including HCPs, Patient advocacy groups, nurses, etc
  • Sales Collateral: Create and implement sales collateral and patient education materials

13. Brand Manager Overview

  • Product Naming and Packaging: Generating names and packaging designs for new and existing products
  • Marketing Strategy: Developing and implementing marketing strategies to effectively communicate product benefits
  • Market Research: Monitoring product distribution and consumer reactions through focus groups and market research
  • Brand Profitability: Assessing the profitability of the product and improving the current brand presence in the market
  • Trend Monitoring: Keeping updated on the latest marketing trends as part of the planning process and execution of campaigns
  • Vendor Management: Recruiting and managing external vendors
  • Advisory Support: Closely interacting and supporting the Medical Director in setting up and coordinating advisory panels
  • Sales Training: Supporting the development and execution of highly effective sales training meetings
  • Field Force Engagement: Supporting effective engagement and communication with the Field Sales Force
  • KOL Engagement: Serving as a champion for Opinion Leaders, including identifying and applying customer insights through market research and KOL engagement, as well as leading strategic and tactical development of targeted initiatives and materials.

14. Senior Brand Manager Job Description

  • Marketing Leadership: Lead all marketing activity associated with one or more product lines or businesses with the Consumer Services and Products Marketing team
  • Market Analysis: Understand trends and market dynamics (health care professional, consumer/patient, managed care organizations, government, CMS, industry, competitive, adjacent categories)
  • Strategic Planning: Lead long-term and short-term strategic planning, including analysis, recommendation, and presentation of proposed strategies to senior leadership
  • Market Research: Lead Market Research to generate stakeholder insights and identify desired unmet needs
  • Campaign Execution: Develop and execute marketing campaigns across innovation and base business, including traditional and digital media planning, consumer and healthcare professional advertising materials
  • Digital Experience: Partner with the Acelis Connect Health Technology team and IT to deliver best-in-class user experiences across the digital ecosystem
  • Channel Strategy: Partner with the sales force to develop channel strategies and tactics
  • KPI Tracking: Identify and track key KPIs that measure business performance and goals
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve objectives, including the field sales force, technology, legal, regulatory, medical affairs, public affairs, executive management, creative department, vendors, and health care professionals

15. Brand Manager Functions

  • Strategic Communication: Sharing all the strategic information with the reporting line and other stakeholders
  • Stakeholder Identification: Identifying key stakeholders at each step of the patient flow/product value chain
  • Trend Analysis: Identifying and anticipating key environmental trends
  • Local Marketing Strategy: Proposing and implementing a successful local marketing strategy for the assigned products, consistent with the global brand plan
  • Activity Execution: Professionally executing the planned activities
  • Compliance Adherence: Adhering to internal standard processes and complying with regulatory and compliance requirements
  • Marketing Implementation: Implementing the customer segmentation process, branding and brand messages, promotional and PR activities, within a pre-defined budget
  • Sales Alignment: “Selling” the strategy and the local brand plan to the Sales force and identifying the Sales force's overall actions
  • Feedback Gathering: Constantly getting feedback from the sales force and other key external/internal stakeholders
  • Brand Planning: Developing timely and accurately the brand plans.
  • Primary Contact: Being the primary point of contact for the relevant International Product Manager Group.
  • Plan Monitoring: Continuously monitoring and collecting feedback about the proposed marketing plan and projects
  • Performance Monitoring: Continuously monitoring and reporting on sales, market, and competitor performance for the assigned products and adapting activities accordingly

16. Brand Manager Accountabilities

  • Campaign Management: Manage external agency on integrated campaign (briefing, providing creative feedback)
  • Creative Optimization: Partner with the Acquisition team and internal creative team to optimize digital creative across channels
  • Consumer Insights: Work with consumer insights leads to better understand consumers, and plan marketing efforts as a result
  • Website Optimization: Partner with the Web Product team to continually optimize the website based on new research and user information
  • Partnership Marketing: Meet with external partners to develop plans to market with other brands in new channels
  • Product Launch Planning: Meet with the cross-functional team to plan the new product launch
  • Retention Marketing: Partner with the retention marketing lead to extend acquisition campaigns to current riders and ensure a holistic messaging plan
  • ROI Assessment: Constantly assessing the effectiveness and ROI of tactical initiatives
  • Tactical Implementation: Proposing and implementing non-manpowered activities, such as the media and PR plan, mailings, internet, etc
  • Event Selection: Responsible for the selection of all product–related congress activities

17. Brand Manager Job Summary

  • Brand Brief Development: Create and lead the seasonal brand briefs based on sharp and insightful consumer and market knowledge
  • Brand Planning: Drive integrated cross-functional brand plans that create distinction and separation of the brand.
  • Execution Management: Ensure the plans are delivered with the company's premium standard, to budget, and on time.
  • Marketplace Collaboration: Work closely with Marketplace teams to achieve business results and drive product through across key marketplace dimensions
  • Insight Integration: Synthesize data and insights with the Consumer Insight Team and craft into actionable, data-informed member-led plans
  • Execution Excellence: Deliver world-class executional excellence in partnership with the marketing functions and country teams.
  • Brand Recap Leadership: Lead cross-functional brand recaps and hindsight work in the spirit of a learning organization
  • Budget Management: Take responsibility for managing the budget

