Curriculum vitae
Rafał Oleksiak
Fifteen years on the second purchase.
E-commerce for brands whose customers come back. I work across the whole path — paid traffic, onsite conversion, owned channels, subscription and loyalty — because in FMCG the second purchase is the one nobody owns. I build the measurement tools myself.
Fifteen years in CRM, marketing automation and lifecycle, teams of up to 15
Marketing automation grown from 0.5% to 12% of company revenue
A $2M automation tools budget, owned end to end
US and European markets, across e-commerce, SaaS, automotive and travel
Now
Rafał Oleksiak Consulting — independent consultant
January 2025 — present
FMCG e-commerce end to end, for brands whose customers buy again: supplements, beauty, food, household chemicals, pet food, lenses.
Clients
GenActiv — colostrum, current
E-commerce strategy and Shopify theme work for the colostrum category leader.
Legitio
mBank
Retention strategy for the mOkazje programme, built on consumables — coffee, detergents, contact lenses.
Publicis Group
Two clients at a time.
Employment history
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Head of Loyalty & Retention
eSky Group — February 2026 to present
- Loyalty programme unit economics for travel: how benefit structure, reward cost and member behaviour translate into repeat bookings and margin.
- Customer lifecycle management in marketing automation: lifetime value and conversion analysed by stage, with actions driven against stage-specific KPIs for onboarding, anti-churn and retention.
- Leading integrations and migrations of marketing automation tooling.
- Root-cause analysis behind CSAT and NPS, turned into fixes along the customer journey.
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Head of Digital & CRM
Jameel Motors Poland — June 2025 to February 2026
- Digital strategy and CRM operations for the automotive sector, end to end.
- Full site optimisation for lead acquisition, including UX and conversion rate work.
- Paid traffic across Google Ads and Meta, plus SEO for organic visibility and lead generation.
- CRM lead flow and sales funnel from first contact to conversion.
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Head of CRM & Marketing Automation, all markets
Booksy — January 2024 to June 2025
- Owned the company's key metric, the B2B funnel from prospect to active paying SaaS customer; established micro-conversions and optimised every stage, improving conversion by 0.3pp.
- Built CRM and lifecycle procedures that cut time and go-to-market by 30%.
- Renegotiated the automation vendor contract: wider scope at 14% lower cost than the previous agreement.
- B2B communication, subscription models and SaaS operations.
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Digital Marketing Strategy Manager
Accenture — October 2022 to December 2023
- Led marketing automation transformation projects for B2B, B2C and marketplace clients across US and European markets, with teams of 3 to 10 specialists.
- Delivered an end-to-end MarTech transformation for a drugstore and cosmetics retailer, taking it to market leadership in marketing automation maturity; the client is confidential.
- Personalisation strategies and omnichannel frameworks for enterprise e-commerce.
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Customer Relationship Management Manager
Allegro — October 2020 to September 2022
- Led 15 marketing automation specialists, analysts and developers.
- Built a proprietary marketing automation platform with ML and AI: predictive churn models, a recommendation engine for hyper-personalised communication, send-time prediction and content optimisation.
- Ran a dedicated FMCG and recurring-purchase team with five data scientists, building next-pack prediction per user — the work this consultancy is built on.
- AI-driven personalisation added 1.5pp of traffic and 0.3pp of conversion.
- The omnichannel strategy delivered 34% year-on-year turnover growth and 1.2pp of click-through.
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Marketing Automation Team Leader
Allegro — February 2018 to September 2020
- Built and led a team of 6.
- Grew the channel's revenue contribution from 0% to 5% of total company turnover.
- With the Chief Data Officer, established company-wide customer lifecycle KPIs and rolled out a Customer Value Management framework across the organisation.
- Moved customer communication from first-in-first-out to a data-driven lifecycle approach: 15% year-on-year turnover increase.
- 0.7pp of click-through gained through cross-departmental alignment and stakeholder management.
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Marketing Automation Specialist
Allegro — August 2015 to January 2018
- Implemented and customised the enterprise automation platform for a multi-million user base, enabling full lifecycle management.
- Automated manual campaign processes, releasing 5 full-time roles to strategic work.
- Over the same period, turnover grew 102% year on year.
- Personalisation and segmentation modules added 1.8pp of click-through.
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Earlier roles
Allegro — 2009 to 2012
- Transaction security analyst, business development, brand management, performance marketing.
Teaching
- Marketing Automation Lead Instructor, LABA Business School, 2024
- Guest lecturer in marketing automation, Collegium Da Vinci with Nowy Marketing, 2024
Education
- Master of Arts in Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, 2003 to 2009
- Bachelor in Journalism, Higher School of Social Sciences and Journalism, 2006 to 2010
- Postgraduate studies in Marketing, Lazarski University, 2014 to 2015
Certifications
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud Specialist
- Six Sigma and Lean Management, Ernst & Young
- Certified Team Leader, GAQM
- Scrum Master Fundamentals
Languages
- Polish — native
- English — professional