Senior Marketing Consultant
Contract: 6 months
Rate: £400 - £425 per day (Outside IR35 - TBC)
Location: Remote (UK-based), occasional US collaboration
Start: ASAP / Flexible
Overview
A fast-growing IT, technology, and telecoms business is seeking a Senior Marketing Consultant to bring clarity and alignment across its marketing function. The business has expanded rapidly through new products, acquisitions, and joint ventures, and marketing has not fully kept pace with this growth.
This interim role will provide senior, strategic marketing leadership during a period of change, helping to align messaging, improve the customer journey, and put scalable marketing foundations in place.
Role Purpose
To review, simplify, and align marketing strategy, positioning, and execution across a broad portfolio of IT, technology, and telecoms products and services, ensuring marketing effectively supports commercial objectives and future growth.
Key Responsibilities
Marketing Strategy & Alignment
Review the full portfolio of products, services, acquisitions, and joint ventures
Define and align marketing strategy with business and commercial goals
Create a clear, unified value proposition and messaging framework
Identify gaps, overlaps, and inconsistencies across marketing activity
Website & Customer Journey
Review the website and digital presence
Assess and improve the end-to-end customer journey
Recommend and prioritise improvements to structure, messaging, UX, and conversion
Content & Collateral
Audit all marketing materials, including sales decks, brochures, case studies, ebooks, and workbooks
Define a content and collateral strategy aligned to customer needs and sales enablement
Recommend what content should exist, what can be retired, and where improvements are needed
Ensure consistent messaging across all customer-facing materials
Sales Enablement & Internal Alignment
Work closely with sales and commercial teams to improve messaging clarity
Align marketing outputs with how complex IT and telecom solutions are sold
Act as a bridge between technical and commercial stakeholders
Foundations for Scale
Establish repeatable frameworks, guidelines, and documentation
Support handover to internal teams or agencies
Advise on future marketing capability, resourcing, and priorities
Key Deliverables
Marketing and brand review with clear recommendations
Unified positioning and messaging framework
Website and customer journey improvement roadmap
Content and collateral strategy (including ebooks/workbooks)
Documented marketing frameworks and handover
Candidate Profile
Senior marketing experience (e.g. Head of Marketing, Marketing Director, Senior Consultant)
Background in IT, technology, telecoms, or complex B2B environments
Experience navigating growth, acquisitions, or transformation
Comfortable working with ambiguity and shaping a role
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Commercially focused with a clear, strategic mindset
More information available upon application
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