Are you a visionary leader with a passion for driving large-scale change and digital transformation? Do you possess the strategic mindset needed to shape and optimise sales and marketing functions, creating a path for sustainable growth and superior performance? If you have 10+ years of experience in business transformation, finance, or commercial leadership, and a proven track record of successfully driving critical transformation projects, we want you to lead our next major initiative.

You bring with you deep expertise in sales methodologies, marketing automation, and CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Pardot). Your experience extends to working with data analytics, AI-driven sales tools, and digital marketing transformation, enabling you to enhance decision-making processes and deliver impactful results.

With excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, you thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and can effectively work across cross-functional teams to drive success. Additionally, your consulting experience in sales and marketing transformation gives you a solid foundation to navigate complex business challenges and deliver transformative solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic leader who thrives in high-performance environments and is passionate about shaping and optimising transformation to drive business success.

We will give you:

Financial:

• Competitive Contract Day Rate

The Role:

As our Interim Transformation Programme Director (Commercial), you will be at the helm of pioneering projects that define the future of our sales and marketing strategies. You will take ownership of projects, aligning innovative deliverables with our broader corporate goals while driving digital transformation, process optimisation, and cross-functional collaboration. Your expertise will ensure we not only adapt to the fast-evolving market but stay ahead of it.

Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer the role is based at our Head Office in Bournemouth. We have adopted a hybrid way of working which typically requires 2 or 3 days a week in the office, with the remainder working from home.

Your Impact:

• Lead the strategic execution of our sales and marketing transformation roadmap, collaborating with key leadership teams to align objectives and achieve transformative results.
• Identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities, implementing cutting-edge solutions that maximise operational effectiveness.
• Champion the adoption of new tools and methodologies, empowering teams through successful change management initiatives.
• Drive performance improvement across sales workflows, enhancing lead generation, conversion, and forecasting with data-driven insights.
• Oversee the optimisation and adoption of technology and digital tools that elevate our marketing and sales capabilities.
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration across teams, ensuring seamless alignment and communication throughout the transformation journey.

Your Attributes

You will bring:

• Strategy & Delivery Focused Leadership: You excel in developing and executing strategic business plans that are perfectly aligned with organisational objectives and values, combining a long-term vision with practical, actionable delivery to drive transformation.
• Strategic Visionary: With a proven track record in developing and implementing high-level strategies, you have successfully shaped business-wide transformations, bringing innovative solutions that create lasting impact and value.
• Commercially Astute Leader: You understand the critical balance between meeting business needs and fostering employee satisfaction, driving both performance and engagement across all levels of the organisation.
• Expert Communicator: With your excellent interpersonal and communication skills, you have the ability to influence and guide stakeholders at all levels, ensuring clarity and alignment across diverse teams.

At McCarthy Stone, we celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst our colleagues. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.

All applications will be reviewed as soon as they are received, and we hold the right to appoint before the closing date.

As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list!