Portfolio · Hi there,

I am
Lien.

CRM & Lifecycle Marketing Expert.

I build systems that turn behavioural data into measurable growth. Consistent revenue uplifts. Higher conversions. Customers who stay.

Lien Pham
10+
Years across finance and marketing
MPA
Accounting degree, Distinction
B2B
SaaS, e-commerce, financial services
SYD
Based in Sydney, open to senior roles
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Engagement uplift from onboarding rebuild
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Revenue uplift from tier progression campaigns
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More transactions from re-engaged customers
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First-month conversion increase
0K+
B2B customers on the platform
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Always-on lifecycle programmes

About

Finance Brain.
Marketing Builder.

Before moving into marketing, I worked in financial analysis, management accounting, and tax advisory. That background shaped how I approach marketing: I don't start with campaigns or creatives, I start with the commercial problem the business is trying to solve.

When I connect lifecycle activity to revenue, conversion, retention, or profitability, I understand both the marketing side and the financial logic underneath it. I'm comfortable working across marketing, data, product, and commercial teams, and can hold conversations with a CFO, developer, and sales lead in the same room.

Since moving into CRM and lifecycle marketing, I've helped build lifecycle functions from the ground up, evolving organisations from fragmented communications into structured, behaviour-led systems supporting activation, retention, reactivation, and long-term customer value.

I build programmes with attribution designed in from day one: user, account, and commercial outcome levels.

CRM & Lifecycle Marketing Manager
B2B SaaS Platform · Sep 2023 to Present
E-commerce & CRM Growth Specialist
Remarkable Outdoor Living · 2023
Digital Marketing Specialist
Selfamour · 2020 to 2023
Accounting Contractor
InStitchu · Aug 2018 to Feb 2019
Management Accountant
Aura Group · 2015 to 2018
Full-time Study · Master of Professional Accounting
Jul 2013 to Oct 2015 · Distinction
Tax Advisor
Grant Thornton Vietnam · 2012 to 2013

The Lifecycle System

5 Pillars. Always On.
Built From Zero.

01
Acquisition
Zero to One
Convert new customers from sign-up to first transaction. Behaviour-branching paths tailored to each engagement state, ensuring no customer receives a generic experience.
Significantly higher first-month conversion vs baseline
02
Growth
Accelerate
Move engaged customers up the value ladder through tier progression programmes, activity-based campaigns, and automated progress reminders.
Sustained revenue uplift across all active campaign periods
03
Loyalty
Appreciate
Protect the highest-value customer segment through personalised recognition, milestone communications, and direct team engagement at key moments.
Dedicated programme for top-tier customer retention
04
Retention
Reactivate
Rescue customers who have gone quiet. Time-based sequences with separate tracks for intent-retained vs fully inactive segments, with escalating engagement strategies.
Measurably more transactions from re-engaged customers
05
Win-Back
Resuscitate
Bring back long-term inactive customers through cross-channel re-engagement, gamified touchpoints, and progressively deeper value offers.
Long-term win-back running fully automated

Case Studies

How I Think,
Not Just What I Built.

