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Director of Marketing
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Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Founded in 1992, Anthropologie (www.anthropologie.com) operates more than 175 retail stores in North America and Europe, and ships to over 100 countries worldwide via our ecommerce channels. We cater to fashionable, educated, and creative women between the ages of 28 to 45, who desire an inspirational shopping experience. To that end, we are committed to exceeding her expectations in unexpected, delightful ways. Our unique product assortment includes women's apparel and accessories, home furnishings and décor, gifts, beauty, and found objects. Our mission is to provide our customer with an unimagined experience.
Overview
The Director of Marketing will oversee the brand marketing strategies and implementations across all channels of customer contact. Our focus is customer-centric, and our marketing goals are acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers through relationship building, development, and management. This position requires knowledge and expertise in customers: acquisition, retention, insight and CRM, digital engagement and marketing, social media engagement and marketing, PR and communications, and international marketing. This position also requires a deep understanding of data research, analysis, and synthesis. The Director of Marketing will partner with the Executive Creative Director and Head of Merchandising and Design on our customer experience. This role will also work closely with the Executive Director, Ecommerce and Digital.
Responsibilities
Marketing Management
• Develop, implement, and facilitate annual 360 campaigns and non-traditional marketing concepts for Anthropologie, including individual channel and market plans
• Direct the activities of and supervise the marketing teams
• Provide leadership within the executive management team, with a focus on customer centricity and brand positioning
Customer Relationships
• Acquisition
Develop and direct strategies to meaningfully grow our customer base across all channels using a broad range of tactics: digital marketing, social graph, events and outreach, catalog prospecting, media exposure, etc. Supervise the analysis of our current customer data and any prospecting customer data to optimize customer base growth.
• Retention
Develop and direct customer relevant contact strategies that optimize LTV of customer. Manage the communication pacing and distribution across all channels maintaining consistent but not formulaic touch-points. Strategize and implement reactivation strategies.
• Insight
Maintain a current and informative customer profile. Utilize surveys, focus groups, customer home visits, user testing, and other marketing research tools to engage our customer and deepen our knowledge of who she is, how we can add value to her relationship with Anthropologie.
• CRM
Improve and strengthen our Anthro program. Define the engagement as either a loyalty or membership program and develop the benefit base to support further and more meaningful engagement. Develop a tiered system that better reward our top customer base, increases growth into our most productive tier, and encourages new members to join.
• Events and outreach
Develop and direct our store, public, and PR events – expectations, execution, and result reporting.
• Personalization
Direct the analysis of customer behavior to develop personalized communication strategies to maximize engagement.
Analytics
• Supervise the analytical mining of transactional intelligence to broaden the brand understanding of her behavior and suggest actionable strategies to increase her engagement with the brand.
• Working with internal and external partners, to understand and leverage insights across website analytics, back-end customer and purchase data, financial data, third-party and customer feedback data.
• Translate insights into strategic merchandising, product and marketing initiatives to build business cross channel.
Communications
• Social Media
Influence and help develop our social media outreach. Ensure we connect with her where, when, and how she is socially connecting. Optimize each channel for what it does best for the customer.
• Content Management
Direct our overall customer contact strategy. Maintain continuity across the brand but channel specify the messaging.
• PR
Develop and direct our PR strategies to align with our company goals and content messages.
International
• Develop international marketing strategies that create brand awareness and drive digital engagement and traffic.
Qualifications
• Minimum of 7+ years experience within the marketing realm
• A solid traditional marketing knowledge, but a thirst for new marketing platforms
• Proven leadership ability