STRATEGIC TECH MARKETING ADVISOR

Master Search is retained for the recruitment of STRATEGIC - TECH MARKETING ADVISOR for a leading global technology organization. We are seeking professionals who can create strategic business opportunities with deep knowledge of their respective industries, a strong understanding of business priorities, sound business judgement and established relationships across the senior leadership of relevant organizations.

IDEAL PROFILE:

- 1. We are particularly interested in professionals who combine deep industry knowledge with strong, current relationships across the leadership of relevant organizations.

- 2. The ability to personally reach senior decision-makers and facilitate meaningful executive conversations is an important part of the opportunity.

- 3. We value relationships that are current, active and sufficiently close to enable direct engagement with CEOs, CXOs, Business Presidents, Functional Heads and other senior decision-makers when a relevant opportunity arises.

- 4. We also value professionals who understand specific organisations from the inside, recognize their current business challenges and priorities, and have an informed perspective on where significant opportunities for improvement, innovation or new business value exist.

- 5. An appreciation of the potential relevance of AI, data, automation, cloud and emerging technologies is important.

- 6. You need not be a technology specialist or product expert. What matters is your ability to understand the business context, recognize where technology-led intervention could create value and bring the right people into the conversation.

THE ROLE

As an Industry Advisor, you would work independently with Master Search on selected strategic tech marketing initiatives.

Your contribution could include identifying relevant organizations and opportunities, sharing informed perspectives on their priorities and challenges, identifying appropriate senior decision-makers, initiating conversations through your professional relationships and facilitating senior-level meetings.

Where appropriate, you would accompany the organization's technology and product leadership teams into executive discussions and contribute your industry perspective, business understanding and professional judgement.

Your ability to engage in a consultative and advisory manner, understand the client's context and help position relevant technology capabilities against business priorities would be a significant advantage.

The objective is to create substantive business conversations and catalyzing meaningful executive engagement.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- 1. Senior leadership experience, including executive-level experience, is desirable.

- 2. Equally valued are professionals who have developed exceptional industry relationships at personal level through business or functional leadership, business development, sales and marketing, consulting, domain expertise, technology businesses or long-standing participation within their industry.

- 3. Your designation is secondary to the depth of your industry knowledge, professional credibility, relationships and ability to create meaningful executive engagement.

TARGET INDUSTRIES:

FMCG & Consumer | Telecom | BFSI

Manufacturing | Healthcare & Life Sciences

Retail & E-commerce

Automotive | Energy & Utilities

Logistics & Supply Chain | Technology Consulting

GCC / BPO / ITE Services

Travel & Hospitality | Media & Entertainment

AI & Emerging Technologies

THE DISTINCTION

- 1. What matters is not the size of your network, but the depth, currency and relevance of your relationships.

- 2. We are seeking professionals who have exceptional personal relationships with senior decision-makers, retain direct and ongoing access to them.

- 3. You must have result oriented initiate to set up and catalyzing meaningful conversations and facilitate CXO-level engagement around relevant business opportunities.

APPLICATION:

Applications should include a cover note outlining your potential for strategic value addition to the technology organization.

- 1. The cover note should mention and highlight your selected specific Industry Name as the headline, along with an informed perspective on your industry and sub-sector expertise, an illustrative list of the specific organizations within your selected industry, where you have strong current relationships, illustrative senior decision-maker relationships and your level of personal access.

- 2. It should also briefly outline the business challenges and opportunities you recognize within your relevant industry, your perspective on where AI, digital, data, automation, cloud or related capabilities could create meaningful value, and your ability to identify, initiate and facilitate relevant executive conversations.

- 3. We would particularly value an indication of your ability to accompany technology and product leadership teams into client discussions and contribute constructively through your industry knowledge, consultative approach, advisory capability and professional influencing skills.

- 4. The cover note should conclude with your perspective on the strategic value you believe you could bring to the organization's strategic tech marketing mandate.

- 5. Illustratively indicate: Org A | CEO / Business President | Long-standing professional relationship | Current and ongoing | Direct access | Able to initiate conversation and facilitate an executive meeting. Org. B | CIO / CTO / CDO..and so on.

Established professional relationship | Current and active | Direct access | Able to facilitate a discussion involving the technology leadership team.

The emphasis is on the quality, relevance, currency and accessibility of relationships, together with the strategic value you are positioned to contribute.

THE ENGAGEMENT

This is a unique and flexible engagement opportunity on C2H with conversion potential or Consultant or Retainer or Advisory modes as per client organization's assessment and preference, designed exclusively for senior influential professionals who wish to leverage their industry knowledge, professional standing and relationships through a flexible strategic engagement.

The scope and commercial structure is kept open for very high earning possibilities on percentage on engagement value and / or profit sharing and will align with the candidate's performance and contribution.

DISTINCTIVE OPPORTUNITY

Over the course of a career, accomplished professionals build assets that extend well beyond their designation: industry knowledge, business judgement, credibility, trusted relationships and access to decision-makers.

This opportunity brings those assets together with the capabilities of a leading technology organization, creating a platform for meaningful strategic tech marketing.

If you know your industry deeply, maintain strong and current relationships across its senior leadership, understand where meaningful opportunities exist and have the ability to bring technology leadership and business leadership together in productive conversations, we would welcome a confidential discussion.