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The Senior Marketing Manager, Lifecycle Communications will lead the strategy, development and execution of customer lifecycle communications, driving engagement from onboarding through renewal. Overseeing a team of marketing managers, this role is responsible for ensuring and applying a strategic and cohesive approach to customer touchpoints, including transactional communications, account-related messaging, and promotional campaigns. The ideal candidate will collaborate cross-functionally with Go-To-Market, Customer Experience, and Product teams, to drive alignment, optimize messaging, and continuously optimize and elevate the impact of lifecycle communications.

Job Summary

Customer Lifecycle Communications: Lead the strategy and execution of onboarding, transactional, and educational communications that reinforce brand value and improve customer engagement.
Renewal and Retention Communications: Develop and implement data-driven renewal strategies, personalized retention efforts, and proactive churn-prevention initiatives.
Team Leadership: Manage team of marketing managers that supports the project management and execution of lifecycle communications projects and initiatives.
Non-Commodity Product and Service Communications: Customer programs, additional products and promotions including paperless billing, average billing and "add-ons".
Customer Experience & Service Communications: Oversee messaging related to production and billing issues or follow-ups including missing documents, overdrafts, fulfillment. Support lifecycle survey development and feedback loops.
Severe Weather and Crisis Communications: Oversee the management of urgent, real-time communications related to severe weather events, outages, and other crises, ensuring timely and clear customer updates

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Manage relationships across the organization to develop, plan, and execute customer communication strategies that drive engagement, retention, and lifetime value.
Own the strategic development and execution of customer touchpoints, ensuring a seamless experience across channels (email, SMS, in-app, direct mail, etc.).
Develop and optimize lifecycle marketing campaigns, leveraging customer segmentation, behavioral triggers, and personalization to enhance engagement
Define and execute renewal and retention strategies, using insights from customer data to develop targeted messaging and offers.
Collaborate closely with the Go-To-Market, Customer Experience, and Product teams to align messaging and campaign execution with broader business objectives.
Provide strategic leadership to identify marketing opportunities, improve messaging effectiveness, and implement action plans to meet business goals and objectives.
Oversee the management of severe weather and crisis communications, including outage notifications, safety alerts, and proactive customer messaging during emergencies.
Identify and implement test-and-learn scenarios to measure the effectiveness of lifecycle initiatives and optimize campaign performance.
Track, analyze, and report on key performance metrics, delivering insights that inform future strategies and drive measurable improvements.
Demonstrate thorough understanding of the industry, business, competitors and brands, and act as an important resource for intelligence and direction. Be seen as a trusted, strategic, and confident marketer.
Must think about consumer engagement and overall customer experience and is an advocate for the consumer.
Work closely and collaboratively with the cross-functional team to determine product/offer positioning, value proposition, naming, messaging, and creative strategy.
Identify optimal marketing channel mix to produce measurable and sustainable results that strengthen customer retention and drive business results.
Provide strategic direction, marketing input and influence the creative outcome.
Identify test and learn scenarios. Analyze and understand customer needs and refine plans based on learnings.
Stay informed on industry trends, emerging marketing technologies, and customer engagement best practices to continuously enhance lifecycle marketing efforts.
Build relationships and strong rapport across internal teams and leadership to drive cross-functional alignment.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions

Hybrid work enviornment
Travel: Minimal (up to 5%)
Some overtime required as special projects arise

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field required.
7+ years of experience in marketing, communications, project management, brand management or related field.
2+ years of experience managing a team of marketing managers or project managers.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building and implementing successful strategic customer marketing plans.
Experience with the energy industry or services industry (electricity, cable, internet, etc.).

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ideal candidate will possess drive, initiative, strategic thinking, problem solving and the ability to cultivate and sustain a high degree of cross-functional collaboration, coordination, and communication.
Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to coach, mentor, and inspire.
Exceptional conceptual thinking skills, creativity that is supported by a process-oriented analytical skill set.
Self-starter: confident and ability to hit the ground running; minimal direction needed.
Experience tracking and measuring campaign performance and drawing valid conclusions.
Strong attention to detail, organization, and time management skills.
Ability to communicate effectively (verbal, written and visual).
Ability to present to management and executive teams.
Excellent relationship-building & interpersonal skills; collaborate across departments and organizations.
Willing to jump in wherever help is needed.

Physical Requirements

None

Why NRG / Vivint is a great place to work:

Great company culture!! Voted as a BEST employer by Forbes
A competitive total compensation package, including annual incentive and/or commission
Stock Purchase Plan
Benefits on the first day of employment -Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and Short Term Disability, Wellness program, etc.
Company-paid life insurance and disability insurance
401 (k) plan to help save for retirement
Generous Flexible FTO plan, where you take the time you need; also includes 11 company holidays, and 1 floating holiday
Numerous discounts on NRG and Vivint brands

** No Outside Recruiters or Agencies **

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