Manager Loyalty & Owned Channels

Overview

About PHOENIX
PHOENIX Retail, LLC is a retail platform operating the Express and Bonobos brands worldwide.
About Express
Express is a multichannel apparel brand dedicated to a design philosophy rooted in modern, confident and effortless style whether dressing for work, everyday or special occasions. Since its launch in 1980, the brand has embraced a design philosophy rooted in modern, confident and effortless style. Express ensures you look and feel your best, wherever life takes you. The Company operates over 400 retail and outlet stores in the United States and Puerto Rico,  online store and the Express mobile app.

About Bonobos
Our Bonobos menswear brand is known for being a style instigator and offering perfect-fit risks through our innovative retail model and personalized experience. Launched online in 2007 with its signature line of chinos, Bonobos now offers a variety of styles available to order online and to try on at any one of our 50 Guideshop locations and at  Our Guide shops are in-real-life stores that deliver one-on-one service and expert fit advice.

Don’t think traditional retail, Bonobos is something you haven’t seen before.

Columbus Corporate Headquarters

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Manager of Loyalty & Owned Channels architects the overarching vision and strategic framework for loyalty and owned channels, driving enterprise-wide customer retention and lifecycle growth. This leader orchestrates strategy across the Express Insider Loyalty program, Express Credit Card, and owned channels (Direct Mail, Email, SMS & App Push) with a focus on driving customer engagement and long term loyalty. By synthesizing brand and business objectives, they drive high-level optimization across all touchpoints to accelerate customer spend and retention in partnership with leadership and external partners.

This individual owns channel and program strategy, audience segmentation, contact cadence, and campaign orchestration across all owned channels to support Ecommerce and Stores performance. They are accountable for establishing, tracking, and achieving key KPIs, including customer-level goals, last-touch attribution, channel-level file growth and store marketing initiative performance.

They collaborate closely with Brand Marketing, CRM Execution, Ecom, Creative, Store Operations, Digital, and Loyalty/CRM, Analytics and external partners to bring campaigns to life while continuously improving performance through a robust test-and-learn agenda.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect and define comprehensive marketing strategies across Loyalty, Credit, Direct Mail, and Digital Owned Channels, ensuring alignment with long-term brand equity and business objectives.
• Support the development of strategic initiatives including lifecycle journeys, brand campaigns, and omni-channel activations, proactively identifying opportunities to drive engagement and customer retention.
• Oversee the strategy of the owned channels calendar, ensuring optimal contact frequency, customer experience, and alignment with critical business priorities.
• Lead and mentor a team of Specialists, fostering a culture of strategic thinking, agility in execution and performance optimization across Direct Mail, email, SMS, and app push campaigns.
• Champion a data-informed decision-making framework, translating complex performance metrics and competitive benchmarking into actionable strategic recommendations that drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to define audience segmentation, personalization, and messaging strategies, ensuring a cohesive and elevated customer experience across all touchpoints.
• Drive the long-term test-and-learn roadmap, continuously evolving program strategies and innovation based on rigorous analysis of campaign-level engagement and customer behavior.
• Direct the strategic communication of campaign objectives, offer architecture, and success measurement to ensure cross-functional alignment and flawless operational execution.
• Engage in strategic team and vendor discussions to evolve the strategy of these programs connected to our core business objectives. Supports relationships…