CRM Marketing Specialist

Role Title: CRM Marketing Specialist (Bilingual in English and German)

BU/Segment: Data Management

Location: Fully Remote within United Kingdom

Employment Type: Permanent

Summary of the role:

A leading international sports league is seeking a passionate, innovative leader with a strong CRM background to join our team. The Fan Engagement Marketing team optimizes the overall marketing strategy, planning, measurement, and channel activation efforts via paid and outbound marketing channels to support the strategic priorities and business objectives of the organization. We leverage enterprise transactional and fan profile data, research and insights, and real-time fan behaviors with marketing channels to identify market trends, grow audience opportunities, and optimize media mixes, platforms, and channels to deliver more effective efforts that drive business results for organizational priorities. These efforts span fan acquisition and engagement and will dive deep into key initiatives that transcend audiences, platforms, media channels and geographies to drive results. We are a passionate team working hard to build the right strategies to engage fans around the world.

We are currently seeking a CRM Marketing Specialist to join the Fan Engagement team. This role will contribute across the full CRM marketing lifecycle - from marketing strategy and campaign planning through journey and campaign execution, performance measurement, and ongoing optimization. The CRM Marketing Specialist will work collaboratively across Marketing and with key partners including Data & Analytics, MarTech, Product Marketing, Digital Media, and external agencies and vendors.

As part of your duties, you will be responsible for:

• Drive product, contact and creative strategies to develop and implement large scale CRM campaigns optimized using machine learning, predictive modeling, and personalized content.
• Manage and execute the marketing campaign process from initial request submission to deployment with a focus on outbound marketing channels (e.g., email, SMS, push).
• Audience segmentation & execution
• QA of touchpoints, personalization elements, any dynamic content, etc..
• Campaign build and deployment
• Design and implement A/B and multivariate tests that yield continuous improvements to our fan strategies and lift conversion rates.
• Optimize lifecycle CRM campaigns (e.g., onboarding, reactivation) using insights and analytics along with automation tools to increase fan LTV.
• Extracting key insights and learnings for future optimization and template efficiency.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, partners, and vendors to build the most effective campaign strategies to meet performance targets.

Qualifications and experience we consider to be essential for the role:

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 3-5 years of similar or relevant work experience.
• Experience with CRM tools (Epsilon PeopleCloud Messaging, Movable Ink, Attentive preferred).
• Prior working knowledge of enterprise level marketing automation platforms (Adobe tools such as AEP, AJO, CJA, Campaign, Marketo, etc. strongly preferred but, others such as SFMC will be considered).
• HTML editing and working knowledge required to be able to make edits to templates
• Deep understanding of channel KPIs, A/B testing, metrics, and reporting.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and German required
• Proficiency in Photoshop.

Skills and Personal attributes we would like to have:

• Ability to work independently and as a team player to find ways to uncover opportunities
• Strong communication skills
• Strong project and time management skills with high standards of accuracy and organization
• Ability to keep up with a fast-paced production schedule that has a fluctuating level of workload throughout the calendar year.
• Proven ability to collaborate & manage dependencies on other team members that are supporting the launch of a campaign
• Passion for innovation and solving difficult challenges
• Passion for sports is a plus

Expected Hours of Work:

Employees are required to work 40 hours per week. This role may require more than 40 hours per week and/or weekends