Industry going nowhere. Unrealistic demands. Brands not wanting to work on demand creation.

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Anyone working in the Alcohol sector? Looking to understand if you are facing the same stuff as I.

Director Sales

Anyone working in the Alcohol sector? Looking to understand if you are facing the same stuff as I.- Grapevine

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Have been trying to build sustainable model for highly dynamic trend. Would appreciate any inputs.

Any FMCG demand planners in this community ?

Supply Chain Manager

Fresher with good and relevant internship experience, I'm getting rejected for some job roles where I am overqualified(not being cocky)

For job roles, I'm excited about there's work ex needed but one seems to be giving me the job, how will I get work ex? I have sent LinkedIn DMs, cold emails and what not but still nothing. I am getting rejected or worst no revert.

I have worked and want to work in the marketing&brand side preferably learn from senior folks in the industry but seems impossible in this market.

No one's hiring

Intern

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Hey, I'm currently 23 years old  earning a decent 12l.pa with 2.5 years of work ex

I currently do not enjoy my job, constant stress  anxiousness, can't work here for another day.

Planned to do my MBA and preparing for CAT this year and also putting my papers down in a couple of days. Considering I have my exam on the 26th of next month, how long should I keep my  notice period? I'm planning not to work at all once I resign, as the company hasn't been good to me. I can keep my notice a week, but then again I won't have a job in hand and will lose work ex. Need some valuable advise here.

MBA OR JOB Dillema

Customer Success

Would love to know more about the market here specifically B2B retail media ads, think Amazon ads etc......if anyone here is working on that I have one very specific question.

What's the percentage of GMV that you folks have been able to realise as Ad revenue. 

Meesho folks, please feel free to answer if you have any idea about your companies stats.....

Anyone here working on Advertising?

Founder

I've heard lots of conflicting good and bad viewpoints on ISB on Grapevine and otherwise. I want to explore these things more and build a balanced perspective.

Good things I've heard:-
1. Average comp is decently high as most of the batch has a decent amount of experience.
2. Professors, their way of teaching and the actual course content is one of the best in India.
3. The network is really strong, easily accessible via many channels and helps alumni land jobs frequently.

Bad things I've heard:-
1. Placement comp numbers are heavily inflated.
2. Resume shortlisting in placements is hard because everyone exaggerates a lot and there's no resume vetting.
3. Many people go unplaced.

How much of this (good or bad) is true? Any other good or bad points?

How good/bad is ISB?

Software Developer

Hey guys, last year I built an website to match B2B advertisers and publishers. Like Ad-Mob but for bigger brands and platforms.

Mostly think: the ability to seamlessly explore and book ad spaces in popular apps like PhonePe, Paytm, and Swiggy!!!

But I still can’t get big enough clients with deep pockets to buy them. Most brands just directly go to the merchant ad websites so I tried to get informative dashboard to get people use it for market research. Still no growth.

What should I do??? Can anyone help or explain what I am doing wrong!

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How to get into B2B deals

I worked hard for last 2-3 years and finally got into product mgmt from business strategy role. Now I keep listening that product mgmt is a dying career, it has no future, it will be gobbled up by AI. 
I am really exhausted of this catchup game. I sometimes feel that things would have been better if I had joined some FMCG company in a supply chain - ops role. Those roles are much more stable than these high stress startup roles.

What should be my plan to lead a more peaceful yet decently high paying career? In need of some great advice folks...pls share valuable comments 🙂

Product mgmt in danger??

Product Manager

Need referral for Diageo ? Anyone here can help

Background: Working with B2B SaaS startup raised $165m till now. 
No appraisal this year. 
Multiple changes of top management, a boss added between reporting manager and CEO

10 months into, the role has changed from what was told, and I envisioned. Day to day work has become running behind people, taking statuses and giving to manager.
Mentally and physically draining(extensive travel) 

Sat with manager, told this is not working for me. Can the role be developed into analytical or strategic approach or new role in another department?

Three things can happen now
- Manager actually gets me something better
- Manager does nothing
- Manager fires me because I don't like the work

Tbh, all three work for me. 

Also, if you are hiring I'm open to chatting.
6 YOE, category management and business roles
MBA in marketing

Grown up way of handling things

Consultant

I've handled copywriting, creative strategy, and execution for brands for the last 8+ years. Many of those in agencies, and the last few in a B2B SaaS tech company.

Because of my agency background, I know I'm pretty underpaid, but since that can change now, I wanna know what's the baseline for my profile considering my experience.

I kill it with creative requirements for branding, paid promotions and literally anything under the sun that the brand needs. Nothing long form, because that's a different ball game altogether.

I'm getting just under 20LPA right now.
I'm up for appraisals soon. I've been with this company for 2+ years.
Please tell me what's the salary bracket I should be in.

I'm great at what I do, just not this salary stuff 🤦🏾‍♂️. Please help a brother out!

Looking forward to your responses, or questions if y'all need any more clarifications to give an answer. Thank you all in advance 🙏🏽

Any and all help will be really appreciated 🙏🏽

Marketing Creative

You can ask anything on above topics I have 25 years into multiple domain like pharma, life insurance, telecom and Internet in function like Branding and Marketing..

