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Designing a Commercial Strategy to Re-Ignite Growth

The newly appointed Chief Digital Officer at a global direct-to-consumer company asked Responsive to help develop a new commercial strategy aimed at re-igniting growth. The new strategy built on an updated market segmentation, a clearly defined target consumer profile, and clear direction for where to invest in growth and where to optimise for profitability.

Key outcomes

Three outcomes that defined the strategic impact

Outcome 01
Grew ROI on global marketing spend by 14%

The strategy helped redirect spend to high-potential markets and high-value customer segments

Outcome 02
Increased intake of target consumer segment by 8%

Deploying marketing spend with segment-level goals, budgets, and acquisition tactics

Outcome 03
A negative growth spiral has been stopped and momentum regained

Efficient strategy implementation supported by an updated marketing operating model

The challenge

Growth had stalled in key markets following the initial post-pandemic boost. The newly appointed Chief Digital Officer was tasked with defining a new commercial path forward that could turn the declining revenue into a new growth path.

The approach

We built a clearly defined commercial strategy around two core pillars.

The first was a new market segmentation, directing investments towards the markets, channels and products with the strongest growth potential while optimising others for profitability.

The second was a clearly defined target consumer profile, identifying the customers worth pursuing most: those yielding nearly twice the lifetime value of the average consumer.

The impact

Within the first full year of implementation, the new strategy lifted ROI on the total, global marketing budget by 14%. Meanwhile, total acquisition of the defined target consumer profile - which yielded nearly 2x the lifetime value of the current average consumer - increased by 8%.

Our updated commercial strategy has chartered a new and promising path to sustainably growing our business. Responsive's ability to help us clearly define and communicate the pillars of the strategy significantly accelerated implementation and value realisation.
Chief Digital Officer
Services delivered
Commercial StrategyGo-to-Market StrategyMarketing ExcellenceCustomer Segmentation

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