Fractional CMO Leadership for UK
B2B Businesses.
When marketing activity is high but commercial impact is unclear, the issue is rarely effort. It’s leadership. VCMO embeds senior, board-level marketing leadership into growing organisations — aligning strategy, sales, and execution so your marketing investment translates into measurable pipeline and revenue outcomes.
VCMO is built for CEOs, founders and investors who want marketing to perform like a commercial function — not a creative department.

If Your Marketing Feels Busy but Underperforming, You’re Not Alone...
Most B2B businesses don’t fail because they lack ideas, tools, or channels.
They fail because marketing is being run without senior leadership.
That creates predictable symptoms:
- Marketing spend increases, but revenue doesn’t follow
- Sales and marketing drift into separate agendas
- Campaigns happen, but positioning remains unclear
- Internal teams become reactive, fragmented, and overloaded
- Agencies deliver activity, but nobody owns outcomes
- Reporting exists, but confidence doesn’t
At a certain stage of growth, the question isn’t “What should we do next?”
It’s “Who is leading this function commercially?”

VCMO Provides the Strategic Marketing Leadership Most Businesses Only Hire Too Late
We operate as embedded Fractional CMOs — part-time, senior marketing leaders who join your business to build clarity, direction and commercial momentum.
❌ Not consultants who deliver decks.
❌ Not agencies that execute disconnected tactics.
❌ Not freelancers operating without authority.
We take accountability for strategy, governance, prioritisation and performance — so marketing becomes a predictable growth engine.

What Fractional CMO Leadership looks like in practice
VCMO delivers more than “advice”. We provide the operating structure that makes marketing work.
You gain:
- Strategic Direction - Clear positioning, proposition, market focus, and go-to-market strategy.
- Commercial Alignment - Sales and marketing operating under one growth agenda, with shared targets and a common language.
- Marketing Governance - A repeatable rhythm of planning, reporting, decision-making and prioritisation.
- Execution Oversight - Campaigns, agencies and internal teams aligned to strategy — with performance tracked properly.
- Team Leadership - Confidence, capability and accountability inside the marketing function.
- Investor-Grade Reporting - Dashboards and metrics that stand up to board scrutiny.

Who Typically Engages VCMO
VCMO supports ambitious B2B organisations where growth has outpaced marketing leadership.
Our clients typically include:
- Founder-led businesses scaling beyond £2m revenue
- Marketing teams that need senior strategic direction
- PE-backed companies under pressure to accelerate growth
- Leadership teams preparing for funding, exit or transformation
- Businesses entering new markets, launching new offers, or repositioning
If your business has reached the point where marketing decisions are too important to delegate, VCMO is designed for you.
How Our Marketing Leadership Is Delivered
VCMO offers multiple engagement routes depending on your stage and urgency.
Each pathway is designed to help leadership teams make high-confidence decisions, faster.
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Fractional CMO Retainers
Embedded leadership over 6+ months. Ideal when you need a strategic marketing lead who can drive change, align teams, and build a growth engine.

Marketing Advisory Workshops
Fast, high-impact strategic sessions to resolve specific problems: positioning, go-to-market, sales alignment, planning, pricing, messaging, or team structure.

The Outcomes Our Clients Receive
VCMO is not about marketing “activity”. It’s about commercial outcomes.
Clients typically engage us to achieve:
✔️ A clear go-to-market strategy and positioning
✔️ Higher-quality pipeline generation and conversion
✔️ Stronger revenue attribution and performance reporting
✔️ Faster execution through better prioritisation
✔️ Reduced wasted spend on misaligned activity
✔️ Better alignment between leadership, sales and marketing
✔️ A marketing function that becomes predictable, repeatable and scalable
In short: We help businesses stop guessing, start leading, and build marketing that performs.
A Network of Senior Chartered
Marketing Leaders
VCMO is built around experienced CMOs who have led marketing functions through growth,
transformation and investor scrutiny.
You don’t just gain a marketing expert. You gain strategic leadership.
Our Fractional CMOs are:

Chartered Marketers
We're all Chartered Marketers (CIM), upholding the highest professional standards across the marketing industry.

SOSTAC® Planners
We're all SOSTAC® Certified Planners ensuring every marketing decision is measured against growth velocity, revenue impact, risk & enterprise value.

Board Operators
We operate inside your board or senior leadership team — we don't commentate from the sidelines.
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Flexible Engagement
Our services are designed to be scaled up or down as your business context evolves over time.

Not Sure Whether You Need a Fractional CMO?
Most leadership teams know something isn’t working — but they’re not sure what’s missing.
We built a simple diagnostic to help you assess whether your marketing function has the leadership, structure and governance needed to deliver growth.
Take the 5-Minute Marketing Capability Assessment
(Instant results + recommendations + complimentary review session)
Ready to Make Marketing Commercially Accountable?
If your business has outgrown fragmented marketing, VCMO can help you build the structure, strategy and leadership required for sustainable growth.

Call us Today on 0331 630 9395
Book a no-obligation discovery call and we’ll explore:
✅ Where marketing is currently underperforming
✅ What leadership gaps are holding growth back
✅ What an embedded Fractional CMO engagement would look like
✅ Whether VCMO is the right fit
If we are the wrong fit, we will tell you.
FAQ’s
Yes. Many clients engage us to build or restructure their marketing function. We assess capability gaps, define roles, support recruitment, and mentor new hires. The goal is to leave you with a high-performing, self-sustaining team — not dependency on us.
Fractional CMOs provide senior marketing leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. They bring strategic clarity, commercial focus, and executional leadership to help businesses at critical inflection points — whether that’s overcoming early-stage growing pains, repositioning for scale, or reigniting momentum in a declining business. Their value lies in flexibility, deep expertise, and a relentless focus on delivering measurable growth.
We define success upfront, based on your commercial goals. That could include improved pipeline performance, lower customer acquisition cost, stronger brand positioning, increased revenue from existing customers. or clearer GTM execution. You’ll receive progress dashboards, monthly check-ins, and regular reporting.
Typically within 1–2 weeks of our initial discovery call. Once we understand your needs, we match you with a suitable CMO from our network and begin onboarding via a deep-dive diagnostic session. Urgent requirements can often be fast-tracked.
Both. Our CMOs have experience across B2B and B2C sectors — including SaaS, professional services, life sciences, financial services, and consumer brands. We adapt our frameworks to your model and audience, whether you're selling to enterprise buyers or everyday consumers.
Engagements vary based on scope and intensity. Fractional CMO retainers typically start from £4,000/month +VAT, with our advisory workshops from £1,500/day +VAT. We offer flexible models with no long-term lock-in — all designed to deliver high-impact leadership at a fraction of the full-time cost. If you'd prefer us to deliver a defined-scope project, we can offer a fixed-price for cost predictability.
That’s common — and welcomed. We often work alongside existing marketing teams and agency partners to bring strategic clarity, leadership alignment, and performance rigour. Our role is to unlock their potential and ensure all activity links up to clear commercial goals.
We've built a dedicated landing page that answers all the common questions that founders, CEOs and investor have around the Fractional CMO proposition. Click the link below.
Businesses increasingly need senior marketing expertise with agility and flexibility. Fractional CMOs offer embedded leadership and accountability without full-time cost—driven by economic shifts, specialised skill demands, and evolving workforce models. It’s a strategic response, not a passing trend.
Let us transform your marketing and provide the leadership you’ve been missing.
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