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Systematic Media

Strategy, leadership and execution.Delivered in days, not months.

Senior B2B marketing expertise for businesses that need sharper strategy, stronger priorities and hands-on delivery, through fractional leadership, consultancy and focused sprints.

Not a strategy deck and a handoff. Senior thinking, operating ownership and delivery stay connected, from the first decision to the finished work.

Fractional leadership · Consultancy · Strategy sprints · Content strategy · Selected execution

  1. 01 Strategy

    Northline (fictional)

    Core pillar: Handover bottlenecks in mid-market operations

    • Objective: Establish category authority to drive demo requests.
    • Angle: Highlight hidden handover costs rather than competing on feature checklists against legacy software.
  2. 02 Content plan

    Northline (fictional)

    Anchor guide: Where handovers fail

    Supported by three articles, a four-email sequence and six LinkedIn posts.

  3. 03 Production

    Northline (fictional)

    Chapter 2: The approval that nobody owns

    Draft for review. Source: interview notes and process maps supplied by the client team.

Illustrative example

01Ways to work with us

Three ways to work with us

Bring in senior leadership, solve a defined problem or get a specific outcome delivered. Each route starts from the same method and the same standard of work.

  1. 01

    Fractional Marketing Leadership

    Experienced marketing leadership without a full-time senior hire. Strategic direction, clear priorities and hands-on operating ownership.

    • Fractional Marketing Director
    • Fractional Head of Marketing
    • Interim marketing leadership
    Explore fractional support
  2. 02

    Marketing Consultancy

    Help diagnosing a problem, setting direction or building a stronger marketing operating model. Practical outputs your team can act on.

    • Go-to-market and marketing strategy
    • Positioning and messaging
    • Demand generation
    • Operating model and 90-day build
    Discuss a consulting project
  3. 03

    Sprints & Execution

    For teams that know what they need and want a defined outcome delivered quickly, with a fixed scope and a clear finish line.

    • Messaging and content strategy sprints
    • Content plan sprints
    • Campaign planning
    • Content production and selected execution
    Explore sprints

02Platform

Powered by Systematic.Marketing

Every engagement runs through our go-to-market operating system, connecting market intelligence, positioning, strategy, planning, execution and learning in one persistent workspace.

Your work is not scattered across disconnected presentations, spreadsheets and one-off campaigns. The strategy, priorities, work, results and learning stay connected, so every new piece of work starts from what is already known.

03 · Our approach

Understand once. Build on it.

Whether we are leading your marketing, solving a specific problem or delivering a sprint, we work the same way. We document what matters about your business, make the decisions explicit and build on that foundation with every piece of work.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Establish the objective and gather what matters about your market, buyers, offer and team.

  2. 02

    Decide

    Set the priorities and make the strategic choices, so effort goes where it counts.

  3. 03

    Plan

    Agree the outputs, owners, responsibilities and timeline for the work ahead.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Lead, produce or coordinate the work, keeping strategy and execution connected.

  5. 05

    Improve

    Record what we learn and use it to sharpen the next decision, sprint or quarter.

04Fractional leadership

Need a senior marketer, but not five days a week?

Growing businesses often need senior marketing leadership before they need, or can justify, a full-time Marketing Director or CMO. A fractional engagement gives you that leadership now, for the time you need it.

This is not lightweight advisory work. The role combines strategy with execution and accountability.

  • Senior strategic leadership
  • Clear priorities and a plan to match
  • Operating ownership of the marketing function
  • Coordination of internal teams and external specialists
  • Hands-on involvement where it is needed
  • Access to the Systematic.Marketing operating system

05Consultancy

Senior expertise for a defined problem

When you need senior thinking but not an ongoing role, consultancy solves a specific problem. The output is practical and executable, not another strategy presentation.

  • Clarifying go-to-market strategy
  • Fixing positioning and messaging
  • Rebuilding marketing foundations
  • Improving demand generation
  • Creating a 90-day marketing plan
  • Restructuring the marketing operating model
  • Developing a content strategy

06Focused sprints

The easiest way to start

If you have a specific problem, a sprint solves it in a defined window with a clear objective and tangible outputs. Sprints can tackle strategic questions or execution work, and each one builds on the last.

Example: what a content plan sprint produces

Content plan: Q3 handover campaign

Northline (fictional) · Version 1.2

Objective
Generate qualified conversations with operations leaders in mid-sized logistics and manufacturing firms.
Audience
Heads of operations who own cross-team processes but not the systems that run them.
Core question
Where do our handovers break down, and what can we fix first?
Anchor asset
Guide: Where handovers fail. Five failure points and how to remove them.
Supporting
  • Three search-informed articles
  • Four-email nurture sequence
  • Six LinkedIn posts from the founder
  • Landing-page copy for the guide
Review measure
Guide downloads from target accounts and sales conversations that reference the guide.

Illustrative content plan

07Content

Content strategy & execution

Content remains one of our strongest specialisms. We turn your business expertise into planned, published assets through focused sprints, from strategy and planning to production and coordinated programmes.

  • Content Strategy & Planning

    Direction, audits and executable plans

  • Content Production

    Finished assets, series and campaigns

  • Content Marketing Services

    Coordinated projects and programmes

  • Content Marketing Consultancy

    Senior content advice, one to one

08Who leads the work

Senior experience, applied directly

Work is led by James Wright, a B2B technology marketer who has led marketing from the inside and delivered it hands-on.

  • 25 years in B2B technology marketing
  • Around seven years as CMO of Ortoo, a Salesforce workflow automation business
  • Helped grow Ortoo from roughly £50k ARR to £2.5m ARR
  • Senior B2B SaaS leadership combined with hands-on execution
  • Deep experience with workflow, automation and AI

Experience with Dell · Acer · Tech Data · Ortoo · Microsoft · Hewlett-Packard · Adobe · Salesforce

What kind of help do you need?

Tell us what you are trying to achieve. We will help you choose the right starting point, whether that is a fractional role, a consulting project or a focused sprint.