Global Growth & Marketing Integration Leader

Grant Thornton (US); Appleton (WI); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director) to join the team. This role serves as strategic coordinator for integrating global platform firms into Grant Thornton's GTM and marketing operating model, aligning workstreams into one integrated plan.

You report to the Global GTM Operations & Modernization Director and coordinate through the IMO to translate priorities into phased execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Technology, or related field; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years go-to-market strategy, marketing operations, business integration, M&A execution, transformation, or related leadership roles within professional services or B2B environments
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-workstream integrations or transformations and coordinating specialized functional teams within a global, matrixed organization
• Strong GTM and marketing experience, with an understanding of how brand, creative, sales enablement, proposals, marketing operations, CRM, reporting, analytics, and digital capabilities connect within an integrated operating model
• Proven ability to maintain an enterprise-wide view, anticipate downstream impacts, manage dependencies and sequencing, and convert ambiguity into clear options, trade-offs, recommendations, and decisions
• Experience leading acquisition or business integration planning from discovery through execution, readiness, and transition into BAU ownership
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, align functional experts, and present complex issues in a concise, decision-ready manner
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including experience with integration budgets, forecasts, cost tracking, resource models, and governance reporting
• Working knowledge of GTM and marketing technology environments and the ability to assess unfamiliar tools, contracts, integrations, owners, and business dependencies
• Dynamic, adaptable, and comfortable leading through ambiguity, changing priorities, incomplete information, and multiple concurrent integrations; can travel as needed

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single accountable owner and strategic coordinator for global platform‑firm integration across GTM and marketing, maintaining an integrated view of scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions, risks, financials, and BAU handoffs.
• Lead and align the GTM and marketing integration capability leads across Brand & Marketing, Creative, Sales & Marketing Collateral, Proposal Services, Marketing Operations, Reporting & Insights, and related workstreams, establishing clear accountability while enabling each leader to focus on specialized delivery.
• Partner closely with the Customer Platforms Leader and CRM integration resources, to align shared milestones, data requirements, technology dependencies, risks, and go‑live decisions.
• Translate enterprise and acquisition priorities into executable, phased integration plans that sequence work by firm and wave and define clear outcomes, decision points, dependencies, and completion criteria.
• Leverage the Marketing Operations integration team as the coordination layer across workstreams, ensuring consistent program management, ClickUp adoption, change management, logistics, financial oversight, documentation, and executive reporting.
• Build and manage the cross‑workstream operating rhythm, including planning sessions, status reviews, decision forums, leadership readouts, and escalation mechanisms that keep global and local stakeholders aligned and moving.

Skills

GTM strategy

Marketing ops

Business integration

M&A execution

Transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Technology, or related field

MBA preferred

Tools

CRM systems

ClickUp

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director) to join the team. This role serves as strategic coordinator for integrating global platform firms into Grant Thornton's GTM and marketing operating model, aligning workstreams into one integrated plan.

You report to the Global GTM Operations & Modernization Director and coordinate through the IMO to translate priorities into phased execution.