41853-Senior Email Specialist

Discovery is at the centre of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores. We are part of the TJX Family which includes TK Maxx, and Homesense in Europe and the UK and across the rest of the world you will find us as TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra and Winners.With variety comes plenty of surprises—our environment is ever-changing, and that’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Are you ready to Discover Different?

We may be famous for big brands at small prices, but our best kept secret is our amazing culture.

We’re part of the TJX Companies Inc, the leading off-price fashion and homeware retailer in the world. In Europe, we have over 600 stores across six countries and two brands – TK Maxx and Homesense. We’re a passionate bunch here, and we’re looking for someone who’s a strong cultural fit, curious, collaborative and leads by example.

We’ve been taking our responsibility as a business seriously for over 25 years. Whether it’s the millions we’ve raised for our charity partners (over £55 million so far), our green initiatives through the Carbon Trust or the sustainable trade programme we helped set up in Uganda, we believe in giving something back to our community.

Everyone who becomes part of the TJX family brings something unique to our collective culture – a diversity of experience, gender, ethnicity, age, viewpoint and much more.

Based in the new state-of-the-art TJX Europe head office in Watford, the Senior Email Specialist will work within the Brand & Marketing function.

Reporting to the Manager of Customer Engagement the Senior Email Specialist will play a critical role within the Customer Engagement team to deliver highly engaging emails for the online TK Maxx business in Germany and Austria. This role also supports in development and execution of CRM plans for Homesense and our other European markets.

This is an exciting, dynamic, and varied Management role focused on the development and delivery of brilliant on-brand emails to support achievement of annual sales and business goals.

The Senior Email Specialist will lead by example acting as an ambassador for TJX and what it stands for.

The Role:

The Senior Email Specialist is responsible for developing a range of engaging customer programmes that support all elements of a customer’s lifecycle. Under the guidance of the Manager of Customer Engagement the role holder will develop and execute the CRM strategy/ plans for the German and Austrian markets.

This role requires a good understanding of CRM, personalisation and targeting approaches. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of customer behaviour and customer lifecycles as well as good analytical abilities to interpret data.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and own both specific customer journey and test and learn plans to deliver the CRM strategy in line with business goals and priorities for the German and Austrian markets.
• Monitor Progress againist goals to deliver the best possible approach
• To take accountability for the delivery for compelling email campaigns and campaign learnings
• Innovate and maintain up to date knowledge of CRM technology and techniques from wider industry resources
• To ensure that all processes are adhered to, clearly documented and communicated to key stakeholders
• Partner with TJX stakeholders where needed across all aspects of the role
• Diligent budget management of customer incentives with an off-price attitude to keeping costs under control.
• Presenting to large audiences (10 people plus)
• Partnering with third party agencies
• Support the Email Officers with the building and deployment of emails
• Work collaboratively with the creative team to produce engaging briefs for new campaigns and content
• Manage all reporting and KPI monitoring the CRM function
• Lead 1 direct report
• Help the EU CRM team to deliver on EU CRM strategy
• Work closely with Customer Engagement and CRM managers on project delivery
• Work closely with the Trade team to deliver an EU email plan that is both engaging and sales driven

OpeOperations & finance

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  Working with the Manager of Customer Engagement and wider Brand & Marketing team to implement processes, ensuring that they are efficient and integrated
• To deputise (when required) for the Manager of Customer Engagement and cascade management reporting to the wider team
• Working closely with Brand & Marketing partners, ensuring a consistent and optimised omnichannel approach to all activity.
• To report and monitor spend against the annual budget

Team and Relationship Management

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  Build and develop strong relationships with key business partners including but not limited to, ecommerce, analytics and loyalty teams.
• Asks challenging and thought-provoking questions to gain understanding
• Supporting the Manager of Customer Engagement to deliver performance objectives for the team in line with business timelines.
• Manage performance of external suppliers
• Build strong, effective working relationships with external partners

Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience

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  Extensive CRM experience, preferably within retail or multibrand business
• Highly numerate, experience applying 1st party customer data to develop personalised and targeted campaigns
• Experience and understanding of test and learn principles to optimise email performance
• Leading and developing a small team
• Experience of self-development and objective setting
• Ability to control and manage to tight deadlines
• Flexible, able to find solutions in uncertain or unknown circumstances comfortable working ‘in the grey’
• Experience in managing third party agencies to deliver results
• Solid project management skills with the ability to influence stakeholders
• Experience of working with task management tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, Trello, Google Doc’s
• Experience working with email service providers, Dreamweaver and Google Analytics strongly preferred

Come and Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find that it’s so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our global TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people dedicated to finding the greatest deals and fantastic style. Best of all? They have a lot of fun doing it.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritise the important things like competitive salaries, solid benefits and plenty of room to grow in your role. It’s our way of empowering you to make your career here.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and/or sexual orientation.