
Fractional CMO Service for B2B Businesses
Unlock clarity, confidence, and commercial traction with a Fractional CMO. Gain access to Chartered, board-ready marketing leadership — embedded part-time in your business to drive growth, align teams, and protect enterprise value, without the full-time overhead.

Are You Seeing the Signs?
Growth is stalling despite active marketing spend. Campaigns run, tools hum, reports stack up — but revenue momentum is flat, teams are disconnected, and the board is restless.
Does this sound familiar?
- “No one owns the commercial narrative.”
- “We can’t prove what’s working — or why.”
- “We’re stuck in tactics, not strategy.”
- “Our Head of Marketing is overstretched.”
- “We’ve outgrown our agency patchwork.”
This isn’t just a marketing gap. It’s a leadership gap. And it costs far more than you think.

Assess Your Marketing Capability
Many businesses don’t realise their marketing engine is underperforming — until results stall. Our free online Marketing Capability Audit helps you spot gaps before they become too costly.
In just 5 minutes you'll:
- Answer a short set of yes/no questions
- Instantly benchmark your capability across six core areas
- Receive a personalised report direct to your inbox
- See where value may be leaking — and what to prioritise
- Get a complimentary consultation with our experts to review your results
The next 5 minutes could show you whether your business needs a Fractional CMO to move forward with confidence.

The Risk of Operating Without a Marketing Leader
Without strategic marketing leadership, underperformance calcifies into wasted time and effort, missed opportunities, and eroded value.
You risk:
- Slower pipeline velocity and stagnant revenue growth
- Missed market entry windows and competitive advantage loss
- High team churn and loss of institutional knowledge
- Budget leakage into low-return campaigns
- Reduced board/investor confidence and lower exit multiples
- Siloed business functions and customers switching to competitors
If you’re investing in marketing without leadership, you’re not investing. You’re spending!
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Fractional CMO - Embedded, Part-Time Marketing Leadership
Our Fractional CMOs don’t just advise from the sidelines — we lead from the inside.
We integrate into your leadership cadence, own the strategy, align the team, and deliver results that stakeholders can see and measure.
Led exclusively by Chartered Marketers and SOSTAC® Certified Planners, our Fractional CMOs:
✅ Set and communicate market positioning with commercial precision
✅ Align sales, product, brand, and go-to-market execution
✅ Mentor and upskill your marketing team
✅ Present and defend strategy in the boardroom and to investors
✅ Build the performance infrastructure to track ROI and progress
We do this on a part-time basis. You get the full value of a CMO — embedded, accountable, and 100% focused on outcomes - for a fraction of the cost of a full time senior executive.

Who Our Fractional CMO Service Is For
Our Fractional CMO service is designed for B2B organisations and PE-backed portfolio companies that:
- Turnover from £2m to £50m+
- Are scaling, repositioning, or transforming
- Need to prepare for funding, market entry, acquisition/merger, or exit
- Have ambitious growth targets but lack strategic marketing leadership
- Are stuck in tactical execution with no cohesive strategy
Part-Time Marketing Leadership That Delivers in 90 Days
Our Fractional CMOs embed their strategic leadership into your business — bringing structure, clarity, and accountability that delivers measurable impact within the first 90 days.
Strategic Clarity
Set the direction with certified frameworks. We deliver market insight, positioning, and go-to-market plans that align marketing with business goals.
Team Leadership & Capability Growth
Strengthen your team from within. We mentor, align, and build capability across sales, product, and marketing functions.
Performance & Growth Planning
Make results predictable. We design funnels, demand engines, and dashboards that track performance and drive continuous optimisation.
Stakeholder Confidence
Earn trust at the top. We provide board-ready reporting, investor communications, and strategic counsel to keep stakeholders aligned and assured.
Meet Our Fractional Chief Marketing Officers
Our Simple Engagement Process
Strategic leadership. Streamlined onboarding. Immediate value.
Fractional CMO Pricing & Engagement Options
We use an outcomes-based retainer model tailored to your ambition and organisational complexity.
✔️ Embedded leadership
✔️Minimum term: 6 months
✔️Early exit fee: 1x monthly retainer (before month 4)

