who we help

Marketing Leadership That Performs at Enterprise Scale

Professionalise your marketing. Align it to strategy. Deliver performance that earns board confidence.

your challenge

Scale Without Strategic Marketing Alignment

Your business is a recognised player. Revenues are strong. Teams are established. Yet when it comes to marketing, the gaps are visible.

You might be seeing:

❌ Departments and regions operate in silos with no unified strategy

❌ Budget and headcount are significant — but results are inconsistent

❌ KPIs don’t connect to board-level objectives or financial outcomes

❌ The brand feels static, diluted, or misaligned across markets

❌ Marketing leadership lacks senior influence at the executive table

risk of inaction

At Enterprise Scale, Inefficient Marketing Becomes a Risk

When marketing underperforms in a large organisation, the impact is systemic:

  • Sales pipelines stall due to weak marketing support
  • Campaigns run — but attribution is unclear and ROI unproven
  • Martech stacks bloat, with overlapping or underused tools
  • Board confidence declines due to poor reporting and lack of accountability
  • Competitors modernise faster — and your brand starts to look legacy

⚠️ In a large enterprise, underperforming marketing isn’t just wasted spend — it undermines growth, credibility, and investor trust.

our solution

Strategic Marketing Oversight That Delivers Alignment, Accountability, and Scale

We help large enterprises:

✅ Build high-performing, governance-ready marketing functions

✅ Establish frameworks that connect marketing activity to EBITDA and pipeline outcomes

✅ Refresh brand and messaging to compete in saturated global markets

✅ Align regional and divisional teams around shared commercial goals

✅ Provide senior-level leadership and board-ready reporting without full-time overhead

We work beside you — bringing clarity without complexity.

How We Help Large Enterprises

For large enterprises, we elevate marketing from fragmented activity to enterprise-level performance — driving alignment, financial accountability, market relevance, and operational leverage that boards and investors recognise as true enterprise value.

Firm-Wide Alignment

We unify fragmented marketing across regions and functions. Shared frameworks, common KPIs, and coordinated execution that create consistency and scale shareholder impact.

Financial Accountability

We embed governance-ready reporting. Dashboards that connect spend directly to pipeline, margin, and EBITDA — giving boards confidence in marketing’s contribution to enterprise value.

Market Relevance

We modernise enterprise brands to stay ahead. Positioning that protects credibility, sustains pricing power, and differentiates in mature, competitive markets.

Operational Leverage

We streamline tools, partners, and leadership. A leaner ecosystem, reduced duplication, and CMO-level influence that drives efficiency and strategic weight at the board table.

cross-industry expertise

Sectors We Support

Our Fractional CMOs excel in 'VUCA' environments — bringing clarity and control to volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous situations. We help regulated businesses hit growth milestones with confidence, compliance, and commercial focus.

Marketing Services Tailored for Large Enterprises

We help boards and senior leadership teams align marketing with corporate strategy, strengthen accountability, and modernise for scale.

Fractional CMO

Embed senior oversight to unify departments, connect marketing to EBITDA, and drive measurable outcomes.

Marketing Advisory

Executive-level counsel to ensure marketing strategy supports corporate objectives, transformation programmes, and investor scrutiny.

Marketing Audit

Comprehensive and independent assessment of global teams, agency networks, and martech investments.

Marketing Mentoring

Support for senior marketing managers and functional leaders stepping into complex matrix roles.

Our project was to create a top-level marketing strategy which, once built, we could drive forward ourselves. And I can honestly say the work has been transformational for Yellowtail. After each workshop with VCMO, both Dennis Hall and I would be amazed at how much we'd achieved. We worked hard! But the results are worth it.

Sarah Steele
Operations Director, Yellowtail Financial Planning
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Shout out to Paul Mills who bravely took on running a positioning workshop with us yesterday. Is there anything harder than doing the thing your client does for others for them?! Great work. Really thought provoking, and so important to have facilitated by someone with an external perspective!

Bryony Thomas
CEO, watertight business thinking

Paul is a professional strategic marketeer who is able to apply his expertise with marketing budgets large and small. The commercial impact of Shaw & Co's rebrand, which was initiated, designed and implemented by Paul, has been to differentiate us positively in a sector where few have succeeded. He delivers what he promises, on time and on/under budget, to a high quality. Paul made a positive impact on our business that will last.

Rod Leefe
chair, shaw & co

VCMO's audit brought clarity to a complex set of challenges. They cut through the noise and delivered a clear, prioritised roadmap that we could act on immediately. Their ability to engage across teams and translate insight into action was exactly what we needed.

Dr. Ross Burn
Co-founder, Catsci limited  
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Lydia possesses a deep understanding of marketing strategies and has consistently delivered exceptional results. Her ability to analyse market trends, create engaging campaigns, and drive customer acquisition is truly impressive. Her dedication, attention to detail, and strong communication skills make her an invaluable asset to any organisation. I cannot recommend Lydia enough for her expertise, professionalism, and exceptional work ethic.

Alan Leckey
Business Consultant, CCO - the Collaboration Company  

Paul Mills wasn't just an outsourced marketing leader — he was a mentor. His support helped me enhance my technical marketing skills and shape a more strategic mindset, as well as build my  confidence with senior leadership and deliver higher-impact work. He is dependable and skillful, and his guidance has made me feel more capable and prepared for future challenges.

Caitlin Daniels
marketing manager, catsci limited
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VCMO brings knowledge, insight and practical experience to the table, but also something else, which is quite rare, the unwavering commitment to finishing the job without compromising on the quality of the output. Their work for Yellowtail has been exemplary and we're seeing the results already.

Dennis Hall
founder, yellowtail financial planning

Ruth brought great experience and insight to my firm over many years. Her considered and thoughtful approach to problem solving are a real strength and her experience of marketing and business development in the legal sector was invaluable.

Gavin Tyler
Managing Partner, Cripps

VCMO helped us think beyond our capabilities and reframe how we communicate the true value of what we do. Paul's workshop unlocked fresh ideas resulting in a more strategic approach to our content plan and go-to-market materials. The quality of the output and power of the messaging is really impressive.

Peter Ridgway
Business Development Director, Reach Separations
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VCMO has been instrumental in reshaping how we approach marketing at Lucent. Their strategic clarity, attention to detail, and ability to deliver at pace have been exceptional. Paul's embedded himself seamlessly into the team and quickly earned trust — not just from me, but from our wider staff and partners. The website and content strategy he led have already started delivering results, and I now feel far more confident in how we grow the business over the coming years.

Steven Rowe
Founder - Lucent Financial Planning
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VCMO helped me find the words and structure to communicate what I do — and who I do it for — in a way that finally connects. I’ve had more inbound enquiries since the website relaunch than in the previous two years.

Lee Spencer
aka The rowing marine
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