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Cultura

Independent French cultural retailer and courses

CRM Manager

Full-TimePosted on 10/5/2026
€45k/yr+ Variable compensation + Profit-sharing and incentive payments + Seniority bonus
Expert
Mérignac, France
HybridTwo days of remote work per week are available for central-services employees.

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 7 years of experience in CRM, customer loyalty, or customer marketing, ideally in retail, e-commerce, or an omnichannel environment.
  • A strategic vision of CRM and a strong results orientation.
  • Strong understanding of customer engagement, loyalty, and personalization.
  • A data-driven and performance-focused culture.
  • Demonstrated experience in management and cross-functional project management.
  • Ability to unite and influence people in a collaborative environment.
  • Understanding of digital and omnichannel issues.
  • Interest in cultural, artistic, and musical practices.
Responsibilities
  • Define and communicate the CRM vision in line with company ambitions.
  • Build and evolve the CRM roadmap, identifying opportunities to create value for customers and the business.
  • Set a clear direction for the CRM team and support the development of its practices, skills, and working methods.
  • Identify value-creation opportunities based on customer expectations, market trends, and CRM innovations to improve relevance, efficiency, and automation.
  • Establish a culture of testing, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the team.
  • Define the direction of the CRM communications plan and arbitrate relationship-marketing priorities in line with business objectives.
  • Ensure a balance between Cultura brand promotion, cultural product offers, commercial news, and customer relationship journeys.
  • Challenge and support the team in designing increasingly relevant and effective customer segmentation, personalization, and engagement initiatives.
  • Ensure consistent CRM communications across channels and key moments in the customer journey.
  • Define the CRM performance-management framework and align its indicators with company objectives.
  • Measure CRM's contribution to commercial performance, customer engagement, and loyalty.
  • Identify and prioritize optimization levers to improve the effectiveness of customer relationship initiatives and customer value creation.
  • Guide priorities for developing customer reachability, from consent collection through data activation.
  • Identify opportunities to evolve customer relationship channels to improve customer experience and CRM effectiveness.
  • Define and prioritize the CRM roadmap with IT teams and business stakeholders.
  • Translate CRM needs into business requirements and manage requests to evolve CRM tools and capabilities.
  • Support and challenge the team in delivering CRM projects from design through implementation, ensuring impact, quality, and effective execution.
  • Promote collaboration with Commerce, E-commerce, Offer, Loyalty, Customer Relations, Data, and IT teams to advance personalization and customer relationship performance.
Desired Qualifications
  • Knowledge of SFMC and REELEVANT.

About the company

Cultura is a French cultural retailer with over 110 stores and an online shop, offering more than 4 million products across books, music, arts, and creative materials. Its range is sold through both physical locations and an online platform, and it runs in-store events and courses for adults and children to explore and practice culture. It differentiates itself by being independent since 1998, its large national footprint, a dedicated foundation funding educational and social projects near stores, and a strong workplace culture with community engagement. Its goal is to make culture accessible, help people discover and grow their cultural interests, and support learning through products and educational initiatives.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Neuville-en-Ferrain, France

Founded

1998

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What believers are saying

  • Lanester opens in 2026 with 22 hires, showing continued physical expansion.
  • April 2026 franchise expansion broadens ownership-funded growth without heavy corporate capital.
  • Culture Pass eligibility for design and crafts in 2026 supports category demand.

What critics are saying

  • Perpignan's February 2026 CDAC ruling exposed expansion projects to shutdowns and fines.
  • E-commerce and Amazon pressure Cultura's non-differentiated media and creative-goods margins.
  • If franchise openings underperform, Cultura's growth strategy loses capital-light momentum quickly.

What makes Cultura unique

  • Cultura mixes books, crafts, music, gaming, and in-store workshops across France.
  • Its 123-store network and six franchised locations give it dense national reach.
  • The RELEX rollout tightened supply-chain execution across stores, warehouse, and ecommerce.

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Company News

RELEX Solutions
Jan 10th, 2022
Cultura S.A. partners with RELEX Solutions

Cultura, a French retailer specializing in creative and cultural goods and entertainment, has partnered with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, to integrate and optimize their supply chain.