Is Your Business Ready to Hire a Fractional CMO?
Businesses hire our Fractional CMOs when they:
- Need strategic marketing leadership without a full-time hire
- Are preparing for funding rounds or investor due diligence
- Want to enter new markets or launch new products
- Are repositioning after growth plateaus
- Need to align sales, marketing, and product under one plan
- Require stronger board and investor communication
Is your organisation ready for a Fractional CMO? Take our short diagnostic to assess your readiness for embedding one our our chartered marketing leaders. Takes just 3-minutes!

The Ultimate Guide to Hiring a Fractional CMO
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Related Services
Alongside Fractional CMO support, we offer targeted services — from free, and paid-for audits and analysis to mentoring and advisory — providing focused interventions that build capability, insight, and investor confidence.
FAQ’s
Yes — if your business lacks clarity, isn’t ready to scale, or treats marketing tactically, a fractional leader may not deliver expected returns. In these cases, advisory or foundational support may be more appropriate.
The right choice depends on your growth stage, budget, and strategic priorities. Fractional CMOs offer flexible, senior expertise for agile impact, while full-time CMOs provide deep organisational integration and long-term leadership.
Not necessarily. Fractional CMOs can work with existing teams or help build the function from scratch — including designing roles, mentoring junior marketers, or managing external partners.
Selecting a Fractional CMO is a strategic decision. Define your goals, assess expertise and cultural fit, and structure the engagement clearly. The right choice delivers clarity, momentum, and leadership that drives lasting growth.
Successful integration is strategic, not administrative. Embed the Fractional CMO into your senior leadership team, align goals, and ensure accountability. Done well, their impact endures—building systems, skills, and culture that drive growth long after the engagement ends.
ROI goes beyond marketing metrics—it reflects how the Fractional CMO drives enterprise value. Define objectives, track financial and qualitative outcomes, and report with rigour. Strong measurement builds board confidence and proves marketing’s role as a growth engine.
For most engagements, our Fractional CMOs are operational within your business within 1-2 weeks of the discovery meeting. The level of measurable impact depends on the nature of your marketing challenge and the cadence of the Fractional CMO. Most clients start seeing imapct within 90 days.
It depends on your business’s context. A Fractional CMO is best suited to small businesses with clear growth ambitions, leadership alignment around strategic marketing, and the financial resources to build the function—covering people, processes, technology, and on-going budget to support go-to-market activities. For early-stage firms still establishing foundations, alternative support may be more appropriate before stepping up to fractional leadership.
No — consultants advise from the outside, while Fractional CMOs embed into leadership, own outcomes, and drive transformation. Understanding this difference helps businesses choose the right support for their growth stage and strategic needs.
Our model is built to evolve. Some clients scale up their own teams and gradually reduce reliance. Others retain ongoing strategic input. We prioritise knowledge transfer, continuity, and your long-term success — even if that means stepping away or helping you recruit a full-time marketing leader.
Our Fractional CMOs are selected for their adaptability. They bring cross-sector insight and commercial rigour to unfamiliar industries — often challenging assumptions and uncovering new angles that internal teams miss.
Hiring a Fractional CMO is a strategic investment, not a gap-fill. Clarify business needs, assess expertise and cultural fit, structure the model, and embed accountability to ensure lasting impact. The right choice accelerates growth; the wrong one wastes momentum.
A Fractional CMO provides board-level strategy and leadership, while agencies deliver tactical execution and channel expertise. The most effective model often combines both—strategic direction from the CMO, precise delivery from the agency.
It depends on the complexity of your marketing requirements and urgency to hit commercial milestones. Most clients engage a Fractional CMO for 1–3 days per week. If you need more than that, an interim or full-time solution may be worth consideration as an alternative.
Ready to hire a Fractional CMO? Let’s provide the marketing leadership you’ve been missing.
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