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With so many initiatives in the queue to serve our clients, we need an organized,
efficient process to turn these ideas into realities. That’s where our newest task force
comes in: the Sephora Stat Sig team! This dedicated group of strategists, data
scientists, analysts, information technologists, developers, creatives, marketers, and
product managers come together to do what we do best — but faster.
“It’s a progressive way of working,” said Sabrina Keller, Senior Manager, Personalization
& Optimization and activation lead. “Not many retailers are doing this.”
This agile process, Scrum, allows us to be nimbler and rapidly test and measure while
maintaining accuracy and quality. It brings people from across the organization together
to ideate, test, analyze, and relentlessly ask the “what-ifs?” to take personalization and
media to the next level.
Central to Scrum is a sprint, in which the Stat Sig team performs a “stand-up” where
ideas are created, then tested, analyzed, and rolled out. All of this happens in the War
Room, an area on the second floor of 425 Market Street that has been transformed into a
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workspace with charts, calendars, to-do lists, and a lot of post-its. It serves as the single
point of coordination for all the Stat Sig team’s Scrum activities.
It wouldn’t be Sephora without a little flair, though — daily progress on CRM and media
initiatives are tracked by a team of racing unicorns!
Multiple teams are represented in the War Room, which is extremely important to
ensure a holistic view of each pilot the team works on across different channels.
Emmanuelle Paput, Director, CRM Strategy, serves as the Agile lead and oversees all the
agile processes across the different teams. She bridges the communication between the
activation leads, who each are responsible for initiating a pilot within their own
respective channels.
Above all, Scrum is showing how our teams live our values every day: initiative is key
because they are ideating and working on something that has never been done before;
expertise is called upon because multiple teams are contributing something that falls in
their specific realm of functional expertise; and of course, teamwork.
“Previous to Scrum, each of the channels within paid media were living in silos,” said
Jennifer Nguyen, Paid Media Manager and activation lead. “One of the great things
coming out of this is the insight and teamwork among non-paid media channels.”
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“We work as #oneteam,” said Andrea Zaretsky, SVP, Loyalty, CRM, and Analytics. “We
celebrate each other’s functional expertise and contributions to the mission, and above
all, we strive to innovate every day to delight our clients by serving up personalized and
relevant value.”
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