Senior Marketing Manager Retention Execution

Verizon Verizon · Telecom · Basking Ridge, NJ +10

This role is a Senior Marketing Manager focused on executing churn reduction strategies for Verizon Business Group (VBG). It involves leading cross-functional teams to activate and orchestrate retention programs across various customer-facing and rep-facing systems. The role bridges marketing ideas with functional actions in the field, focusing on the technical configuration of offers and save actions within digital and CRM systems, ensuring omni-channel synchronization, and troubleshooting execution errors. While the role mentions interacting with 'AI groups' and using 'AI, tech, and data' for monitoring and triage, its core function is marketing execution and operationalization, not AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execution lead for VBG retention strategies into live, functional customer treatments. The role is the driver of activation—responsible for the end-to-end save journey work, orchestration of "Defend" programs across all rep-facing and customer-facing systems. The role bridges the gap between a marketing idea and a functioning action in the field.
  2. The Senior Manager, Defend Execution is a technical-marketing hybrid responsible for the day-to-day activation of churn-reduction strategies. This role focuses on the precise configuration of offers and save actions within VBG’s digital and rep-facing systems.
  3. Omni-Channel Synchronization: Coordinate the simultaneous launch of campaigns across CRM, Digital, Sales, Telesales, and Care. The execution lead ensures that a "Save" action initiated in a digital portal is visible and consistent if the customer moves to a live rep.
  4. Troubleshooting & Rapid Response: Serve as the first line of defense for execution errors. The lead builds, maintains, and drives customer journey work for save treatments aligned to churn/defend programs.
  5. Monitor live performance to identify system "breaks" or offer misfires, leading to immediate triage to minimize customer friction using AI, tech, and data.
  6. Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the "boots on the ground" contact for Marketing, CX, Care teams, lighting up process and flow optimizations.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience
  • Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
  • Experience working with marketing research, research strategy, or consumer research methodologies.
  • Six or more years of experience in marketing operations, CRM execution, or churn management, with a proven track record of launching live customer treatments in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

  • A Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, or Analytics.
  • Understanding of direct marketing and Sales best practices across key tactics (Email, Direct Mail, SMS, Digital, Outbound, etc).
  • Understanding of key CRM and Sales platforms and systems (i.e., Adobe, Salesforce, Pega, and POS systems).
  • Strong understanding of customer analytics and campaign success measures.
  • Ability to translate complex ideas and express them in concise, simple-to-understand ways.
  • Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment and multitask across projects.
  • Comfortable with continuously changing priorities.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning skills.
  • Ability to interface with executive and C-suite leadership to develop and represent work.

What the JD emphasized

  • six or more years of relevant experience required
  • six or more years of experience in marketing operations, CRM execution, or churn management