Senior Manager, Loyalty Strategy & Product

Confidential

Introduction

As a Senior Manager of Loyalty Strategy & Product, you will architect the loyalty program that delivers a measurable business impact while creating genuine guest value. This role requires a strategic leader who excels at cross-functional collaboration, designs personalized experiences, and builds scalable governance frameworks. You’ll drive initiatives that transform guests into passionate brand advocates.

Location: Riyadh, KSA

Company: Confidential, A Large Scale project, covering multiple destinations and a diverse product portfolio

Role Purpose

You, as Senior Manager of Loyalty Strategy & Product, will lead program feature design & evolution, experience customization, and cross-functional coordination to bring the Loyalty strategy to life at ground level.

Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy & Architecture

–       Drive & Translate overarching Loyalty strategy, including brand guardrails and structural principles across the organization

–       Define value propositions, ensuring alignment on objectives, standards, and KPIs across the loyalty value chain

–       Prepare financial input and commercial analysis, including Loyalty-related revenue, cost, chargebacks, and P&L views

Cross-Functional Collaboration

–       Define the program’s proposition and benefit structures, coordinating closely within the company for implementation

–       Design the strategic Loyalty framework and E2E user journey across all assets & key touchpoints, ensuring a clear handover to Operations for execution

–       Collaborate with CRM, Marketing, and Digital teams to ensure Loyalty campaigns / communications are aligned with the vision & guest insights

Program Experience & Customization

–       Design guest journey flows across the loyalty offering and touchpoints, ensuring consistent and differentiated experiences from onboarding to program engagement

–       Analyze and track guest progression across their lifecycle from acquisition to advocacy. Surface insights & Plan interventions to increase the guest lifetime value,

–       Customize benefit content, emotional triggers, and experiential touchpoints to meet the specific needs of the guest segments

–       Support the Ops team to integrate the Loyalty experience into operational, service, and marketing routines, ensuring alignment

Governance

–       Manage cross-functional stakeholders and buy-in across the organization, to ensure that loyalty is embedded across workflows, culture, and collective vision.

–       Act as an enterprise-wide ambassador for the loyalty program

–       Ensuring strategy and execution comply with program guardrails, brand standards, and governance processes

–       Represent the company in cross-portfolio working groups, providing feedback and sharing insights

Qualifications & Experience

Education:

–       A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field; MBA or equivalent advanced degree (preferred)

Experience:

–       10+ years of experience in Loyalty program strategy, guest engagement, value management, personalization, gamification, or CRM

–       Proven track record of developing and scaling successful Loyalty programs at the brand level

Technical Skills:

–       Familiarity with Loyalty & CRM platforms.

–       Segmentation, Gamification, and Personalization

–       Ability to interpret analytics and use dashboards to track performance

–       Proficiency in SQL/R/Python will be an added advantage – not a must for the role

Soft Skills:

– A guest-first mindset and a creative problem solver

–       Strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and communication abilities

Tagged as: gamification, loyalty program, personalization

* Before applying for this position, you first need to upload your CV to the Jobs in Loyalty database for approval. Once your CV has been approved, you can then return here to apply for this role or browse and apply to any other positions currently listed. *

Click the button below to continue.