Manager, CRM & Guest Engagement
Role Overview
The Manager, CRM & Guest Engagement will support CRM and guest communications across Kerzner's global brands and resorts.
The role owns day-to-day CRM campaign delivery, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, automated guest journeys and transactional communications.
This is a hands-on role requiring strong attention to detail, organisation and the ability to manage multiple brands and priorities.
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About Kerzner
Kerzner operates a global hospitality portfolio and focuses on innovation, guest experiences and colleague development.
The company has an international team of more than 10,000 colleagues and operates brands including One&Only, SIRO and Rare Finds.
Job Summary
The Manager, CRM & Guest Engagement will support CRM and guest communications across Kerzner's global brands and resorts.
The role owns day-to-day CRM campaign delivery, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, automated guest journeys and transactional communications.
This is a hands-on role requiring strong attention to detail, organisation and the ability to manage multiple brands and priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage CRM activity and the CRM/EDM calendar across brands, resorts and stakeholders.
- Own campaign delivery from audience selection through build, testing, QA, deployment and reporting.
- Maintain quality control across guest communications, including content, personalisation, data, rendering and tracking.
- Build and optimise Salesforce Marketing Cloud campaigns and automated journeys.
- Support booking confirmations, pre-arrival messages and other transactional communications.
- Manage segmentation, subscriber updates, preferences and campaign data requirements.
- Use testing and personalisation to improve guest engagement and campaign performance.
- Report CRM performance and provide insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Support lifecycle journeys and emerging channels such as app, push, SMS and WhatsApp.
- Coordinate with IT, data teams and external partners on integrations, enhancements, data requirements and UAT.
- Support Customer 360, CDP and guest segmentation capabilities.
- Ensure CRM activity follows privacy, consent and brand requirements while maintaining clear processes and documentation.
Skills, Experience & Educational Requirements
- At least five years of experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing, email marketing or guest engagement.
- Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud is required.
- Experience managing CRM across multiple brands, properties, markets or business units is required.
- Experience delivering marketing and transactional communications is required.
- Experience with Journey Builder, Email Studio, Automation Studio, segmentation, personalisation, A/B testing and reporting is required.
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS for email is required.
- Hospitality, travel or luxury experience is strongly preferred.
- AMPscript, SQL, CDPs, CRM platforms, APIs or integrated marketing technology experience is advantageous.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working with senior stakeholders, resort teams, IT teams and external partners are required.
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud certifications are advantageous.
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