Vice President, CRM -Top 100 Retailer

Primary Purpose:
Provide expertise, vision and leadership to define and implement customer relationship marketing programs and initiatives that successfully build profitable, long-term customer relationships across all brands in all channels. Provide strategic direction for tools and technology to support the implementation and execution of the customer relationship marketing strategy. Manage the market/customer research process and provide learnings and insights to the brands.

Essential Functions:
This individual will create and lead the team that defines and executes multi-channel marketing programs that cost-effectively increase the value of customer relationships. This individual will lead and direct the "art" and "science" of customer relationship marketing.

Strategy
Develop and gain approval of the strategic plan for customer relationship marketing, database marketing and customer research. Ensure integration into corporate strategy and objectives.
Participate in developing and converting the corporate vision and strategy into a continuous and complete annual strategic plan.
Participate in corporate and brand planning process to ensure support and integration of CRM strategy and plan.
Partner with internal and external resources (including IT and the brands) to support company goals and maximize margin on tactical corporate needs.
Participate in the ongoing management and enhancement of the company's privacy policy. Establish a cross-functional privacy council to ensure compliance with state and federal laws. Ensure ongoing monitoring of pending legislation and communicate impact to the privacy council.
Enthusiastically champion CRM concepts and examples of success to senior leaders in all aspects of the business.

Modeling / Analytics
Lead the development of database marketing analytics, such as statistical modeling, customer profiling, segmentation analysis, and other analytical techniques to improve customer insights, retention and loyalty.
Lead, develop and execute the design and implementation of a customer segmentation system and targeting for each of the brands. Identify customer lifecycles, calculate LTV and develop key customer segments.
Develop an automated process for reporting on campaign results. Include results for the brand total, mail group and control group across product categories, spend ranges and other metrics. Provide learnings and insights to brands to revise for future campaigns.
Provide a thorough, detailed and evolving understanding of customer profiles through customer research. Synthesize findings across all sources and provide learnings to brand and corporate management.
Develop and recommend relationship marketing campaign quantities for appropriate relationship marketing initiatives.

Technology
Serve as business owner for internal and external technology projects necessary in growing CRM. Partner with IT to develop and implement a technology roadmap suited to support the needs of the business regarding data/address hygiene, campaign management, database analytics, business intelligence and other appropriate applications.
Audit, develop, establish and maintain appropriate controls and processes to ensure proper levels of data/address hygiene, customer database processes, management, and direct mail execution.
Continuously review and recommend opportunities to enhance the quality and accuracy of the customer database.

Execution / Operations
Manage and execute the day-to-day corporate (and brand?) CRM, database marketing and customer research operations. Provide ongoing innovative solutions for CRM business process improvement, issues, and needs.
Build close partnerships with brand management (President, Merchandise, Marketing, and Store Operations) to develop an intimate understanding of brand nuances, category and seasonal marketing priorities, strategies and plans.
Develop and implement a customer contact strategy across all channels. Ensure that the marketing investment is consistent with the expected ROI. Establish policies to ensure a tempered offer flow to the customers across channels.
Create an operating environment and establish performance standards that result in industry-leading customer relationship marketing programs and products in a "test and learn" culture. Develop, test and implement traditional and non-traditional methods of attracting and retaining customer which deepening customer relationships.
Establish and implement best practices for database marketing processes, measurement, evaluation, data capture, maintenance, and customer/prospect list selection.
Identify and implement operational efficiencies, cost savings and revenue gains across production, postage, lettershop or other aspects of customer relationship marketing programs.
Partner with brands and lead the development of targeted, relationship marketing programs. Work with creative, copy, print production, merchandising and marketing to execute the programs to maximize ROI while increasing customer value.
Develop and manage corporate-wide policies and procedures for CRM, database marketing, and customer research.
Execute the CRM, database marketing and customer research budget
Hire, develop, coach, mentor, and empower CRM team and resources.
Serve as the SME (Subject Matter Expert) for CRM, database marketing and customer research to all corporate and brand departments.
Actively supervise the development and execution of all relationship marketing programs across all channels. Coordinate campaigns across channels to assure consistent customer experience.

Vendor Relationships
Identify, select and supervise outside vendor partners designed to support the execution of the corporate and brand CRM, database marketing and customer research strategies.