Onboarding · Lifecycle design · Automation
Transforming onboarding into a behaviour-led lifecycle system
Problem
The onboarding experience treated all new customers the same, despite clear differences in engagement behaviour. Data showed customers who became active within the first two weeks delivered significantly higher long-term value.
Approach
Redesigned onboarding into behaviour-based journeys tailored to engagement state: customers who had transacted, shown intent, or disengaged early. Ran multivariate testing across messaging, timing, and calls to action, while expanding onboarding beyond email into on-site messaging and automated sales alerts.
Outcome
Delivered a 73% increase in first-week click-through rates and improved first-transaction conversion. The programme evolved into a fully automated lifecycle system integrated across CRM, product data, and on-site engagement.
Marketing automation · Incentive design
Building a reward engine that responds to behaviour in real time
Problem
Incentive programmes required significant manual effort. Identifying eligible customers, calculating what they had earned, and delivering rewards were all done by hand, creating delays and making it impossible to run campaigns at scale.
Approach
Built an automated incentive engine that evaluates individual customer behaviour against configurable rules across multiple live data sources. When a customer meets a threshold, the system delivers the reward instantly, updates their account, and sets flags across the CRM and on-site platform with no manual steps.
Outcome
What previously required manual intervention now runs continuously with no human involvement. Multiple incentive programmes operate simultaneously at scale, each triggered by live behaviour, with rewards delivered at the exact moment they are earned.
Behavioural retention
Intervening before customers disengage
Problem
The business primarily measured customer value at the transaction stage, which limited visibility into disengagement before activity declined. We wanted to explore whether browsing and search behaviour could act as earlier retention signals.
Approach
Built an automated lifecycle programme triggered by platform activity thresholds, rewarding high-intent behaviour and identifying customers showing signs of declining engagement without requiring manual intervention from the team.
Outcome
The programme demonstrated that behavioural activity could be used as an effective early indicator of retention risk, allowing intervention earlier in the customer lifecycle rather than waiting for transaction decline.
Behavioural experiment
What actually motivates behaviour change
Problem
Growth campaigns defaulted to financial incentives without evidence they were the most effective approach. There was an open question about whether status and progression might motivate customers more than monetary rewards of equivalent value.
Approach
Designed a controlled experiment with two groups receiving identical behaviour targets but different incentive structures. Ran simultaneously across two markets with control groups to cleanly isolate the effect.
Outcome
Status-based progression consistently outperformed financial incentives of equivalent value. This finding reshaped how incentives were structured across all growth programmes going forward.
Retention · rescue design
Reaching customers at the right stage of disengagement
Problem
A single re-engagement campaign was sent to all inactive customers regardless of how long they had been gone or what signals they left behind. Someone quiet for a week received the same treatment as someone absent for months.
Approach
Built a tiered rescue architecture that segmented inactive customers by disengagement depth and remaining intent signals, with separate sequences for each group and escalating strategies as recency declined.
Outcome
Segmenting by disengagement stage rather than a single inactive status produced stronger re-engagement. Notably, the act of opting in to a rescue programme proved a stronger predictor of re-engagement than the incentive on offer.
CRM · sales enablement
Turning automation into a signal for human action
Problem
Automated programmes ran independently of the sales team. When a high-value customer didn't respond to outreach, there was no mechanism to escalate, they simply received the next automated message.
Approach
Built a real-time notification system that alerts the relevant sales team member when a customer fails to engage with key lifecycle touchpoints, paired with account-level views of activity, risk, and milestone proximity.
Outcome
Pairing automation with timely human follow-up produced better outcomes than either approach alone. Automation works best when it identifies the right moment for human contact rather than trying to replace it.

Automation and AI

I Don't Just Use Tools.
I Build With Them.

Beyond CRM platforms, I design and build automated workflows using AI, n8n, and integrated systems, turning manual, high-friction processes into triggers that run without human intervention.

Customer feedback
Automated post-support survey with real-time low-score alerting

Built an automated trigger that fires a satisfaction survey after every third support ticket closure for the same customer. The survey pre-populates customer name, email, and ticket ID from the CRM. If the customer rates 3 or below, a real-time alert fires instantly to the relevant manager, no manual monitoring required.

Zoho Desk Zoho Survey Automation
Loyalty mechanics
Behaviour-based loyalty granting and live incentive triggers

Built automated loyalty granting mechanisms that evaluate individual customer behaviour in real time and grant tier upgrades, reward credits, or status changes without manual review. Live incentive triggers fire based on specific on-site activity signals, search thresholds, booking milestones, session frequency, creating a system where the platform responds to customer intent as it happens.

CRM triggers Behavioural signals Real-time logic
AI and workflow
n8n and AI-powered workflow automation for content and operations

Built multi-step n8n workflows integrating AI models to automate content generation, data processing, and operational tasks that previously required manual handling. Designed reusable social media workflow templates enabling customers to maintain a consistent content cadence without a dedicated marketing team.

n8n Claude AI automation
Enablement
Social media workflow templates and customer workshops

Designed reusable content workflow templates for customers to manage their own social media presence without a dedicated team. Ran hands-on workshops teaching customers how to use the templates, adapt them for their context, and maintain a consistent publishing cadence. Turned a manual, inconsistent process into a repeatable system.

