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Lewis Wilkinson

Manchester

Summary

CRM & Email Marketing Manager with 8+ years' experience delivering customer lifecycle strategy across B2C and B2B ecommerce brands. Experienced in owning CRM strategy end-to-end, managing audiences of 1,000,000+ customers, and driving measurable commercial growth, including doubling email's contribution to company revenue. Passionate about combining customer insight, automation and data to create high-performing lifecycle programmes.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work history

Email Marketing Manager

Beyond Retail
Remote
2023.04 - Current

Beyond Retail is a leading ecommerce group specialising in premium bathrooms, kitchens, and heating products across six brands to both homeowners and tradespeople.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end CRM strategy across six B2C and B2B ecommerce brands, driving customer acquisition, retention and lifetime value.
  • Manage Klaviyo, Attentive and Fresh Relevance, overseeing a customer database of more than 600,000 contacts and delivering personalised customer experiences at scale.
  • Plan and execute the cross-brand promotional calendar, delivering 12+ weekly campaigns alongside automated lifecycle communications.
  • Design, build, optimise and maintain 40+ automated customer journeys across email and SMS to improve engagement, conversion and retention.
  • Analyse campaign performance through regular reporting and experimentation, using insights to continuously optimise CRM strategy.

Key Achievements

  • Increased email's contribution to total business revenue by more than 100% through strategic CRM optimisation, lifecycle improvements and enhanced customer segmentation.
  • Successfully launched SMS as a brand-new marketing channel, delivering more than £600,000 in platform-attributed revenue in the first month while establishing an acquisition and retention strategy.
  • Increased email subscriber acquisition by over 1,000% within a single month through the optimisation of sign-up journeys and capture strategy.
  • Developed and implemented CRM strategies for three newly launched B2B brands, creating tailored customer journeys and communications from the ground up.
  • Implemented a customer segmentation strategy that significantly improved targeting, engagement and broadcast performance across six brands.
  • Collaborated with commercial, trading, design and supplier stakeholders to deliver data-driven campaigns aligned with wider business objectives.

CRM Manager

David M Robinson
Manchester
2022.11 - 2023.04

CRM Manager

Connells
Manchester
2022.07 - 2022.11

CRM Executive

LSE Retail Group
Manchester
2020.11 - 2022.07

CRM Executive

The Webinar Vet
Liverpool
2017.03 - 2020.11

Education

Certificate of Higher Education - Business Studies

University of Chester
/2014 - /2016

10 A*-C GCSEs & 3 A-Levels -

Wirral Grammar School for Boys
Wirral
/2007 - /2014

Skills

  • CRM Strategy
  • Lifecycle Marketing
  • Marketing Automation
  • Customer Segmentation
  • Personalisation
  • A/B Testing
  • Customer Retention
  • Reporting & Analytics
  • Deliverability
  • GDPR

Platform Experience

  • Klaviyo, Attentive, Fresh Sales, Ometria, Mailchimp, Infusionsoft & Dotdigital
  • Fresh Relevance, Zapier, PlusThis & Insider
  • Wordpress & Magento
  • Yotpo
  • Adobe Creative Cloud & Canva

Timeline

Email Marketing Manager

Beyond Retail
2023.04 - Current

CRM Manager

David M Robinson
2022.11 - 2023.04

CRM Manager

Connells
2022.07 - 2022.11

CRM Executive

LSE Retail Group
2020.11 - 2022.07

CRM Executive

The Webinar Vet
2017.03 - 2020.11

10 A*-C GCSEs & 3 A-Levels -

Wirral Grammar School for Boys
/2007 - /2014

Certificate of Higher Education - Business Studies

University of Chester
/2014 - /2016
Lewis Wilkinson