Head of Go To Market

London, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own the GTM direction by turning growth priorities into an insight-led, contracted plan and by mobilising Sales, Marketing and Operations to deliver measurable outcomes.

  • Lead prioritisation in a demand>supply framework with clear outcomes, audience, and success criteria.
  • Establish governance and resourcing rhythms to sequence work, manage trade-offs, and capture learnings.
  • Build a feedback loop from wins and losses into planning and proposition improvements to stay aligned with buyer needs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of the deployed GTM strategy and annual plan in partnership with business leadership and Sales & Marketing capability leaders.
  • Contract priorities based on growth strategy, local market context and buyer needs, including clear measures and success criteria.
  • Shape briefs with the business that describe the outcome required, the buyer problem to solve and the target audience—avoiding activity-only briefs.
  • Run demand intake and shaping conversations with deployed leadership to create a holistic view of needs and opportunities.
  • Translate demand into a prioritised portfolio with clear sequencing, dependencies and resourcing assumptions.
  • Make and communicate trade-offs in a demand>supply environment; escalate decisions and risks early where needed.
  • Ensure prioritisation supports issue-led, solution-oriented selling and avoids fragmented service-led activity.
  • Mobilise the right expertise from Sales, Marketing and Operations to meet contracted priorities.
  • Lead resourcing, scheduling and timing conversations, ensuring delivery is achievable and balanced across competing priorities.
  • Work with peer Heads of GTM to maintain consistent language, rhythms and shared planning moments that enable meaningful collaboration.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in GTM leadership, commercial strategy, or senior business partnering in a complex, matrix environment.
  • Strong ability to contract priorities and outcomes with senior stakeholders and influence without formal authority.
  • Proven experience shaping demand, making trade-offs, and operating effectively in demand>supply conditions.
  • Strong commercial and market judgement, including understanding of buyer needs and competitor dynamics.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional delivery across Sales, Marketing and Operations disciplines.
  • Confidence with using performance insight and data to shape decisions and drive interventions.

Nice to Have

  • People leadership experience beneficial (dependent on scope).

Benefits

  • Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture.
  • Our agile working framework helps us stay connected so they can share ideas and help one another.
  • BDO has state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices to enable collaboration.
  • You’ll never stop learning at BDO through multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources.
  • Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.
  • We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.
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BDO LLP provides tax, audit and assurance, accounting, business advisory and outsourcing services to companies across all sectors of the economy. We make the time and effort to understand our clients’ businesses and markets. Our partners and staff are specialists in their fields and have a proactive, flexible approach to helping clients overcoming the challenges they face. We aim to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as our clients.Our approach and expertise are what help us deliver exceptional client service. 95% of our clients would recommend us.We operate from 18 offices, covering all major business centres, so that we can be close to our clients. We employ 7,500 people who are allowed to be themselves; taking responsibility for their work and their relationships with clients. All our people share core values that underpin both our culture and the value that we bring to our clients. BDO LLP is a key member of the BDO global network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms. The firms have representation in 164 territories, with 95,400 people working out of 1,710 offices. Being a member of the BDO global network allows us to meet the needs of clients who are growing and trading internationally.

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