Overview

Position Title: Head of Loyalty and CRM

Company: MATCHESFASHION

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Customers are at the heart of everything we do, and we see customer development, retention, and loyalty as being critical to the success of the business. The Head of Loyalty and CRM will lead on further defining and delivering our Digital Communication strategy across direct channels as well as owning and developing our innovative global Loyalty Programme – the aim being to improve the frequency, spend, retention and loyalty of our entire customer base.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the loyalty and CRM team – a growing team of 8 – defining team goals, individuals’ KPIs and representing the team at a leadership level.
  • Evolve, shape, define (and re-define where appropriate), the Loyalty scheme and value proposition, ensuring the added value of the programme is both compelling and clearly and easily understood by customers.
  • Manage and define our Global Digital Comms strategy – ensuring a strong approach to automation and personalisation – and the introduction of new channels such as web push and SMS.
  • Design CRM programmes which are both highly relevant and exciting to our various customer tiers while also driving profitable growth at scale – managing the balance between brand image and commercial traction.
  • Ensure best-in-class, personal and appropriate benefits for the loyalty scheme – from ideation to communication and delivery.
  • Innovate and develop exciting loyalty activations which are motivating to customers and commercially attractive for the business.
  • Find suitable, value-adding, and scalable partners for the loyalty scheme, on-board and roll out benefits to customers.
  • Build out a specific top tier activation programme (Digital and Physical), including comms, campaigns, gifting, and events.
  • Define and manage the loyalty experience online including the customer comms journey for all customer tiers, working closely with the various stakeholder (Product, Engagement, Technology and Delivery) – including managing 3rd parties and ensuring they are fit for purpose, and supporting in evolving the Loyalty stack to support the business scale and growth aspirations.
  • Define and manage automated re-engagement programmes, always taking a test-and-learn approach – work with the Head of Engagement to populate the campaign calendar and define the promotional strategy.
  • Analyse the results of all activities, continuously refining the approach and proposition for future activations and campaigns.
  • Drive and monitor clear, regular, and accurate reports on all campaigns and activities, with a strong focus on churn and attrition – articulate clear recommendations on optimising and scaling current and new activations.

Requirements:

  • Strong experience in driving large online Loyalty propositions and of CRM across levers. Experience of managing loyalty & CRM across multiple countries / markets preferred.
  • Must be a commercially driven and customer-focused; able to balance competing demands and create programmes and activations which are brand appropriate and have commercial traction.
  • A team player with a good understanding of Customers, Marketing, Data, and Tech Product, as well as a strong appreciation of luxury customers and standards.
  • Able to act as a brand ambassador – always thinking creatively and effectively partnering with key stakeholders to manage projects with our Top Tier clients in mind

About MATCHESFASHION

At MATCHESFASHION we are on a mission to offer the most personal luxury shopping experience in the world. We are renowned and respected for the relationships we build with clients and our brand partners. To achieve our ambition, we capitalise on our unique combination of technical savviness and global innovation mixed with curated content.
We like to think of it as logic meeting magic. When we come together, great things happen.