CRM Executive

UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and evolve a content-led email program that blends editorial storytelling with on-site CRM to drive engagement, store visits, and a differentiated email channel experience.

  • Plan campaigns around trading priorities with a clear content hierarchy and distinct email point of difference.
  • Build and optimise broadcast and automated journeys to shift from product-led sends to editorial storytelling.
  • Use campaign data and A/B testing to improve engagement and the channel’s overall performance across the customer lifecycle.

Job Description

Own and evolve a content-led email program that blends editorial storytelling with on-site CRM to drive engagement, store visits, and a differentiated email channel experience.

  • Responsibilities: Plan campaigns around trading priorities, with a clear content hierarchy and a distinct email point of difference.
  • Responsibilities: Build and optimise broadcast and automated journeys using our ESP to shift from product-led sends to editorial storytelling.
  • Responsibilities: Drive acquisition via email capture overlays and lead-generation initiatives that grow the CRM database.
  • Responsibilities: Collaborate with Brand, Creative, Buying and Merchandising to brief and deliver campaigns with impact.
  • Responsibilities: Use campaign data to identify trends, support A/B testing, and continually improve engagement and creative effectiveness.
  • Responsibilities: Review performance at campaign level and share insights to inform future activity.
  • Responsibilities: Review performance at both individual email and wider campaign level, feeding back key product and campaign insights to relevant stakeholders and applying learnings to improve future activity.
  • Previous experience in CRM, email marketing or digital marketing, with hands-on use of an ESP.
  • Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage schedules, priorities and multiple campaigns in a fast-paced trading environment.
  • Commercial awareness, with an understanding of how CRM can support store footfall, retention and loyalty in a content-led environment.
  • A passion for creativity and storytelling, with strong copywriting skills to brief and shape engaging content, helping give the email channel a clear point of difference.
  • A test-and-learn mindset, with an interest in using data and A/B testing to continuously improve campaign performance.
  • A proactive, positive approach and the ability to communicate effectively while contributing confidently within a collaborative team.
  • Passionate about The Works, our customers and creating content that inspires customers to engage with the brand and visit our stores.
  • 💪 25% Colleague Discount! - Plus, exclusive Double Discount days!
  • 😎 MyWorks - Access exclusive online discounts across hundreds of retailers, holidays, utilities deals, tech and more
  • 🏡 Family Friendly Leave - Enjoy some time well spent with enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
  • 🚀 Holiday – 33 days including bank holidays.
  • 💃 Holiday Purchase - Purchase an additional 5 days
  • 🎓 Can-Do Academy - Grow your skills and career with instant access to further training and development in areas that interest you.
  • 💸 Stream - Claim early access to 50% of your wages as you earn them – for when ‘life’ happens!
  • 🏬 Share Scheme - Unleash your inner Monopoly mogul and own a piece of The Works!
  • 💛 24/7 support for you and your family - Through our partnership with the Retail Trust who provide an Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
  • 🩺 Healthcare Cash Plan – To support your everyday healthcare costs
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The Works

Something magical happens when we pause our screens and connect with real-life things to do.Experiencing quality time with family and friends is something we feel. It's time that nourishes us, makes us feel whole again and reconnects us with our community and ourselves.We learn new skills, spark curiosity and set imaginations free. We call it... Time Well Spent.At The Works, we don’t just sell products. We inspire reading, learning, creativity and play.You sell the paint that turns someone into an artist. You provide the book that unleashes an inner author. You supply the games that help bring families together. You give someone the puzzle book that reconnects them with a late family member’s memory.You never know who someone will become. So with your passion, and our products, you will help ignite the spark within people, allowing them to unleash their creativity, find new passions, hobbies, or rekindle fond memories.The unseen possibilities are limitless, and it all starts with you.Our Purpose:To inspire reading. learning, creativity and play.Our Values:We are Crafty | We are Caring | We are Can-doHybrid Working:Most of our teams at our Support Centre offer a flexible approach to Hybrid working. 1 or 2 days in the office per week usually does the job for us to work collaboratively, and we use Microsoft Teams for those virtual catch-ups.

Founded in 1981
Coleshill, England, GBR
1.5K employees (34 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
34K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.5%
Direct
31.2%
Referral
21.2%
Social
6.2%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
34 (2% of company)

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 18 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2008
    Private Equity