Retention Lead

Spotlight Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Share options

Hybrid work

Gym facilities

25 days holiday

Remote weeks abroad

Training fund

Growth team

Job summary

Spotlight Recruitment is seeking a Loyalty & Retention Lead for a fast-growing global DTC beauty and wellness brand in London. Hybrid role with 4 days in the office and flexible core hours (10am-4pm) to drive customer lifetime value, onboarding and subscription journeys.

You will own end-to-end lifecycle, design onboarding, retention and loyalty programmes, and use data to reduce churn and increase CLV. Strong Klaviyo expertise and DTC experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Retention, CRM, or Lifecycle Marketing within a DTC brand or subscription environment.
• Hands-on Klaviyo expertise with the ability to build, optimise, and scale sophisticated customer journeys.
• Track record of moving retention metrics and owning KPIs such as repeat purchase rate, churn reduction, subscription growth, and CLV.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end customer lifecycle, onboarding, subscription journeys, retention and loyalty programmes.
• Leverage customer insights and behavioural data to reduce churn and increase lifetime value.
• Collaborate across cohorts and acquisition channels to refine the customer experience.

Skills

Retention marketing

CRM

Lifecycle marketing

Cohort analysis

Churn modelling

Loyalty programmes

Tools

Klaviyo

Job description

Loyalty & Retention Lead - Global DTC wellness - up to £75k + share options, bonus

Our client is a fast-growing global DTC beauty and wellness brand seeking a Retention & Loyalty Manager to drive customer lifetime value, subscription growth, churn reduction, and loyalty strategy across the post-purchase journey. Based in exceptional London offices with a hybrid 4-day office model and flexible core hours (10am-4pm), you'll join a collaborative, high-growth marketing team. This is a strategic lifecycle marketing role focused on understanding customer behaviour, optimising onboarding and subscription journeys, improving retention, and building loyalty programmes that turn first-time buyers into long-term advocates. Operating within the skincare, wellness, and supplements sector, the business is experiencing rapid international expansion and is on track to become a market leader.

This role is responsible for owning and optimising the end-to-end customer lifecycle, creating exceptional post-purchase experiences that drive engagement, loyalty, and long-term customer value. You will design and enhance onboarding, subscription, retention, and loyalty programmes, ensuring every customer touchpoint is seamless, personalised, and impactful. By leveraging customer insights, feedback, and behavioural data, you will identify opportunities to reduce churn, improve retention, and increase lifetime value through targeted interventions, intelligent save strategies, and sophisticated segmentation. Working across multiple customer cohorts and acquisition channels, you will continuously refine the customer experience, turning insights into action and delivering sustainable growth through stronger customer relationships and increased brand affinity.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience in Retention, CRM, or Lifecycle Marketing within a DTC brand or subscription environment.
• Hands-on Klaviyo expertise with the ability to build, optimise, and scale sophisticated customer journeys.
• A track record of moving retention metrics and owning KPIs such as repeat purchase rate, churn reduction, subscription growth, and customer lifetime value.
• A commercially-minded analytical approach with confidence in cohort analysis, churn modelling, and translating data into action.
• Experience building loyalty programmes including rewards, tiers, points mechanics, and customer engagement strategies.
• A passion for consumer brands, ideally within beauty, skincare, wellness, or subscription-led ecommerce.

Why you'll love this role

This is an opportunity to sit at the heart of a fast-growing skincare brand where customer experience, loyalty, and retention are key growth drivers. You'll have the freedom to experiment, test, and shape a retention strategy that directly influences customer love, lifetime value, and long-term business success. If you're excited about creating customer journeys that feel as personalised and effective as the skincare products themselves, we'd love to hear from you.

• Bonus + EMI share options
• Hybrid: 4 days office (Central London), 1 WFH
• On-site gym, pool, sauna, terrace, cafe and sociable team
• 25 days holiday + BH
• 2 weeks remote working abroad
• Annual training fund
• The opportunity to join an exciting rapidly growing scale up business, with a collaborative, friendly and driven team.

If you are an ambitious Retention Manager, CRM Manager or Retention and Loyalty Manager from DTC, subscription or similar, looking for an exciting new challenge in a fast-growth company.

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