Senior Marketing Director

Role Overview

The Senior Director, Marketing – Africa is a strategic, commercially driven leader responsible for shaping and executing an integrated, data-led Marketing and Corporate Communications agenda, with a primary focus on B2B growth that directly drives revenue growth, market expansion, and brand leadership across the region.

What You Will Do

The Senior Director owns the Africa marketing budget, leads regional strategy aligned to global priorities, and ensures marketing is tightly integrated with sales, products, and strategy to accelerate pipeline, revenue, and customer value.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The role requires a forward-thinking leader with deep expertise in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), AI-enabled marketing, and full-funnel demand generation, capable of securing investment, driving prioritization, and delivering measurable business impact.

Requirements

• Extensive senior leadership experience (12+ years) in enterprise B2B marketing within data, technology, or analytics-driven businesses, ideally operating across multiple markets
• Proven track record of operating at ExCo or equivalent level, influencing strategy, investment, and business outcomes
• Deep expertise in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), Revenue marketing and pipeline generation, AI-driven and data-led marketing strategies
• Strong commercial acumen, with demonstrated ownership of marketing budgets and ROI accountability
• Experience building and leading high-performing, modern marketing teams
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a global matrix organization
• Expertise across full-funnel marketing, including demand generation, brand, digital, content, PR, and events
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders
• Demonstrated ability to translate market insights into actionable growth strategies
• Excellent communication and executive presence, including media and board-level engagement

Benefits

• Competitive rewards
• Comprehensive benefits
• Meaningful career development
• Permanent work-from-home flexibility
• Wellbeing support for you and your family
• Access to global exposure and accredited learning