Business Architect – Customer Relationship Management & Customer Communications

McCullom Lake, IL (Remote)

$100K/yr – $171K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 8 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and translate communication strategy for CRM across marketing and transactional moments, with leadership over editorial content and governance, and drive end-to-end execution from discovery to post-launch optimization.

  • Own the CRM communications strategy and journey-based plans
  • Lead governance, editorial direction, and cross-team alignment for scalable, compliant messages

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Customer Communication Strategy (Marketing & Service)
  • Partner with business teams to define communication strategies that support both customer engagement and operational outcomes.
  • Own discovery for communication needs, clarifying intent, audience, timing, channel, and desired customer action.
  • Translate strategy into journey-based and event-based communication plans, including sequencing, channel mix, personalization approach, and suppression logic.
  • Transactional & Operational Communications Leadership
  • Provide strategic oversight for triggered and event-based communications to ensure clarity, timeliness, and customer-centered design.
  • Ensure operational communications are easy to understand and reduce customer effort and inbound contacts.
  • Align transactional communications with marketing touchpoints to create a cohesive customer experience, especially at high-impact moments such as renewal or service events.
  • Communications Governance & Controls
  • Lead governance for customer contact, ensuring adherence to brand standards, compliance requirements, privacy and consent expectations, accessibility standards, and channel rules.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in CRM communications, customer communications strategy, lifecycle marketing, or Customer Experience communications.
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning marketing and operational communications.
  • Strong ability to translate business strategy into execution-ready requirements in partnership with technology teams.
  • Demonstrated experience with communications governance and stakeholder alignment.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect insights to action.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong editorial judgment.

Preferred

  • Experience spanning both marketing CRM journeys and transactional communications.
  • Familiarity with CRM and marketing automation concepts such as segmentation, triggers, journeys, personalization, suppression, and testing.
  • Experience applying Generative AI to communications workflows with governance and quality controls.
  • Experience with scalable content operations models and editorial standards.

Benefits

  • Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
  • Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
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