Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$172K/yr – $258K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 19 hrs ago

Job Description

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.
  • - 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.

Requirements

  • - 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

Benefits

  • 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.

Salaries

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$172K/yr – $258K/yr

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