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Marketing leader (CMO)

Leading marketing: the plan, the budget, the team and the results.

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The marketing leader owns the plan, the budget, the team and the results, and answers for them to the rest of the business. In an integrated plan that means setting objectives tied to business results, balancing brand building with short-term sales, and making sure every agency, channel and team works from the same brand and the same brief. The job is choices and trade-offs more than campaigns.

What matters when choosing

  • Measurement the finance team will accept, combining several methods rather than one dashboard.
  • Partners and tools that share data and briefs, so integration does not depend on heroic coordination.
  • A clear operating model: who leads, who supports, and how agencies and in-house teams work together.
  • The freedom to move money between disciplines as results come in.
  • Evidence of effect on business results, not only on channel metrics.

Questions to ask vendors and agencies

  1. Which business result does this move, and how will we know?
  2. How does this work with the agencies and tools we already have?
  3. What would we stop doing to pay for it?

Common mistakes

  • Letting each channel report its own success, so the total never adds up.
  • Cutting brand building whenever targets are tight, and paying for it later.
  • Adding tools and agencies faster than the team can bring them together.

Typical disciplines Advertising (TV, radio, print, cinema) Public relations Digital advertising CRM and loyalty Content marketing Events and experiential

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