Reusable content templates for social scheduling
Live workshops walking customers through implementation
n8n + AI workflow integration for content generation
Programmatic Campaign Performance
LIVE
All Markets
All Campaigns
Rolling 90 Days
Revenue Attributed
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Anonymised
Active in Programme
32K+
across all pillars
Incentive Spend
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vs net profit
Campaigns Running
5
always-on
Revenue and Transaction Attribution by Lifecycle Pillar
Programme Pillar Txns Revenue Uplift
Zero to One ACQUISITION ●●● ●●● X%
Accelerate GROWTH ●●● ●●● Y%
Appreciate LOYALTY ●●● ●●● Top tier
Reactivate RETENTION ●●● ●●● Z%
Resuscitate WIN-BACK ●●● ●●● Running
Revenue Contribution by Pillar (rolling)
Zero to One
Accelerate
Appreciate
Reactivate
Resuscitate
Values and specific metrics anonymised — this data is commercially sensitive. Happy to walk through the real numbers and what they mean at interview.

Commercial Intelligence

Every campaign is tied back to commercial outcomes.

Not open rates and call it done. Revenue, transactions, net profit, and incentive expense, tracked in real time per campaign.

Every programme I build has attribution wired in from the start, with dashboards connecting each campaign directly to revenue, transactions, net profit, and incentive expense.

At individual user and account level, I can tell you exactly how many transactions and how much revenue are attributable to any given customer in the system. That is a commercial intelligence layer, not a marketing report.

Sales Funnel Tracking
Effort, touchpoints, and conversion rates at individual team member level
Commission Attribution
Transactions attributed to responsible team member, feeding performance calculation automatically
Behavioural Segmentation
Market-by-market snapshots used daily to inform commercial decisions
Custom Data Architecture
Fields engineered with the technical team to enable attribution not possible out of the box

Career

The Full Picture.

2023
Sep 2023 to Present
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CRM and Email Marketing Manager
B2B SaaS Platform · 32K+ customers across AU and US
Designed and built the company's entire CRM and lifecycle function from scratch, translating growth strategy into a 5-pillar programmatic engine: Zero to One, Accelerate, Appreciate, Reactivate, and Resuscitate.

Each pillar operates as a suite of automated, always-on campaigns triggered by individual customer behaviour, running daily at scale without manual intervention, enabled by data integrations across the CRM, product database, and on-site messaging platform.

Developed SQL fluency and deep familiarity with the database architecture to work directly with engineering, enabling triggers and integrations that would not have been achievable through the CRM interface alone.

Built campaign-level attribution dashboards connecting each programmatic campaign to Total Transaction Value, revenue, transaction volume, net profit, and incentive expense, giving leadership a real-time view of commercial return across every live programme.

Attribution is granular at individual user and account level: transaction volume and revenue are tracked per customer, enabling precise ROI measurement and identification of highest-value accounts.

Built and maintained five core reporting dashboards used daily by the business, covering behavioural segmentation across two markets, monthly transaction and revenue performance by period, and programmatic campaign tracking across all active automations.

Built conversion funnels measuring the effort and output of individual Business Development Managers, tracking customer engagement signals, outreach touchpoints, and conversion rates at the team member level.

Designed commission structure tracking within the CRM, attributing transactions and revenue to the responsible BDM and feeding this into performance reporting for accurate commission calculation across the sales team.

Built a trigger-based notification system that alerts the relevant BDM in real time when a customer does not engage with lifecycle touchpoints, ensuring high-value accounts are followed up personally rather than lost in automation.

2023
Apr to Sep 2023
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E-commerce and CRM Growth Specialist
Remarkable Outdoor Living
Developed end-to-end growth strategies across retail and trade channels, combining behaviour-based automation, funnel analysis, and hands-on campaign execution.