AMA - 25 yrs in Branding, Marketing and StartUp venture.

Product Marketing Manager

I've had some frustrating experiences at a certain B2B eCommerce subsidiary of a international bank, where the work culture and technology are far from ideal. Expecting 3-4x output from employees with outdated manual processes and technology is a tough ask. The sales team's situation is even worse, having to resort to fake orders due to unrealistic targets and a subpar app. It's disheartening to see top management prioritize PR exercises over addressing these critical issues.

Another B2B eCommerce site that is all hype and no business model

Category Manager

Hi! Anyone who can help with referrals for brand manager roles , especially at places like Phone pe that recently posted a vacancy. 
Help a grapeviner out :)

Looking for brand managerial roles

Brand Marketing Manager

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

You have pending work, you take accountability & you want to get it done with

Anything other than this boils down to 
1/ Your manager wants you to work weekends 
2/ Your business leader wants your manager to make you work weekends 
3/ Your CEO wants your business leader to force your manger to make you work weekends
4/ Your Board / Investor wants your CEO to make your Business Leader to force your manager to make you work weekends. 

See the pattern? 
DEMANDS. ASK's. Always someones. 

Why the rant you ask?? Heard a CEO say to his Leaders "Why are you leaders not forcing your people to work weekends, This is so pathetic" 

I was like ... wait what ...??  But then i realise the grey matter can show some "really" blessed people a loading screen at the most opportune time.

You’re working weekends because

Human Resource

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I’m really curious to know what exactly the Marketing Team does cause in the previous two organisations that I worked at , The Marketing Dept was kinda meh. So I wanted to know if it’s the case everywhere or does an actual good Marketing Team exist as the ones I’ve interacted with their lead generation and marketing was trash.

Do Marketing Teams Actually Do Anything ?

Assistant Manager

I have been working at remote startup for last 1.5 years which is at the tail end of its life. 

I'm 24 years old and I feel like at I don't work enough. Being from a tier 3 college, I know that the only way forward for me is to work really hard. I got this well paid gig but everyone here slacks and does half assed work. 

So fellow grapeviners tell me what should I do?

1. Look for another job which will probably land me in another mediocre job.
2. Work part time for someone else's startup (I REALLY don't mind not getting paid for this / paying peanuts). As long as I get plenty of work with other motivated folks. I'm open for such gigs if any of you folks need a good mobile dev. (Also open to be a full stack dev)
3. Stop whining and enjoy the "work-life balance". I hate this option because full disclosure : I don't have a life outside work lol. 

Hoping to hear insightful opinions from you folks!

Need more work!

Software Engineer

Hi I have dedicated 3 years of my life working day night to build a brand in ecommerce segment, from product sourcing to selling, finance reconciliation and cashflow management. I am getting 10% of profits after all expenses plus have 3% equity [to be offered soon]. But my pay is not more than 1 lakh per month and I don't think I will be able sell equity anytime soon because my partner is a very rigid guy and nobody seems interested in investing in us. For past 1.5 years he has become sluggish as we are earning 6-7 lakhs and has drinking problems, all the major task are done by me and i dont have support to hire right kind of people as we are bootstarpped and everything is expected from me. I can take leave whenever i want but i am expected to work on sat sun too.

Now i have been offered 1.5 lakh per month plus incentive for similar role in an new brand as Brand Head of established and funded ecommerce company. They have funds for growth and a team for expansion.
Company COO belives in me and is offering this role, he knows his current team is foolish, lacks enthusiasm and slow to execute.
Sat-sun off
Problems
1. 3.5Lakh is pending to be paid to me from current firm. How should i approach to get that money?
2. How to convince my partner who is an industry veteran and my mentor that i want to leave?
3. Anything I should be confirm from latter company before quiting in previous firm.

 What should i do?

Should I give up equity and brand owner tag for high paying job?

General Manager

Hey, so a little context here, I work as a product designer and just completed 6 months at this company and a product owner recently quit. 

They promote me to product owner and product designer and release the performance review late which shows that  I only Meet All Expectations and hence am not eligible for a pay raise.

And my manager says to me that this is sort of an intermediate step into being promoted and this is to give you more responsibilities so you can grow and get promoted.

All this seems like complete fucking bullshit to me and idk how to navigate through this, any experienced professionals if you wanna share some advice?

Getting promoted w/o a salary hike

Product Designer

I’m a brand marketer with 2.5 years of work ex. 
My last stint was with a company where I stayed for 3months and currently at the 4th month of my present firm. I am not someone whose looking to switch for money or higher pay check but because of unfulfilling work. In a city like Bangalore where I have absolutely no social life, I look forward to going to work only to see half my team mates chilling. 
I’ve been trying to find like minded professionals but haven’t been able to connect really with anyone. (I’m Not exactly a pedigree college alumni)
I am not interested in dating apps either. 
As much as I am passionate about marketing and my work I’m Thinking to move towards more product oriented roles or growth. 
Any suggestion on how to go about this.

Anyone working in the Alcohol sector? Looking to understand if you are facing the same stuff as I.

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