Senior Executive - B2B Marketing, Customer Engagement, Digital Transformation

Experience
Senior B2B Marketing Leader and Commercial Growth Specialist, spearheading digitally enabled strategic change across international environments and large matrixed blue-chip IT organizations. Combines 25 years’ multi-sector board-facing B2B brand, industry, and product marketing experience, with status as a thought leader on direct and indirect sales channels and integrated brand, demand, and customer success marketing. Global client leader for key accounts including Cisco, SAP, Autodesk, Oracle, Barco, Korn Ferry, Nokia, Vodafone, Viasat.

Preferred Engagement Focus
Leveraging (or building) an expert team to define, develop, and deliver best-in-class GTM and integrated product, industry, and brand marketing strategies and impactful, value-led customer experiences and engagement throughout the customer lifecycle.

25+ years experience, ex WPP / Ogilvy

Location: UK

Reference: USKBA

Professional Experience (examples)
  • Definition of corporate, divisional, industry, portfolio and / or product growth ambitions and goals aligned to corporate strategy

  • Development of SWOT analysis, customer, market and competitor intelligence and analysis

  • Definition of where to play (and where not to) through market, segment and growth opportunity analysis and mapping and identifying clear ICPs and personas

  • Defining how to win through differentiation, value propositions, positioning narratives and messaging

  • Growth enablers identification and business case development

  • New or existing market / segment and/or new or existing products and solutions evaluation and strategy definition

  • Growth plan development and long-term maturation roadmap

  • Stakeholder alignment and interlocks

  • Sales and marketing strategy development (direct and indirect)

  • Sales, marketing, field and partner enablement

  • Account planning and targeted growth plans for key accounts

  • Demand gen, lead gen, ABM and sales plays execution, measurement, reporting and optimisation

  • RFI/RFP, bid and pitch proposals development and presentation

  • Procurement and contract negotiations

Business Development
(Consulting, Sales, Marketing)
Business Innovation &
Transformation
Strategy &
Operations
Management &
Leadership
  • Research and analysis to inform re-positioning territories, brand architectures, and marketing strategies for business and brand transformations

  • Digital transformation strategy and roadmap definition

  • Transformation plan design, workstream identification, and task definition

  • Business case and sell-in to senior stakeholders

  • Digital transformation for internal sales and marketing organizations through tools, talent, and process audits and recommendations

  • Change management program design and execution

  • Stakeholder communications, measurement, and reporting against KPIs.

  • Innovation sprint process design and leadership

  • Talent management

  • Integrated brand to demand to customer success marketing

  • Brand positioning and brand platform development

  • Industry messaging, Industry Marketing & Industry GTM strategy

  • CX and customer engagement

  • Content strategy and editorial boards

  • Creative, copy, and content development

  • Ecosystem enablement – Field Sales, SIs, ISVs, VARs

  • Growth strategy development, direct and indirect demand generation, and business development

  • Programme management

  • Professional services business unit leadership (USA, UK, Singapore)

  • Marketing organization design including mission, strategy, roles, expertise, capabilities, and metrics definition

  • Marketing system of systems design, mission, core process mapping, and interlock definition with other business functions

  • Global content board organizational structure design, skills identification, and governance

  • Industry and sales enablement content and marketing maturity models and operational roadmaps

  • Design and implementation of both on-shore and off-shore shared services business operations and centers of excellence to drive business efficiencies and scale

  • Strategic sales support

  • Cross-functional collaboration

  • Global program design and project direction

Engagement
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Western Europe

Fractional Executive / Advisor / Program Leader / Manager

Remote and on-site (depending on location)

Part time / Full time

English