Director, eMail Marketing

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Position Overview:

Canada Goose is transforming how it engages customers in its owned channels. We are moving from a high-volume mass untargeted send model to a precision channel one that earns attention and drives greater results through personalisation intelligent segmentation and disciplined subscriber base health management. The Director Email Marketing will lead that transformation.

This role owns the strategy execution and optimisation of Canada Gooses global customer communications across Email SMS and related owned channels. You will re-architect our contact strategy deepen personalisation and lifecycle capabilities and rebuild the programme around long-term engagement and subscriber health. You will drive customer engagement retention and revenue through highly personalised data-driven and automated marketing programmes across campaign lifecycle and triggered communications.

Working cross-functionally with Loyalty E-commerce Retail Technology Creative Brand/Marketing and Customer Experience teams you will deliver personalised customer lifecycle journeys and campaigns that align with customer needs and business priorities.

You are critical in shaping the Email & SMS roadmap globally improving customer contact strategy and ensuring the channel continues to drive revenue while protecting long-term subscriber health. You will stay ahead of customer communication trends CRM and CDP technology marketing automation deliverability SMS best practices AI-driven personalisation and privacy acting as a thought leader who sets the standard for what a modern precision owned channel looks like.

Channel Strategy & Transformation

• Lead the transformation of the global Email & SMS programme from a high-volume mass send model to a precision personalisation-led channel measured on relevance engagement quality and lifetime value.
• Own the global Email & SMS strategy roadmap and performance against engagement revenue retention and subscriber-health objectives.
• Lead annual channel strategy planning forecasting and investment prioritisation including channel budget ownership to drive sustainable efficient growth across Email and SMS.

Personalisation Lifecycle & Segmentation

• Develop customer segmentation targeting and personalisation strategies that replace one-size-fits-all sends with relevant individualised communications and improve business performance.
• Oversee lifecycle and triggered programmes across onboarding engagement retention and win-back to drive personalised engagement incremental revenue and customer lifetime value.
• Lead planning execution and optimisation of campaign Email and SMS communications including brand commercial and consumer moments with precision targeting as the default not the exception.
• Partner with Data and Analytics to advance first-party and zero-party data capture identity and activation and to apply predictive models (propensity churn next-best-action) that power data-driven personalisation.

Subscriber Base Health & Deliverability

• Establish contact strategy frequency management suppression logic audience eligibility and trigger governance that protect subscriber health and inbox placement across Email and SMS.
• Own subscriber base health as a core discipline list hygiene engagement-based sunsetting and re-engagement consent and preference management and active protection of sender reputation.
• Monitor and optimise deliverability and inbox placement in partnership with deliverability partners.

Measurement & Experimentation

• Drive testing experimentation and incrementality measurement to continuously improve campaign SMS triggered and lifecycle performance.
• Monitor and optimise key channel KPIs demand revenue traffic engagement conversion subscriber growth unsubscribe/complaint rates deliverability and customer lifetime value.
• Build clear performance reporting and translate results into decisions and investment for senior leadership.

Technology Data & Vendors

• Own the marketing automation CRM and CDP technology roadmap including ESP journey orchestration and personalisation capabilities.
• Manage strategic vendor agency and deliverability partnerships to support customer communications marketing technology and channel performance.

Team & Cross-functional Leadership

• Partner with Loyalty CRM E-commerce Retail Technology Analytics Creative Brand Marketing and regional teams to align owned-channel communications with business priorities.
• Lead coach and develop the Email & SMS team building the capability operating model and accountability required to run a precision channel.

• 10 years of experience in Email Marketing SMS Marketing CRM Lifecycle Marketing Digital Marketing or Customer Communications ideally within retail luxury e-commerce or DTC.
• Proven experience owning Email and SMS channel strategy performance targets campaign planning and lifecycle marketing programmes at scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading channel change evolving an email programme from high-volume batch sending toward precision personalisation-led communications and stronger subscriber health.
• Experience with customer journey orchestration lifecycle marketing behavioural triggers personalisation segmentation and retention strategies.
• Experience managing marketing technology vendors agencies deliverability partners and external execution resources. Direct hands-on experience with our current technology stack is strongly preferred:
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) core email/SMS execution and journey orchestration.
  • Salesforce Service Cloud service and CRM integration.
  • Wunderkind identity resolution and behavioural/triggered email.
  • Insider cross-channel personalisation and journey orchestration.
  • Azure / Microsoft Fabric data platform warehousing and analytics foundation.
  • Experience with additional ESPs (e.g. Braze Klaviyo Iterable Marketo Adobe Campaign) and composable / enterprise CDP platforms (e.g. Segment mParticle Tealium Salesforce Data Cloud) is a strong asset.
• Strong understanding of Email deliverability inbox placement sender reputation suppression logic preference management and subscriber health.
• Experience with first-party and zero-party data strategy and activation and familiarity with CDP and identity concepts that enable precision targeting.
• Experience with web analytics and reporting tools including Google Analytics and/or other analytics/business intelligence platforms.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience connecting campaign and lifecycle activity to revenue traffic engagement retention and customer lifetime value and comfort owning and optimising a channel budget.
• Deep understanding of Email SMS CRM lifecycle marketing campaign management and marketing automation best practices.
• Strong knowledge of consent privacy and communications compliance including CASL CAN-SPAM GDPR PII and preference management.
• Strong customer-first mindset with the ability to balance commercial goals subscriber health and brand experience biasing toward relevance over reach.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret performance data identify trends and turn insights into precision-targeting actions.

Whats in it For You

• A company built on Canadian roots and heritage

• Your work is recognized with a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards Program

• Opportunities for career growth through numerous internal and external programs

• Recognize and be recognized by your peers with our Goose Rewards & ICON Rewards

• Be a part ofCG Gives. Donation matching and paid volunteer time to help the organizations you care about

• Access to tools and resources to support physical and mental health embracing change and connecting with colleagues

• Inspiring leaders and colleagues who will lift you up and help you grow

Salary Range:

About the salary range: Were committed to being open and fair about pay. The range provided is intended as a guideline and does not represent a guaranteed offer. When we make an offer we consider the responsibilities of the position market data and internal equity to ensure consistency across our team. Your actual offer will depend on your experience skills and alignment with the role.

Vacancy status: This posting represents an active vacancy for which we are currently hiring.

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