About the Role
Lead the global marketing strategy for Pearson’s institutional and government customers, acting as a core commercial growth lever across priority segments. Drive qualified pipeline creation, acceleration, and conversion through precision, tiered marketing approaches aligned to the sales segmentation model. Deliver high-impact, account-based and demand generation campaigns that maximise customer acquisition, expansion, and lifetime value. Champion a data-driven, ROI-focused marketing model, ensuring clear attribution to pipeline, deal velocity, and revenue outcomes, while positioning Pearson as the leader in AI-powered learning.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute global marketing programmes (digital, events, thought leadership) that generate qualified demand, build pipeline coverage, and accelerate deal progression across priority tiers.
- Ensure all activity is aligned to revenue targets, conversion KPIs, and commercial impact.
- Lead the implementation of tiered marketing strategies (L1/L2/L3), with differentiated investment, targeting, and activation models.
- Ensure Tier 1 activity is deeply account-specific, supporting large deal strategy, while Tier 2 and 3 deliver scalable pipeline generation.
- Establish clear frameworks to track MQL → SQL → opportunity → deal conversion, partnering closely with Sales and RevOps to optimise funnel performance, improve lead quality, and increase conversion rates.
- Build and coach a team to deliver high-impact, outcome-driven campaigns with a relentless focus on ROI, efficiency, and measurable business impact.
- Work as part of a unified Sales–Marketing engine to launch and scale connected solutions, ensuring strong adoption, activation, and commercial return, particularly in large accounts and strategic growth segments.
- Develop and activate a commercially impactful innovation narrative, particularly in AI and learning, ensuring thought leadership directly supports pipeline generation, account engagement, and deal influence.
Requirements
- Proven experience in global B2B marketing with direct accountability for pipeline and revenue outcomes, ideally in education, technology, or enterprise sectors.
- Demonstrated success in account-based marketing, demand generation, and large deal support, with evidence provided of the measurable impact on pipeline growth and conversion.
- Strong track record of data-driven decision making, including KPI definition, performance tracking, and campaign optimization.
- Deep understanding of all types of data: macro-socio/economics/political factors, demand, leading indicators, brand, e-comm and campaign tracking and end to end measurement.
- Experience working in highly aligned Sales–Marketing-Partner environments, contributing to commercial strategy and execution.
- Deep understanding of working with distributors and partner marketing teams directly.
- People leadership experience, with ability to build and scale high-performing, commercially focused teams, coach on data and commercials, excel in storytelling with numerical and other data sources.
Skills
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Account-Based Marketing
- Demand Generation & Pipeline Management
- Content Strategy
- Multichannel Marketing
- Revenue Growth & ROI Optimisation
- Communication Skills
- Influencing Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
