Senior Strategy Manager - Customer Growth and Monetisation

London, UK (Hybrid)

£75K/yr – £85K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own monetisation strategy for a consumer platform, turning pricing, subscriptions and premium propositions into measurable growth while coordinating with Product, Brand and CRM to maintain trust.

  • Own the monetisation workstream, turning customer insight, market data and financial modelling into clear recommendations.
  • Partner with Product, Brand, Marketing and CRM to define value and design test-and-learn pricing and packaging plans.
  • Influence senior leaders with evidence-based scenarios that balance customer experience and sustainable revenue.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategic development of Trainline's customer monetisation approach, evaluating opportunities across pricing, fees, subscriptions, membership, loyalty, bundles and value-added propositions to support sustainable long-term growth.
  • Develop robust commercial cases by combining customer insight, market understanding and financial analysis to assess opportunities, evaluate trade-offs and provide clear recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Shape the strategy for premium customer propositions by identifying target audiences, defining proposition concepts, assessing pricing and packaging approaches, and designing test-and-learn frameworks before wider implementation.
  • Partner with Product, Brand, Marketing and CRM teams to strengthen how Trainline communicates customer value, helping customers clearly understand the benefits they receive while reinforcing transparency and trust.
  • Act as a strategic partner across the wider Customer Growth function, supporting decisions that improve customer acquisition, engagement, retention, reactivation and lifetime value.
  • Bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous commercial challenges, balancing customer needs with commercial outcomes while considering both short and long-term business impact.
  • Influence senior stakeholders across Product, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, CRM and Data by communicating complex strategic recommendations in a clear, compelling and evidence-based way.
  • Continuously bring external perspectives, emerging market trends and best practice to help shape Trainline's future customer growth strategy and revenue model.

Requirements

  • Experience in strategy, commercial strategy, pricing, monetisation or proposition development, ideally within a consumer technology, marketplace, travel, fintech or digital business.
  • Experience developing or evolving customer-facing revenue models, including areas such as subscriptions, membership, pricing, loyalty, bundles, premium propositions or ancillary products.
  • Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting customer behavioural data, revenue economics, pricing strategy, lifetime value modelling and commercial performance to support strategic decision making.
  • A track record of developing business cases, influencing senior stakeholders and translating strategic recommendations into measurable business outcomes.
  • Confidence navigating complex and ambiguous commercial challenges while balancing customer experience, commercial performance and long-term trust.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong partnerships across Product, Commercial, Finance, Marketing, CRM and Data teams.
  • Experience working across both strategy and execution, helping to shape recommendations and supporting successful delivery through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Ideally, experience with SQL, running pricing or lifecycle experiments, building subscription or membership propositions, or working within multi-market or marketplace businesses.

Preferred

  • Ideally, experience with SQL, running pricing or lifecycle experiments, building subscription or membership propositions, or working within multi-market or marketplace businesses.

Benefits

  • Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
  • We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
  • We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.
  • Our values: Think Big, Own It, Travel Together, Do Good (we also celebrate diversity and inclusion).
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Trainline

Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices. We bring together millions of routes, fares and journey times from more than 270 rail and coach carriers across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That's £5.9 billion in ticket sales annually, and +125 million visits to our apps and websites each month from users seamlessly booking and managing their journeys through our website or mobile app and via our B2B partner channels. We offer our customers the best price for their journey and smart, real-time travel information on the go. Our smart technology and data-driven features help our customers to stay one step ahead. We aim to make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible. The environment is fundamental to our purpose - through our technology, and data, we make rail travel easier, inspiring people to make travel choices that are better for the environment.

Founded in 1997
London, England, GBR
1.2K employees (121 in marketing)