CMO - Scotland

The Marketing Centre; Scotland; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

The Marketing Centre invites seasoned CMOs and Marketing Directors to join a leading UK community of fractional marketing leaders. You will manage a portfolio of client engagements on a part-time basis, delivering strategic marketing leadership with autonomy and peer support.

This role offers flexible, portfolio-based work across multiple businesses, with emphasis on driving growth, shaping marketing functions, and contributing to business development while maintaining your own terms.

Qualifications

• Proven board-level CMO/Marketing Director experience across multiple organisations.
• Strategic thinker with hands-on execution capability and P&L awareness.
• Strong commercial acumen; able to align marketing to business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and shape marketing functions across client portfolios.
• Drive measurable growth and contribute to new business development.
• Collaborate within a peer network to deliver senior marketing leadership.

Skills

Board-level CMO/Director experience

Strategic thinking

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Brand strategy

Digital channels

Campaign planning

Analytics

AI in marketing

Entrepreneurial mindset

Portfolio-based career

Team collaboration

Job description

Fractional

Are you an experienced CMO or Marketing Director considering a portfolio career?

Fractional CMO / Marketing Director

Part-time | Portfolio Career |

Fractional

Are you an experienced CMO or Marketing Director considering a portfolio career?

Join the UK’s leading community of fractional marketing leaders.

About Us

The Marketing Centre is the number one provider of experienced CMOs available on a part-time, and therefore more affordable, basis. Our team comprises over 90 accomplished Marketing Directors, each working with a portfolio of ambitious businesses on a fractional basis. Our model gives clients access to senior marketing expertise without the cost of a full-time hire—and offers our Marketing Directors the chance to do the work they love, on their own terms, supported by a high-calibre peer network.

We’re expanding our team of fractional CMOs and Marketing Directors. This is a unique opportunity to join a proven, collaborative model that enables you to deliver high-impact marketing leadership across multiple businesses while maintaining flexibility and autonomy.

As a fractional Marketing Director, you’ll take on a portfolio of clients—providing strategic direction, shaping marketing functions, and driving measurable growth. You’ll also contribute to new business development and be part of a team that’s redefining what senior marketing careers can look like.

We’re seeking commercially driven marketing leaders with extensive board-level experience and a strong track record of delivering transformational impact.

Core Experience & Attributes

• Proven success as a board level CMO or Marketing Director in multiple organisations
• Strategic thinker with hands-on execution capability
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience aligning marketing to business strategy and P&L responsibility
• Confident stakeholder manager, comfortable operating at board level
• Broad sector exposure, ideally including both large corporate and SME environments
• Fluent across brand strategy, digital channels, campaign planning, and analytics
• Knowledge of the evolving role of AI in marketing strategy, with demonstratable experience
• Comfortable working within resource-constrained environments, delivering pragmatic, effective marketing solutions
• Entrepreneurial mindset: self-directed, resilient, and results-focused
• Committed to building a long-term, portfolio-based career
• Collaborative by nature—keen to contribute to a team of senior peers

What You’ll Gain

• A flexible, rewarding portfolio career on your terms
• Access to an impressive pipeline of client opportunities
• Structured support, onboarding, and knowledge sharing
• The backing of a trusted, nationally recognised brand
• Ongoing development, peer learning, and networking with a community of experienced professionals

Ready to shape the next chapter of your career?

Join The Marketing Centre and be part of a team that’s raising the bar in fractional marketing leadership.