Retention Marketing Lead

Retention Marketing Lead

Lifecycle and CRM

Reports to: VP Marketing

Location: Delhi NCR (on-site)

Team: you will shape and lead the retention function

Experience: 5+ years

Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience

About Dentalkart

Dentalkart is India's leading online dental marketplace. We supply the dentists, clinics, and labs that run the country's oral healthcare, from single-chair practices to multi-clinic groups, alongside a fast-growing base of everyday consumers. Waldent, our own brand, sits inside the catalog. Because dental practices reorder on a predictable cycle, the right merchandising, retention, and category decisions compound month after month. We are building a new, owner-led marketing structure, and this is one of five leadership seats in it.

Why this role exists

Dental practices reorder on a cycle, which makes retention the economic engine of this business, not acquisition. You own the second purchase, the tenth purchase, and everything that keeps a customer buying. This seat exists because lifetime value is where the margin lives, and it has been under-owned until now.

What you own

• Customer lifetime value and the LTV-to-CAC ratio

• Repeat purchase rate and retention across cohorts

• The full customer journey and the lifecycle communication behind it: onboarding, replenishment, reactivation, win-back

• Nudges that recover customers dropping at any funnel stage, in-app and across channels

What you will do

• Build lifecycle journeys in MoEngage across email (Kasplo), WhatsApp and RCS (Onextel), SMS (Gupshup), and push, mapped to where each customer sits in their buying cycle

• Segment customers (RFM, category, practice type, B2B versus consumer) and run targeted retention and replenishment programmes

• Locate the funnel drop-off points and deploy nudges that recover them, measured by recovered revenue

• Build and own a reactivation and win-back engine for lapsed buyers

• Stand up the retention metric stack (cohort retention, repeat rate, lifetime value, LTV-to-CAC) so the whole org reads the same numbers

• Partner with Merchandising on in-session nudges and with Category on replenishment and offer logic

How you will be measured

• Repeat purchase rate and cohort retention curves

• Lifetime value and LTV-to-CAC

• Recovered revenue from funnel-drop nudges and win-back

• Lifecycle channel performance measured to revenue, not opens alone

What good looks like in your first 6 to 12 months

• By month 6, a measurable and defensible lift in repeat purchase rate, or in revenue recovered from funnel drop-offs and win-back, against the baseline you set early

• The core lifecycle journeys (onboarding, replenishment, win-back) live, attributed, and contributing revenue the business can see and plan against

• Lifetime value and LTV-to-CAC visible at cohort level and moving in the right direction, with a retention metric stack the rest of the org trusts enough to plan against

Must-haves

• MBA or PGDM from a Tier-1 institute (IIM, ISB, XLRI, FMS, MDI, SPJIMR, IIFT or equivalent)

• 7+ years in retention, CRM, or lifecycle marketing for an e-commerce, subscription, or platform business

• Hands-on experience with a CRM or engagement platform (MoEngage, CleverTap, WebEngage, Braze or similar) and multi-channel orchestration

• Strong command of cohort analysis, segmentation, lifetime value, and retention economics

• Evidence of moving repeat rate, retention, or lifetime value, shown with numbers

Preferred

• Experience in a reorder or replenishment-driven category

• B2B and consumer lifecycle experience in the same role

• Comfort designing loyalty programmes

This role is for you if

You believe the second order matters more than the first, and you can turn a CRM platform into a revenue engine rather than a newsletter scheduler. It is not for you if you treat retention as campaign-blasting rather than journey design tied to lifetime value.

Requirements

Requirement
• MBA or PGDM from a Tier-1 institute (IIM, ISB, XLRI, FMS, MDI, SPJIMR, IIFT or equivalent)

• 7+ years in retention, CRM, or lifecycle marketing for an e-commerce, subscription, or platform business

• Hands-on experience with a CRM or engagement platform (MoEngage, CleverTap, WebEngage, Braze or similar) and multi-channel orchestration

• Strong command of cohort analysis, segmentation, lifetime value, and retention economics

• Evidence of moving repeat rate, retention, or lifetime value, shown with numbers

Preferred

• Experience in a reorder or replenishment-driven category

• B2B and consumer lifecycle experience in the same role

• Comfort designing loyalty programs