Director Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM)

Do your Best Work in Mooresville This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up – we invest in you so you can find your inspiration. Your Impact The Director of Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) leads the enterprise strategy, operating model, and governance for customer engagement, personalization, lifecycle growth, experimentation, and marketing automation. This role is also a transformational people leader responsible for creating the clarity, trust, accountability, and cross-functional partnerships that enable a high-performing team to thrive through change. Reporting to the Senior Director of CRM & Personalization, this role partners across Marketing, Merchandising, Digital, Loyalty, Analytics, Technology, Product, and Lowe's Media Network to translate customer insights into coordinated, personalized experiences across owned and addressable paid channels, stronger engagement, improved marketing effectiveness, and measurable business growth. The Director will serve as an operator and bridge builder across a complex, matrixed organization, removing barriers, strengthening decision rights and ways of working, developing leaders, and building durable relationships that accelerate both team and business performance. What You Will Do Develop and lead the enterprise customer growth strategy, operating model, and governance across engagement, lifecycle marketing, personalization, experimentation, automation, and owned and addressable paid media. Define customer engagement strategies for DIY, Pro, Loyalty, New Homeowners, and other priority segments across the full customer lifecycle. Establish coordinated contact and journey strategies across email, SMS, push, mobile app, web, direct mail, and targeted paid media to deliver a consistent cross-channel customer experience. Lead the enterprise lifecycle marketing strategy to increase customer lifetime value, retention, repeat purchases, category expansion, project frequency, and share of wallet. Define and advance the enterprise personalization roadmap, including next-best-action, decisioning, and AI-enabled experiences across owned and paid channels. Partner with Analytics and Data Science to develop customer value models, lifecycle segmentation, predictive insights, and measurement frameworks that inform growth strategies. Lead the enterprise experimentation roadmap, establishing consistent testing and measurement standards, prioritizing high-value tests across customer journeys, channels, personalization, and media activation, and scaling successful outcomes and learnings across the organization. Develop marketing automation and journey orchestration capabilities that improve speed, efficiency, scalability, and customer relevance while maintaining governance standards. Partner across Merchandising, Marketing, Digital, Loyalty, Media, Lowe's Media Network, Product, Technology, Finance, and Stores to align customer strategies with enterprise priorities. Translate long-term customer growth priorities into annual operating plans, capability roadmaps, investment recommendations, and resource requirements. Establish performance goals, executive reporting, and portfolio-level measurement across customer engagement, lifetime value, retention, personalization, experimentation, automation, incrementality, and marketing efficiency. Lead through organizational change by creating clarity around roles, priorities, decision rights, and ways of working; remove barriers and establish operating rhythms that empower leaders and teams to execute with greater ownership and effectiveness. Build trust and strengthen engagement across a high-performing organization by listening to the team, developing talent, creating visible growth opportunities, and fostering an environment where leaders feel supported, respected, and equipped to succeed. Act as a bridge builder across Marketing and key enterprise partners, proactively addressing friction, strengthening relationships, and aligning stakeholders with different priorities to create durable cross-functional ways of working. Navigate complex, high-visibility initiatives with executive leaders and peers, bringing strong judgment, influence, and presence while translating ambiguity into clear direction and coordinated action. Build and lead a high-performing team by establishing clear priorities, developing talent and critical capabilities, fostering accountability and collaboration, and creating a culture of continuous learning and strong business results. Lead through leaders by coaching and empowering managers, building leadership capability and succession, and creating the organizational structure and support needed to scale the team effectively. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree Marketing, Digital, E-Commerce, etc. or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable 10+ years of progressive experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing, personalization, customer growth, digital marketing, or a related field. 5+ years leading enterprise customer marketing, CRM, or growth strategies within a complex, matrixed organization. Demonstrated experience developing customer engagement strategies across owned channels and addressable paid media. Experience building customer segmentation, lifecycle, personalization, and journey orchestration strategies. Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners, translate data into business decisions, and drive enterprise-wide change. Preferred Skills/Education Strong executive presence with demonstrated success leading organizational or cultural transformation, developing high-performing teams, and leading through change. Experience leading experimentation, optimization, and marketing automation programs at scale. Working knowledge of customer data platforms, decisioning tools, identity resolution, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled personalization. Experience with platforms such as Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, Adobe Target, or similar technologies. About Lowe’s Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe’s is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com . Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.