Marketing Jobs

Marketing jobs in India are varied in type and structure. You can find a job for every type of person i.e. whether the person likes meeting people or not. So, marketing jobs in India offer diverse openings.

Types of Marketing Jobs:

• There are various types of marketing jobs in India. The most important marketing jobs in India are direct marketing jobs. This job involves selling products to people. They are also known as sales jobs. The humblest kind of jobs in this sector involves going for door to door sales. This apart, one has to sell products in offices, industries and other large establishments. This is mostly an entry level marketing job.
• Marketing jobs also have openings for account managers. They look after specific client accounts. Their prime responsibility is to assist clients form strategies to market their businesses and formulate strategies with the resources available. You need to have good public relation skills in order to be an account manager.
• A product or brand manager also belongs to the marketing sector. However such a profile does not have to meet people frequently. The scope of the job involves gaining understanding of the market for the product and target niches and specific sects of the market.
• Marketing manager posts are also part of marketing jobs. In this kind of job the manager is in charge of all activities and decisions in the marketing department of a company. The scope of the job entails communicating, organizing, analyzing, and managing all simultaneously. Managers are ultimately responsible for the people who work for you.
• The main aim of the various hierarchy levels in the marketing field is to maximize a firm’s market share and profits.

What Degree you Require to Get Into Marketing and Advertising Field?

You can obtain marketing degree from various reputed schools or institutions across the country.  The degree serves as a passport to the jobs. Courses cover marketability of products and the measures to enhance sales and implementing the same. Most marketing firms look for these degrees. Your ability to communicate and presentation skills is also honed in these institutions. Graduation is the basic qualification required for these jobs.

Famous Marketing Institutes in India

Many institutes in the country offer MBA courses in Sales & Marketing. The Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Kolkata, Indore, Lucknow, Kozhikode and Shillong) is the most coveted and prestigious business schools that offer MBA (Sales & Marketing) courses in India.

Other top B-schools that offer marketing courses are-

• Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
• Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
• Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.
• S. P. Jain Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
• Jamaal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies Mumbai.
• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.
• Development Institute, Gurgaon.

Salaries and Perks you will get in Marketing and Advertising Sector

As an MBA graduate, Sales & Marketing Manager one can command good starting salary per month. This is offered mostly in private sector. In public sector the pay scale is lower than that of private sector. Salary offered depends upon qualification and experience of the person concerned. At a senior level, a marketing professional can get up to Rs 60000 to Rs 70000 per month. Marketing executives are also offered excellent perks like leave allowance, house allowance, transportation costs etc.