Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director)

About the role

As the Growth & Marketing Lead, Integration (Director), 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. Reporting directly into the Global GTM Operations & Modernization Director and coordinating through the Integration Management Office (IMO), you translate enterprise integration priorities into structured, phased execution plans. 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.

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.
• 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.

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.

Pay

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 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.

Schedule

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.