Analyst, CRM

Darden Restaurants Inc

  • Orlando, FL
  • 21 days ago

    Highlights

    This is a high visibility position requiring significant interaction with Senior Management and external vendor partners while working on daily campaign deployments as well as small projects. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Work with ESP partners, creative agencies, Darden Brand teams and Darden Strategy team to create and execute email campaigns that drive business impact.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationOrlando, FL

    Description

    1000 Darden Center Dr, Orlando FL 32837

    Job Description

    JOB OVERVIEW:

    The CRM Analyst is responsible for supporting and advising key business leaders across the organization on Email and SMS initiatives. This is a high visibility position requiring significant interaction with Senior Management and external vendor partners while working on daily campaign deployments as well as small projects. The ideal candidate will have a background with an emphasis in email campaign development (HTML), execution, post-campaign analysis, and independent decision making. This position requires a collaborative, solution-oriented mindset, and a person who is skilled and experienced in developing email campaigns, and can manage multiple projects at a time.

    ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Work with ESP partners, creative agencies, Darden Brand teams and Darden Strategy team to create and execute email campaigns that drive business impact
    • Execute a high volume of data-driven, dynamic email campaigns
    • Execute SMS campaigns including broadcasts, mobile wallet offers, and automated messages
    • Lead tactical development behind day-to-day campaigns as well as the overall trigger programs for both email and SMS
    • Proofread and perform rendering checks on all campaigns prior to deployment, utilizing utmost attention to detail
    • Troubleshoot rendering issues and provide end-to-end QA support
    • Build and code emails using agency-provided creative assets
    • Build and develop single-step email campaign journeys
    • Manage campaign calendar and deployment schedule to ensure deadlines are consistently met
    • Manage and track day-to-day activities across open projects, prioritizing work to be done each day, logging issues contributing to delays
    • Partner across teams to ensure projects are on track for on-time deployment
    • Become a super-user of email deployment platform
    • Support process documentation and enforcement of SOPs
    • Provide insightful recommendations to improve templates and approach to align to email best practices
    • Assist in the development of year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter campaign analysis decks to Senior Management
    • Ensure spam regulation compliance (CAN-SPAM)
    • Deliverability monitoring, raising concerns to brand and leadership as needed
    • Utilize SQL to extract, analyze, and manipulate data from database
    • Edit and troubleshoot HTML code to ensure proper structure, formatting, and functionality
    • Ensure email and mobile marketing best practices are met
    • Lead small scale projects as needed
    • Develop and maintain project backlogs, regularly assessing priority to ensure business needs are met
    • Create and manage a trigger and template maintenance process to ensure we are proactively addressing rendering issues and applying best practices
    • Consistently enhance skills and job knowledge by participating in professional learning opportunities and personal networking

    REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

    • Demonstrated experience working with an Email Service Provider to deploy email Campaigns
    • Proficient in Excel: formulas, filters, and pivot tables

    OTHER KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

    • Organization, project management, and time management skills with the ability to organize, plan, and follow-up with tasks
    • Ability to prioritize and re-prioritize various job activities/tasks, including the ability to multi-task when necessary
    • HTML/SQL experience
    • Basic knowledge and understanding of data, insight, and strategy
    • Ability to adjust communication style such that it is effective with various audiences, including internal and external partners as well as peers or executive level employees
    • Ability to clearly and confidently communicate/present (verbal and written) key learnings and metrics whether that be by phone, email, virtual presentation, or in-person
    • Ability to exercise appropriate judgment with a sense of urgency by using information and knowledge to make timely, effective decisions
    • Ability to work independently in a detail-oriented function and with minimal supervision
    • Ability to build and maintain relationships, with a skill for conflict resolution

    REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

    • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field required
    • 1-3 years' experience servicing high volume marketing initiatives (inclusive of internship experience working in marketing)
    • Experience has led to strong understanding of email / SMS marketing best practices

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