Full job description
Associate Vice President – CRM Strategy & Solutioning role at Dentsu Market Growth, focusing on CRM strategy, MarTech architecture, loyalty design, and customer engagement. The role involves leading enterprise client engagements, winning competitive RFPs, and architecting CRM and MarTech solutions. Responsibilities include managing CRM growth agenda, leading RFP responses, developing CRM strategies across customer lifecycle stages, advising on CRM integration with marketing and commerce, architecting CRM and MarTech stacks with platforms like Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Adobe Experience Platform, and others. The role requires mentoring teams, developing proposals, delivering presentations to executives, and maintaining thought leadership. Requires 15+ years experience in CRM strategy and MarTech consulting, proven success in large enterprise RFPs, hands-on expertise with major CEP and CDP platforms, strong customer lifecycle and personalization knowledge, and excellent executive communication skills. Location is hybrid based in India, Bengaluru preferred.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end response to complex enterprise RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs from qualification to contract close
- Partner with sales, account management, and delivery teams to develop differentiated proposals
- Build and manage a strong pipeline of CRM strategy and solutioning opportunities
- Develop and maintain executive-level relationships at existing and prospective clients
- Lead enterprise clients through design and execution of end-to-end CRM strategies
- Conduct CRM maturity assessments and establish transformation roadmaps
- Define customer segmentation, lifecycle journey architecture, and personalization frameworks
- Advise clients on integration of CRM programs with broader marketing, commerce, and service strategies
- Establish Dentsu's point of view on CRM innovation including AI-driven personalization and real-time decisioning
- Architect and design enterprise CRM and MarTech stacks leveraging CDP and CEP platforms
- Lead platform selection, evaluation, and vendor assessment processes
- Design data integration architectures connecting CRM platforms with CDPs and analytics systems
- Define technical requirements for campaign automation and cross-channel orchestration
- Collaborate with engineering and delivery leads to ensure technical feasibility and scalability
- Stay current on evolving CDP and CEP landscape and platform innovations
- Transform complex CRM strategies into clear narratives for C-suite and non-technical stakeholders
- Design and deliver presentations, workshops, and strategy readouts
- Develop thought leadership content and represent Dentsu at industry events
- Mentor and develop a team of CRM strategists and solution architects
- Define quality standards for CRM solution design and strategic deliverables
- Partner with HR to scale CRM practice capability
- Lead knowledge management and IP development
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive experience in CRM strategy, MarTech consulting, customer engagement, or enterprise marketing technology leadership
- Proven track record of leading and winning complex enterprise RFPs in excess of $3M–$5M TCV, ideally in a consulting or agency context
- Deep, hands-on expertise in two or more major CEP platforms — particularly Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), Braze, and/or Adobe Experience Platform / Adobe Campaign
- Demonstrated knowledge of CDP platforms — including Tealium, Segment, mParticle, Adobe AEP, or equivalent
- Strong understanding of customer lifecycle strategy, segmentation design, personalization frameworks, and cross-channel journey orchestration
- Experience integrating CRM and MarTech platforms with CRM systems (Salesforce, Dynamics), data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery), and identity resolution tools
- Outstanding executive presentation, storytelling, and stakeholder communication skills
- Experience leading or mentoring cross-functional teams in a consulting, agency, or in-house enterprise environment
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline
Tech stack
Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC)BrazeAdobe Experience Platform (AEP)Adobe CampaignTealiumSegmentmParticleIterableKlaviyoHubSpotSalesforce CRMMicrosoft Dynamics 365Oracle CXSnowflakeDatabricksdbtGoogle Analytics 4Adobe AnalyticsLookerLiveRampMerkuryOptimizelyDynamic YieldMoveable InkPega
Benefits
Competitive compensationPerformance bonusesEquity participationCommitment to diversity, inclusion, continuous learning, and professional development