Led campaign management including promotions, product launches, and customer journey design across both retail and trade channels.

Designed and implemented behaviour-based automated customer journeys to improve engagement and lifecycle performance; analysed funnel data to identify conversion opportunities.

2020
Oct 2020 to Mar 2023
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Founder and Digital Marketing Specialist
Selfamour · Owner-operated
Founded, built, and ran a direct-to-consumer brand from scratch, using it as the proving ground for paid acquisition, lifecycle marketing, analytics, and systems thinking, with real money on the line and full accountability for every result.

Reduced marketing efficiency ratio to sustain 15% profitability while tripling Revenue Per Visit through offer engineering, CRO, and Facebook Ads creative testing.

Grew the email subscriber base from zero to 3,000 within 18 months, sustaining 40 to 50% open rates through behavioural segmentation and targeted lifecycle campaigns.

Built GA4 and Looker Studio reporting infrastructure from scratch, tracking channel performance and translating data into decisions across every area of the business.

Closed the business deliberately after achieving the commercial and learning milestones I had set. As a minimalist, I chose not to keep scaling a product I no longer believed was adding something meaningful to the world. The craft built here (systems, attribution, lifecycle thinking) transferred directly into what followed, at a much larger scale.

2022
Apr to Dec 2022
+
Digital Marketing Assistant
Isla in Bloom Pty Ltd
Grew email revenue contribution to 30% of total revenue through Klaviyo segmentation and campaign optimisation.

Conducted ongoing audits of global brand email strategies to surface best practices in acquisition, nurture, and retention, translating insights into tactical campaign improvements.

Built a User Generated Content portfolio to improve ad spend efficiency and social media reach.

2022
Jan to Apr 2022
+
Email Marketing Specialist (Contract)
Monti and Me Pty Ltd
Produced and executed email and SMS campaigns across the full customer lifecycle: prospecting, win-back, loyalty, retention, and transactional programmes.

Managed end-to-end campaign delivery including build, copy, asset coordination, QA, and scheduling across manual and triggered campaign types.

2015
2015 to 2019
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Management Accountant and Accounting Contractor
Aura Group and InStitchu
Full-cycle accounting across balance sheet reconciliations, budget vs actual variance analysis, payroll, and gross margin analysis across cost centres.

Completed month-end finance tasks including prepayments, accruals, and inter-company reconciliation in a timely and accurate manner across multiple divisions.

Performed gross margin analysis incorporating the effect of marketing campaigns and FX exposure from offshore manufacturing relationships.

2012
Jul 2012 to Apr 2013
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Tax Advisor
Grant Thornton Vietnam
Transfer pricing research and compliance guidance for client engagements across multiple industries.

Conducted industry and client research to identify transfer pricing issues and provided guidance on compliance requirements.

Prepared technical tax documents and research summaries for senior partner review and client presentation on a weekly basis.

Tech Stack

The Tools I Work With.

Across CRM, automation, analytics, AI, and everything in between.

CRM and Automation
HubSpotZoho CRMKlaviyoActiveCampaignMailchimpManyChatUpviral
Integration and Workflow
MakeZapiern8n
Analytics and BI
GA4Looker StudioZoho Analytics
CMS and Web
WordPressShopifyZoho Sites
AI and Content
ClaudeClaude CoworkHeyGenHiggsfieldSoraElevenLabsNano Banana Pro
Social and Scheduling
LaterBufferPlanableBlotatoMeta Business Suite
Design and Collaboration
FigmaCanvaDraw.ioAsanaNotionSlack
Technical
SQLHTML / CSSJavaScriptClaude CodeEmail templating
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Working with a different stack?
Every tool on this list was new to me once, and became something I built systems in. If your stack isn't here, that's a week of focused learning, not a gap in what I can deliver. The platforms change. The ability to drive outcomes doesn't.

Let's talk

Let's Build
Something.

Open to senior CRM, MarTech, and lifecycle marketing roles in Sydney.

✉ lienpn52@gmail.com in LinkedIn
0422 366 426 · Sydney, NSW 2204