Heads of Marketing
Broad ownership across strategy, team, budget and delivery.
Explore this recruitment specialism →Marketing leadership recruitment
Head of Marketing Recruitment
Hire senior marketing leaders who can set direction, manage people and budgets, challenge agencies, build demand and communicate clearly with the rest of the business.
At leadership level, channel knowledge is not enough. The hire needs judgement, accountability and the ability to make trade-offs when every department wants something from marketing.
Employer perspective
A Head of Marketing hire can reshape the way the whole business thinks about growth.
The title can cover brand, demand generation, digital, product marketing, sales alignment, team building, agency management and budget ownership. We define the actual mandate before searching for the person.
We pay particular attention to the scale and environment candidates have worked in. Someone who excelled with a large team and mature brand may not suit a founder-led business that needs hands-on building from day one.
What we look for in marketing leaders
- Evidence of prioritisation, team leadership and budget judgement.
- Ability to translate strategy into an operating plan with ownership.
- Commercial understanding beyond channel vanity metrics.
- Communication with founders, executives, sales teams and specialists.
Roles and capability
What employers typically ask us to find.
The exact shortlist depends on the business, seniority, working model and level of hands-on responsibility.
Heads of Digital
Digital-first leadership across acquisition, content, technology and analytics.
Explore this recruitment specialism →Marketing Directors & CMOs
Senior leadership for larger teams, complex markets and company-wide marketing direction.
Explore this recruitment specialism →Practical screening
Leadership interviews should reveal how the candidate makes decisions under pressure.
We look for examples of trade-offs: what they stopped, where they moved budget, how they handled disagreement, what they changed when a plan failed and how they built confidence across the business.
Questions worth answering before the shortlist
- Can they define what marketing should own?
- Can they make hard prioritisation decisions?
- Can they build and challenge a team?
- Can they connect marketing strategy to business strategy?
Related recruitment
Adjacent digital marketing roles.
Many digital roles overlap. These related specialist pages may help if the vacancy sits between functions.
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Explore this recruitment specialism →Employer intake
Tell us what the person needs to be able to do.
Give us the role, location, working model, salary range, must-have skills and the problems this hire needs to solve. We will take it from there.