JOB OVERVIEW
Head of CRM is responsible for development, execution, and continuous refinement of CRM strategies (the whole customer’s life-cycle, incl. loyalty and retention) and CRM campaigns across different sales channels (like e-mails, SMS, direct mails, phone calls, etc.) that will lead to growth of customer’s lifetime value, loyalty and satisfaction and to growth of sales and revenue for the company.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be responsible for strategic development, management and refinement of the company CRM strategies to leverage consumer’s behavioral, lifestyle, transactional, and demographic data in order to deliver relevant CRM roadmaps, campaigns, tools and activities that drive customer acquisition and lifetime value, business impact, revenue, loyalty, and retention using a variety of communication channels and tools (including e-mails, SMS, direct mails, phone calls, etc.) to achieve company over-all strategic, business and financial goals.
- Oversees the day-to-day management and operations of the CRM team, while maintaining focus on the business impact and strategic goals, and financial objectives (maximizing KPI improvement, ROI, etc.).
- Devises, develops, tests and regularly maintains CRM strategies, customer’s segmentation, short- and long-term CRM goals, CRM campaigns, tactics, methodologies, programs, tools and communication channels based on the business strategy, opportunities and plans, budget, potential of market, target customers, consumer needs, competitors, resources and abilities for driving sales growth across the business.
- Tracks and analyzes Customer Journey touch points with the company and maximizes business opportunities.
- Direct communications with customers - takes initiative in directly reaching out to consumers in an effort to gather feedback and ensure that the CRM strategies and campaigns are effective and that they are of high quality and standards and also that they facilitate the execution of successful marketing campaigns enabling consumer acquisition and loyalty.
- Identifies, set-ups and maintains relationship with key partners important for CRM function, like database providers, etc.
- Cooperates with Risk Department to find best criteria and approaches to deliver credit offers to potential and existing customers (necessary to deliver on both growth and customer experience).
- Oversees and coordinates the implementation of CRM campaign management tools inclusive of email service provider integration, frontend integration, and CRM integration with the internal IT department, third-party ecommerce providers, and email service providers. Plays a leading role in deciding on the CRM platforms, structures, and architecture in order to guarantee that consumer relations are carried out seamlessly across the business. Also works closely with the IT department in an effort to better understand all CRM feeds and data flowing in and out of CRM program management tools.
- Cooperates on set-up of sales plans, financial plans and budget, tracks and analyzes campaign performance and expenses versus budgets, applying insights to future campaigns.
- Oversees creation and adjustment of models against lifetime value, retention, churn, and loyalty strategies and programs.
- Defines, evaluates and manages campaign profitability.
- Defines, performs and provides complete reporting of CRM activities and performance.
- Works closely with various departments in the business (like Sales, Business Development, Product Management, Marketing & PR, Sales Training) in an effort to develop and launch effective and profitable campaigns.
- Sets performance goals/targets (KPI) for the whole CRM team, and monitors performance of each team member on a continual basis.
- Interviewing and hiring new members of the CRM team and firing not-performing, not-loyal or breaking the rules team members.
- Evolves and trains the CRM team to ensure their superior performance, and personal and career development for each team member.
- Participate in other relevant projects assigned by Line Manager.