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Mallory S. F. Leblanc

Dallas,TX

Summary

E-commerce leader + CRM Expert + Customer strategist + ex-consultant with deep experience in leading happy teams, growing customer lifetime value, and driving enterprise change at startup speed

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President, E-Commerce, CRM, Customer Strategy

Moda Operandi
08.2022 - Current
  • Owned e-commerce P&L, site merchandising, & CX
  • Evolved search & navigation for better CX
  • Added bestseller & trending curations to drive 7-figure incremental demand growth
  • Partnered with product teams to develop & test tactics to provide relevant and personalized site experience. Ensured tests were executed and measured accurately
  • Prepared annual and quarterly forecasts and budgets for channels; manage expenses within budget
  • Built net-new "customer center of excellence"
  • Designed audience strategy, identified and built actionable customer segments for use across channels
  • Responsible for customer-centric, data-driven strategies and implementation of lifecycle strategies, including paid, owned, and earned marketing channels and customer touchpoints (in-app, online)
  • Worked with merchant teams to lead development of personalized promotion strategy to increase CLV
  • Partnered with data engineers to analyze business and partner data to identify trends and KPIs and design strategies that drive desired outcomes
  • Responsible for forecasting, budgeting, and delivering CRM revenue goals
  • Provided vision and led teams to manage email, SMS/MMS, and push strategy
  • Developed new Moda Rewards loyalty program to mitigate significant churn / one-and-done behavior

Sr. Director, CRM & Customer Strategy

Neiman Marcus Group
10.2020 - 08.2022
  • Worked across Customer (now digital) org to design growth plans that drove maturation and CLV
  • Built first customer P&L at Neiman Marcus
  • Defined customer journeys and worked with product/service teams to deliver suite of integrated experiences that drove maturation and lifetime value
  • Collaborated with insights leaders to identify pivotal conversion points & designed engagement strategies to minimize leakage
  • Led promotions team to deliver margin-accretive public offer program and augment with personal, triggered offers that drive specific customer actions ('next best action')
  • Built digital capabilities to enable personalized experiences/services beyond core customer
  • Led Loyalty and proprietary credit (PLCC) team
  • Core stakeholder for Capital One card partners
  • Underwent effort to overhaul program, expand service offering, and build mobile-first ecosystem

Director of Customer Cultivation

Neiman Marcus Group
01.2019 - 10.2020
  • Center of excellence for luxury customer
  • Managed team of 10 cross-functional leaders (marketing, product management, creative, insights) to build center of excellence for luxury customer in scrum agile approach to test engagement tactics
  • Launched first-ever private offer / next-best-action platform at NMG in partnership with data science)
  • Owned loyalty program and proprietary credit (PLCC)
  • Led customer SWAT team through COVID-19 pandemic. Deployed promotions, services, experiences (many of which were net new to NM) to keep customers engaged. Led to promotion to Sr. Director and expanded role

Director of Marketing Strategy

Neiman Marcus Group
01.2014 - 01.2018
  • Served as strategic advisor and Chief of Staff to CMO
  • Owned InCircle loyalty program and proprietary credit card, maintained best-in-class loyalty, spend, & card metrics
  • Owned ~$150m gift card program
  • Owned all payment partnerships
  • Achieved meaningful improvement in co-marketing dollars / ROI for 3 of 5 partners; negotiated terms and launched digital wallets
  • Led NMG's digital styling development (personal styling delivered digitally). Drove innovation in e-commerce service at startup speed within legacy enterprise. Product now scaled to >75 stylists and key growth arena
  • One of four Directors selected to lead cross-functional effort to unlock +$20m in EBITDA; delivered over $30M
  • Instrumental in opportunity sizing / identification for mytheresa.com acquisition

Engagement Manager

Oliver Wyman Group
01.2007 - 01.2014
  • Member of retail group at elite strategy consultancy
  • Managed teams to deliver high-impact, accretive value to retail and other clients
  • Global leader of Women of Oliver Wyman, advancing women consultants

Sample projects included:

  • For North American wholesale club, redefined omnichannel pricing strategy; delivered measurable gains in member acquisition, development, retention
  • For largest software company in US, developed go-to-market playbook for B2B services
  • For third largest grocer in North America, led team of consultants in strategy diagnostic to lay out three-year business transformation plan
  • For same grocer, led promotions transformation: optimized promotional program, with view to drive margin benefit from a) eliminating margin-destroying promotions without negatively impacting topline; and b) improve overall promotional 'utility' by building superior promotional plan. Delivered over $180M in margin benefit
  • For large electronics retailer, developed and executed field operations and category management plan that resulted in incremental $35M in run-rate margin for client
  • For Alaskan wireless provider, designed strategies to deliver value with view to obtaining 50% market share in 12-24 months, including product and pricing overhaul

Director of Marketing

Alaska Communications Systems
07.2008 - 01.2009
  • Reported to CEO, focusing on go-to-market product strategy, post-launch momentum
  • Successfully launched BlackBerry in Alaskan market, as well as location-based services, and push to talk products

Consultant

Altman Solon
06.2004 - 04.2007
  • Supported telecom, media, and technology clients (mostly investors) in heavy analytical role
  • Integral in building go-to-market plan for initial rollout of Verizon FiOS

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Environmental Studies

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
06.2005

Skills

  • Omnichannel retail
  • Loyalty CRM
  • Customer strategy segmentation
  • Analytics, including AI/ML A/B testing
  • Proprietary credit stored value (gift card) strategy
  • Digital transformation
  • Strategic planning
  • Agile change management

Passions

  • Travel, especially hiking in the mountains
  • Architecture and design
  • Cooking (and eating)
  • Spending time with our daughter, Paige, son, Arthur and four (!) dogs

Timeline

Vice President, E-Commerce, CRM, Customer Strategy

Moda Operandi
08.2022 - Current

Sr. Director, CRM & Customer Strategy

Neiman Marcus Group
10.2020 - 08.2022

Director of Customer Cultivation

Neiman Marcus Group
01.2019 - 10.2020

Director of Marketing Strategy

Neiman Marcus Group
01.2014 - 01.2018

Director of Marketing

Alaska Communications Systems
07.2008 - 01.2009

Engagement Manager

Oliver Wyman Group
01.2007 - 01.2014

Consultant

Altman Solon
06.2004 - 04.2007

Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Environmental Studies

Dartmouth College
Mallory S. F. Leblanc