18. Modern Brand Manager Responsibilities

  • Business Strategy: Develop a business strategy to drive strong growth
  • Sales Achievement: Achieve monthly and annual sales and profit targets
  • Stock Management: Take responsibility for stock management and forecasting
  • Marketing Strategy: Develop strong marketing and media strategies
  • Brand Awareness: Drive demand, enhance awareness, and visibility of the brand
  • PR Strategy: Develop strong PR relations and a focused strategy to enhance the brand equity
  • Social Media Management: Take responsibility for social media management
  • Partnership Development: Drive partnerships with retailers, media, and all internal and external stakeholders
  • eCommerce Strategy: Develop a strong eCommerce strategy
  • CRM Strategy: Develop a strong CRM strategy to grow and recruit customers, and encourage loyalty

19. Brand Manager Details

  • Campaign Management: Develop strategies and manage sales and marketing campaigns to ensure that products meet customers’ expectations and build credibility for the brand.
  • Market Research: Carry out market research to keep up to date with customer trends, whilst predicting future trends.
  • Campaign Analysis: Analyze the success of marketing campaigns and create reports to show how brands and products are positioned in the market, country, city, store, and e-commerce.
  • Trend Monitoring: Monitor marketing trends with competitors
  • Budget and Strategy Management: Manage budget and brand product strategies to achieve the objectives.
  • Pricing Strategy: Ensure the sale and profitability of products and brands, assisting in pricing strategies by monitoring the competitors.
  • KPI Development: Create a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor regularly the effectiveness of strategy and marketing actions, providing periodic analysis and an executive summary integrating the KPIs.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with colleagues across multiple departments, building and strengthening relationships

20. Brand Manager Duties

  • Influence Strategy: Orchestrate Influence strategy from who to how much, in close contact with old and new friends of the brand to help grow the name, thanks to relevant influencers worldwide.
  • Influencer Budgeting: Have an influencer budget to spend wisely to maximize visibility and sales.
  • Ad Collaboration: In close partnership with the Traffic Manager in charge of paid advertising, jointly decide on content and copywriting for ads to achieve the highest engagement rate and conversion rate possible.
  • PR Strategy: Kick off and implement a multi-country PR strategy, achieving to place the company in the most influential media, from mainstream to feminine health specialised titles.
  • Press Relations: Write press releases and create relationships with journalists.
  • Content Strategy: Develop the content strategy, identify the most relevant topics for the company to be vocal about on social networks as well as on the website, playing a significant part in SEO activities.
  • Brand Voice: Own the voice of the brand and ensure its consistency across all client-facing channels.
  • Departmental Support: Support for all other departments and projects (customer service, community management, emailing) on this topic.

21. Brand Manager Roles and Responsibilities

  • Consumer Journey Marketing: Drive marketing across the consumer journey to acquire new customers, increase consumer education and engagement, and build lasting consumer relationships
  • CRM Strategy: Develop a CRM strategy (website, email, SMS/MMS, etc.) with full implementation and form a full annual calendar to continually test, learn, and build on while creating a compelling and consistent consumer value proposition
  • Search Ownership: Own all search, including SEO and SEM for existing and new content
  • Database Management: Own the overall health of the database, including segmentation, refreshes, scrubs/cleansing
  • Performance Metrics: Define, analyze, create best practices, and present metrics that inform the success of the business, including for paid media
  • Brand Stewardship: Be a diligent brand steward, ensuring that all content meets standards, guidelines, and exudes an aspirational brand
  • CRM Development: Work with leadership to build and continuously evolve CRM strategy that grows brand affinity, engagement, and ultimately, conversion
  • Database Optimization: Maximize brand databases (segmentation/modeling and the development of a communication strategy around acquisition and retention)

22. Brand Manager Duties and Roles

  • Segmentation and Market Intelligence: Develop segmentation, competitive analysis/market intelligence, and branding strategies for the responsible category and brand portfolio.
  • Consumer Insight: Provide expertise in consumer/market understanding and insight.
  • Trend Identification: Identify emerging business and technology trends.
  • Brand Strategy Deployment: Develop and deploy brand strategies and marketing plans to meet growth objectives, support business strategy alignment, and achieve goals in market share and operating profit.
  • Market Insight Transformation: Lead, manage, and transform market insights into business and marketing solutions
  • Cross-functional Alignment: Ensure alignment across functions and teams.
  • Brand Asset Communication: Lead the production and integrated communication of brand assets to deliver brand positioning and business goals.
  • Creative Consistency: Ensure creative concepts and production of brand communication materials are consistent and aligned with brand strategies and regional/global brand guidelines.
  • Advertising and IMC: Lead the advertisement and integrated marketing communications to achieve the target of brand awareness and NPS.
  • Integrated Campaigns: Lead and manage effective integrated campaigns and best-in-class communication concepts aligned with KPIs, target audience, brand values and positioning, UBA, NPS, and ensure tracking and reporting of results.

