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Interim CMO.
Your head of marketing left, or you're growing faster than you can recruit. Leadership has no one steering marketing right now, and a hire takes months you don't have. An interim CMO steps in and runs marketing in the meantime, senior from the start.
Our position
In place tomorrow. Not a hire six months out.
What do you want to achieve?
How it works
Call.
We go through the gap you're facing, what the role needs to cover, and how fast we can be in place.
Fast start.
A senior head of marketing is in place quickly and takes priorities from the start, no long onboarding.
Steering.
Strategy sets the direction and your specialists and agencies work to the same plan for the period.
Handover.
When the period ends we hand over plans, structure and accounts, ready for a permanent hire.
An interim CMO fills the gap, a recruitment takes months.
An interim CMO is a temporary head-of-marketing role that fills a defined gap. It fits when your marketing chief has left and a replacement is being recruited, when you're growing faster than you can hire, or during a parental leave or a major change such as an acquisition or a restart.
It isn't an advisor who drops by now and then, and it isn't an open-ended part-time function. If you need the latter, fractional CMO is the right page. Interim is for the period until you're steady again.
An interim CMO from Memorise steps in as your head of marketing for a set period and fills the gap after a departure, a parental leave or a growth phase before you recruit. The role is senior from the start, sets priorities and strategy, coordinates your specialists and agencies against one plan, measures against the business, and hands over to a permanent hire. Price cap matching an internal head-of-marketing salary for the period, no employment, no lock-in.
You get marketing steering now and a stronger base afterward.
An interim period is worthless if it leaves a vacuum when it ends. We don't just steer during the period, we build structure that stays. The role reports as decision support, not status, and leaves the company ready for a permanent hire: priorities are set, specialists are coordinated, and everything we build lives on your accounts. Measured against the business, not against internal activity.
- Priorities and strategy set from the start, so nothing loses momentum during the gap
- Coordination of your specialist network and your agencies against a shared plan
- Measurement of the marketing work tied to your business, reported as decision support
- Documentation and handover, so a permanent head of marketing can take over without loss
- Price cap matching an internal salary for the period, no employment and no lock-in
A head of marketing in place tomorrow. Not a hire six months out.
Not a lone stand-in. Not a new hire.
In place fast.
Senior head of marketing in place quickly, no long onboarding.
A team, not a lone stand-in.
Strategy function plus specialist network, not one person's time.
Without employment risk.
Price cap against an internal salary, no employment and no lock-in.
A lone interim consultant has one person's time and one person's network. Memorise steps in with a strategy team in the head-of-marketing role plus a network of specialists who deliver operationally. Strategy leads, the specialists deliver.
A new hire takes months to recruit and costs a full salary plus benefits plus the risk if it doesn't work out. An interim CMO with us is price-capped against what the role costs internally for the period, with no employer liability, severance or lock-in.
If the need is ongoing rather than temporary, we instead work as a fractional CMO over time.
Why Memorise as your interim CMO.
Senior from the start.
We've done the role before and take priorities right away, you don't pay for onboarding.
Strategy function plus network.
A strategy team in the role and specialists who deliver operationally, matched to the need.
We build it in.
The role steers and executes during the period, it doesn't just advise and leave a report.
You own everything we build.
Plans, structure and accounts sit with you and stay when the engagement ends.
How we work.
How we work.
Monthly billing, price ceiling set by you.
No lock-in, no transition project.
You own all accounts and content.
Decision support, not status.
Book a free call about your situation.
Send an email with a line about where you stand and we'll go through the gap you're facing, what the role needs to cover, and how fast we can be in place. You get our assessment and a concrete next step. No sales pitches, response within one business day.
What do you want to achieve?
No sales process. Response within one business day. · or email directly
Common questions about interim CMOs
What does an interim CMO do?
An interim CMO steps in and takes the head-of-marketing role for a set period. They set priorities and strategy, coordinate your specialists and agencies, measure the work against the business, and hand over to a permanent hire when the period ends. The point is that leadership has marketing steering now, not only after a long recruitment.
What's the difference between an interim CMO and a fractional CMO?
The time horizon. An interim CMO fills a temporary gap, for example after a departure or during a growth phase. It has an end date. A fractional CMO is an ongoing part-time function with no fixed cutoff. If the need is ongoing rather than temporary, a fractional CMO is the right choice.
How fast can you be in place?
Shortly after a first call. The whole point of an interim CMO is to fill the gap now, not after a half-year recruitment. We're senior from the start and need no long onboarding, so the steering gets going right away.
What does an interim CMO cost?
A price cap matching an internal head-of-marketing salary for the period, with no employer liability, severance or lock-in. You pay for the role for the time you need it, not for a full employment with everything that comes with it. We set the exact cap based on the scope from the call.
What happens when the engagement ends?
We hand over. Priorities are set, specialists are coordinated, and plans, structure and accounts sit with you. A permanent head of marketing can take over without anything losing momentum, and you own everything we built.
Do you take over everything or work with our team?
We work with what you have. The role steers your existing specialists and agencies against a shared plan and adds our network where needed. You keep your relationships and your accounts, we bring in structure and steering.