Assistant Marketing Manager

Catering Collective; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Catering Collective in Mumbai seeks an Assistant Manager, Digital Marketing to drive strategy and execution across luxury hospitality brands. You will lead campaigns across Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Meta, Google Ads, SEO/SEM, YouTube and OTT platforms to generate qualified leads and revenue.

The role requires hands-on execution, strong analytics, and the ability to coordinate with-brand teams to align campaigns with wedding, corporate and destination opportunities.

Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of relevant experience in digital marketing.
• Experience managing multiple brands, preferably in luxury hospitality, catering or events.
• Strong in performance marketing and brand-building campaigns.
• Analytical with comfort using marketing technology and dashboards.
• Able to translate briefs into strategy, media planning and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute integrated digital marketing strategies for multiple brands.
• Translate objectives into channel strategies, media plans and KPIs.
• Build campaigns across the funnel from awareness to retention.
• Collaborate with Brand, Creative, Social, PR and Business Development teams.
• Own CRM journeys and automation using Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Skills

hands-on digital marketer

brand building

performance marketing

analytics

campaign management

marketing strategy

Education

Bachelor's in Marketing or related

Digital Marketing certifications

Tools

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Meta Ads Manager

Google Ads

Google Analytics / GA4

YouTube Ads

Google Search Console

Campaign tracking tools

Excel / Google Sheets

Job description

Job Description: Assistant Manager, Digital Marketing

Function: Brand & Marketing

Reporting To: Brand & Marketing Head

Industry: Luxury Hospitality, Catering & Banqueting

Role Overview

We are looking for a digitally savvy, hands-on and commercially oriented Assistant Manager, Digital Marketing to drive digital marketing strategy and execution across multiple luxury hospitality, catering and banqueting brands.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise across Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Meta, Google Ads, SEO, SEM, YouTube and other relevant digital, programmatic and OTT platforms, with the ability to develop and execute integrated campaigns across the entire customer journey.

The role requires someone who can work closely with the Brand & Marketing Head to translate brand positioning, business priorities, seasonal opportunities, weddings, social celebrations, corporate events and destination-led propositions into effective digital campaigns that build awareness, generate qualified leads and contribute to revenue.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute integrated digital marketing strategies for multiple brands within the company portfolio.
• Translate brand and business objectives into channel strategies, campaign architectures, audience journeys, media plans and KPIs.
• Build digital campaigns across the funnel, from awareness and consideration to lead generation, conversion, remarketing and retention.
• Develop campaigns around key business periods including wedding seasons, festivals, corporate events, social celebrations and destination occasions.

Performance Marketing

• Plan, execute and optimise campaigns across Meta Ads, Google Search, Display, Performance Max, YouTube Ads and other relevant digital platforms.
• Manage campaign budgets, audience segmentation, targeting, bidding, creatives and optimisation.
• Develop lead generation and conversion campaigns for banqueting, catering, weddings, corporate events and hospitality offerings.
• Continuously test audiences, creatives, messaging, landing pages and campaign formats to improve ROI.

CRM & Marketing Automation

• Own and execute customer communication and campaign journeys through Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Develop audience segmentation, customer journeys, email campaigns, automated communications, remarketing and lifecycle campaigns.
• Work with internal teams to build relevant databases and improve customer acquisition, engagement, conversion and retention.

SEO & SEM

• Develop and implement SEO and SEM strategies to improve organic visibility, search rankings, website traffic and qualified enquiries.
• Conduct keyword research, competitor analysis, on page optimisation and content recommendations.
• Manage paid search campaigns and continuously optimise for quality leads and conversions.

Content & Creative Integration

• Work closely with the Brand, Creative, Social Media, PR and Business Development teams to translate campaign strategy into compelling digital content.
• Develop clear digital briefs covering campaign objective, target audience, proposition, key message, channel strategy and desired action.
• Ensure consistency between brand communication and performance led digital advertising.
• Track campaign performance across platforms and prepare clear, actionable dashboards and reports.
• Analyse metrics including reach, engagement, CTR, CPL, CPA, ROAS, conversion rates and lead quality.
• Use data and customer insights to identify opportunities, improve campaign effectiveness and optimise marketing spends.
• Work with sales and business teams to track lead quality and conversion through the funnel, not just digital metrics.

Emerging Digital & OTT

• Explore and execute campaigns across OTT, programmatic, influencer, audio, connected TV and other emerging digital platforms, wherever relevant to the target audience and business objective.
• Stay abreast of evolving digital platforms, formats, targeting capabilities, AI led marketing tools and industry best practices.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate should be:

• A hands-on digital marketer with strong strategic and execution capabilities.
• Experienced in managing multiple brands simultaneously, preferably across premium or luxury hospitality, lifestyle, F&B, retail, travel or other high consideration categories.
• Strong in performance marketing as well as brand building digital campaigns.
• Highly comfortable with numbers, analytics and marketing technology.
• Capable of working from a campaign brief through strategy, media planning, execution, optimisation and reporting.
• Commercially minded, with an understanding that digital marketing ultimately needs to contribute to qualified enquiries, conversions and revenue.

Technical Expertise

• Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Meta Ads Manager
• Google Ads
• Google Analytics / GA4
• SEO and SEM
• YouTube Ads
• Google Search Console
• Campaign tracking, pixels, tags and UTM frameworks
• CRM, lead generation and remarketing campaigns
• Excel / Google Sheets and marketing dashboards

Good to have

• Programmatic advertising
• OTT / Connected TV advertising
• Marketing automation and customer journey orchestration
• A/B testing and conversion rate optimisation
• Influencer and affiliate marketing platforms

Experience & Qualifications

• 3 to 6 years of relevant experience in digital marketing, performance marketing, growth marketing or integrated digital marketing.
• Experience managing campaigns across multiple brands or business verticals will be strongly preferred.
• Experience in luxury hospitality, hotels, catering, banqueting, weddings, travel, lifestyle or premium consumer businesses would be an advantage.
• Graduate in Marketing, Digital Marketing, Business, Communications or a related discipline. Relevant digital marketing certifications are desirable.