Senior Manager – Personalisation & AI Activation
Role Overview
Leads group-wide personalisation and AI activation, translating customer data, predictive intelligence, and AI-enabled decisioning into relevant experiences and measurable business impact.
Works across CRM, Loyalty, MarTech, Ecommerce, Analytics, and brand teams to activate Customer 360 insights across channels and journeys.
The role focuses on commercial activation, experimentation, and scalable decisioning rather than campaign management or data science alone.
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Role overview
Leads group-wide personalisation and AI activation, translating customer data, predictive intelligence, and AI-enabled decisioning into relevant experiences and measurable business impact.
Works across CRM, Loyalty, MarTech, Ecommerce, Analytics, and brand teams to activate Customer 360 insights across channels and journeys.
The role focuses on commercial activation, experimentation, and scalable decisioning rather than campaign management or data science alone.
Strategy and activation
- Own the personalisation roadmap and prioritise use cases by customer value, commercial impact, data readiness, feasibility, and speed to market.
- Develop AI-enabled use cases such as next-best-action, next-best-offer, propensity targeting, churn prevention, recommendations, and lifecycle interventions.
- Translate model outputs into business rules, audience logic, and activation journeys; ensure use cases are explainable and scalable.
- Establish experimentation and measurement standards, including control groups, holdouts, A/B tests, incrementality, ROI, and post-implementation reviews.
- Coordinate journey design and channel sequencing across CRM, Loyalty, Ecommerce, Product, and channel teams.
- Partner with Analytics, Data Science, MarTech, Engineering, and governance teams to operationalise models and capabilities.
- Ensure privacy, consent, responsible AI, and customer-experience guardrails; align stakeholders and drive delivery accountability.
Qualifications and experience
- 7–9+ years in personalisation, CRM, lifecycle marketing, customer strategy, digital marketing, MarTech, analytics-led activation, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience designing and scaling personalisation, lifecycle, or audience strategies and using predictive models or AI-enabled customer use cases.
- Strong understanding of segmentation, lifecycle journeys, next-best-action, behavioural targeting, and controlled experimentation.
- Ability to turn analytical insight into commercial activation and measure outcomes.
- Experience in complex, multi-brand, multi-channel, or multi-market organisations is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Analytics, Economics, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field; an advanced qualification is advantageous.
Technical and functional skills
- Knowledge of personalisation, CRM, lifecycle marketing, Customer 360, segmentation, audience management, and customer decisioning.
- Practical knowledge of predictive analytics, propensity modelling, recommendation strategies, and AI-enabled activation.
- Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, holdout groups, and incrementality measurement.
- Understanding of CRM, CDP, marketing automation, decisioning, and activation platforms.
- SQL, BI tools, or analytical platforms are advantageous but not mandatory.
- Strong commercial and analytical judgement, senior-level presentation, storytelling, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership.
About CSi and Landmark Group
CSi is Landmark Group’s strategic business unit bringing together Data & Analytics, Loyalty, Partnerships, Performance & Digital Marketing, and Customer Product & Martech.
Landmark Group is a retail and hospitality group with brands and operations across the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa.
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