Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director)

Grant Thornton (US); Edison (NJ); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director) to join our team. This leader acts as the strategic coordinator for integrating global platform firms into Grant Thornton's GTM and marketing operating model, aligning workstreams into one phased plan and ensuring clean transitions from integration to BAU.

Reporting to the Global GTM Operations & Modernization Director, this role guides decision-making, manages dependencies, and drives cost-effective governance across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Technology, or related field; MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in 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.

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.
• Partner closely with CRM integration resources to align milestones, data requirements, technology dependencies, risks, and go-live decisions.
• Translate priorities into executable, phased integration plans with clear outcomes, decision points, dependencies, and completion criteria.
• Leverage the Marketing Operations integration team as the coordination layer across workstreams, ensuring program management, change management, and reporting.
• Build and manage cross-workstream operating rhythm with planning sessions, reviews, and escalation mechanisms.
• Identify cross-workstream gaps, sequencing conflicts, capacity constraints, and emerging risks; translate issues into viable options and actions.
• Manage integration activities against capacity and priorities, making decisions on scope, sequencing, resourcing, and trade-offs.
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, actuals, and cost reporting in collaboration with Finance and the IMO.
• Maintain strategic understanding of GTM and marketing tech landscape and transition implications across acquisitions.
• Establish and improve integration playbooks, governance standards, and scalable approaches.
• Prepare executive materials and drive clean transition into BAU ownership with clear handoffs.

Skills

GTM strategy

Marketing operations

Business integration

M&A execution

Transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Budgeting & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Marketing / Finance

MBA preferred

Tools

CRM systems

Marketing automation tools

ClickUp

Job description

Job Description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director) to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below.

Job Description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director) to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below.

Job Description

As the Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration, you serve as the strategic coordinator and single point of accountability for integrating global platform firms into Grant Thornton's global go-to-market (GTM) and marketing operating model. This role is responsible for aligning specialized workstreams into one integrated plan, connecting decisions and dependencies across teams, and ensuring each firm transitions cleanly from integration into business-as-usual (BAU). You provide integration direction across the entire GTM and Marketing ecosystem, collaborating with enterprise-wide functions and global teams as needed. Reporting directly into the Global GTM Operations & Modernization Director and coordinating through the Integration Management Office (IMO), the firm's central governance body for coordinating and overseeing integration execution, you translate enterprise integration priorities into structured, phased execution plans. The GTM and marketing integration capability leads report into this role. You operate as both a strategic integration leader and a hands‑on problem solver, seeing across workstreams, anticipating downstream impacts, and translating ambiguity, risks, and competing priorities into clear options and recommendations for leadership.

Your Day-to-Day May Include:

• 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.
• Identify cross‑workstream gaps, sequencing conflicts, capacity constraints, and emerging risks; assess downstream impacts and translate complex or ambiguous issues into viable options, trade‑offs, and recommended actions for leadership.
• Manage integration activities against available capacity and priorities, making or escalating decisions on scope, sequencing, resourcing, and trade‑offs through the appropriate governance channels.
• Partner with Finance, the IMO, and the Marketing Operations integration team to oversee integration budgets, forecasts, actuals, contractor spend, variances, and reporting needed to support governance and integration cost treatment.
• Maintain a strategic understanding of the GTM and marketing technology landscape across acquired firms, ensuring tools, contracts, owners, dependencies, and transition implications are incorporated into integration planning and decisions.
• Establish and continuously improve integration playbooks, frameworks, governance standards, and reusable approaches that increase the speed, consistency, and scalability of future integrations.
• Prepare executive‑level materials and drive clean transition into BAU ownership by confirming decisions, operational readiness, documentation, training, ownership, and handoff criteria across workstreams; perform other duties as assigned.

You Have the Following Technical Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Technology, or related field; MBA preferred
• 10+ years of experience in 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

The base salary range for this position is between $172,000 and $258,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

About Us

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.

In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services ― and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non‑attest offerings, including tax and advisory services.

In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans‑Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices. With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality‑driven professionals enjoying exceptional career‑growth opportunities and a distinctive cross‑border culture.

Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets.

About The Team

The team you’re about to join is ready to help you thrive. Here’s how:

• Whether it's your work location, weekly schedule, or flex time off, we empower you with the options to work the way that it best serves your clients and your life. Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in‑person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site.
• Here, you are supported to prioritize your overall well‑being through work‑life integration options that work best for you and those in your household.
• We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different — and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. See how at www.gt.com/careers
• When it comes to inclusion, we are committed to doing more than checking boxes. Explore all the ways we’re taking action for diversity, equity & inclusion at www.gt.com/careers

Benefits

We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits

• Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
• Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.

Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.

Additional Details

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For Los Angeles Applicants only: We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

For Massachusetts Applicants only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Grant Thornton does not require or administer lie detector tests as a condition of employment or continued employment.