Senior CRM Manager

Rated People ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Rated People is the UK's #1 online marketplace connecting homeowners with vetted, local tradespeople. We work with 60,000 tradespeople from over 30 trades and have over 1,000,000 homeowners posting jobs on our app and website. Our goal is to make home improvements stress free and enjoyable for both homeowners and tradespeople, to drive trust and make the process as smooth as possible. We are disrupting a 50 billion a year sector by providing homeowners a free and easy to use app and website to source tradespeople and offering tradespeople a highly effective channel to build their business and reputation. We're passionate about delivering the best possible experience for our customers. We are continuously improving our service, and rapidly growing the business and brand. One of the teams at the centre of making this happen is our Marketing team. THE ROLE We are looking for a highly commercial, passionate and data-literate CRM expert to lead our CRM team. This is a pivotal role within our business, responsible for creating and dispatching thousands of communications every week to our customers. You will lead the execution and growth strategy across our email and app channels, and partner with the rest of the marketing team to drive growth within all customer retention and engagement channels, including SEO, Social, and Affiliate partners. Reporting to the Head of Marketing, you will be responsible for driving engagement and retention from both sides of the marketplace (homeowners and trades businesses) by developing data-driven multichannel CRM campaigns. You will be confident reporting and optimising on trading performance, frequently working directly with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team. You will work closely with our Social, Content, Brand and Acquisition teams to ensure their strategy and plans of activity are aligning with yours and hitting the targets. As powerful customer journeys are at the heart of our business strategy, this role is critical for championing best practice CRM, developing complex marketing automation and 1:1 personalisation. As part of our forward-thinking approach we are keen to explore industry innovation such as machine learning, AI, intelligent content and much more. Taking a collaborative approach you will be working closely with key stakeholders across the business, including but not limited to the Product Engineering, Ops and Sales departments. This role is pivotal in demonstrating the value of targeted, personalised CRM comms in a successful online marketplace. ABOUT YOU What you'll be doing: * Help drive the overall engagement and retention strategy for all owned and earned channels, including Email, App, and Social, looking at ways to achieve rapid and sustainable growth * Own and develop the entire CRM communication strategy to help nurture and retain our homeowner and tradesperson base. Journeys include but are not limited to: Welcome, Ask an Expert, Lead Alerts, Job Posts, Reactivation, Renewal, Reviews, plus all newsletters and ad-hoc seasonal campaigns * Recommend exciting new ways to reach and engage our base, developing test strategies around those opportunities * Scope, build and deploy campaigns, journeys and automation in Salesforce Marketing Cloud across Email, Push and SMS, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to scope out data and content requirements * Develop a test plan for iterative improvements and new initiatives, constantly improving in areas where performance needs to meet commercial objectives * Work with stakeholders across the business to ensure a consistent customer experience. These include but are not limited to: Marketing, Product, Sales, Operations, Finance, third party suppliers * Recruit and manage a team of CRM Execs to ensure efficient delivery and growth in the channel. Ensure they are getting all the stretch, support and development needed to help them thrive * Influence the retention and engagement performance agenda for all channels across the team including Social, Content, PPC, Affiliates, ATL and PR * Work closely with the Business Intelligence team to develop new data, dashboards and insight to drive the strategy forward and ensure the lines of communication on in day trading are strong between CRM and the wider business * Engender a data focused and KPI driven way of working within the team, ensuring we are always on top of our numbers, rapidly spotting and fixing any issues What you will bring: * Minimum of 5+ years in CRM * Strong background in customer re-engagement and retention strategies * Advanced hands-on knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud including journey builder, automation studio, contact builder and data extensions plus build/deployment of Emails, Push and SMS. * Demonstrable working knowledge of SQL, AMPscript, HTML and CSS. * Understanding of SFDC (sales cloud) and the CRM data structure. * Experience working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connect. * Working knowledge of other workflow and a