23. Brand Manager Responsibilities and Key Tasks

  • Marketing Spend Synergy: Identify synergies on marketing spend - opportunities, scale, impact analysis, media spend, etc.
  • Digital Marketing Strategy: Develop, lead, and implement Digital Marketing plans in line with the global and regional priorities and guidelines, and keep up with the latest trends and consumer needs.
  • Digital Media Planning: Lead, plan, and execute digital media plans including paid-for digital advertising, social media plans, search engine marketing (SEM), and search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Content Planning: Lead, plan and work with the stakeholders to develop a consistent content plan and to manage online advertising, monitor the performance, and track reports.
  • Competitor Monitoring: Conduct regular competitor monitoring and reporting of digital activities.
  • Integrated Marketing: Lead the planning process to maximize sales through an integrated marketing approach, by synergizing all the efforts of the product launch, consumer approach, with a combination of both online and offline communications.
  • E-Commerce Marketing: Develop and execute a marketing activity plan in E-Commerce platforms to support brand building and sales performance in the selected E-Commerce platforms.
  • Team Leadership: Lead and coach the Assistant Brand Manager and Brand Specialist in the Brand Team.
  • Capability Development: Improve team capability and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Marketing Collaboration: Teamwork with the other key marketing functions, e.g., product planning, trade marketing, and cross-functional teams, e.g., sales, channel, and strategy teams.

24. Brand Manager Roles and Details

  • Consumer Insight: Understand core consumers, and collaborate with teammates to unearth cultural, consumer, and product insights that lead to inspiring creative briefs and new product positioning
  • Program Deployment: Support the integrated deployment of strategic marketing programs across advertising, site, email, PM, social, events, paid media, PR, influencer engagement, and in-store activation
  • Channel Execution: Ensure a cohesive execution across channels in close partnership with the Activations team
  • Creative Collaboration: Build and maintain close collaboration with internal and external creative partners to ensure delivery of creative ideas that are brand-right and industry-leading, and executed in a timely fashion
  • Media Planning: Support the delivery of strategic media plans to support key initiatives through the successful management of publishers and external agency partners
  • Knowledge Sharing: Routinely share program results, industry trends, and creative inspiration with the rest of the team to help keep them consumer-obsessed and results-oriented

25. Brand Manager General Responsibilities

  • Client Acquisition: Approach new clients, understand their key objectives, and help activate them within the relevant ESL esports programs
  • Client Relationship Management: Maintain existing key client relationships through regular communication and work to develop new initiatives within those accounts
  • Sales Pipeline Management: Maintain an accurate sales pipeline
  • Account Retention: Take steps to ensure key account retention, business growth, and profitability
  • Proposal and Support Planning: Plan and control proposal preparation, customer support, and customer consulting
  • Campaign Reporting: Creation and delivery of detailed post-campaign reports
  • Market Analysis: Independently identify market/growth potential, observe the competitors, and know their service spectrum, price structure, and price policy
  • Account Strategy: Provide input to and lead the implementation of account management strategy to expand and maintain ESL Asia's customer base, deliver net growth, revenue, profitability, and service targets for key accounts in line with ESL's business strategy
  • Campaign Execution: Work closely with internal ESL product teams to ensure successful campaign management and execution, and that the sales goals for the relevant strategic key accounts are met

26. Brand Manager Roles

  • Brand Positioning: Responsible for setting the central brand positioning for Kindred's commercial brands
  • Campaign Alignment: Work in partnership with Local Markets to ensure their campaign and marketing activity is aligned with the central brand positioning and delivers the brand promise in a motivating, relevant, and credible way
  • Creative Development: Develop brand-led global creative concepts for all major events and cross-market/brand initiatives
  • Brand Strategy: Responsible for developing global and local market brand strategies
  • Growth Opportunities: Identify proactive opportunities where we can add value to local markets and central teams to achieve sustainable brand growth
  • Multi-brand Strategy: Drive the multi-brand strategic objective and ensure the business has the right tools to deliver on multi-brand effectively
  • Portfolio Delivery: Work with local teams to deliver a Multi-brand portfolio and Strategy overview, an instrumental tool for stakeholders supporting the brands and markets
  • Brand Consistency: Be the go-to person on all things related to the assigned brands, from the importance of consistency, logo usage, and creating the best brand experience for the customer
  • Brand Engagement: Responsible for brand engagement, educating and inspiring colleagues to make sure that they truly understand the brand
  • Brand Asset Management: Own all centrally produced brand assets, including brand books, visual identity, tone of voice, and sound assets
  • Brand Advocacy: Champion brands within the Kindred group through Case studies, presentations, Jive posts, etc.
  • Relationship Building: Build trust with local marketing teams through great, relevant work and good relationships
  • Stakeholder Management: Take responsibility for good stakeholder management