Retention Manager, CRM & Lifecycle

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Retention Manager building CRM, lifecycle and loyalty programmes for Arc, a maker of precision-engineered aluminium and titanium device cases. Driving repeat revenue, customer value and owned-channel growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop the retention plan, sequencing and business case for what gets built first
  • Own end-to-end lifecycle flow architecture, including welcome, browse and basket recovery, post-purchase, fitting and care, upgrade, replenishment and back-in-stock flows
  • Own the campaign calendar and map it to the trading year and product launches
  • Develop behavioural and value-based customer segmentation
  • Identify high-value customers and tailor programmes to different customer motivations
  • Manage list growth, engagement, suppression and consent across markets
  • Own strategy, calendar, briefing and final approval for email, SMS and other owned channels
  • Manage campaign programming, deliverability, sender reputation, testing and platform configuration
  • Develop reactivation and win-back programmes, including holdouts, sunset policy and cost evaluation
  • Own customer feedback loops and turn support themes into briefs for site, product pages, lifecycle programme and product roadmap
  • Represent the voice of the customer in trading and planning conversations
  • Direct the CRM agency partnership, including briefs, targets, reviews, quality control, reporting and roadmap
  • Set offer and lifecycle promotion policy while protecting margin
  • Design, evaluate, launch and manage a loyalty proposition
  • Grow cross-sell and multi-product purchases through lifecycle merchandising
  • Own the post-purchase sequence from confirmation through follow-on engagement
  • Ensure trusted integrations among ecommerce, CRM, advertising platforms and support desk
  • Collaborate with the Acquisition Manager, customer support, brand, product, operations and agency partners
  • Report against quarterly retention, repeat revenue, gross profit, channel, reactivation, discount, cross-sell, purchase timing, list health, loyalty and customer insight metrics

Requirements:

  • Hands-on ownership of a CRM platform, personally building flows and segments
  • Experience developing a retention programme from an early stage
  • Comfortable with cohort and lifetime value analysis
  • Ability to read a repeat purchase curve, size the opportunity and argue for investment
  • Commercial judgement about promotions and incentive costs
  • Self-starter comfortable building process in a small, fast-moving team
  • Useful but not essential: loyalty programme experience
  • Useful but not essential: SMS as well as email, or offline channels such as direct mail
  • Useful but not essential: premium or considered purchase categories
  • Useful but not essential: products tied to a replacement or upgrade cycle
  • Useful but not essential: customer research, surveys or structured feedback programmes
  • Useful but not essential: CRM platform migration experience

Benefits:

  • Remote-first work arrangement
  • Quarterly in-person meet-up
  • Clear route to Head of as the channel and team grow
  • Additional headcount planned as the channel matures