Fractional Head of Marketing

Company: Academic Families
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Location: City of Edinburgh
Job Description:

Academic Families needs senior marketing leadership to build and run the function day to day: developing strategy alongside the Head of Business Development, and managing and developing a small in-house team. The role requires credibility marketing to global, international UHNW families, and a working understanding of both the education sector and services-based/consultancy business models.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assess current marketing capability, determine what the team needs, and recruit to fill any gaps; manage and develop the team including workload planning, coaching, and performance.
  • Develop marketing strategy jointly with the Head of Business Development, aligned to regional growth priorities across SE Asia, LATAM and Africa.
  • Own positioning and brand for a premium, relationship-led guardianship and admissions consultancy serving UHNW international families.
  • Set and oversee the content and demand-generation plan, executed through the team’s HubSpot capability.
  • Direct design output and brand consistency via the Design Apprentice, in line with brand standards.
  • Translate business priorities into marketing plans and campaign calendars.
  • Report on marketing performance to the MD, connecting activity to pipeline and revenue outcomes.
  • High degree of HubSpot automation and use across BD and Marketing functions

Experience required

  • Proven marketing leadership experience, ideally at CMO / Head of Marketing level, including managing and developing a small team.
  • Direct experience marketing to global/international UHNW audiences — understands the discretion, trust-building and relationship dynamics this requires.
  • Experience in education and/or professional services marketing; international schools, boarding, admissions or guardianship experience is a strong plus.
  • Comfortable operating fractionally — able to embed quickly, work autonomously, and prioritise without full-time presence.
  • Working fluency with HubSpot (or equivalent CRM/marketing automation) sufficient to direct and quality-check the team’s or 3 rd party consultant’s / output.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Marketing
  • 10+ years’ in digital marketing
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent multitasking and project management skills

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Posted: July 9th, 2026